I do like to save watermelon rinds and cook them into soup.

Anyone have a use for banana peels?

I like turning the rind into pickles. Very good!

For banana skins, you can turn them into a vegan bacon. Many recipes online that are all pretty much the same result. I like them too.

I tried following an authentic Southern pickled watermelon rind recipe, and they were so sickly sweet I couldn't stomach them.

I should try again sometime with a regular cucumber pickle recipe, just replacing cucumbers with watermelon rinds, but I don't think my family wants to humor me again.

Pickled savoury watermelon is something i discovered not that long ago and it really surprised me. It's amazing. I otherwise don't care much about watermelon but pickled it gets so much flavor. I know many people who can't handle it because it "doesn't taste how it looks".

Can you point to a recipe you liked, or rough instructions? How was it savory?

If you don't know your bananas are free from pesticide and fungicides make sure to dispose them in the trash. It's not even recommended to compost banana because it's so full of toxins.

Yes, British TV chef Nigella Lawson cooks with them. https://youtu.be/kOF0Id92XRY?is=YOb6iPmPaMBeHLkJ

Thanks for sending me down that rabbit hole. Neat.

We throw away a butt-ton of watermelon rind in the summer. I never thought to see if they could be used for something.

Now that is actually novel! To me, at least. You cook them into a regular soup as an additive? Or you make watermelon rind soup? How’s it taste?

It's a variant of a Chinese wintermelon soup like https://thewoksoflife.com/winter-melon-soup-pork-ribs/ ! It's a great sponge for the soup flavors.

Banana peel oleo saccharum... you can add it to drinks and cocktails for a punch of banana.

Throw them in with the banana in the blender

Shocking, this site assigned me a UUID and I found it listed here! https://everyuuid.com/

It's an interesting story as some people see facial biometrics (with increasing fidelity) as an escape from document verification deepfaking threats.

But people's biometrics really can change over time, and I don't think there's a clean way out. Back to expensive and inconvenient in-person checks?

Curiosity: Some facial biometrics are explicitly designed to they can't change over time, barring an accident or similar. They look at features of facial geometry such as eye versus nose positioning and similar kinds of things set by bone structure.

They're surprisingly hard to intentionally defeat. Growing a beard, putting on weight, etc. won't do it.

I looked into this some time ago, when I didn't want to be tracked. It turned out to be annoyingly hard. And e.g. "wear a hat and mask" makes you rather conspicuous.

The increasingly universal cameras are rather effective at knowing what you're doing at all times.

Very impressed by the responsiveness of this. But I gotta say, it's much more fun to play a physical theremin, which has slightly different controls (two antennae, one controlling volume and the other pitch).

https://www.gaudi.ch/OpenTheremin/ will run with an Arduino and it's very satisfying to get better at controlling.

>Is it that I want it to be done? Would it have been done if I didn't? (Additionality)

>Is it that I want to have done it? Would I be happy if someone else did it? (credit)

>Is it that I want to be doing it? (achievement/process)

>I want to have a mix. I want to do some things for the experience and some things for the accomplishment. I want to do some easy things and some hard things. Some fun things and some unfun things. Some things just for me and some things for others.

Amit Patel, via https://digitalseams.com/blog/amit-patel-on-making-things

Is it accurate to say this is something like long polling except you continue to hold the connection open for subsequent updates? Does this mean a server potentially needs to hold open a very large number of connections (one per client) even if there are no updates?

And why formalize on HTTP rather than on a similar protocol over websockets?

And isn't that just Server-Sent Events (SSE)?

It looks like this is a project for nicer signed attestations. But it doesn't seem very opinionated about:

1. What is the attester (signer) attesting to, exactly?

This URL example is exactly this problem. And if you're really precise about it, they get less and less useful: "I attest that when I accessed this site at XYZ timestamp, it contained ABC content, and I saw ABC happen in person." or maybe alternatively to get away from the URL control, "I attest that these three non-malicious archives of this URL at this timestamp..."

And 2. Why should I trust the attester?

At least in what I'm building, you trust the attester because you know them in real life and you share some interests with them, or one of your friends does, or one of their friends does.

As for getting less useful with more precision, I'm not sure I agree. If they're precise enough, you can do predicate logic on them (e.g. prolog):

- mycologist attests about an image: this mushroom is edible

- image ends up on a social feed, a passerby realizes that it's the same image (modulo compression) and attests to that sameness

- I run across the image on a social feed. I have weak trust with the passerby but strong trust with the mycologist. My client can computationally verify the sameness claim, so I don't need strong trust for the passerby (I just needed them for a hint of what my client should verify).

I can then conclude that the pictured mushroom is edible, even though it's not actually bitwise identical to the one that the mycologist asserted about. Without precision, you can't get the predicates to line up for such a derivation.

I had an interesting conversation with an coworker recently -

If you give an agent a budget of $500 to buy a flight, and the airline knows this and bumps your price to $499 even though it will offer the same flight at $300 to someone else, is there harm done? I argued it feels unjust. He said it's totally fair, it's within budget so what's the problem?

Naturally this trends towards a sort of principal-agent problem where the airline is incentivized to bribe your agent for up to $198 to max out your budget (which is a problem if you're not running your own agent).

But for general personalized pricing, there is the same dynamic to posture that you have a limited budget so that companies offer you better prices (regardless of whether you really do or not). This is haggling culture at scale.

I worry about a world trending towards this sort of thing and away from clearly universal prices and wrote about this at the beginning of the year: https://digitalseams.com/blog/the-behavioral-cost-of-persona...)

The problem is that it completely eliminates the consumer surplus from the transaction and converts it to producer surplus. It basically erases all benefits of capitalism for the average person.

If it becomes the norm to charge the maximum that someone is willing to pay in every consumer transaction, then business owners are almost forcing average people to try to end capitalism.

You've just described the golden age of piracy (itself a principal agent problem, and imo it'll be solved like piracy was). It's also a good example of the "If I break a butcher's windows and cause him to buy a new pane, haven't I done good?" And the answer is no. What you've described is a poor/inefficient allocation of money.

I’d ask that coworker, “so you would be okay with paying $10 per gallon of gas, while the Prius that barely uses gas next to you pays only $3 per gallon? You use more gas, which means it is in your budget to afford, right?” (Or pick another alternative that is applicable.)

Inverting the argument almost always exposes cracks, because they will immediately switch to why it’s not the same.

That's a shame, I wonder where he draws the line.

While herding to the majority of latest Chrome makes his life easier, there really is a very long tail of real users who are not there. I get way too many challenges on my personal laptop running Firefox on Ubuntu (including infinite redirect loops).

The vast majority of Googlebot user agents are lying. Real Googlebot is pretty well behaved in my experience. You should use reverse DNS or IP lists to check: https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetcher...

If you're using Cloudflare, set up a security rule to block requests that have "Googlebot" in the UA and are not recognised by CF as a real bot.