qyron

qyron, 10 months ago

I can spend a good deal of time criticizing Ikea but on one thing I can’t: their furniture is incredibly easy to copy and upgrade into a better version with minimal effort.

I took the time to break down, piece by piece, in a crazy exercise of reverse engineering, a love seat, to understand how they had designed and put together the thing.

After that, I sat to run the “numbers” and realised I could make it cheaper, sturdier and add storage room to it, with minimal modifications to the basic plan.

It was very interesting to discover.

qyron, 10 months ago

I still love Debian to bits and pieces but I can’t convince me to use it as a daily driver again. And I used it as such for nearly a decade.

My main issue is the software being dated. Yes, there are backports, and with flatpak support we can circumvent that even better but… no.

qyron, 10 months ago

Economics started as a branch of philosophy that got a lot of support because it draw a lot of support for its theory from maths.

Then, more recently, a good number of very inteligent people noticed the behaviours of economic models could be better predict and understood by using very simple psychological analysis and models.

I remember reading an article by two physicists where they just picked the oh-so-precious math of a given economic model, analysed it using the methods used to analyse physics and concluded the model was faulty by x+y+z.

Economics is… a very strange thing.

qyron, 10 months ago

You can use astrology as a very, very crude psychological model.