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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • I’m a highly experienced developer staying in a very low-paid job because the work is not for an unethical purpose and there’s relatively little employee surveillance or corporate politics. I know developers aren’t in a powerful position right now but I admire your reaction. It’s no way to treat people, and they won’t stop treating candidates disrespectfully until they see that it hurts their ability to hire. I expect the day will come soon when I have to make a decision like you and could be forced to leave this field.





  • But think of the innovation: in those days there was no way they could get you to install their buggy, insecure software that requires you to log into an online account so they can track you and push ads to your desktop. And mice didn’t even have batteries that would fail after a year or two, forcing you to get a new mouse. Heck, you didn’t even have the experience of the mouse seizing up in the middle of your workday because the battery ran out, or becoming intermittently unusable because of interference from USB 3. Those were dark days indeed.










  • For their study, the researchers obtained euthanized laboratory-reared female Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes, stored them in a freezer, then dipped them in a solution of 80% ethanol to sterilize them.

    Next, the soft protective outer sheath of each insect’s proboscis was detached and discarded. An ultraviolet-curable resin was then applied to the now-exposed rigid section of the proboscis, and hardened by exposure to UV light. The resin-coated proboscis was then cut off of the mosquito’s body with a razor blade, forming a nice little rigid tube.

    I can’t see this process scaling very well.