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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • My dad tried to push me to computer work when I was young, I’m glad I didn’t listen.

    I became a diesel mechanic and am now a specialised crane technician, sure it harder on the body but I don’t foresee my job being replaced by Ai and automation in my life time.

    If anything the diagnosis work would become easier, much like the introduction of on board diagnostic facilities have already done for us.

    The way electricity works though you can never exactly pinpoint an electrical fault with 100 percent accuracy on a machine without physically looking. Along with that limitation the robots to go in and make repairs are a way off still.












  • A dungeons and dragons term for Armour class.

    It’s how you determine if an attack hits you.

    Say you have an AC of 15 and an attacker tries to hit you they roll a 15 or higher with a 20 sided dice it hits you. (Meets it beats it)

    However your opponent also can have boosts to to their attack say a magic weapon adds plus 1 or something so they could roll a 14 plus the 1 to reach 15 thus hitting you. Then they roll damage with another dice dependant on the weapon.

    So if the characters are then married they get a plus two to their AC and now have 17 and the 15 misses