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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • As far as i understand it, its not all hype. Its a little bit like having a really competent security researcher go deep through your complete codebase just really fast and with improved recall.

    So no black magic, just stuff regular security reviews would find. Firefox is just a huge codebase and once a bug got past review it might stay there forever.

    So this will be abused if released publicly sooner or later. This way is a little bit like responsible disclosure. This will make the initial wave hurt way less. And obviously it doesn’t hurt marketing.

    Anybody working with software knows marketing people promise the world and understand nothing. Pretty sure they just heard “black magic” and ran with it.


  • Marriage is about fairness in a long term relationship with kids. Not being married allows me to abandon my shitty partner at any moment and leave them with meager child support and three kids. After 12 years they would only have the money we agreed on for buying groceries.

    I won’t because I love my kids and partner, even though they live out their pathology on my back and refuse to get help. She is doing the work of raising our kids and as far as I’m concerned that entitles her to half the money thats left after all the expenses. She won’t marry which makes giving her those things complicated and not guaranteed, which would be through marriage.
















  • Dropped my daughter off at a new school friends house for a few hours of play. While having a little me time decided to rub one out. Fell asleep. Woke up from my timer reminding me to get my daughter (I’m a pro).

    So i arrive and the mother is already all over me with stories of her divorce and how her ex is the one causing it (and quite a few highly private stories) and my daughter ignores my not so subtle hints that I want to leave now. (Usually thats all good fun). When suddenly their big ass dog starts taking and interest in my private parts and won’t leave me alone. (probably still smelling like jizz.) And their fucking owner doesn’t take the hint to control their fucking dog.

    So now I start to sweat and mix in some fear and can’t run and just grab my kid and go nor can I yell for my kid as there are big ass teeth centimeters away from my crotch.

    This goes on for close to an hour escalating slowly to the point that I get mad at the kid, the mother and the dog and just start walking out and cursing.

    That day my kid learned code for “danger, leave calmly, leave now”. These days they all know a whole hand full of code phrases for: this is no joke, move now.


  • I thought so too for a long time. You need to have a fridge for summer. In winter we can agree that storing things outside would work if you are willing to monitor outside temperature and move all your stuff to the fridge if need be. That happens when it gets to warm obviously and also when it gets so cold your stuff freezes. Some things don’t freeze well, like fresh produce, so you move some things to the fridge others not. Instead you move your things from the freezer outside and back when the temperature dips too low. Some times this will happen two to four times a day, sometimes at night. So you get up to swap stuff out.

    Okay that sucks for so little energy but lets keep going. You are an electrical engineer and decide to put the fridge to the outside wall of your house and drill a hole through both to enable your automated duct fan system to ventilate the air from the outside in and switch the fridge on and off just if extra cooling is required. But now the moisture from outside, insulation, critters are an issue. Also you want your fridge on another wall. Also the temperature for your freezer needs to be managed separately so you need a second hole and fan.

    Let’s increase efficiency and use the fan and electronics giving off heat to heat the space around the fridge.

    Wow that could be greatly increased if the insulation was good enough to use a maximally efficient heat pump instead. Let’s forget about the holes and pipes, those are expensive and inconvenient anyways. Oops, you just invented a fridge :)