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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • This seems to be geared towards developers, my summary is: steam was previously telling developers people received notification of their game being on sale because it was on somebody’s wishlist and it went on sale, however if the person who wish listed the game had more than 25 games on their wishlist go on sale at the same time they would have not actually received an email notification.

    This feels like it will not affect end users in the slightest.

    Where’s the April fools?




  • From my amateur perspective, machines/robots/AI are really great at doing hard to develop human things, and really bad at natural/innate human abilities, high level maths and high resolution photography are easy for machines, but “where is the bird in this picture” and “is this person sad” are incredibly difficult concepts for the non biological systems.

    If we expand “what’s hard for humans is easy for ai and vica versa” high level communication is probably the most recent development for the human species after agriculture and automated manufacturing. I’m not surprised communication is the first thing being mastered, but I think the gap between bring able to use language and being able to properly use a body is much more significant than we expect.








  • 3 legged chairs sounds like a nightmare, why not 4 legs with basic suspension mechanisms in the legs? 3 legged chairs is such a bad idea I’m questioning the validity of most of the rest of your screed. How do you propose 3 legged chairs to work without being a tipping hazard? 1 leg in the front or well off the back (impeding the walkway behind the chair)




  • An increase in temperature also increases the evaporation rate of water. rain storms will be more intense, but just because the atmosphere holds more water doesn’t mean it won’t also be releasing more water.

    Venus isn’t at all comparable to Earth… That’s a literal crazy comparison. If Earth received 30% more solar radiation, didn’t have ocean heat sinks (I most worry about global warming because of the cccd rising, not about “where are we going to get water from”, between using fossil fuels for combustion to make energy, and the elimination of calcium carbonate life forms in the ocean, we’re going to asphyxiate long before we dehydrate, or over hydrate, or whatever we’re worried about from the water)

    More extreme water patterns doesn’t mean less drinking water.

    Less ocean bio activity means less breathable air.







  • My favorite 3 things of the last decade

    Electric cars, Incredible performance, low maintenance.

    Steam deck, great fun in a small package, great to play games before bed

    Podcasts, seriously there’s one that will speak to you.

    Bonus: taskmaster, it’s entirely free on YouTube, it’s a worldwide phenomena, simple low stakes fun, akin to the great British baking show without the manufactured drama (not that there’s much in gbb)