Having an egg is relatively hard on parrots. I've given her lots of food and warmth to prepare. She is comically hungry -- she's usually not such a big eater, but she's happy today to be scarfing down her apple slices, fruit pellets, and safflower seeds.
She usually sleeps at the bottom of her cage, beneath a towel I put down for her. It's already unusual for parrots! But tonight she has made quite a nest with her towel: It's folded in half like usual, but she has nuzzled her way between the fold, so she has the towel underneath and on top of her. It's super cute.
I'm treating her with delicacy but she is determined to be a wild child of a bird. She's still flying around during the day and moving around plenty. I don't think I would be so confident if I had an egg like that inside me.
She has a stone perch that she likes to nibble on when she's working on an egg. I've wondered if it is some innate need to nourish herself with calcium, or if it's stress relief :)
So that's my night. Sitting outside of the metaphorical delivery ward with a metaphorical cigar, making sure she lays this egg that isn't even fertile to begin with! Birds :)
methinks: Calcium is required to make the egg shell. Calcium supplements would help, just in case "Life finds a way".
I’m used to “pixels are three little lights combining rgb colors”, which doesn’t work here, so I went on a rabbit hole and let me tell you, analog TVs are extremely impressive tech.
Getting an electron beam to hit a glass, making the chemicals on it spark, covering it in a “reading motion” for hundreds of lines, and doing that 60 times a second! And the beam is oriented by just careful usage of magnets. It sounds super sci-fi for an already dead, 130 years old technology.
I also learned that my childhood was a lie. Turns out that the logic in consoles of the time was tied to the speed of the beam, which in turn used alternating current’s frequency as a clock. This means that since European current changes 50 times per second rather than 60, our games played in slowmo (about 0.8x). American sonic was so much faster! And the music was so much more upbeat!
Wasn't this the reason behind different versions of the game for PAL and NTSC etc.? So I imagine the games would play quite similarly, just with a lower refresh rate in Europe?
What surprised me the most was that shiro (white) miso and aka (red) miso are both the same mix of soybeans, salt, and rice malt but fermented for different periods of time. As the miso ferments for longer, its color becomes darker while its flavor becomes milder and more complex. Beyond 3 years of fermentation, you get diminishing returns as its flavor becomes too acidic.
After the tour, we got to sample some of the naturally fermented 3 years old miso, and it was easily the best I've ever had. Most miso you can buy in a grocery store is created through forced fermentation over a few months, so if you ever get a chance to try naturally aged miso I would highly recommend!
I went up to ask then something and jokingly said “no hablo inglés, ¿Hablas español?” and I was able to carry on a more or less complete conversation with them in Spanish and ask for what I needed without pre rehearsing lines for the first time.
So I found out within the past 24 hours that I can carry on a simple conversation in “survival Spanish”
I now have several plants in there that are supposed to be especially good at sucking up CO2, and my sensor reports that the current level is slightly below atmospheric ambient CO2 levels.
I also wrote up a blog post about the structure of the Washington state legislature, which began its sixty day session for 2026 earlier this week. https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/01/how-the-washington...
It's about a company (https://neoplants.com/ ) which genetically enhances plants and soil with a product you can buy to make them much more efficient at filtering the air. It apparently does work rather than being a placebo.
I open the window.
Any chance you can share a picture of the size of your room and amount of plants and type of plants?
I have a co2 device which gets red and this triggers the window opening for me asap
Surprisingly, i couldn't find any calculator or theoretical approach for estimating this (given room of a certain size, how long does gas need to equilibriate with outside atmospheric composition to within some tolerance, through a hole of certain size)
ALPSTUGA
My house stays around 800-1000ppm CO2 all the time The HVAC is poorly designed in my opinion.
I have a Netatmo home device that measures PPM and have been observing the trend lines throughout the day. At some points my flat gets up to about 1400, which the device says is bad, and sometimes it goes down as low as 500. I've noticed a pattern but can't quite connect that pattern to my activity or the surroundings. It starts going up around 4pm, which could be homewards-bound vehicles, but it seems to trend even on weekends when there is lower traffic. Maybe I start breathing differently at these times. I'm quite interested in getting to the bottom of it. Unfortunately I'm west facing so plant use is quite limited.
What is the atmospheric ambient CO2 level? Is that variable based on location?
I've learnt a few things:
- I had my sensor on my work desk which meant the CO2 pooled, and was increased dramatically by my breathing almost directly onto it. Moved the sensor at least 1.5m
- I had the sensor quite low down, where CO2 pools (being heavier), so moved the sensor to eye level
- CO2 seemed to increase when cooking (same room), so while cooking I open the windows and let the warmth flow out of the building
it's unlikely that you can add enough to make a big difference. plants are nice, but people often ascribe far more to them than is really happening - have you improved the ventilation too?
I often feel tired at the end of the day and I'd attributed it to just working quite long hours, but maybe it is related to this.
The first one really hit me hard and prompted me to write out my own thoughts (https://jesperreiche.com/seneca-letter-2/) whether I will keep doing that I am a little unsure. It feels on the border of how personal I want to be/share on my blog.
P.S. I can see the irony in writing about me going to the source instead of consuming other peoples interpretation and then sharing a link to my own interpretation :)
Regarding cameras, it's harder (and more expensive) to wrangle with gear acquisition syndrome (GAS) but after switching from Canon EOS to Fuji, because the Canon stuff was too heavy when hiking, I managed to restrain myself most of the time. Because the question always is whether my images would become better with different gear or with more trial and error.
I opted for trial and error and eagerly watch a selected number of YouTube channels who almost always show me that I should and can improve myself and not my gear.
The moped was second hand SYM Jet 14, but the 125cc that I got was a brand new Honda CB125F, the very newest of models. It's incredibly fun and since I mostly use it to go to work and back everyday, it's more than enough.
In the post titled "Buying an unseen 1959 Triumph Bonneville T120", at the start there's a typo: "A lot of people wanted Harleys – but for some reason they just did spark anything in me."
This is probably just my personal error, but whenever I see Triumph bikes, I can't help but think about underwear brand Triumph (which are of very high quality, I've got a few, would recommend), I haven't tried any Triumph bikes but I do want to one day!
Good for you! Everybody has their own "twist" on Stoicism, and that's fine. You have to find your own twist on it; you have to make it your own.
In my own experience, what is most rewarding and promotes my progress the most, is when I put philosophy into action. Then I get authentic feedback from life about what actually works. It helps me separate mere opinions and good sounding ideas from true insight.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has a few contemporary takes and tries to connect statistics into stoicism.
Some of the stuff I strongly agreed with, but I didn't derive value because I already had the mindset. Other stuff I disagreed with, and the book didn't really convince me. Then there was the stuff in between.
Overall, it felt like something you or I could have written - I didn't see something insightful that enlightened me.
Not to take away from your essay, which I thoroughly agree with :-)
Make music - you don't need an instrument if you can whistle. Make stories - just say them to a recorder or your kids or write them down. Make food experiments - nothing will please your taste-buds more than listening to them and iterating on ways to get better. Make your own apps or experiences - with AI or by hand, your ideas may be surprising and worthwhile. Knit or make your own clothes, toys, wearable tech. Design your own 3D objects and maybe print them or animate them.
We know that workouts lead to endorphins for the body, but the brain version of that is not only enjoyable but also can be scaled to be enjoyed by other humans too sometimes. Don't go through life without trying your own things.
DIY you car service and wash
DIY house improvements and fixes
Cook. Make bread
Fix old electronics/appliances
When transported on cargo flights, they are double packed as cans in a barrel in a crate, and considered UN classified "miscellaneous dangerous goods" with identification number UN3334 "Aviation regulated liquid, n.o.s." with accompanying scary(albeit monochromatic) warning stickers, if at all accepted. When transported on ocean going vessels, they are often required to be in its own shipping container, again double packaged and correctly labeled.
Chosen to be independent of a mariners orientation.
Starboard - most sailors were right handed and the steering oar was placed on the right. Star = steer. Board = side of boat.
Port - as steering oars got bigger, boats tended to dock on the left hand side. This became to be known as “lardboard” which sounded too much like starboard, so it was changed to “Port” (as in the side typically facing the port side.
I've secured a single interview, company seemed like a great fit. System level Go apps, my bread and butter. No longer have to split my time with frontend? The dream.
On round 2 their CTO basically shut me down 2 minutes in saying they're unwilling to do any sort of training and only looking for existing experts in their very specific niche. In round 1 the interviewer told me I seemed like a very good candidate, very positive about my experience. Said they'd been looking for a long while and I was one of the most experienced Go backend developers they'd interviewed. Round 1 was frankly one of the most positive interviews I'd ever had. Got extreme whiplash as round 2 was cut short at about the ten minute mark.
I don't know for sure but I think a lot of companies are looking for an absolute Cinderella given the glut in applications. I don't think that guys going to find her.
It's been a couple months now, their job posting is still up. I'd have been well up to speed and making meaningful contributions by now.
I also recently learned that you can get ancient coins for very little money if you don’t care about resale value or need them to be in pristine condition. I bought some coins from kingdoms that I’d never heard of. Many are thousands of years old! It’s fun holding a piece of history like that.
Oooh, thats a good one. Next read the Architects paradox, Why Greatness cannot be planned and Understanding Variation and your views of the world will be forever altered. Or pick up "Architecture Modernization" by Nick Tune if you want more tools to do stuff and if you do not want to achieve enligntenment.
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Where did you acquire cheap ancient coins? ebay? May be cool to get some for my dnd group
Recently I learned that only 3% of Latin works from 1450-1700 (including renaissance and scientific revolution) have been translated. Secondrenaissance.ai
Because they didn't take advice from that book or because they DID take advice from that book?
> Illich proposes the idea of a 'convivial tool', one which allows its user to exercise their human autonomy and creativity.
This came up as I was reading about UX / UI design and trying to understand the fundamentals of how to increase human autonomy. Although my key takeaway is a bit shallow at the moment, mostly focused on applying this map towards existing tools in order to try to identify ways in which they can be modified and improved to maximize autonomy.
The Wikipedia article also references this concept of radical monopoly:
> Tools for Conviviality also introduced Illich's idea of a 'radical monopoly', which describes a technology or service which becomes so exceptionally dominant that even with multiple providers, its users are excluded from society without access to the product.
Which has extended to me wondering about what the world will look like as people are increasingly pushed to use LLMs or other AI tools in more and more interactions. And in particular, what actions can or should be taken to maximize human well-being.
- soften diced yellow onion and green bell pepper in 1 tbsp coconut oil
- toss in 3 minced garlic cloves
- toast 1.5 cups dry rinsed white rice in the mix
- pour in 1 can coconut milk
- add 1 can black beans (still looking for red beans)
- add lots of fresh thyme
- put in 1 whole habanero (still looking for Panamanian pepper)
- add 1 tsp salt
- add 1 can chicken broth
- if you have it, add a tbsp of Linzo sauce
Then simmer until the rice is cooked.
Next time I'm going to try with fresh coconut milk straight from a real coconut. That's what I explored today: how to make coconut milk.
Would appreciate advice on improving the recipe.
Late edit: on the plane back from CR I watched The Thinking Game, a documentary about DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis. Recommended.
It's mind-boggling that such a simple recipe can be so good in CR but so bad over here! I hear there are some Costa Rican restaurants in Paterson, NJ, but I haven't had the chance to check yet.
happy cooking and eating!
https://www.tecmint.com/control-systemd-services-on-remote-l...
For fun look at telefork(2)
https://thume.ca/2020/04/18/telefork-forking-a-process-onto-...
systemctl --host foo status httpd.service
vs ssh -t foo systemctl status httpd.service
?For understanding how internet works https://how-did-i-get-here.net/
How a computer runs our code (or anything in genral) https://cpu.land/
Also spent some time on reading about E2EE encryption because of some blog on HN I think :)
> The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Very relevant to what's going on today with National Guard and ICE deployments.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/14/10th-amendment-ice-trump-il... (or please google whatever source you find reliable about the topic)
https://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.php#datetime....
Don't know how to do this without PHP, so I actually use it on the shell inline between a bunch of Bash. I assume that's the same function with new syntactic sugar
Generally a new book was stared in each county each year.
So, even if there were an error in the indexing, generally you could find a record in 3 operations, doing an exhaustive search was quite unlikely.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250215223917/https://solar.low...
I'm continuously surprised by how difficult it is to plug things together and how non-descriptive cable "standards" are about the actual capabilities of cables and connectors.
Am doing data engineering for some big data (yeah, big enough) and thinking about efficiency of data enrichment. There's this classic trilemma with data enrichment where you can have good write efficiency, good read efficiency and/or good storage cost, pick two.
E.g. you have a 1TB table and you want to add a column that, say, will take 1GB to store.
You can create a new table that is 1.1TB and then delete the old table, but this is both write-inefficient and often breaks how normal data lake orchestration works.
You can create a new wide table that is 1.1TB and keep it along side the old table, but this is both write-inefficient and expensive to store.
You can create a narrow companion table that has just a join key and 1GB of data. This is efficient to write and store, but inefficient to query when you force all users to do joins on read.
And I've come up with a cunning forth way where you write a narrow table and read a wide table so its literally best of all worlds! Kinda staggering :) Still on a high.
Might actually be a conference paper, which is new territory for me. Lets see :)
/off dancing
Were your table is stored shouldn't matter that much if you have proper indezes which you need and if you change anything, your db is rebuilding the indezes anyway
Sorry, no positive news yet. But it's only noon.
Another classical case of MS not understanding consent, I guess?
I have thought that they were the same...
For example, injecting ads and tracking into web pages via connections to third party servers. This is not a practice that increases page speed
If I am not mistaken, "web.dev" is operated by an ad services company
As a web user, not a "web developer", I use clients that do not "support" these "features". For me, YMMV, this makes information retrieval from the www much faster and more resource-efficient than if I tried to use clients that do, such as the so-called "modern" browser
There are also privacy and security implications associated with choice of client, however these are not the primary reason I choose clients other than the so-called "modern" browser
Yesterday I was reminded of “Rapid Serial Visual Presentation” for speed reading, where the words are presented so you do not have to move your eyes. I am currently trying it out with a Chrome extension called SwiftRead. I set the text size so it fits into my fovea area. I used a fovea detector website I saw on HN a while ago: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4dsXzM (make the pattern full screen, then you can see the size of your fovea).
I also learned that I can reduce some of the strain by moving my head more toward the things I am looking at on the screen.
Really don't want to f.up your eyes!
Then I was sick all last week, so ended up down a rabbit hole about the current card collecting bubble (right word?). Super interesting.
The theoretical results sometime look at the second order derivative.
My daughter likes to install random games on iOS that have been advertised to her on other apps, and I wonder if some of those work as residential proxy behind the scenes.
Nowadays only the TV sets and my own devices are set to use this (pihole) DNS server. So that I can at least watch Disney+ without ads.
“This codebase is health care SaaS. Compliance is mandatory at all times.”
Easy. Makes a huge difference.
Also, the collective noun for a group of agents is a bungle of agents.
That there's "metal paste" [1].
That the zodiac killer's messages have been cracked for five years now (I didn't know they were cracked to begin with) and that it was a shift and substitution cypher [2]. The telltale clue was that the symbol frequency was uniform but under shift it become non-uniform.
How to solder those pesky connectors that come on the tiny servo motors you can get from Aliexpress [3].
That Firefox only has 2.3% market share [4].
Multiscale 3d truchet patterns are freakin complicated [5].
That prioritizing tasks by the linear combination of priority and effort remains a good strategy.
[0] https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/01-cathedral-megachurch-b...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys-RMVJ89dk
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CJsKJ0XKP4
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHulZtR2Qkg
[4] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
[5] https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2018/bridges2018-39.html#...
Solved Zodiac Killer ciphers:
• Z408 (July 1969): Solved in days by Donald & Bettye Harden.
Message (with misspellings): “I like killing people because it is so much fun it is more fun than killing wild game in the forrest because man is the most dangeroue anamal of all to kill something gives me the most thrilling experence it is even better than getting your rocks off with a girl the best part of it is thae when I die I will be reborn in paradice and all the I have killed will become my slaves I will not give you my name because you will try to sloi down or atop my collectiog of slaves for my afterlife ebeorietemethhpiti”
• Z340 (November 1969): Solved in 2020 (after 51 years) by David Oranchak, Jarl Van Eycke, and Sam Blake; FBI confirmed.
Message (with misspellings): “I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me that wasn’t me on the TV show which bringo up a point about me I am not afraid of the gas chamber becaase it will send me to paradlce all the sooher because e now have enough slaves to worv for me where every one else has nothing when they reach paradice so they are afraid of death I am not afraid because i vnow that my new life is life will be an easy one in paradice death”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfields_Water_Supply_Scheme
I'm looking into rennovating a massive agricultural machine shed ~ two stories high in the middle built some 80+ years ago using sections of spur pipeline as central upright poles to hold up some beefy jarrah trusses.
The "verandah" wings flaring out from there were bulit from flimsier timber that's rotting and the iron sheet walls are starting to peel away.
The posts are of interest as they have old markings and water fittings, tee pieces, etc.
It's not far from one of the original steam powered pumping stations that moved water through the main line.
Basically it relied on a checksum algorithm that was previously in yet another external library but was now in the standard library so that call needed to be updated and variables carrying around the old external library had to be underscored out.
It was a good lesson in traversing error messages and going from an angry VM step by step to a clean success. Not to hairy for a junior to understand when explained, and also not too time consuming to burn out interest, while still a bit of a challenge.
I'm a junior dev with very little experience, I would appreciate any suggestion/advice
Assume they compromised everything they would have access to by running code on the server.
I was planning a hostile takeover, figuring how hard could it be with these guys, until I found out Croatia already did that.
I've been playing guitar for a long time, but rhythm wise, it took time to click. I'm much better at feeling the pulse, and starting and ending licks at the right time in the bar.
Wow, so powerful. So real. I can see why it won the accolades at the time and why it stays. The ending. You could see it a mile away, but it was so hurtful still.
Would love to see another adaptation made of it, especially nowadays. Maybe a really long movie, 2 parts?
I'm in my 30s but we've had pretty much instant payments as long as I've had a bank account (20+ years) in the UK.
I knew this was something coding interviews delved into: "if it doesn't fit in memory", but until like yesterday I never went down the rabbit hole. I have to say it was a nifty trick.
This came from reading about the gut microbiome, which was spun off from reading a book about Ultra Processed Foods (Ultra-Processed People). I've been trying to remove UPF foods from my daily consumption, trying to lower the ratio of them I eat (the average is supposedly 60% for adults in my country), since the academic link between UPF and dementia is quite strong now. It's quite shocking to see just how much of a typical supermarket/food store is UPF, and where many of the emulsifiers and preservatives come from.
The hard reality is that food, which I already enjoyed, tastes significantly better. Similarly, when I fall off the wagon and have some UPF (crips).. it just tastes flat. Highly recommended, even without the health benefits, frankly.
I feel I will do more and more of this, this year, as a little experiment. I will most likely experiment with different types of papers, etc.
I was stress testing a server I made and noticed a discrepancy between two tests. In on test 15 virtual users could send 450msg/sec (not realistic I know) for about 6750 incoming messages per second. In another, 1000 users sending a message about every two seconds was the limit, about 500msg/sec incoming.
Took me a little bit to figure out why, the outgoing messages between the tests were wildly different. In the smaller user tests the groups were about 3 on average, in the larger one they were 30. Group size is effectively a multiplier on incoming msg requests so when looking at the total traffic it was much closer between the two tests 15k and 20k.
The funny part is how far the mathematical version of the problem is from what measuretocut.com actually needs to output. In reality you have kerf, ugly offcuts, and the fact that nobody wants a cutting diagram that looks like a circuit board. We really have to take into consideration a 2nd optimization, it needs to be an output that a person in a shop can glance at and immediately understand.
I wish I had encountered complexity science earlier in life. It touches on so many of the questions that have sparked my imagination over the years, I’m so pleased to find such an accessible introduction.
Related video for those curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKNB04slCUA&t=3s
In Europe we have standard screws. Building with only M5 screws is a joy.
Also been thinking about game ideas for a while. Finally settled on an open world RPG where you control multiple (>10?) characters. Core gameplay loop will be configuring / optimizing schedules (farming materials, grinding xp, etc) and watching damage / currency numbers go big. Though if I'm being honest, I just want an excuse to build something that involves a node-based UI. So even if I don't finish, I'll have at least scratched that itch.
The downside is that now I'm wondering if I could write one in SQL.
Hoping they do it for April 1st one year.
What was your algorithm? Compute a bitset for every word, for each word with 7 unique letters, check against every other word if it has a subset of those letters? Surely there's a better than O(n^2) way
I don't do any systems level programming but found myself down a small rabbit hole of learning about reverse engineering tools. https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra is an open source one. It will show you the assembly code, does its best at giving you a C representation of that code and lets you interactively rename variables and symbols to make it more human readable.
~I watched a video series where someone did the techniques in isolation in reverse order and I thought it was a good idea. That way you're always learning on perfect ingredients. i.e. buy chips and learn to temper, then buy roasted nibs and learn to refine, then buy dried and learn to roast, then buy pods and learn to ferment and dry.~
I wonder that's a new corporate strategy - charge randomly till someone goes through the pain of IVR and spends 15 mins with support. Must generate quite an upside for them if it is indeed a strategy.
This is the same Airtel that auto opened payments bank accounts without customer consent or knowledge while getting a sim card. They even got cash deposited into those accounts from the govt direct benefit schemes while keeping their customers in the dark.
I'm sure its completely "accidental" and they'll have more of these glitches and mistakes in the future.
Wikipedia says it is the fastest growing religion in the world.
In the past few weeks I have been exploring mDNS and IPv6. Your router doesn't provide local DNS? Not an issue, add .local to the hostnames and boom, everything works.
For example, run `python3 -m http.server` on your laptop, then open the browser on your phone and browse yourlaptopname.local:8000 ! There's more, services are advertised on mDNS, that's how your printer magically appears on your computers and phones.
Also learning more about mold and dehumidifiers
A search engine for llms.txt would be great too.
I just swapped the fittings to get rid of the zerk nipples for something I could use with a standard oil fitting.
I knew curl, npm, and docker, but asked Gemini about the rest:
bun, pnpm, yarn, brew, scoop, chocolatey, paru, mise.
Although its wonderful that people are building and creating, I also hope it calms down somewhat so I can choose from well tested few options in the future.
I don’t even want to use it, I just want to get legacy code building on a modern version of Vite without rewriting a couple thousand lines of code. Aaaargh
Most of my career has been JS and TS and I have no idea what this means.
Also that Newfoundland has a pretty unique music tradition, that captures what irish music sounded before the Great Famine
Loving this post.
If anyone has any experience with this, please do chime in :)
I just rebuild a speed queen dryer that broke with spare parts from Amazon, which revealed a remarkably simplistic engineering. Very surprised by how simplistic the mechanism was. It’s incredible how over engineered most laundry systems have become.
Also spent some time digging into the integrations between Tesla FSD and rideshare services today. It’s remarkable how much progress has happened.
I found out that falling out of bed is not just for children, and that bringing an adult's body mass is not an improvement. I don't suppose that I'd fallen out of bed since LBJ was president.
I found out that YouTube has some interesting notions about me: the opening ad on a rather bland video was anything but bland, astonishing even a jaded old man.
Figuring out how to create my own dictionary with Dictionary Development Kit to create a dictionary where people can find definitions of terms.
Also let the system learn names of products and services, so the system can do better autocorrect.
1. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreservices/dicti...
This part surprised me:
> Marshall retired from the Supreme Court in 1991 and was replaced by Clarence Thomas.
I remember watching the hearings about Clarence Thomas as a kid. At the time, I had no idea what a legal giant was Thurgood Marshall.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRS9Gek4V5Q
But my takeaway was more like "Give yourself permission to be bad"
Felt good to be reminded that if you want to make interesting things, it's ok to flail around. It'll feel foolish and that's completely ok, perhaps necessary.
Knowledge explorer sounds too esoteric.
I also learned that on Aug 12th this year a total eclipse of the sun can be observed from certain parts of Spain.
I learned this because I play a daily game called FoodGuessr, where you have to guess which country a food dish is from. I tend to struggle in Eastern Europe.
When I refer to likes of multiple people, e.g. "we like this book", I should use "ci piace il libro". Plural people speaking about liking plural books would be "ci piacciono i libri".
One of my goals for 2026 is to reach level B1 in Italian language.
Some things work OK, but still not as good as commercial VPN providers.
last week: Worked with son to find time period of a pendulum (a bell attached to a rope) .. the exploration was to get to microseconds precision). I sincerely hope more people could appreciate H C Vermas physics teaching methodology https://hcverma.in/Experiments
r, err:= fn()
Compiles if r is already declared. Creates a new lexical scope that has no access to the outer r. So the outer r doesn't get set. And I get a bug!I need my Universal Basic Income now! Help.
he gifted his dopa star to us.
The idea is to use something like a slider that shows different images combined with a memory task, like "find out the pair of images" and then offer maybe a text input field where the user has to write 1,2,3 or something similar with the image numbers to pass the captcha.
The tldr is that I'm abusing the famous panda image that's classified as a gibbon as a technique to build a bot captcha.
Think of it as an exploration manual.
https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing...
HTML DOM uses retained model as it would be unimaginable to completely throw out the entire DOM and rebuild it anew with every frame. But React, Vue and other libraries use immediate mode to communicate with HTML DOM. They might internally have retained mode, but in the end they only perform mutations based on their internal differences.
So the whole web ui is layer upon layer of immediate, retained and hybrid modes all talking to each other. Now imagine how much wasted resources all of this layering implies :)
Another interesting fact is that when you have opacity or translucency in web ui, the browser render the background elements off canvas and uses it as background for the element with the opacity in order to avoid issues with various elements seeping through in many unexpected ways.
tl;dr this topic has been thoroughly discussed in here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYFBOIr6n_s
Found a $100 bill in the grass. No-one nearby to think it might belong to them.
breaking it in the first place was more fun
I've not used any CAD tools in a significant way in nearly three decades - all very familiar and yet not at the same time. Form-Z and ArchiCAD were my bread and butter back then, despised AutoCAD but here I am back in the Autodesk realm again with Fusion :-(
"Cursor Mirror" Anthropic Skill and Python Sister Script:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629604
cursor-mirror skill: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/tree/main/skills/cursor-...
cursor_mirror.py script: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/cursor-...
DATA-SCHEMAS.yml schema map: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/cursor-...
PR-CURSOR-MIRROR-GENESIS.md pr description: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/designs/PR-CUR...
cursor-chat-reflection.md session log: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/examples/adven...
I-BEAM-CHARACTER.yml a spirit familiar embodying Cursor's soul: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/cursor-...
IMAGE-GALLERY.md analysis of images dropped into Cursor chats, their context, and meaning: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/cursor-...
>Note: This gallery contains descriptions, analysis, and context — not the actual images. The images live in Cursor's workspace cache. The point: cursor-mirror can find them, the Read tool can see them, and I-Beam can narrate their significance within the conversation where they appeared. Image archaeology!