🌸 Sun, Jan 28, 2024 🌸
The device that can listen to the universe and hear merging black holes, LIGO, is capable of detecting a change in distance between its mirrors 1/10,000th the width of a proton!
🌸 Sat, Jan 27, 2024 🌸
BTW, we have a solution for global warming that we’ve had for ~50 years: nuclear power plants. They are cheap and reliable. But for some reason, people think making more nuclear bombs is better.
🌸 Fri, Jan 26, 2024 🌸
73 F (23 C) I like it Picasso.
🌸 Fri, Jan 26, 2024 🌸
Recent layoffs in the tech and gaming industry have significantly impacted several major companies. For instance, Microsoft announced 1,900 layoffs, Riot Games 530, Unity 1,800, Twitch 500, and Epic Games 800, among others.
This situation has led me to reassess my perspective on…
🌸 Fri, Jan 26, 2024 🌸
There is a great principle called DRY (don’t repeat yourself). Comments in the code violate that principle. Seriously, I mean it.
🌸 Wed, Jan 24, 2024 🌸
I wish if YouTube had the option to limit videos by no longer than 5 minutes in autoplay. It has a tendency to be stuck in 5-hour long compilation videos or even worse, never-ending live videos.
🌸 Wed, Jan 24, 2024 🌸
What was a design decision to make the click in DAWs tonal, IMO it is distracting.
🌸 Wed, Jan 24, 2024 🌸
Such basic functionality; I just cannot memorize it. Every time I am messing with markdown, I need to disable auto-fill-mode. I am going to put it here so that next time I can look it up here.
🌸 Tue, Jan 23, 2024 🌸
3 days ago, I started doing resistance exercises. I managed to do 6 push-ups; the next day, I was so sore that I could not do anything. Yesterday, I did 10 push-ups, and now I am in pain again. 😂
🌸 Tue, Jan 23, 2024 🌸
Just to make you feel slightly better: it is normal to have 200 unfinished projects with 5 of them in active development.
🌸 Mon, Jan 22, 2024 🌸
Lies are everywhere: 15" CRT screen is actually smaller, 1TB hard drive is actually 70GB smaller, 5% annual interest rate is actually 5.12%.
🌸 Mon, Jan 22, 2024 🌸
TIL: Michelin, the tire company, is the same company that gives Michelin stars to restaurants. 😲
🌸 Mon, Jan 22, 2024 🌸
I asked my Muslim friend to pray for me. Maybe this is the hack to switch my life from hard mode to easy mode. I was asking my Christian God, it did not work. So as the true scientist I am, I’m playing with the variables 😜 At this point I don’t want to learn how to fish, I nee…
🌸 Mon, Jan 22, 2024 🌸
Sometimes ABBA ratatouille me back in time. In the time when I was a 10-year-old kid and listening to ABBA on the cheap cassette player with the bad speed controller, wobbly tune, and a full 50 Hz buzz in the background.
🌸 Sun, Jan 21, 2024 🌸
TLDR; let’s implement a message queue in Java, oh wait GC is too slow; let’s save data to files instead.
Why not just use a better language (khm, C++)?
https://docs.confluent.io/kafka/design/file-system-constant-time.html
🌸 Sun, Jan 21, 2024 🌸
Two days of rain in a row mean that it is two days of the weekend you decided not to stare at the screen and go touch the grass. ☔
🌸 Fri, Jan 19, 2024 🌸
I was watching some videos that explained the quantum many world interpretation. TLDR; there is no collapse of the wave function, but rather a bigger world that is always in a superposition. 🤔
🌸 Thu, Jan 18, 2024 🌸
TODO comments in your source code are most likely not going to be addressed. TODOs in the source code are invisible; your producer won’t see them, nor will most of your colleagues. If you want to make TODOs work, you need a tool that will extract them from the code and bug you to…
🌸 Thu, Jan 18, 2024 🌸
What would you do as a teacher if you had gone through all layers of knowledge, explaining the topic for months, and you’re on an advanced topic, and a student asks a question, and suddenly you understand that the student did not get the basics from the very first class?
🌸 Thu, Jan 18, 2024 🌸
Restrictive laws may make criminals more powerful. I was thinking about laws against collecting and selling personal information. Now, good people’s hands are tied by the law, while criminals still freely collect and use personal information. Did you notice that the number of unw…
🌸 Wed, Jan 17, 2024 🌸
I cannot find it anywhere, so I’ll play by memory. Someone asked Richard Feynman: is it possible to make an antigravity machine? And he said, define antigravity? If you define it as a device that cancels gravity, I would say the chair I am sitting right now is the antigravity mac…
🌸 Wed, Jan 17, 2024 🌸
I work a lot, so I hope my kids won’t have the need to work.
🌸 Wed, Jan 17, 2024 🌸
What I have learned over years of software engineering is that if you think it’s impossible, it will happen tomorrow, guaranteed. So now I am thinking everything is possible; nothing happens.
🌸 Wed, Jan 17, 2024 🌸
Windows 95 had multiple releases, or patches on them, one of which was called OSR2. It still had a lot of bugs and crashes; it was a minefield of bugs. Over time, you just learned how not to step on the mines. There was a joke circulating: How to fix all the bugs in OSR2 with a c…
🌸 Wed, Jan 17, 2024 🌸
I like UTF-8; I think it is a good standard. It has some drawbacks, for example, it is expensive to calculate the number of characters in the string, but I think it has more pros.
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