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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Yeah, it’s like the difference between sitting in a stopped car with all the doors open vs sitting in a moving car with the front driver and rear passenger windows open. The first one might feel cooler on a windy day, if the wind is blowing in the right direction, but the other will have consistent airflow from the outside through the car and back outside.



  • 10 was the last one with a technical improvement (its kernel had a scheduler that was better at scheduling on modern processors where some cores share caches while others don’t). Though the anti-features meant it was a tradeoff vs 7 (and just ignore 8 entirely).

    It was kinda funny because before I switched to linux and made the question moot, I kept searching for some technical reason, anything, to actually want to switch from 10 to 11. All I’d get were things that other desktops have been able to do for decades (virtual desktops, which I first saw in Litestep (I think?) back around 2003), or anti-features like recall and copilot integration.





  • Yeah, I like the version where he has a crush on Death and wants to impress her by killing half the people in the universe.

    But I think they wanted to set up an infinity war where he deserved to win, which IMO he absolutely did. I was disliking it the first time I watched because I expected it to do the typical hero movie thing where the heroes pull off a win even after fumbling things as hard as they did in infinity war, but then he did the snap. Advantage of not paying attention to their plans, as I wasn’t aware that there was going to be a second part until I saw how that ended, so it was a surprise.

    But all he really did was turn back the doom clock by one doubling period. You can’t stop exponential growth with a single cull, unless that cull is pretty much 100% (or leaves the remnants so scattered they age out of reproduction age before uniting).



  • No, your sensation follows the old wheel as it’s shipped off to a recycling plant, where the rubber is stipped off, shredded, and turned into asphalt that gets used briefly in a road patch that is almost immediately replaced because the patch was bumpier than the road it was patching.

    The metal of the wheel is melted down, then ends up in a youtube video where someone turns cursed metal (from the wagon wheel and also parts from the Pontiac Aztech driven by Walter White) into a bunch of sweet looking damascus knives, which feels like tooth with the enamel stripped off any time it touches something hot or cold for our poor wagon (who doesn’t like to talk about what the video itself felt like, and swears he feels something every time someone watches it).




  • Alcohol, too. While I do believe many/most did the whole “social life is at the bar” out of high school, I think millennials were the generation that started breaking the cycle more and started doing more things while drunk (like board game bars, video game bars, escape rooms, etc), and then transitioned to not getting as drunk so they could do the things better and not be as much of a burden on those around them who weren’t just trying to get wasted for the night.

    Also more options that weren’t as destructive as alcohol for those that still wanted to get fucked up. And less judgement about those options.







  • This is kinda why I don’t play much online with friends anymore. My ADHD is at the point where I can get bored with games pretty easily. There have been times where I’ve wanted to play something but then by the time it’s running in the menu or my save has loaded, I realize that I actually have zero interest in it right now.

    Or I might want to take a 5 minute break that turns into 1.5 hours because I got distracted and into that distraction.

    A game with someone else is just too much of a commitment.