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Cake day: January 24th, 2025

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  • Good reminder that I need to clear out a bunch of excessive formatting for the next blogpost I am writing.

    I am a massive headings and bullet point use in AI defender. Specifically because when I ask AI a question I am not looking for writing, I am looking for an answer to my question, or a walk-through/procedure how to do things, and in both cases heavily formatted text is the easiest to parse and read non-sequentially.

    As for why I think I have a bad formatting addiction, I am tempted to partially blame it on my reading, which is largely academic texts, where everything is heavily formatted. I think this is the case for similar reasons. Considering that most of the scientists I know do not read a paper from beginning to end and instead go Figures->Captions->Conclusions->Intro->Theory->Results (or some similar order)

    So anyway, disordered reading is another argument for lots of formatting



  • A lot of people giving good advice at how to become good at cooking. I will give advice at how to coom at a bare minimum level.

    Pasta Boil according to Pavket instructions, add jar of sauce. You have cooked a totally legit meal. Consider leveling it up by adding cooked meat/vegetables to the sauce. E.g. fry bacon, chop it and add it in. Mix in spinach leaves.

    Pizza Buy a pre-made pizza base, cheese, “pizza sauce” and your favorite toppings. Assemble and put in the oven for like 20 minutes. Topping ideas include all cold meats, e.g. pepperoni, whatever vegetables you like, e.g. capsicum, and anything from the jarred food aisle. E.g. olives, artichoke, eggplant.

    Chicken Buy Chicken breast, buy a spice mix which looks nice, buy a thermometer. Coat the chicken in the spice and cook at 180 degrees C until the temperature inside the chicken reads safe (often the number is printed on your thermometer, or just Google it) this might take ~20 minutes You can eat this with a salad you also bought, chop it up and add to tomorrow’s pasta, or to sandwiches, on a pizza base.

    egg and rice Cook rice according to packet instructions, fry an egg. Add on your favorite chilli sauce. I go through a jar of Chilli Crisp (Lau Gan Ma) every two weeks thanks to this one.








  • I would put it down less to a nerfarous evil plan, where some exec DECLARES “I will string people along for more money MWUHAHAHAHA” to the the reason to purposely make things worse. I don’t think that fully excuses them though

    They absolutely use some kind of engagement maximizing algorithm in their matching algo, and use engagement metrics in their A/B tests, and with these two forces, no one needs ot make the decisions to enshittify, the decisions are made for leadership.

    I would pose one argument for why “good” competitors don’t exist. is that anyone else following modern business practices will fall into the same solution without making a single decision other than to follow best practice (and iff they choose to eschew data driven decision making then they are fumbling around in the dark and unable to improve)


  • First decision is if you want a resin printer or FDM printer. Resin let’s you get smaller details, but has less dimensuonal accuracy and less options for engineering material.

    In practice this means that if you want to make highly detailed descriptive parts. E.g. figurines, jewlery, etc go resin. If you want to build functional parts, latches, anything that moves, or anything that is big go FDM

    From your description it sounds like you want FDM

    My only experience with FDM is BambuLab which gets called “The Apple of 3D printers” for better and worse. I can personally say they work fantastic, and “tuning and maintainance” of the machine is almost non-existant. HOWEVER there is a little proprietary schenanigans going on. Their system is still open for now, but people worry because hypothetically in the future they might take functionality away or something. (There is a long and boring list of controversies which could be a deal breaker or nothing burger based on your preferences. For me I find it an okay tradeoff for the performance)