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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • They’re joking, but most of the US are “Right to Work” states. Meaning, on paper, you have the ‘right’ to quit your job without reprisal, but in practice the company can fire you without compensation. They owe for anything you’ve already done, but that’s about it.

    I was thinking their package was pretty generous but you’re right it’s very basic for other places.





  • We are only ‘pretty sure’ of the mechanism of how Tylenol works biochemically as of 2025.

    You can test for effectiveness and dangers and everything else you need to prescribe something to get a good idea of whether its actually doing something or not.

    ‘Alternative medicine’ is largely, “I felt better after a bit”.



  • That’s the thing. Steam caught on in part because compared to physical retail “only” 30% was a massive improvement for the average game company. I’ve heard 60-70+% going to buying/printing floppies/CDs, packaging, distribution, etc. at the high end. I’m sure the big companies got bulk discounts or multi-year deals for supplies.

    Yes that meant that since those aspects were a significant amount of the cost anyway you could do stuff like the StarCraft Battlechest that was crammed with extras. But it also did a lot of gatekeeping in it’s own right.

    Now you could probably do some kind of limited run thing that would be a lot more viable, but it’s definitely a luxury step up.







  • I vaguely remember they might’ve done that later on? Maybe that was for the business version only. It was at least interesting that Microsoft was trying to directly compete with Apple for a while in having a whole ecosystem. I was waiting for more hardware because I liked metro on the phone, but then that all collapsed.

    Really the worst part of 8 onward was the fragmenting of the settings, Vista you could at least fallback to the old stuff but they started removing old functionality. I get that they wanted to “update” from the control panel. But that it’s taken them 20 years, and they’re not done, and now neither the new system or the old system is feature complete, is fucking bonkers.





  • Veritasium(?) has a video about jerry cans that boils down to “Surprise! The Germans over-engineered the crap out of these!” and how most modern ones aren’t as good because its significantly cheaper to make ones that just look similar.

    Still better than the plastic ones usually but you kind of have to hunt for the older style at this point to get the best of the best.


  • Which is the point. It’s not good, it meets the spec.

    Sometimes the spec means it’s overbuilt compared to a civilian version. A lot of the time someone not-the-government is willing to pay more for different features than the spec.

    An AR trigger going to a 19 year old just out of basic does not need to be match quality. Most of them suck as marksmen. Most of them will rarely shoot a rifle after basic because their MOS doesn’t require it, and they don’t need a good (read: more expensive) trigger to qualify for basic competence.