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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • Genuine question: how does that work though?

    • If I consume $30 worth, and tip 10%, waiter gets $3.
    • If there’s two of us, and we consume $60, the waiter probably does 60% extra work for 100% extra tip at 10% of the total bill ($6)

    I would have thought (but perhaps I’m wrong) that the waiter does less work per person as the number of people at a table increases, so why would the percentage tip go up?

    And as far as the bill goes, if there’s only me, I’ll likely stick to soft drinks. Whereas when there are more people in my group, I’d be much more likely to grab a bottle of wine to share, pushing the total bill per person up, and thus the tip.



  • I honestly don’t get what runs through the head of people when they summarise someone else’s research and try and pass it off as their own (…or their “friend’s”).

    I mean, it’s a niche, but nonetheless popular YouTube channel. Did they think they wouldn’t get called out?

    Even if they did (think that they wouldn’t get called out), what possible gain is there from passing it off as their own? Internet points from anonymous strangers?


  • Great suggestions.

    I’d strongly recommend Dearrow instead of Clickbait remover now (I used to use Clickbait).

    It’s made by the same developer who made Sponsorblock, which I also strongly recommend (it skips over in-video sponsors, title sequences, non-music sections in music videos, etc.). Just remember to turn it off for channels whom you wish to support.


  • There’re a couple of huge downsides (for me personally) to streaming services that just grinds with me:

    • the quality is always worse than physical media, and
    • scrobbing (moving back and forwards in the video, with the arrow keys or by moving the playback head) is almost never instantaneous, it usually requires a couple of seconds while the video rebuffers

    Perhaps physical media is better these days (than DVDs were) for scrobbing, but then you have the FBI piracy messages to deal with. I’ve never owned a BluRay player, perhaps they’re better?

    But I know that sailing the high seas gets me a high-quality video, and I can jump backwards ~5 seconds instantaneously when I’ve not heard a bit a of dialogue.