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Cake day: August 12th, 2023

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  • And tokens poured forth like mana from heaven, bringing games and tickets to the children, and there was bliss.

    Music came down from on high and a band formed from unlikely friends. Their songs filled the room with pizza and loud children.

    And in the middle of the malestrom, the music would start and together they cried out in terrible unison, “chucky. Chucky. CHUCKY.”




  • Convert it to rubles, cut the price of materiel to cost, and the end result is a bit more than that. However, Russia started this SMO with rewards and bonuses given out like the country was a tech stock at an IPO. Now they have to pay out those bonuses since it’s been 2 years and they haven’t managed to kill off every single enlisted schmuck. They are also continuing to entice more from other countries with strong currencies, requiring more signing bonus money.

    Oh, and Wagner suffered some big losses this year and that will need to be patched up with whatever talent and vehicles are available. Frankly, Putin has a lot of big bills and every bit of other people’s money counts.


  • Continental drift was a theory formed in 1912 by a German meteorologist, Alfred Wegener. Geologists balked at the idea of enormous landmasses moving and said the idea of an Urkonintent was ridiculous. And besides, he was a weatherman, German weatherman, so outside of his field and untrustworthy as a German was considered at the outbreak of WW1.

    Then, 50 or so years later his theory was rediscovered when different fields were trying to understand polar magnetic drift evident in iron ore formation. The only explanation that made sense from the evidence is that mountains were not permanent and oceans didn’t exist in some areas - a lot like the land masses moved.

    Wegener was eventually vindicated in almost all areas except drift speed. There was an Urkonintent, which has been named Pangaea. The continents do move but because they sit upon plates. He had taught the world about the world but died before anyone thought he was right.






  • Thin things look nice in industrial design. It’s why phones stopped being chunky as soon as the battery packs could be scaled down. It’s why EV cars are in higher demand than EV trucks/UVs. Watches became a prestige product when they were thin enough to wear on a wrist instead of fitting in a pocket. Flashlights became a collectors hobby after they shrank down to be palm sized while retaining their brightness. Cameras became ubiquitous once they stopped needing a tripod and flash powder. Smaller things, thinner things, are more attractive to consumers.



  • It’s diminishing customer experience creep, except the company doesn’t understand what the user data means. They run A/B tests of different layouts, seeing what kind of feedback each gets to learn more about design choices and users. Each version should get its own feedback and then that data is compiled by data scientists into actionable feedback, things that can be done to improve the website in the direction the company thinks is an “improvement”.

    Twitter abandoned those data scientists with the initial layoffs. There is no one to tell them what works and what impacts the customer experience, which is why each time the internal question of “how do we open up for engagement?” they answer it the same way, “Use existing user bases by linking their account to Twitter.” The result is several login requests all looking for the same cookie.

    It’s lazy or inexperienced management. Knowing the type of person Elon hires, it’s probably both.