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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • Only because my spouse’s parents are both dead (early, accidents) and he inherited several hundred thousand dollars and life insurance money. I personally have a negative net worth, and with divorce I’d probably only break even. I basically lucked out of not living with my parents/grandparents for the rest of their life. On the flip side though, I regret the marriage because he refuses to move to a country with better social safety nets should something go wrong; living knowing that should his nest egg dry up, that we’ll be on the street in retirement, is inherently really stressful [we live in the USA].

    I have a BS, with probably no inheritance coming (I’ve been told so).

    He’s a certified accountant and makes double what I do. He controls all the money for obvious reasons.





  • The multitouch trackpad for me is a great way to get the eye candy of having linear animations tied to your finger movement. In a practical sense, I use linear animations in MacOS to “peek” between desktops and pages in Safari all the time. The fact of the matter is that linear animations are just far smoother, and useful than ones that snap into place from a single input trigger. I even have a trackpad for my home desktop setup and literally don’t use my traditional mouse unless I’m playing a game that doesn’t support controllers.

    A good example of this is to compare Windows’s app exposé with the MacOS one. In Windows when you swipe up (or down? I forget which one) with 4 (3?) fingers, once you hit a certain point the app exposé just appears no matter how slow or fast you’re doing the gesture. On MacOS, you can do the app expose gesture on the trackpad as slow or as fast as you want and it’ll animate in time with the speed of your fingers doing the gesture.











  • Assuming Andy Chen isn’t American, this is understandable:

    “It should be obvious, but I will say that it is a false equivalence to say that agreeing with Republicans on one specific issue (antitrust enforcement to protect small companies) is equal to endorsing the entire Republican party platform.”

    But it’s extremely tone deaf to Americans who live within the two party duopoly in the US, and who are sensitive to the fact that you can’t really be a compromise between the two (as politics stand, currently)