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Cake day: March 7th, 2024

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  • It’ll continue to spread, as well. Last Friday, someone with contagious measles spent hours touring 2 Texas campuses, hours in college bars and restaurants, and hours in crowded tourist attractions. Next Friday, one of those colleges starts spring break - and it takes 2 weeks for the rash to start showing up. Some of those college students will have caught measles and will go on spring break, where they’ll spread measles to other spring breakers. Three weeks from now, there’ll be outbreaks in every state in the Union.

    If you weren’t vaxxed, you were under-vaxxed, not sure if you got vaxxed, or think the vax might not have taken, now it’s an excellent time to get vaxxed.






  • My problem with Tesla is that so many things seem half-unthinking, half-finished or half-assed:

    Unthinking: I know! I’ll put a ledge in from of the headlights, so snow can pile up while I’m driving!

    Unfinished: all the seam mismatches and eternally unfinished-but-really-close! full self-driving (it ain’t gonna happen).

    Half-assed: that recall they had to do because sometimes the latch doesn’t catch properly and the hood flies open when you’re driving and blocks your view. Tesla’s solution isn’t to fix or replace the hood latch so this doesn’t happen; they push a software up that monitors the hood latch and pops up a warning, telling you to pull over and check the hood latch. Because apparently fixing the issue that their poor design (see #1) and bad implementation (see #2) doesn’t warrant an actual fix, they’re just going to fob the risk , the cost and the work off to the customer.







  • I was trying to solve a betweenle a couple weeks ago, had it down to the words immediately before and after the word-for-the-day, and couldn’t think of it. I went to three different AI engines and asked them what word was between those two, alphabetically. All three engines repeatedly gave me “answers” that did not occur between the two words. Like, I’d ask "what 5-letter English words are alphabetically between amber and amble, and they’d suggest aisle or armor. None of them understood ‘alphabetically’.