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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I believe the huge mistake in HTML wasn’t having some sort of element-level addressability.

    People went insane over “the page flashes for 15ms because we have to reload the header and footer and it doesn’t look NAAATIVE!” and the response was to SPA/AJAX everything, inviting a huge Turing-complete nightmare of possibilities when 95% of what peopleneed would be delivered with < form action=“blah” replace_with_response=“#foo” >

    That and a dearth of native widgets-- a < combobox > and a < menu > that worked like the system menus might have kept JavaScript as the sick oddity it should be.


  • I never got why Asus is so beloved. The RoG branding is cringe even by motherboard branding standards, and the one Asus board I had (a M3A78) had a surprise showstopper incompatibility (hard crashes with a specific PCI-e card that worked fine on a LGA775 board and a Gigabyte 790X board) that their support refused to take responsibility for.

    It’s like they’re still coasting on the goodwill from when they did a dual-Celeron board.














  • Cobalt 60 has a half life of 5.27 years.

    If the 7-1-63 is a date stamp of original manufacture, it’s gone through over 11 half-lives. There’s less than .05% of the original flavour.

    I don’t know about the decay products, but I’d wonder how far we are from legitimately edible.