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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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    1. Article Writer

    Once upon a time, humans liked to read articles written by other humans. Since these human writers were capable of doing more than just predicting the next token, they were able to maintain a sense of coherency and continuity through their articles and could write lists that referenced other items, especially when they were closely related, instead of each item just following an intro, brief description, conclusion format that gets quite repetitive. But then text predictors got good enough to predict coherent sentences that are often even accurate and can follow a given theme or topic and websites thought no one would care since it was mostly marketing and propaganda by then anyways and dropped the human writers into active volcanoes.


  • I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that as a puzzle before.

    Actually looks like a pretty good (difficult) puzzle, what with how prevalent the blue is. I just did one that has a similar amount of dark purple and it was a nice challenge (paired with a rule against examining pieces and the picture at the same time, as doing that trivialized the puzzle I did before that one).


  • When I played OW, Moira was one of my top characters. It wasn’t rare for me to top both damage and healing charts because of how aggressively I played her.

    See an enemy? Throw and orb, drain them, phase away unpredictably if they turn their attention on me, then throw another orb their way to punish them if they do chase, chasing them back if they don’t (or maybe abandoning the fight if there’s something more strategic to do).

    See a teammate? Throw and orb and heal, aiming the orb to also harass whoever they are fighting, then use the teleport either defensively if they try to kill the healer or if we’re headed into a team fight maybe use it offensively to teleport behind their line and surprise them with an orb and draining their healer. If you were good with orb placement and timing, they might not even notice you’re in the room with them before their team is half dead.

    I wish blizzard didn’t suck so much. I kinda miss that game.








  • Not to mention people being too lazy to want to do even basic maintenance. Also companies that prefer to sell something people need to keep buying over and over might not offer a longer term version.

    Not vaping or even disposable, but my manscaped face trimmer, which is supposedly a higher end one, was the first electric trimmer I’ve gotten that didn’t come with a little bottle of lube and the instructions even said “you don’t need to lube this!” Knowing that they hadn’t changed the laws of physics, I lubed it anyways and I’m convinced that’s the only reason it hasn’t permanently seized up by now because even with the lube and a full charge, there have been times where it didn’t want to start going without a good tap after turning it on.


  • What an entitled and dumb twat. I guess he didn’t think it through that the guy maintaining it now doesn’t have some magical ability to tell who would be a good new owner and “handing over the mainline” to any one person could screw people more than any AI changes because that new person might be malicious or neglectful.

    Forks need to earn trust and it’s best that that step isn’t skipped by some inheritance. Not that there even is any obligation to hand it off no matter how many people rely on it or complain.

    And the comparison with ms or Google was dumb because I didn’t expect them to do it the way I wanted and stopped using what I could to get away from where they were going and any expectation that they hand over their projects to someone else would be ridiculous (and Google open source projects have been forked).










  • Just hold on to your butt and cut the main power.

    But then don’t forget to switch back to main power before the auxiliary power runs out of fuel or things will get really bad.

    Unless it’s the movie and they cut out the whole auxiliary power and just set it up such that all power goes out and no one thought of being at the power station to get the main generator back up and running asap before cutting the park’s power.