Tech — Work — Ramblings

by Mike Kalvas

I see you're not using JavaScript (which is awesome!) on one of my pages that uses it to provide a better experience. If you see something not working right, please let me know. My site should work exactly the same without it apart from any exceptions noted here.

I use prism.min.js to do syntax highlighting. It clocks in at 23kb total in size. Since the majority of the writing I do involves coding, I personally find this to be a worthwhile trade off. If you choose to keep this disabled, rest assured, the code examples are still there, they just may have some extra whitespace and obviously no syntax highlighting.

I do no tracking at all and am a zealot about keeping my pages as small as possible. If you're reading a page of mine that transfers more than about 250kb over the wire (including my most gratuitous indulgence — fonts) I've messed up.

So, if you'd like to have a slightly richer experience, consider enabling javascript for my site and I promise your trust won't be misplaced.

202402241530 One stock with delays

Business inventories are examples of single stock systems with delays. The inflows to the system are the supply of goods whether produced or bought. The outflow is the sales of those products. The feedback loops are the flow of information that dictate how much ordering or production of goods should be done based on things like the current rate of sales and the predicted demand in the future. These delays across time can be extreme in the case where custom production takes a long time per order or minimal in the case where flow is predictable. There can also be informational delays like lagging perception.¹

Meadows, D. H., & Wright, D. (2011). Thinking in systems: A primer (Nachdr.) (pp. 51–58). Chelsea Green Pub. ↩