Nothing like finding your own bones and being attacked by your ghost.
Sounds like the nethack equivalent of seeing bad code, running
git blame
Readit Newsrkowalick commented on 2M users but no money in the bank exercism.org/blog/septemb... · Posted by u/leandot
rkowalick commented on Ball: A ball that lives in your dock github.com/nate-parrott/b... · Posted by u/Bluestein
Neko has been around for decades now (but was cuter I think back when the desktop resolution matched the cat)
This actually works quite well: https://github.com/mdonoughe/neko-mac/issues/5#issuecomment-...
rkowalick commented on Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton quantamagazine.org/swirli... · Posted by u/headalgorithm
The methods scientists come up with to test things like this are absolutely incredible, wow.
I remember being blown away when I was told about Henry Cavendish’s attempt to calculate G (the gravitational constant) in the late 18th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_experiment
rkowalick commented on New York City bans natural gas in new buildings reuters.com/markets/us/ne... · Posted by u/mortonstreet
TIL - I always thought that heat pump and air conditioning were just different ways of saying the same thing - here in NZ, I don't think I've ever seen a heat-only heat pump.
To clarify, in the US, there are two commonly used HVAC heat pumps:
- A/C units, which can only cool a room but can’t heat it up
- Heat Pumps, which typically do both.
rkowalick commented on Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: GC::INTERNAL_CONSTANTS jemma.dev/blog/gc-interna... · Posted by u/asicsp
https://github.com/The-Complete-Guide-to-Rails-Performance
I learned quite a bit about ruby memory mgmt from the above. Free text, pay for video tutorials IIRC. The course was authored by Nate Berkopec.
https://www.youtube.com/user/nateberkopec
I also found "the well grounded rubyist" to be very helpful.
https://www.manning.com/books/the-well-grounded-rubyist-thir...
The Well-Grounded Rubyist is my favorite Ruby book because it really drives home just how internally consistent the Ruby object model is. It gave me a deep appreciation for the aesthetics of Ruby.
I grouped XML quotes to share with my manager:
The essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard, and it does not solve the problem well.
— Phil Wadler, POPL 2003
— Heard from someone working at Microsoft
— Sarkos in reddit
— Charles Forsyth
— Chris WenhamThat page misses my favorite XML quote, which is also on cat-v at http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/:
XML is a classic political compromise: it balances the needs of man and machine by being equally unreadable to both.
- Matthew Mightrkowalick commented on Decoding Utility Markings Spray-Painted on City Streets 99percentinvisible.org/ar... · Posted by u/deadbunny
A coworker of mine shared this neat little book which contains, among other things, descriptions of a lot of the internet infrastructure markings one can find on the streets of NYC based mostly on the author's own observations:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018CH0MX2
Definitely something I had never really thought about until recently.
Almost empty. The only noise is nature and waves.