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[-] fiendishplan@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Dim Sum style serving food but for different types of cuisine. Imagine Italian or french food being served in small portions on carts like Dim Sum.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

That's called contemporary fine dining.

[-] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 17 hours ago

I don't know if it is the most brilliant but I'm certainly happy with it.

I took one of those phone holders that you stick to the air vent and stuck it to a cork so I can now use it on a microphone clip.

I recently did the same with a magnetic one.

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 2 points 10 hours ago

Thanks for the tip. I've needed this, but being too cheapskate to buy a proper one, I've just been balancing my phone on the sheet stand, which sucks.

[-] raldone01@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Let me tell you about this great idea for an app I had. Now I can't program or anything buuuuut you program right?

[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 4 points 14 hours ago

"we need to make an app and then we make millions"

[-] polysexualstick@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Flirting with my beautiful, smart and altogether amazing wife back when we were just associates. I congratulate myself on that brilliant idea every day.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I feel the same way about flirting with your wife.

Edit: Jokes. Just jokes.

[-] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

I had an idea once but it left because it got lonely.

[-] chunes@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In high school we were learning about arithmetic sums. I quickly realized it was basically the same thing as finding the area of a right triangle. I noodled around with it in class until I sorta got it to work. The next day, we would have a quiz that required us to memorize three different formulas.

That evening, I realized I could use my idea to combine all three formulas into a single one. It wasn't easy. It took me all night. You guys should have seen it. It was beautiful. I was able to remove the trigonometry from the formula by using trig identities which we learned about a few weeks earlier in class, then a bunch of algebra to simplify.

I hit a snag where the formula wasn't working even though I thought it should. I had a brilliant spark of intuition where I thought, "what if I add 1/2 the length of the opposite side of the triangle?" and it fucking WORKED. I just chalked it up to the power of intuition and didn't try to figure out why lol.

Anyway, go take the quiz, get done blazingly fast, turn it in. I was twiddling my thumbs waiting for my classmates to finish when my teacher just stands up in front of everyone and says "Uh, chunes, what is this?" and holds up my test. So I sheepishly reply "Oh, well I didn't want to memorize three formulas so I combined them into one. I have my work here if you want to look at it."

So she took my work and said she wanted to do induction on it to see if it really works and stuff. My classmates must have thought I was some kind of turbo-nerd. Thing is, I didn't even like math that much. It was just one of those things.

Sadly, I lost my work like a dumbass and I can't remember the formula anymore. Pretty irritating

[-] Pronell@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Revisit your project.

Claim your place among the titans of mathematics!

[-] Pronell@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

I am a hobbyist writer.

I have a ton of great ideas that I do not have the talent to bring to fruition.

I don't know which is the best.

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Technically speaking, I invented vaping.

In high school economics class, we had to invent a fake product, fill out patent applications, do focus groups, make a commercial and print ads, and do all the other stuff you'd normally do if you were a real company (except we submitted paperwork to the teacher, obviously, and not the USPTO).

My group's product was a weight-loss product called "FlavorAir" ("Anorexia Fast" didn't test well with our focus groups). It was a spray device that misted flavored air into your mouth to satiate cravings (our product prop was just breath spray). We advertised flavors like gravy, turkey dinner, mint chocolate ice cream, banana mint, and several others.

This was in the early 00's and predates vaping by many years. I should be rich.

[-] alternategait@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

If you can figure out how to make it medically safe, you would still make a ton of NPO patients happier.

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Put the ketchup on top of the grilled cheese after you cook it, if you put it inside it gets too hot

Also some novel research published at an IEEE conference during undergrad, the paper was shit but the main idea was useful

Usually working or living with friends turned out to be a pretty good idea

[-] Gnugit@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

I married my internet chat friend.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Naming a short story I wrote "The Happening" like 5 years prior to the M. Night Shamylan movie. (my story was about aliens, tho)

[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago

Cannabis infused pocky

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago

I've had several. Most involved having a nap. A few were about where to eat and what to order.

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