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Cake day: November 6th, 2023

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  • I think a professional headline would usually just lack the comma there. Headlines typically have weird phrasing (due to their terseness), but they’re generally still grammatically sound.

    I think “HackerNews owner hacked” would be a headline, rather than “HackerNews owner, hacked”.

    “Have I Been Pwned owner pwned” seems to be on par with “Headline English” to me




  • Yeah,.there are plenty of instances where I’m adding a new URL for a password because the app and the website are too different from each other, or the app changes its login paths…

    Or heck, sometimes it’s close enough, and with my password manager on my phone, I don’t have it auto fill – I have it auto-suggest. So “Probably a match” and “Exact match” have the same path to entry.




  • Depending on the age, they do it on purpose. Sometimes it’s because they are just figuring out social situations – doing X to person Y results in action Z.

    You can find videos of babies pretending to be stuck and crying to get attention. When “unstuck” and not given attention, they stop crying, get themselves fake-stuck again and start crying again. They want the attention and coddling that they got the last time they were legitimately stuck.

    I’m sure some babies know they’re faking it.





  • The PS2’s memory cards really felt like the future to me because they had SO MUCH space.

    Of course, on-console storage was the ACTUAL future, which proves yet again that the 3DO was ahead of its time. But anyway…

    The PS2 memory cards had so much space that I think I only ever needed two for me and my brother. Probably didn’t even need to delete any saves. We had tons of PS1 and DC memory cards, because they’d get full so quickly