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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • When Brandon Sanderson has talked about possible screen adaptations of his books, he’s started to hear people talking about an Arcane-style animated adaptation as an option they’d like. He’s mentioned that the unfortunate reality of it is that Arcane’s budget ($10 million an episode) does not match its audience - the large majority of Arcane viewers are existing League fans, and it doesn’t get the new/outside-viewer audience that a lot of producers would want to see.






  • My Prusa i3 Mk3 treated me quite well - it wasn’t “out of the box” printing (even accounting for the fact that I got a kit version), but once I got it dialed in, I could just keep printing without having to fix things and retune.

    Most definitely not “out of the box” is a Voron 2.4, which is my current printer. It was, however, so much fun to build and get running.


  • Unfortunately, racism.

    It’s a term from the car-modding scene. “Rice burner” was a pejorative term for badly-customized imported Japanese cars with more flashy looks than performance upgrades. It then came to just mean “heavily visually modified”, and installing such mods was called “ricing”




  • The thing is - how will your blockchain-based mortgage be enforced? What happens if I start squatting on your blockchain-property? At the end of the day, the answer is “people with guns” - we agree that contracts have legal weight, and there are legal structures (and ultimately law enforcement and their threat of force) that keep you on your land and me out of it. And if we already have to involve all that, what good is blockchain doing that “a database” can’t do?