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Cake day: November 11th, 2024

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  • Some apartments with central hot water have a recirculation pump, so the water is almost always hot. My building has one. The water is always hot, but for some fucking reason the hot water is like right next to the cold water, but the cold water doesn’t have a pump, so the cold water pipes will get hot from the flowing hot water. Then when I turn on my shower the cold water will be just as hot as the hot water… for like a minute, making the entire thing fucking pointless because you still have to wait to get in. But I can burn myself on demand so I’ve got that going for me.








  • Yeah I agree this seems more like tech debt and possibly a shitty architecture to me, both problems that ultimately come from poor management. The codebase I’m responsible for at work was developed in a mad rush, and the levels of pointless coupling and interdependence sometimes makes it hard to change anything without spending forever tracking down all the stupid little places that piece was touching. That shit comes from management pushing you to just do the thing already and move on, which works for a while until things get so messy you have to slow down or spend some time on a refactor. Someone could easily have made a technical decision for the sake of expedience, which was then built upon and became interconnected with other things in a way that made changing it require a major change, which of course no manager will support, so the work gets broken up into 100 tiny stupid tickets trying to move toward adding the new feature without ever making a breaking change, slowing down the whole thing even more.






  • Cat’s are a more viable option if your work schedule is crazy and you can have them where you live. I have two and they have literally saved my life at least a couple times so far. I initially got one, but she needed much more play time than I was prepared to provide, so I got a second one so she had someone to play with regularly. I love them both so much it’s crazy. With the automatic feeder I only need to feed them once a day manually (they get wet food once a day), and the litter boxes only need to be cleaned every few days. If I got automatic litter boxes it would be even less work. The really nice thing about cats is their social cues are so different, like if you ignore them they think you’re chill and nice and will come say hi, so when I’m feeling really down and falling into a spiral one of them ends up sitting on me or getting in my face to demand attention and it helps break the spiral. Also they’re so warm and soft just being able to touch them is nice. I could go on and on about the benefits of having cats lol.

    Whether you end up getting a pet or not I hope you’re doing better. You are more than your body. You’re a woman, no matter what anyone else says.