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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • Continue reading.

    Sodium Hydroxide, when exposed to Carbon Dioxide (already in the air), combines to become Sodium Carbinate.

    NaOH + CO2 → Na2CO3 + H2O

    Sodium Carbinate then reacts with water and more Carbon Dioxide to become Sodium Bicarbinate, which is baking soda.

    Na2CO3 + CO2 + H2O → 2 NaHCO3

    Not only does a Sodium Oxyde fuel cell produce electricity, it takes CO2 out of the atmosphere.

    From a physics and chemistry point of view, it’s pretty cool. I’m curious how well it scales though.





  • Ran into a couple small bugs on xbox.

    When making a potion the game crashed. After repeating it multiple times, I figured out that it only happened when mixing a stolen and non stollen ingredient. I have not retested since the last update.

    Prior to the update, I could not create an enchanted item with a static effect at frostcrag spire. For example, a ring with nighteye. I could create one with detect life because it was a magnitude selector. This bug went away after the update.


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    That’s a good sized heater. It could be filled with sediment and not working efficiently. If you haven’t emptied it recently, it might be worth it.

    If it’s clean, you can try turning it up. It will make full-hot from your faucet hotter, so be careful of scalding yourself, but it will make the hot water last longer.

    You could also get a slightly lower flow shower head. Using less water at a time will allow it to last longer and keep do better keeping up with the empty rate.

    If none of that works or is something you want to try, you could always replace with a tankless and never run out. Though you’ll waste a bit more water each time you turn on the hot since it takes a few seconds to kick in, but you won’t run out.



  • I was excited for the new season and planned on rewarching seasons 1 and 2 before beginning 3. Last weekend, I started s1e1 and was in the middle of a dark, suspensful scene when it cut to a bright white ad with loud music. Talk about immursion breaking. I guess paying $130+ a year for Prime isn’t enough for Amazon.

    I closed the app and now have zero desire to watch s3. It’s not worth paying even more to get rid of ads that shouldn’t be there to begin with. Amazon isn’t making more money with the ads, they are making one less person watch the show.


  • Yeah, let’s do nothing and let the children of people we don’t like die. And in the meantime, let’s put other particularly vulnerable - like the immunocompromised - at risk. But we’ll sure show a handful of people how right we were the whole time.

    You might want to rethink your moral compass.

    Sometimes, the best you can do is explain a bad decision when you see it. The people who really want to do it will ignore you. The hope is to get the people on the fence to not do it. You won’t get them all, but if it saves even one child, it’s worth it.


  • “The government” is multiple agencies and departments. There is no single computer system, database, mainframe, or file store that the entire US goverment uses. There is no standard programming language used. There is no standard server configuration. Each agency is different. Each software project is different.

    When someone says the government doesn’t use sql, they don’t know what they are talking about. It could be refering to the fact that many government systems are ancient mainframe applications that store everything in vsam. But it is patently false that the government doesn’t use sql. I’ve been on a number of government contracts over the years, spanning multiple agencies. MsSQL was used in all but one.

    Furthermore, some people share SSNs, they are not unique. It’s a common misconception that they are, but anyone working on a government software learns this pretty quickly. The fact that it seems to be a big shock goes to show that he doesn’t know what he is doing and neither do the people reporting to him.

    Not only is he failing to understand the technology, he is failing to understand the underlying data he is looking at.





  • I agree with what you’re saying. They got the phone from Carrier A with the expectation the phone plan went with it. Once the phone is paid off, they can take the phone to Carrier B. Since they phone is basically bought on an interest free loan, the interest is recouped by the plan, and the collateral for not paying is a loss of the phone plan and use of the phone. To leave the plan, payoff the phone.

    That does require that, the moment the phone is paid off, it should be automatically unlocked. There shouldn’t have to be a request or additional waiting. And the customer should be notified that it’s unlocked along with an explanation that they can now use the phone with any other provider.


  • I had one done recently due to breaking a filling while eating a Jolly Rancher. The whole thing took maybe 2 hours.

    The shot of novocaine to numb my jaw was the only pain, and even that wasn’t bad because the dentist used topical numbing before that. It was no different than getting a cavity filled.

    My dentist has a cnc machine (CEREC) in the office to make the crown, so I didn’t need a temporary cap. Waiting for that to be milled was the longest part.

    I had a bruise on my gums for a couple days from the shot and the retainer clamp, but it wasn’t even bad enough to stop me from eating.