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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • Sounds like the heuristic is taking multiple samples only uses them if they are within some consistency threshold, to hedge against the cases where the field has random data.

    The reason it only fails rarely and randomly is because it only happens when multiple actually random timestamps happen to line up around the same time.

    Sort of like how several applications (cough git cough) have failure modes when two different files happen to have the same hash.

    Turns out developers are bad at statistics and probabilities and don’t understand the birthday paradox.



  • The problem is that almost all electronics available online (not just on Amazon) are rebranded Chinese bargain bin garbage marked up by 10x and people think “it must be good because it’s expensive”.

    Really your only option is to either accept that everything is disposable and will need to be replaced frequently, or to find the “good” brands and stick to them.

    That last part is by design… it’s why a lot of this shit is perpetuated by the same parent company under a different name, to create a “hostile environment” to make it so you can’t shop around for cheaper prices.