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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • 192cm / 6’3”

    I’d say it’s been a pretty good height, though I bang my head a lot if I travel to countries with average heights on the lower end.

    Possibly the main downside is things like kitchens and work surfaces in general could do with an extra 15-20cm of height for me to not mess up my back using them for any period of time.

    Actually my back in general is the main downside, I feel like shorter people don’t need to put half of the extra care into not accidentally waking up with crippling pain the next day.

    Edit: others in the thread have mentioned clothes, getting a non-loose-fit look together can be tough without ending up with inadvertent crop tops

    Edit 2: oh god and I basically can’t fly using normal economy seats if I don’t want to end up with bruised knees




  • A PC game is either on Steam or GOG or it doesn’t exist to me.

    I subscribe to the humble monthly bundle thing and if a game doesn’t activate on one of those two I’m probably never going to play it despite owning it.

    I’d maybe have added epic to the list if it wasn’t for the store exclusivity stuff. I know that they’ve dialled it back significantly, but anti-consumer stinks like that don’t readily wash out.

    Conversely, GOG is on the list because they’re expressly pro-consumer, particularly with their preservationist initiatives. My monkey brain would prefer everything in one place on Steam, but I recognise behaviour I want to support in these companies, so GOG gets my money too


  • I don’t think it’s really a topic accessible by the layman right now at that level.

    You need billions of dollars and thousands of hours to build and operate a quantum computer currently, and the cutting edge (i.e. the stuff that’s getting close to being usable) has a large amount of information locked behind proprietary trade secrets.

    There’s several high level videos out there explaining it, but if you’re looking for a nitty-gritty walkthrough like Ben Eater’s videos, you’re going to be waiting a good number of years, IMO