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September 13, 2026

Today in My Weird Prompts — Technology, Health

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Sunday, 13 September 2026
A sloth and a donkey discuss anything — every episode generated by AI from a single prompt.
Technology
Brass vs Stainless: Marking HDPE Boxes That Last  30:27
The answer turns out to be a systems question: HDPE melts instead of cutting if you dwell too long, plastic stencils get destroyed by overruns, and the stencil…
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Why Tech Consortia Keep the Stack From Flying Apart  28:48
A hundred and nine pins in an HDMI cable, a handshake protocol that negotiates color depth before a single frame moves. Nobody thinks about standards because they…
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Hard Drives Are Having Their Biggest Boom in a Decade  28:39
The hard drive was supposed to be the dying format — loud, slow, full of moving parts, squeezed between tape and flash. Instead, Seagate just posted a record 52%…
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Why IKEA Has No Replacement-Parts API  37:20
A purchasing manager wants to query a part number and get back three things: availability, discontinued status, and the official replacement. That capability is…
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Measuring Rooms From One Photo  35:24
How do you measure a room from a single photograph? This episode digs into single view metrology — the classical projective geometry technique that lets an app like…
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Why Your First Power Tool Is Really a Battery Decision  22:57
— and the answer turned out to be that you're not buying a drill at all. You're buying into a proprietary battery platform you'll live with for years. This episode…
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Why LTO Tape Still Backs Up the Cloud  22:57
LTO magnetic tape has quietly powered enterprise archival storage for 25 years — and it's still in active development, now at generation 10 with 40TB cartridges…
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What Happens to Breached Data After the Breach  23:54
When your email shows up in a breach checker, you can see what was exposed — but never where that data lives now. This episode traces the afterlife of a breach…
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Health
What Happens in Your Brain During a Migraine Aura?  33:52
What if you could watch a neurological event unfold in real time, just by looking at the world? That's exactly what happens during a migraine aura. This episode…
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How the Placebo Trial Became the Gold Standard  33:41
The double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial feels like it's always existed. It hasn't. This episode traces how four separate inventions — control groups…
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Sensitivity, Specificity & the Numbers Doctors Use  22:21
Clinical trial write-ups throw around sensitivity, specificity, standard deviation, effect size, and risk ratio as if you already know which question each one…
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