This is the way. Time yourself by hand. Automate. Use the saved time to automate further. Meet deadlines as if you were doing it by hand. Then during the inevitable crunch time you can miraculously come through. Each quarter, cut about 10% off the time you “need” to do automated tasks, showing constant improvement.

Lastly, always guard source code closely and be aware if coding on company time means they own that code. You can bring up that you think something can be automated, but this is a job they’re gonna have to pay you extra for. Show a demo if you need to, but remember that coding automations isn’t your job, so don’t hand that over for free (payment in social capital depends on your job).

The key is that you’re usually not following the recipe as accurately as you think.

Also, burnt out & liquid in means too hot. Calibrate your oven so you’re actually baking at the temps the recipe calls for!

The “make it twice as long” is genius.

Prices are crazy. Someone totaled my old car so i didn’t really have a choice. I am glad i got the 2022 and not the new version, that one looks like has way less trunk space and if rather do an ioniq than no trunk space prius.

I got the prius prime 2022 because I’m a small car guy. It’s good. The Rav4 has more range on it in electric mode, but the prius still gets ~52-58mpg in gas mode.

The one thing you gotta watch out for is the infotainment. I have the xle, which has this big beautiful screen, but only works with carplay. Yep, DOES NOT WORK WITH ANDROID AUTO. It’s insane. This is an aspect ratio thing, so might be fixed in the future? Not holding out hope for that though.

I do love the map thing, but man its so annoying not to be able to connect my phone with Google maps since their nav system is worse.

Magnetic bag clips. Boom. Done

I have a prius prime! Works perfect for my use case. Everyday driving is full battery with maybe a bit of gas. Big long trips require no extra planning or stops.

Not for everyone, and i figure will last until EVs are nice and developed with better infrastructure up where i live.

Honestly i e yet to hear someone who owns an ioniq5 not love it.

I couldn’t pull the trigger on a trade. Not enough range and infrastructure, plus the rate of tech improvement is still pretty quick. I went with a plugin hybrid with the hopes that i can trade it in once evs get a bit more settled.

I thought they defined persistence as literally the length of time an entity exists. There are many ways to persis under their model.

For non biological systems, it’s about being in a energetically favorable state for the environment. For example, while many chemicals will form and break down quickly as their environment changes, with form more stable structures that persist through the shifting environments. These structures are selected for as the basis of potentially new reactions and chemicals.

I haven’t given chemistry much thought, but the idea holds pretty well for biological systems.

Ultimately, you’re right this is totally a thought piece. However, it’s great discussion material.

Evo biologist here. These ideas are not really new to the field of evolution, but they are well laid out (if a little dense) & somewhat codified here.

The paper is an interesting read. Dunno if i agree with all of it yet, but it’s good to see the case made for thinking about evolution as a process that spans systems come up again.