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Cake day: October 28th, 2022

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  • The conventional wisdom is no caffeine after 4 but the half life is 4ish hours I remember reading somewhere. It’s better to hard stop caffeine consumption before 2pm.

    I think blue light also conflicts with your body’s natural sleep priming so yeah cutting screentime before bed is a win or at the very least use the night mode or orange filter on your phone after sundown.

    If your schedule is really bad, an acute solution is to hard reset by full commiting to going to bed at your new desired bedtime. Don’t nap or anything that day if you can, and if your desired bedtime is too early you can try taking some melatonin. Don’t use melatonin regularly though.

    That’s how I wrangle my sleep schedule back to a better baseline when it starts to drift towards later nights and waking up exhausted.






  • I hate this question so much. I wish it was illegal to ask. You have to give some vague bullshit or you might tick the interviewer off. They know your answer will be bullshit but will ask anyways. And then every now and again you get some lumpen bootlicker asshole who refuses to abide by the social contract and wants to know exactly why you are seeking a new job and won’t accept the customary bullshit answer.










  • “There were certainly things we could’ve done to test it and actually fire it. They would’ve been very time-consuming and very costly,” Mike Hansen, the company’s head of navigation systems, told Reuters in an interview on Saturday. “So that was a risk as a company that we acknowledged and took that risk.”

    What insane copium to post hoc justify not verifying your multimillion dollar machine works before crashing it.


  • The thing I think people don’t think about is it’s really expensive to change your manufacturing process. The transition overseas isn’t just about labor costs, but because you are rebuilding the factory anyways it’s a chance to switch over to a cheaper manufacturing method. You get what you pay for and cheaper methods tend to have cut corners. You can buy high end stuff from China, it’s not like iphones are made there or anything…

    There’s a reactionary QBC youtuber, AvE who mostly disassembles power tools and examines the quality of construction, components, and manufacturing methods. He has a teardown of a “Juciero” the $1000 juicer with DRM which is how I found him. He whines about “Chinesium” in the Chinese manufactured tool brands but there’s other “American made” tools on his channel using similar lower-end manufacturing techniques or cutting similar corners.