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Cake day: December 31st, 2023

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  • I didn’t read the whole thing, just got far enough to understand one of their fundamental assumptions is that a universe outside a simulation follows the same fundamental laws of nature as ours

    If we are in a simulation, anything outside of it is effectively unknowable. It would be like a self-aware sim in The Sims determining they are not in a simulation because it is impossible for computers to simulate anything – computers only raise the entertainment stat (I don’t actually know what they do in modern incarnations of the game)














  • After we figured out I can use safe mode to bypass the password, he just started locking the computer desk. Learned to pick the lock within a couple days

    It got to the point where he straight up would cut the power cord off things. Took less than an hour to learn to strip the wires and splice in a new end. He gave up after that

    In hindsight, there may have been signs I would go into security engineering





  • Separate minimum wages doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Especially when it’s so hyper specific:

    minimum wage that would apply to construction workers on any housing project with 10 or more units and a height of up to 85 feet

    So we’re incentivizing smaller buildings, which is the exact opposite of what we need. Large, single-family homes being the only housing allowed in large swaths of cities is what got us the housing crisis. Now we’re incentivizing them even more?

    Construction workers currently earn a median wage of $18 per hour in L.A. and frequently face wage theft

    The fact they’re nearly doubling the prevailing wage for construction on apartment buildings, without addressing wage theft makes it abundantly clear this bill is about disincentivizing dense housing

    It’s just a bill to further inflate housing prices dressed up as helping workers. The main group that will benefit from this is wealthy landlords