Came here to say this

This is entirely correct actually. Number of items on day n = (13 - n)*n

It’s not just a sale. Gift card money is invested and the company makes returns off of it, and all they have to do is provide you the base value of the gift card in coffee or whatever at some later date. Plus, if your purchases don’t add to a whole number, millions of gift cards with like 30 cents left over in each of them is a ton of free money for the company. Gift cards are a huge scam

This requires the legs to be all the same height and the floor to cause the wobble. That doesn’t happen often irl, but I’ve done it a few times and it always makes me happy when it works

The center wall that separates the windows is larger on the inside than the outside. Fun

A remarkable example of a non-Hermitian operator

If that ain’t the name of a New York police chief from the 80s with Polish heritage, I don’t know what is

Looks like they are using a Prio based protocol. If they are using Prio2+, I think this article is likely overblown. EDIT: I mixed up my sources - Mozilla tested Prio for telemetry collection. They are using a system called IPA for ads, and I don’t know whether there are formal guarantees for this system

Does Firefox explain what measures they’ve taken to protect their aggregation servers? If so, this is a perfectly fine and practical method for privacy preservation

Brad Paisley song?

I don’t usually get back up, I just go somewhere else or do something else where the novelty makes me feel like I haven’t failed yet. Weirdly, I got pretty good at things over time doing this and I fail a lot less

Ahaha the next year

My goals are to lose 10 pounds by the end of the year and get my heart in better shape. I gained 30 pounds over Covid and will attempt to lose weight at the same rate I gained it

Pines really bust up the forest floor. I see you grandpa

Omg! I didn’t know Pythagoras taught at Harvard

No idea but it’s brilliant. I’m proud of a government agency for once

This is amazing! I’m sharing it with everyone I know