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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • Food hasn’t been plentiful for most of history. It’s been scarce and expensive.

    Being fatter meant that:

    • You had access to more food than you needed
    • You could afford more food than you needed
    • you didn’t work a manual labor job that required you to not be fat

    It’s similar with pale skin and long hair. Pale skin (or powdered skin) meant that you didn’t work outdoors. Long hair (on men and women) often meant that you didn’t work with machinery (looms, mangles ect). In many cases, fancy clothing, hair and makeup for men and women that took hours to apply was its own signal - you could afford to waste money on the clothes and servants to dress you, and you could afford to waste hours every day getting all costumed up.

















  • The function first generated a random UUID. This is a long string of random characters, used in many software systems to uniquely fingerprint things, transactions for example. In theory, you can have millions of seperate systems, each generating UUIDs all the time without ever having to worry about a collision (a collision is one or more systems generating the same UUID, therefore it being not unique anymore)

    The second line then runs UUID generation again, trying to generate an identical UUID to the one it already made. Tis is absurd because even a dmsupercomputer trying to generate identical UUIDs would take longer than the lifespan of the universe.

    The console line shows that a matching UUID was apparently found after some amount of time, which shouldn’t be possible, implying some fuckery with the random number generator.