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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • I went through my stored logins to migrate the vast majority of my accounts one by one (and deleted quite a few old and forgotten ones in the process). Took a couple of hours, but went mostly well.

    For everything that I might have missed, I have gmail set up to forward everything to my new address. The new address (I went with posteo myself) has a filter that automatically moves stuff addressed to gmail to a separate folder. Whenever something ends up in there, I go and migrate or delete the account.







  • There was a specific number that was repeated across a lot of papers in my field, always citing the same source.

    That source did have the number, but it cited another paper for it, which itself cited yet an older paper. Im not sure where the citations went bad, but that last paper for not actually contain the value everyone waschain-attributing to it.

    The number was fortunately still correct though (and people would have noticed pretty quickly if it wasn’t).












  • If you brick your car’s firmware, at least you can keep driving without unreasonable levels of difficulty or distraction

    That’s impossible for a large portion of safety critical systems. Engines don’t run without a controller, they literally control the fuel injection valves (and have done so for decades). Brake systems have physical failsafes for when the electronics die (I.e. basic hydraulics without the booster), but you should not be able to move a vehicle without a working brake system after it stopped.

    The shitton of software running modern cars is there for good reason (at least large chunks of it), lots of which is safety, especially in the drivetrain.

    It’s completely different for infotainment, which I agree the vehicle should be able to function without (although the dashboard must work)