A good rule of thumb I've found is that a typical portion is about 4oz of dry pasta per person. Cooking for two people you can easily eyeball what half a box of straight pasta is, for 3 or 4 people just cook the whole box.

For other pasta types, you can measure a single or double serving by pouring into a bowl as if it's cereal.

Yep, a pound of pasta is about 4 good servings for an adult so use that to factor how much or little you want. I'll typically make one pound of pasta for my wife and I for dinner and lunch the next day. Although depending on the sauce or any added meat, it could easily be 5 or more servings. Growing up, my mom would use one 1lb box of pasta, one 24oz jar of sauce, one onion, and 1lb of ground beef to make enough food for a family of two adults and three kids.

The headline of TFA directly contradicts the HN headline above.

I like how the status values could be used as labels of economic wellbeing for people, too:

  Somehow Fine
  Feeling It
  Struggling
  Fucked
  Absolutely Fucked

Stealing this for error logging levels

The bristol stool scale also works well. Although that’s better for sprint planning maybe..

I live in south Bristol where the “Bristol stool scale” and the “pubs that need your help” overlap distressingly.

Thanks for pointing out the stool scale. I went from "hahaha I'm sure this some kind of 'how shitty stuff is'" to "let me see how it works" to "oh, it's actually a useful medical chart" lol

so...you got me. thinking it might have something to do with out worn the stools in your pub are. nope it's just, you know, stool.

s/Somehow/Possibly/g haha but I like that idea!

I didn’t have any rigorous training or anything, but my understanding since learning HTML way back in high school was, like the author mentions in TFA, tags like <br> and <p> can simply be used “as-is” as markup and don’t need the concept of being closed.

I write virtually zero HTML anymore, but the one time this sort of thing comes up is in writing PR descriptions in GitHub using Markdown. Sometimes I want to add a <br> or two for space. I guess I’ve never stopped to notice that I never close those tags after adding them, or wondered why in my head it makes sense not to!

By way of comparison, it took pilgrims from England traveling on ships like the Mayflower about 66 days to arrive in New England.

CGP Grey has a video [0] that goes into some, let's just say deeper, detail into metric paper that is well worth a watch if you haven't seen it.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUF5esTscZI

edit: fat-fingered CPG, thanks @ProllyInfamous

You beat me in posting this (I searched for "CGP," first — you mispelled so I didn't see your comment).

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My favorite CGP Grey video is Metric Paper..., which explores the vast (but limited) world we live in, from plancs to observable universe.

[•] <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUF5esTscZI>

Before generative AI videos, this had been what I considered "the most psychedelic experience one can have without doing drugs." It's still a trip...

I remember having to do an image map as part of a web design project in school, circa 2005. True to 2005, the image was one simple rectangular banner at the top of the page, with text for different pages like About and Portfolio etc. placed along it. It felt like a (cool) hack that you could define regions for the text to route to different pages on click.

Of course we have modern solutions [0] nowadays but that sure seemed cool 20 years ago!

0: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonito...

Cheating? At least it's still base-10!

That's why it's cheating! Quatre-vingt-dix-sept is obviously the correct way to say 97.

And fewer syllables for 970067! (I think?)

> 773466

> two hundred ten cubed twelfths plus twelve cubed minus twelve

Intuitive!

> Millie Bobbie Brown, the actor of Eleven, is unfathomably stupid (watch any out-of-character interview with her)

I hunted around on YouTube for a bit, but in nothing I landed on did she come across as “unfathomably stupid.” Young and green, maybe.