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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I’ve never had an issue, outside of bios updates (see last paragraph). I’ve even booted into windows after hibernating in linux (but not the other way around, since I don’t let windows hibernate; not saying you can’t, just that I don’t), and everything was fine when i got back. I use a swap partition for hibernating, in case you’re curious.

    I do try to make sure I’m watching when it reboots after a windows update (because linux is my default, so i have to select windows from the boot loader) just in case, but i’ve also fucked that up a time or two with no ill effects.

    My one piece of advice is: once you get it working, take a picture of your bios settings. You may have to fix some settinga after bios updates, as they can get set back to the default values. I did not do this, and while it led to a very confusing afternoon due to my inexperience, it would have been a non-issue if I’d have taken some pictures and known to look at them.


  • Sleeping with wrist guards really does make a world of difference. And maybe there is some way to do the repetitive tasks in a more ergonomoc way? For example, I crocheted a couple of pieces for friends’ weddings in quick succession out of very tiny yarn, and it destroyed my wrists for several weeks after. Turns out, I’d been holding my crochet hook in a really stress-inducing way; I had just never had a reason to question my form until it started causing a repetitive stress injury. By just changing the way I held the hook, I started to see improvement almost immediately.





  • I really enjoyed playing Hades, but I just didn’t have the skills or patience to progress at the pace I wanted. So (after realizing that being prideful about difficulty settings in my hobbies that i do to have fun is a dumb way to live), I turned on God Mode. You get extra stacks of damage resistance every time you die, capping at like 80% or something, and you can turn it on and off as needed. After that, I was having so much more fun, and the rate of progression was much better for me. I felt like I was finally playing the game that everyone else was loving so much.


  • For stuff like bacteria, they can engage in lateral gene transfer, where they swap genetic material with each other (almost sex, but not really), uptake and then express genertic material found in the environment (this is used in labs to get microbes to make proteins and stuff for us), and/or incorporate genetic material spread by viruses or other vectors into their genes.

    Idk if any of the above mechanisms apply to the fly in the article, but there is also some gene-crossing that happens when we make sex cells. The “legs” of a chromosome can swap sections between them, leading to a gametes that would be different from the parent chromosome when recombined (this is one of the mechanisms for genetic variation between siblings). There are also mutations that happen naturally, which can be passed from parent to “clone”-child.