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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • Honestly, if you want “quick unprofessional photos” stick with a smartphone.

    Standalone cameras don’t have nearly the processing or automated modes of modern phones. So while bigger sensors and better glass can get you a better image it comes along with needing to know how to use the camera and processing the photos afterwards.

    That said if you still want something at a decent price I’d be looking at a used Fuji x100 or Sony rx100.







  • Other’s here have covered the why’s of how China became a manufacturing powerhouse, but it is also interesting about how they continue to build things even though China is no longer the cheapest place to make things and hasn’t been for awhile.

    One of the most amazing things about manufacturing in China is how extensive their supply chain infrastructure is. This allowes your suppliers to react quickly and do things in days or hours that would take weeks elsewhere in the world. I’ve got suppliers in China that I know will get it right the first time, and will build a brand new product in 6-8 weeks rather than 12 weeks anywhere else in the world. The way the supply chain worldwide revolves around China is both amazing and scary. There are many items today that are nearly impossible to get outside of China at any price.

    The other thing is people. Due to the years of experience China is the place where the best tooling and manufacturing engineers are. There are so many people concentrated in the manufacturing centers that if you need to hire 1000 people in a couple days to assemble widgets then you could feasibly do that.

    That said, there is definitely a push to diversify manufacturing outside of China and I wouldn’t be surprised if they lose some of these advantages in the coming years. This started with the original US tariffs against China, continued due to how China locked down during the pandemic, as well as the current round of US tariffs.






  • The issue I have with “leagues” is that by assigning them you are essentially reducing your potential dating pool because of an assumption. The whole point of flirting and getting to know someone is to evaluate your compatibility with each other. You can’t know whether you are someone’s exact type without interacting with them.

    I’ve been surprised enough times by which women do and don’t find me attractive that I know better than to make any assumptions.





  • I’ve used Vivaldi for a long time before switching to Floorp (based on Firefox) and recently back to Vivaldi.

    Pros:
    Vivaldi is fast with lots of features.
    I like how it works much more than other browsers (e. g. Sidebar tabs, pinned tabs can’t be closed)

    Cons:
    Still built on chromium.
    They have ways to customize the address bar autocomplete, but screwed up the implementation so every option doesn’t work the way I want it to.