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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • It’s less-true when cooking for 1. Food doesn’t last forever, so you can’t save as much by buying in bulk, and there scopes a point where the small cost savings may not be worth the extra time required. I’m not gonna spend several extra hours a week on shopping, cooking, and cleaning to save 3 dollars a meal.







  • The big difference is a civil/structural engineer has to individually certify a plan sets and take legal responsibility for it. The project manager can’t override them.

    They can fire them and hire another engineer, but even if they found someone to stamp bad plans for a fee, the original engineer could report the new engineer and have their credentials yanked.

    We don’t have that in software engineering. And outside of critical software we don’t need it. When the audio fucks up in Teams and you have to leave and re-enter the meeting, people don’t die.


  • A lot of people’s don’t understand the business of universities. It’s not education.

    The students are there as fundraisers. The ones who get scholarships are there to boost the reputation and desirability of the school and/or provide free labor.

    Professors have the “publish or perish” rule for the same reason. They work their ass off 40 hours a week all year, but only about 10-15 are directly related to education, and that’s only 30 weeks of the year (38 if they’re also teaching summer courses). The rest of the time they’re doing research to boost the university’s prestige and get those juicy patents and grants.

    And once you’ve gone into debt for 20 years to get the degree, they’ll hound you for donations through the alumni foundation until the heat death of the universe.