They are not on the fence about Rust. They are on the fence about JPEG-XL when it entails a major increase in attack surface due to the current implementation being in C++.
The fixed ratio doesn't scale all that well, because some of the water is absorbed by the rice and some just evaporates. Even with a lid on water still evaporates. The evaporation portion depends on the type of pot, how long you cook and how much heat you put in.
So, if you only vary amount of rice, you really need some_factor * amount_of_rice + constant_amount and the knuckle rule has that characteristic.
I'm surprised that there would be significant evaporation loss in a pot with a close-fitting lid for 20 minutes on low heat. If you heated the water on its own I wouldn't expect a large amount to boil off... Although now I say that, I'm not so sure, maybe I should run that experiment.
I would have guessed the imprecision of 'knuckle depth' being uncalibrated with the volume of rice and the size of the pot would be greater than the imprecision of a pure volume ratio due to evaporation, but I can see that the knuckle depth thing might make sense if you're always cooking roughly the same amount of rice in roughly the same size of pot.
I've had good success cooking rice by the 2:1 ratio in both large and small amounts in various pots, so I'm still happy to vouch for that method.
Another aspect is that there is a large span in the amount of water you can let the rice absorb. A 1:1 ratio of water to rice (not accounting for evaporation) is all you need to cook rice no matter if it's short grain or long grain, but a lot of rice will also happily absorb more, like 2x its weight, if you give it enough water and time.
It sounds like you are using long grain rice given the large cooking time and high water ratio.
I have also had great success with this method ever since first being told about it. Didn't believe it could be that easy until I was shown for the first time, and sure'nuff it seems to work pretty nearly perfect every single time.
There are knobs on the f and j key so you can find the home row without looking. Similarly, physical buttons in a car can be shaped in such a way that they allow for feeling your position.
There are so many behaviors that fit that description that few would count as addiction. For example eating sweets or junk food, procrastinating, not drinking enough.
I have some experience with a German shorthand style (DEK) and it is more important to write clearly. Shorthand removes most of the redundant information that is present in regular alphabets and words. With regular writing, a small error somewhere can be error corrected using the surrounding context.
When I wasn't being careful, I could often read the text shortly after I wrote it, but after a few hours or days it became illegible to me.
There are multiple levels of shorthand, the faster ones drop more and more information from each word if it can be inferred from the context (for someone familiar with the topic, i.e. yourself mainly).
Shorthand never really stuck for me. Learning to write and read it wasn't that difficult actually, but I couldn't quickly scan shorthand notes like I could with regular writing. I suppose that's a matter of practice and I wasn't ready to sink hundreds of hours into just that.
One thing I learned from the experience was how frustrating of an experience it is if you're not good at reading. I have always been an above average reader and I couldn't understand how people struggled so much with it. Reading shorthand was effortful and slow, especially at the very beginning for me and that gave me some perspective of how some of my classmates must have felt.
I suppose it's a little like UIs. Old school, green screen UIs have a learning curve and can result in very efficient usage. Modern, friendly UIs sacrifice speed for presentation and accessibility.
It's supposed to be royalty free, but there are patents for the techniques used in it which are used defensively. If someone has a patent to a technique used in AV1, then they could still demand royalties and some patent trolls have been trying. Wikipedia has a section on it.
Wasn’t part of AV1’s charm that anyone trying to sue an AV1 licensee would be nuked from orbit by the legal expertise and patent trove of the collective AV1 companies / AOM?
The author himself doesn't seem like a scam artist but he looks like he falls for them.
He said he heard about this technique from Michael Neill who he calls "a personal development coach, a really good guy".
This "good guy" has a bunch of books and videos on youtube offering the answers to everything: Finding happiness, overcoming shyness, anxiety, being effortlessly successful with just these three easy tricks in 3 months yada yada.
And Win Wenger, who the author says this technique originally comes from, is the author of "The Einstein Factor" which is a book with similarly grandiose claims about improving your mental abilities.
I'm not saying this is a scam. It just smells of an attitude that fails at due diligence when it comes to verifying information. The author may be very well meaning but it's enough for me to not warrant a click on the video. I can't trust the information in it is checked at all.
