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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • something like 50-80 % of the energy we use (it depends on how active you are,) is used for just sustaining life (AKA your base metabolic rate.)

    humans convert a bit less than 50% of the food-energy into a form we actually use- glucose. even though bicycles themselves are fairly efficient with the power put into them, humans themselves are not all that efficient. as for most effecient animals, that would probably be something like an albatross, which extracts energy from the wind to fly. (Specifically using a technique known as ridge lift. in the R/C world, the speed record is 548mph or so- set by a glider using similar techniques, and albatrosses can cross entire oceans.)






  • the plastic in the lamination would foul it.

    Personally… I would have gotten a hammer-drill and put a chisle bit on it. It’ll take time but you’ll get there. Alternatively, I’d attack the seam around it (Cutter spreader should take that nicely.) (you can rent a hammer drill for like… 50 bucks. and I know you can rent various types of cutter spreaders, too.)


  • Most people who are in dev aren’t maintaining shit.

    Most coders don’t write new scripts, they’re cutting and pasting from whatever libraries they have - using ChatGPT is just the newest way to do that.

    Your boss doesn’t care about how the job gets done- they care that it gets done. Which is why we have giant code libraries just chock full of snippets to jigsaw into whatever we need.






  • Honestly I think the “what happened “ is that Josh had an epiphany when Sheridan challenged him. When was the last time a younger race talked back that way? Not to mention all the time spent mentoring Sheridan, where it wasn’t some random that it could just be written off.

    Remember that he still arranged for Lyta to get to their home world so she could be worked over.


  • Vorlons bio-engineered the younger races to perceive them as gods so they’d be more easily manipulated later. I don’t think they’d have hesitated to completely reconstruct Sebastian’s personality- if Sebastian even was Jack the Ripper. Or, ah, the original… jack the ripper.

    we know that the Vorlons had an interest in human development (because they were creating telepaths as weapons.) It’s possible they created Sebastian as an artificial construction, and the memories of being taken in was just to explain where he came from rather than “yeah… you were grown in a vat, bub.”

    Kosh Naranek aside… the Vorlons were assholes.