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Cake day: July 26th, 2023

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  • Demand changes what is available. My local men’s fashion place now sells Hawaiian shirts made of natural fibres. Cotton underwear has always been available

    Now I can easily get my brightly coloured clothes in reasonable fibres I’ll have nothing that loses micro plastics on me today

    Though I may ride my bike and bike tyres have the same problems as car tyres though they wear much less




  • Sometimes documentation doesn’t help. My workplace used to be waterfall and we still have systems analysts producing documentation

    One piece of work came to my team as “this calculation fails in this case and we can’t tell why”

    Looking at it there were two updates in the documentation showing updates ten years ago the first fixing that corner case with the second fixing a side effect of the fix

    Why didn’t it work? It was never built, or perhaps built but never merged

    On the good side we have an excellent plan for how to fix that corner case, on the bad side we aren’t funded to do that amount of work so we have to half arse a solution




  • Presuming you don’t play Palladium fantasy, since no one does, you could steal this critter

    Corpse creature

    Lies in ruins looking like a week old corpse, wearing something obvious and valuable, such as a gold pendant

    When someone tries to remove the valuable the corpse creature grabs them strongly by the neck and strangles them

    The corpse creature doesn’t collect loot, doesn’t eat their kills, it’s just out to bait and murder

    In the Palladium system it has a strength of 23, you’d probably want to make it moderately powerful but only on its first attack

    If a group approaches it’ll keep playing dead, it only attacks lone individuals


  • Precision is about how fine a scale you can use to describe the position; what you described is repeatability

    A clock with a sweep arm is more precise than one without

    A digital clock showing fractions of a second is more precise

    An atomic clock is even more precise

    My nice precise long case chiming clock is precise to about the half minute, but it gains time when the weather becomes colder and loses time when weather becomes warmer, so it has poor repeatability. Its accuracy is good enough as I correct and tune it weekly when I wind it

    My wife’s cuckoo clock is low precision with only 12 marks on it’s face and each of those being blunt and a few minutes wide, it also only sounds half hourly, tweeting the hour or once on the half hour


  • There’s no accounting for taste. No one’s choice of entertainment is wrong. Differences are part of the nature of humanity

    If you want to not look like a dick you can say things like “I don’t find those sorts of things funny” and fewer people will find that offensive

    Saying “I don’t want to be X” while being X isn’t convincing regarding your intention





  • Consider supermassive black holes. They are the largest entities in the universe and they exist in nearly every galaxy. They aren’t going to get appreciably bigger, if they aren’t big enough to bang, what is?

    Then by what mechanism do you propose an incredibly deep gravity well could spit out bulk stuff?

    I’m taking the null hypothesis, you’re the one with a claim to prove