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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • Reminds me of a joke my grandfather used to tell. A guy bought a new suit from a tailor at a significant discount, and took it home to show his wife. He put it on, and his wife was not happy. “It is a nice suit, but look how it bunches up around the waist! And look at the way the collar pokes out. Also this sleeve is shorter than the other.”

    The guy went back to the tailor, and the the tailor said “Oh, yeah, all you need to do is tug on the crotch a little, and it smooths the waist. For the collar, just tuck it here under your chin. And for the sleeve, just scrunch up your shoulder and they will look even.”

    So he wears the suit home, scrunching his shoulder, tucking his chin, and tugging on the crotch. At the bus stop, two old ladies see him, and one says to the other “Oh, look at that poor man,” and the other replies, “Yeah, but what a nice suit!”

    The joke works better when told in person.






  • Because they’ve been watching it from the beginning.

    Imagine if suddenly China discovered the Simpsons, and also the Simpsons had been telling a cohesive narrative from the beginning until now where the characters grow and change. Then China translated every Simpsons episode to Mandarin and Cantonese, and then they made a live-action Simpsons show with real actors, and they started by covering early stories from Monorail to Who Shot Mr. Burns.

    The Simpsons has been on TV for 10 years longer, and hads made over 750 episodes since its debut in 1989. One Piece debuted in 1999, based on a manga that came out in 1997, and has produced over 1,080 episodes.

    So if the Simpsons suddenly became popular in China, that might skew the search results on Baidu, but it’s not going to dramatically alter perceptions of the show in the USA.


  • Good point, but let’s say you download 20 new movies, meaning rewrite to every block on the drive each week. That’s barely 1,000 write cycles a year, and we’re still talking about a hundred thousand write cycles, which would take 100 years. Even if you start seeing bad blocks at 10,000 write cycles, by the time the drives are wearing out, the cost of replacement drives should be considerably lower.