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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • So it takes you 15 minutes to put water in tank, put grounds and filter into the coffee pot, and brew it? And you can’t do anything else productive with your time while the coffee is brewing like take a shower, login to work a few minutes early and read and answer emails, brush your teeth, do some dishes, take out the trash, walk your dog, or anything?

    And your work doesn’t allow you to get up out of your chair for the 30 seconds it would take you to walk from your computer to coffee pot and fill your cup and walk back? Or even better, bring the entire carafe back to your desk with you? Are you working for the FSB and they have surveillance cameras in your house or something?

    It really sounds like you’re trying your absolute hardest to turn making coffee into such an onerous chore that it negates all the other benefits of not having to schlep to an office.


  • My personal theory is that a lot of advocacy for working in-person goes away when you remove:

    1. People that financially benefit from office culture (office land lords, restaurants near office buildings, janitorial services, etc.)
    2. Social vampires that view the office as the best place to gossip and share their boring personal lives with a captive audience
    3. Managers and executives with poor leadership skills and low self esteem



  • Basically it means that you lose the ability to control reactor temperature. Sodium cooled reactors general have a positive thermal coefficient for reactivity, meaning when temperature increases the reactor power goes up.

    When you lose cooling your temperature rises, which results in increased reactor power which results in increased temperature which results in power which … in a self reinforcing loop until a melt down occurs and everyone gets Chernobyled.

    Even if the reactor isn’t susceptible to this cycle, liquid sodium is a solid at relatively low temperatures. So in some situations the liquid sodium will stop circulating and then start to cool and solidify. This effectively blocks the cooling pipes and it is very difficult to get the sodium heated up enough to liquefy and restore cooling circulation. This can again lead to getting Chernobyled.