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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Sometimes it’s the easiest way to get a particular toppings group. Like a “mushroom burger” comes with Swiss, bacon, sautéed onions, and some sauce, or you can build your own for 10% more than getting a pre-built mushroom burger, minus the mushrooms. Plus, when you and-then an order, there’s a high chance they’ll miss something.

    I mean, my local place asks me every time if I want to add peanut butter to my burger. I’d also expect modification to be more and more frequent with the prevalence of touchescreens allowing customers to highly customize items. I don’t see modifying as a big deal, within reason. Not just for burgers, obviously.






  • Even if you live somewhere dense, there’s so many niche things, no brick and mortar place stocks it. For my own router, I had to find one recommended by forum users a decade ago for a specific disconnect issue within the Xbox One’s internal 360 emulator. BB and WM didn’t have the known-good options. In my recent case here, it was hobby stuff that my local craft store doesn’t have at all, despite carrying similar items. And I mean my classic example is I used to dabble in LEDs before everyone was just buying mains bulbs and 12v strips. The price of a single blue 5mm LED in the hobby electronic store was the same as 100 on ebay.




  • I was thinking that header image in the liveflightstracker link was AI Slop, then one of us had a stroke in the bottom left. Weather avoidance, geopolitical restrictions, air traffic control reroute, another geopolitical restrictions, and THEIS PERVES ON CONROLL MEFTIGN LIN£AION GARE OFFIANOSI/NE

    Stick with the antipode link and the interactive map to understand the normal curve of a straight line across a sphere represented on a flat map. The liveflightstracker link just mentions a bunch of generic reasons, has no picture to help describe the flat/sphere translation, and adds nothing particularly useful to the route in question. The route takes a J shape where the initial leg is straight, not even slightly curved as it should be. The actual answer likely lies in some combination of standard flight routing and avoiding certain countries.



  • There is desire and benefit in these things being smart devices and AI is just the stupid label slapped on every smart device after 2024. A benefit of a smart washer is that it can, theoretically, do a more thorough and more efficient job of washing various amounts, sizes, thicknesses, and materials in the load by measuring water usage, balance, weight, and output water condition. A smart fridge can, theoretically, do some lofty things that aren’t nearly as desired as just being a media hub. Streaming videos, reordering groceries on Amazon, displaying recipes, displaying weather, displaying pictures, etc - really mor elike a tablet stuck to the fridge.

    Implementation of said benefits is a different story. They are obviously consumer surveillance devices with sales pitches to make them “the best” faster than the competition.