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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • 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.




  • On that note, sriracha sauce on ice cream is pretty good. Add some salt for more enhancement.

    I haven’t gone too crazy with it, but dropping my ideas of what foods do and don’t go in main courses or desserts has improved both of them for me. Sausage and savory chocolate sauce is great, and apples are a lot like potatoes when cooked in a savory dish, while doing the same sweet/sour/salty/umami balancing for desserts makes them better (note that that doesn’t mean to make them all equal, dessert will still be sweet overall, just if you add representation for all the flavour groups other than bitter, it’ll usually enhance the taste).



  • This technology isn’t for generating images but for measuring what frequencies are present in light.

    I’m not 100% sure on the specifics, but it sounds like they are using some mathematical properties of fourier transformations to either broaden the frequency response of sensors or simplify the math required to get the final result.

    Hyperspectral cameras are designed to generate images from a matrix of light sensors.

    This could maybe lead to spectral cameras (as in a camera where each pixel is the spectrum of light in that pixel), which could then generate images of arbitrary spectra, but I suspect that this sensor is still quite a bit larger than the sensors used in digital cameras these days. Even a hyperspectral camera doesn’t really care about what frequencies it measures, it’s just able to detect differences in amplitude at those frequencies and either doesn’t detect outside of that range or has something filtering the light outside of the range before it reaches the sensors.





  • Are you an LLM with only a 10 token context window? Or doing that thing that humans do when their brain blood escapes its brain blood tube and becomes a brain blood pool or has trouble making it to all the brain cells because the brain blood tube is too full of non-brain blood things?

    Either way, thanks for the moment of amusement I got trying to parse the combination of words you used in the order you used them.


  • If your electrolytes are balanced, you shouldn’t get cramps. Cramping is caused by not having enough potassium, which is used by your nerves to signal relaxing muscles. Sodium is used to signal clenching. Too much sodium for the potassium and the signals get unbalanced and you can’t relax that muscle.

    Magnesium and calcium also play a role and deficiencies can result in cramping or tremors (like unsteady hands might just be from being low on Mg, Ca, or K).

    So it seems like you’ve been eating well at least as far as electrolytes are concerned, especially if you can hold your hand out rock steady, regardless of whether your muscles are clenched or relaxed.


  • Not to mention it doesn’t say anything about when. Is that an alcohol related death in their 30s, 50s, or 80s? What is the impact of removing DUI-related deaths for drinkers who don’t drive? Hell, does it count people who drink more than a drink per day but get killed by someone else driving drunk?

    I gotta say that this falls below the risk threshold that I care about. Actually, I wonder if that is the intent, like a bit of reverse psychology by saying “don’t do this dangeous thing, or you risk increasing split ends in your hair by 12%!” when it is actually trying to discredit people talking about the legitimate risks by treating trivial ones as serious. Though probably not because most people would probably just take the main message rather than look closely enough to see the misdirection.



  • Looks up Here in the map index… D3 sees this side of the map starts at 13, flips map over, finds D and 3, looks up and slams on brakes before rear ending an even more lost pedestrian.

    “You should watch where you’re driving,” my passenger says before their eyes return to their phone.

    Honks horn, pedestrian is startled out of examining their map, gives a sheepish wave of apology and speeds off. Return to map, notice there’s a big traffic jam on the intended route, turn down a side street instead, thanking map for helping.