Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform

Post by BostonEnginerd » Sun, Feb 14, 2021, 1:33 PM UTC

madaxe_again wrote: post #220

xyzelement wrote: post #187

This reminded - I noticed a while ago that being a computer science guy makes me think differently about physical storage and retrieval. For example - my wife likes "shorts" to be in one drawer and "t-shirts" in another. I like for one drawer to be "workout clothes" and have the mix of gym shorts and t-shirts. To me this feels "obviously" right because the use-case requires both items so why pay for two costly "open…

My wife keeps on reorganising my toolboxes and it’s driving me nuts. She ends up organising the contents by colour, or by size, so now I find my woodworking chisels in a box with filter spanners and solder (the soldering irons are in the box with glue and mallets). It’s driving me crazy, but she won’t stop, and gets mad at me when I can’t find stuff because “it’s organised”. Different people have different minds. I g…

Post by hunter2_ » Sun, Feb 14, 2021, 2:13 PM UTC

kranner wrote: post #207

xyzelement wrote: post #187

This reminded - I noticed a while ago that being a computer science guy makes me think differently about physical storage and retrieval. For example - my wife likes "shorts" to be in one drawer and "t-shirts" in another. I like for one drawer to be "workout clothes" and have the mix of gym shorts and t-shirts. To me this feels "obviously" right because the use-case requires both items so why pay for two costly "open…

> Similarly, she is very organized with her paper files, I just throw mine into a box. In the rare event I need something (eg when doing taxes) I don't mind scanning through the whole mess. Seems like a better strategy than making each "write" costly (neatly organizing) since writes are frequent and reads are rare. This is why I have given up trying to organise my downloaded papers and books by subject. It's faster t…

Post by encom » Sun, Feb 14, 2021, 2:36 PM UTC

hkt wrote: post #132

naiveai wrote: post #81

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Oh no! The Internet is more easily accessible providing more knowledge and access to millions worldwide! It's not limited to our extremely exclusive clique of 1337 hackers who also all happen to be white, college-educated American men!

FWIW, I was one of the clique of 1337 hackers without being American or college educated! In seriousness, the radicalism of the early internet was great for autodidacts, and I loved it. It shaped me as a person and I still don't have or need a university degree. The thing that was nice in the past was that it seemed so easy to find other people finding their own path. It was a bit less commercial and a bit more commu…

Post by ComputerGuru » Sun, Feb 14, 2021, 5:14 PM UTC

Taniwha wrote: post #216

montenegrohugo wrote: post #190

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Your first example could have a different explanation, assuming she is the one that more often does the laundry. Ordering clothes by type is cognitively easy: a shirt is a shirt, shorts are shorts. When you have a stack of freshly washed clothes, sorting them according to type is so trivial it is a thoughtless process. However, sorting according to use case is more involved. For each piece of clothing in the clothes…

I think that if you want your own classification you have to put away your own laundry ...

Post by ItsMattyG » Sun, Feb 14, 2021, 6:16 PM UTC

ComputerGuru wrote: post #237

Taniwha wrote: post #216

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I think that if you want your own classification you have to put away your own laundry ...

Why are you bringing this toxicity into it? OP didn’t say anything about who does the laundry. They could be each doing their own or he could be doing it for both of them - it’s entirely besides the point of how they prefer the clothes sorted.