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Cake day: February 16th, 2024

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  • I think you can use existing software to do that. If your store has wifi (even if you can’t access it, I think), you can geofence an area and have some action (such as popping up a reminder app) trigger. I’ve not used software like this myself, but I remember people describing behavior like this at least on Android. If it might be useful to you, you should give it a search.

    I have an app that’s meant to schedule things, but I just use it as a checklist and preface each action with the location. So long as I check it (second home screen on my phone, so not a huge barrier), I’m usually good.

    Example

    • costco: chicken
    • costco: paper towels
    • Cainz: sunscreen
    • grocery: milk
    • grocery: eggs


  • I had maybe one that would actually fit your specific terms (though he preferred <adjective> Black Billy with the adjective usually being big or sexy). One of my good friends living in Texas was black, but he’d call himself a Black American or Cuban American rather than African American. In Japan, my black friends were (I moved to the middle of nowhere recently and don’t use social media, so friendships tend to fade) black men from Africa (mostly Tanzania).

    I think African American is one of those terms that (a) is super American-centric and (b) isn’t something everyone would call themselves. You can actually read into how “Native Americans” feel about that term (many don’t like it, apparently, because America (the country being the US)) wasn’t the place they came from; they came from the land that their ancestors settled, not some stolen version of it. Some actually prefer “Indian” while others favor something more like “aboriginal peoples” or “first nations”.












  • I mean, I like complete microservices in principal, but I think they design of your software and organization, its style of operating, size, and budget all play into the decision. I think the issue lies in presenting it as a binary rather than a spectrum. You can have something that is largely a monolith, but some bits of it are split out into microservices. The opposite is true as well.

    My company tried to do the “microservice all of the things” approach and we’re already back to combining a handful, but definitely not back to one monolithic app.





  • Various adults-only flights (and I think even an airline, but I might be mistaken) did exist. You could argue about 9/11 and later financial troubles factoring into their demise, but they’re usually more expensive and less frequent/convenient and thus are not popular.

    Second, if you can afford to fly enough that this is a regular occurrence, get noise-canceling headphones.

    Third, not all people who are traveling with small children are doing it because they want to: funerals, work relocation, etc. are a thing that are impractical to do via other modes of transportation. If my work and the internet were good enough, I’d love to just boat everywhere out of my current country, but that’s not going to happen (although I don’t have kids, so it wouldn’t matter for this post, I suppose).