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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • If it’s the USA, then “iced tea” may actually mean “sweet tea” (an American South tradition), which is often prepared something like this:

    • bring 1/2 gallon (1.9L) water to a boil
    • place 8 large black tea bags in a 1 gallon (3.8L) pitcher
    • pour boiling water over the tea bags in the pitcher
    • steep 10-15 minutes, then remove tea bags from the pitcher
    • add 1 dry cup (220g) granulated sugar
    • stir the slurry until sugar is dissolved
    • fill the pitcher to the top with ice cubes
    • wait 20 minutes for ice to chill and dilute the tea, gently stir again
    • serve

    It may be a stronger tea, but so much sugar gets added (probably 3x what would be used to sweeten tea served hot) that you typically don’t notice any bitterness.







  • An internship is a role where a person learns how to do this. (And someone who knows how to do this knows it’s orders of magnitude more involved than the two days you were given — two months is a more realistic timeframe.)

    Here’s a personal experience of mine, so you have more to compare this with:

    When interviewing for a developer position (not an internship), I was once given a take-home programming task to complete over 2-3 days: basically a small, self-contained web app that they had made intentionally buggy and poorly-composed in various ways. I was tasked with identifying & fixing the problems, then providing a write-up of why I changed what I changed. (The package was different enough from their specialty that it was pretty obvious I wasn’t doing their work for them. I confirmed after being hired that this same task was given to all applicants.)

    Again, that was for hiring a developer. The whole point of an internship is that you’re being taught and trained on the job.

    If you’re already able to build what those people asked of you, then you’re overqualified for the role.


  • My understanding of the concept was that it was something like multiple channels of data being sent along the same wire. So long as the frequencies are the right kind of different they’ll essentially exist completely independent of each other.

    Maybe this requires a minimum of two time dimensions so that the variance can result in the different beings following time along different “tracks”?

    I took Troi’s awareness of the beings to be a result of the intermittent overlapping bits of time where they did overlap. Like, it happened too quickly to perceive visually, but enough for the empath to have something to pick up on.