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Cake day: August 25th, 2023

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  • If it’s in a sealed plastic bag it doesn’t go stale until long after it would have molded on the counter. I refrigerate mine because I buy Costco sized sliced bread and it takes me 2 months to go through it. If you toast your bread, the staleness is unnoticeable

    A lot of these things only need to be refrigerated to preserve flavor, not to stop spoilage. If you go through a bottle of ketchup in 3 months there is little benefit to refrigerating it, if it takes 3 years for you to finish it, it should probably stay in the fridge.

    Some peanut butter brands require refrigeration to prevent mould. Others recommend it because it stops the oils from separating. Brands like Kraft don’t require any refrigeration at all

    Refrigerating oil will stop it from going rancid, but I’ve only ever needed to do this with used deep frier oil

    Honey is just a hell no in the fridge



  • Compared to a $20k hatchback, $60-80,000 SUVs are probably a lot more likely to:

    1. Get regular maintenance at the dealership (and get upsold on long term maintenance things without clear immediate benefits), vs the twice a year Jiffy lube treatment
    2. Get body work done if they are in a fender bender, vs just getting written off by insurance
    3. Be driven by older, more experienced and safer drivers
    4. Be stored in a garage, so the bottom of the car doesn’t rust out from road salt before they hit 200k miles





  • To compare every comment on reddit to every other comment in reddit’s entire history would require an index

    You think in Reddit’s 20 year history no one has thought of indexing comments for data science workloads? A cursory glance at their engineering blog indicates they perform much more computationally demanding tasks on comment data already for purposes of content filtering

    you need to duplicate all of that data in a separate database and keep it in sync with your main database without affecting performance too much

    Analytics workflows are never run on the production database, always on read replicas which are taken asynchronously and built from the transaction logs so as not to affect production database read/write performance

    Programmers just do what they’re told. If the managers don’t care about something, the programmers won’t work on it.

    Reddit’s entire monetization strategy is collecting user data and selling it to advertisers - It’s incredibly naive to think that they don’t have a vested interest in identifying organic engagement








  • A couple of them fall into the “technically true, but misleading territory” - I’m sure the person handing this out couldn’t identify which though - broken clock right twice a day and all

    “Can you reverse effects” - no you can’t make your immune system forget how to work. Probably not what they are going for here though.

    “Risk of […] or other side effects?” - yeah the vaccines generally give people a headache and short lived fever symptoms

    “Have there been deaths?” - The astrazeneca vaccine had like a 0.000001% mortality risk (more likely to die driving to the pharmacy), and was pulled in many countries because that was deemed too dangerous. Person handing out the flyer has likely been parroting “mRNA vaccines cause blood clots” nonsense for years while being completely unaware that AZ was a traditional viral vector vaccine

    “Are there doctors recommending NOT taking it” - yeah, there are many notable anti-vaccine doctors, what they typically have in common is they earned their doctorate in computer science, social studies, or some other field that gives them no qualifications to talk about immunology




  • Actually, I‘m just excluding companies like yours because they are making way too much revenue on the basis of FOSS without giving back

    You don’t know anything about my company? You don’t know what proportion of FOSS vs proprietary software we use, nor how much we give back lol.

    It would completely break the locked down proprietary software model and break walled gardens wide open.

    This is very pie in the sky. Your license idea only penalizes small to medium sized businesses. Alphabet’s 1% would just go to Chromium/AOSP, and Meta’s 1% would just go to React/Torch