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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • I thought about this recently. I live in Australia. For the first 30 years of my life I didn’t look after my teeth properly.

    Now I’ve got a really good oral hygiene routine with flossing, interdental brushes and a good quality mouthwash. I went through my routine one night last week and thought about how much better my gums were and how few problems I had with my oral health. I used to have frequent ulcers and permanent gingivitis.

    As great as I felt knowing I’ve gotten on top of it, I feel terrible. I’m fortunate in that I can afford to spend 20 dollars a month on interdental brushes. Another 5 on floss. Another 10 on mouthwash. The $200 electric toothbrush that makes it easy to get a really solid clean.

    Like what the fk man? Taking care of my teeth is not only going to have massive positive health impacts on me, but there would be huge cost savings for the government who only seem to intervene and pay up when it’s too late and you need hospital care for whatever eventuality comes.

    A significant portion of the country skip meals in order to pay rent. They certainly don’t have that kind of money to spend to maintain there teeth, as well as any kids in the house.

    Oral hygiene products should really be subsidised for low income families.


  • Here ya go. I spent 7 years in the military as a dog handler with two different malinois during that time.

    I then got out and worked for a government agency investigating dog attacks.

    One of the first jobs across my desk was… an American Bully XL. Almost killed another dog and sent a male person to the hospital. The dog was from an upper class family and was around little children daily.

    We had 7 dogs that we had confiscated, pending court hearing regarding attacks.

    7 out of 7 dogs were bully breed dogs.

    In my experience I will not trust a bully breed dog in any circumstance. I’d take a malinois any day over a bully breed dog.






  • Ooooh.

    I’ve just spent the day installing Synology DSM on a passively cooled micro pc with a Pentium N3510 and 4gb of ram.

    I haven’t had a chance to test performance yet. Certainly not 4K capable but that’s okay. If it can handle 1080p I’ll mark it a win.

    Sonarr and Radarr in dockers on DSM.

    12tb USB attached HDD.

    I’m not sure if this will be a permanent setup. Will depend what the 1080p performance is like.

    But I had the box sitting in the cupboard and I’m really keen to cut ties with streaming services











  • Amazing. Thank you.

    Don’t ever apologise for getting carried away. Sharing something you’re passionate about is a gift for your audience!

    Can you also explain quantum advantage for me?

    And share your thoughts on what you think the timeline will look like for the development of quantum computing?

    Also I’m sorry but I have one more question for you, Being a bit of a tech nerd I’ve had a few conversations with people about quantum computing and encryption. Obviously there’s concerns that current cyphers will be obsolete, but I’ve always wondered is this not a problem that we could easily solve by just drastically ramping up entropy?


  • I have a very very basic idea which could be wrong.

    When qubits are entangled they’re basically a traditional bit of data, paired to another. If you change one of the bits, you change the other.

    So what’s the benefit? I think the easiest way of thinking about it is to dumb it down as much as you can.

    If I’m processing 4 bits of data. Say 1010. And then I execute a function that changes that data to say 0101. Traditionally I need to send another 4 bit string of data for processing. But if my original data was actually a pair of entangled qubits of say 10 and 10, well if I change one of the pair to 01 i’ve changed the other pair already because they’re entangled.

    So effectively through one qubit entangled pair I’ve doubled my throughput.

    So if you can effectively scale this, the potential upside is huge.

    “Cells. Within cells interlinked.”