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Cake day: October 13th, 2023

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  • Was in Ireland a while back and I hit a guy with my rental car. Just a love tap. Nothing serious and no one was hurt. I was pulling out of a lot and it was really hard to see and I was looking for traffic and inching (centimetering?) out. And I look and there’s suddenly a bloke there, getting pushed a little. He smacks the hood of the car and yells something, then waves his hand at me and keeps walking.

    In the States that would have been a lawsuit.








  • Sounds like you’re left with almost no modern conveniences or technology. I don’t mean this disparagingly, but I am curious how you live your life and ensure you are truly not using any of these companies or their subsidiaries, or even those shitlist companies if they are a white box supplier of someone else not on your list. Or even if a mom and pop shop down the street is using technologies, software, or appliances from one of these companies to run their local business…

    Doesn’t seem possible in reality. Or at the very least seems like a full time job that would get really futile after a while.









  • This is a little bit of a case in point of why documentation should not be written by the teacher. It should be written by the student. The student takes no knowledge for granted and so will only repeat themselves insofar as they need to. The teacher will either repeat themselves consistently, or just leave massive gaps due to their preexisting knowledge. Even though it wouldn’t be practical for a coder to have some student document their code, I feel like this still illustrates the point. Also it means you have to constantly put yourselves in the shoes of some future student, which seems like a good practice anyway.