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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I just replaced my windshield wipers last night and it was a nightmare. The wipers I got are supposed to be universal, which means the little plastic bit that connects to the wiper arms has a bunch of little sub parts that you’re supposed to remove based on what wiper arm connection your car uses. Well, considering I’m not well versed in modern wiper arm connection standards, and I’m also stubborn and don’t think you should need to dig out your car manual just to change your fucking wipers, coupled with the fact that the instructions that came with the wipers are just 6 wordless diagrams vaguely showing you what bits to remove based on which esoteric wiper style your car uses, I struggled with those sons of bitches for like 20 minutes in below freezing weather.



  • Great explanation, but I have a tiny, tiny, minor nit-pick

    Basically what he said is incoherent to anybody who has worked with larger data.

    I’m being pedantic, but I disagree with your wording. As a backend dev, I work with relational databases a ton, and what Musk said wasn’t incomprehensible to me, it just sounded like something a first year engineer fresh out of college would say.

    Again, the rest of your explanation is spot on, absolutely no notes, but I do think the distinction between “adult making up incomprehensible bullshit” and “adult cosplaying as a baby engineer who thinks he’s hot shit but doesn’t know anything beyond surface level stuff” is important.



  • Dude yeah I was thinking about that recently, like comparing Roiland’s one-noted-ness to someone like H. Jon Benjamin’s one-noted-ness, and how different they are. Like, you hear Roiland’s Lemongrab, or Rick, or Morty, or the alien from Solar Opposites, and you’re just like huh, the same guy voices all of those characters. They don’t sound identical, but I can tell it’s the same VA. But then you listen to Bob from Bob’s Burgers and Archer from Archer, and Coach McGuirk from Home Videos and you almost don’t realize at first that those three characters are voiced by the same guy, even though their voices are almost identical. Idk, I just think it’s kinda wild