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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • If you don’t eat the brain you’ll have a much much lower risk (your link suggests about 9x less likely), and if the person you eat wasn’t a cannibal then your risk is lower still.

    Also worth mentioning that Kuru is a specific disease for natives in Papua new guinea , and it only existed for about 100years and was going away on it’s own when the cannibalistic practice was outlawed.

    I think the health risks of cannibalism is very exaggerated.

    (this is not an endorsement of cannibalism)


  • The biblical explanation:

    The first pope was the apostle Simon, Jesus personally renamed him to Peter, meaning rock, because he was being reborn to become the foundation/rock of the new church. Subsequent popes rename themselves to signify their rebirth.

    The historical explanation:

    in 533 John II decided it would be inappropriate for a Pope to be named after a pagan god (Mercurius, his birth name), by the 10th century popes were largely from France and Germany but wanted to sound like their italian predecessors and so began renaming themselves. This happened enough to just become a tradition, with the last pope not getting renamed being in 1555 (Marceullus II)



  • My experience is that while it’s useful for creating code from scratch it’s pretty alright if you give it a script and ask it to modify it to do something else.

    For instance I have a cron job that runs every 15min and attempts to extract .rar files in a folder and email me if it fails to extract. Problem is if something does go wrong it emails me every 15minutes until I fix it. This is especially annoying if its stuck copying a rar at 99%.

    I asked deepseek to store failed file names in a file and have the script ignore those files for an increasing amount of time for each failure. It did a pretty good job, although it changed the name of a variable halfway through (easy fix) and added a comment saying it fixed a typo despite changing nothing about that line. I probably probably would have written almost identical code but it definitely saved me time and effort


  • A huge chunk of FreeBSD and Linux development is done by salaried workers who want specific functionality. Microsoft is the biggest contributor to the Linux kernel for instance. I don’t think there is much apetite for that in web browsers. Linux is an industry leader in the server space, adding features to it that complement whatever you make for profit is a good move. Firefox is unfortunately barely relavent in the browser space, if your product relies on Firefox exclusive features it isn’t going to go well for you.