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Cake day: June 6th, 2024

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  • In the US if someone served me something like in the picture I’d call it a “crepe”. My expectation of a “pancake” is for it to be thicker (maybe like 1cm thick), and very fluffy (while a crepe is usually a bit crispy). However I’m not much of a cook so I don’t know if there are other differences between a “crepe” and a “pancake”.





  • Things like lectures I agree are actually better online than in person, but there’s a lot about university learning that can’t really be replicated online.

    The most obvious thing being physical demonstrations and hands on projects, which I had in several physics and engineering classes.

    Also I think in-person works better for discussion sections or office hours, where talking it out and writing it on a board is often easier to do in person than online (although there are tools for these things online).

    Another big thing you’d miss out on by studying online is the whole social aspect of living away from your parents and with other people your age and making friends and going to parties and such.




  • The multiple power supplies are for redundancy. It will work with one plugged in but you are “supposed” to plug in both.

    It’s fundamentally not that different from a consumer desktop. Plug in a monitor and a keyboard and a USB with your preferred flavor of headless Linux installer on it. Configure ssh as the first thing you do because you won’t want to plug the monitor and keyboard into it every time you need to tweak something.

    You can probably find VGA to HDMI adapters if you can’t find a monitor with VGA support.



  • Quick recap, in quidditch, scoring goals scores 10 or 20 points, catching the snitch scores 150 points

    Idk how canon this is, but I remember a quidditch computer game I used to play (on Windows XP) where usually when you scored your team would get the ball through the hoops multiple times in rapid succession, so scoring like 5 times in a row. Like if in basketball, if your team caught the ball after making a hoop you could pass it back and shoot again. That at least makes the point value of the snitch less egregious. Everything else you mentioned is very true though.