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Cake day: February 1st, 2024

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  • It is really powerful per watt, and has a built-in UPS. Any homelab type things you could do with that? macOS+homebrew will give you a nice *NIX feel, very familiar if you’re a Linux user.

    I’m a fan of having a remote homelab computer+disk for off-site storage. This would be a good candidate in that it wouldn’t use excessive power at a friend/family’s place, but may be overkill (I use a pi3 for that).



  • Most of the time that leads to them dying.

    Well, squishing has a 100% chance of them dying. With a toddler and a baby, having them run loose sadly isn’t an option.

    We live in a very mild climate, and there’s under-deck and fence space around our house, in addition to bushes, trees, and underbrush — fairly suitable for a variety of arachnids. It’s not the same as indoors, and survival rate certainly isn’t 100%, but it’s not the death sentence of going from a climate controlled house to below-freezing outdoors.





  • I think large planes “look” like they can’t work because their “relative speed” is really low — that is, their speed relative to their length. We’re used to seeing birds cover tens of lengths per second, whereas a large airliner covers ~1ish per second at takeoff.

    Or not, but this always seemed like a plausible explanation as to why planes look impossible. (Though given that hovering birds don’t look funny, maybe this is a silly observation…).






  • Note re: mustard. It is not just an “other flavor,” it is also an emulsifier!

    It took me a while before I learned this. Even if you’re not going for a mustardy flavor, a little mustard goes a long way in keeping the oil and vinegar from separating. Definitely recommend using some with basically every dressing you make.





  • In parts of California you are allowed to ride on the freeway shoulder. AFAIK it’s only legal when there is no reasonable alternative.

    I’ve done it a few times — it’s not ideal, but it’s not horrible, mostly because you don’t cross on/off ramps (it’s just from one exit to the next). In my case I did it because the multi-use path I was planning on using was temporarily closed.

    I have been on a different ride where I crossed on/off ramps (I should have taken a different route!), and that really sucked.