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Cake day: December 18th, 2023

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  • Because the current requirements are constant and not like a photography flash just a short but extreme amount. There’s no point in putting a few Watt seconds into a capacitor if the power requirement is 2kW for minutes.

    Plus

    • power storage is large
    • you need a way to transfer the stored power into the water faster (otherwise why bother), which means thicker coils and more wear









  • I was really envious of those in the US that got to stay home for months and do their own thing. In my part of the world it was the “the world is ending? But you’re still coming in, right?” meme. Which is central Europe. (Because people weren’t dying left and right, so you know. Silver lining.)


  • After four weeks of holidays (with family, so not entirely stress free, also Christmas time lol) I’ve actually picked up a guitar again after years of not touching an instrument. That’s after being able to exercise most days, which I usually don’t have any energy for. So maybe the bag of time is just not big enough yet.



  • The distinction is usually completely omitted. Java as a language is fine if a little verbose, but the JVM is a pain. And you really only realize the difference once you use either with alternatives, like Scala in the JVM or Java as a cross compilation language. A tutorial would have to be “this is how you write a main class/function in this language, for/while/in keywords etc., but in a JVM environment you need a File, a BufferedReader, and a BufferedWriter to open a file and read/write to it. StringBuffer is standard library and part of the language, using Scala will allow functional aspects, but the file handling remains.”