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The Jet Powered Beer Cooler

asciimation.co.nz
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A gigantic landslide shows the limit to how high mountains can grow

economist.com
118 points·by jesterpm·3 tahun yang lalu·79 comments

Bouvet Island DXpedition

3y0j.no
1 points·by jesterpm·3 tahun yang lalu·0 comments

Morsle – the daily Morse code challenge

morsle.fun
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A web app for simulating a waving flag

krikienoid.github.io
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jesterpm
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I wouldn't be surprised if it's not already in the Municipal Code for the city, since they need a way to maintain consistency. For example, here's the divisions in Renton, which are oddly complicated relative to the size of the city: https://www.codepublishing.com/WA/Renton/#!/Renton09/Renton0...
jesterpm
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Oh this is fun. I'm in the process of building something similar, but I'm splitting it into two parts: the first part is a static site generator and the second is a CGI that implements the micropub spec, which can run the static site generator when it receives new content.
jesterpm
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
It's even weirder with people: blood sugar level change with how you perceive time to be passing, not the actual amount of time: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1603444113
jesterpm
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
That comparison would depend heavily on what you're storing.

Ion has the option of using symbol tables to replace strings (e.g. in struct/map keys or in values). So, if you benchmark had a large number of records with similar structures, I would expect Ion to pull ahead. On the other hand, if each record had nothing in common, I'd expect them to perform similarly.

One feature of the Ion libraries that I've liked is the parser will take any of the formats and figure out what to do with it (text, binary, compressed binary). It's one less thing to worry about. You can switch encodings later without breaking consumers, you can write plain text Ion when you're testing, etc.
jesterpm
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Ion is heavily used on the retail side of Amazon, but it's only recently started to appear in AWS products.

AWS is starting support PartiQL (https://partiql.org/) queries in some places and PartiQL uses Ion's type system internally.
jesterpm
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
> and the OS installed takes up well under 500MB

Fast-forward to 2023 and many individual Android apps are 100-500 MB each.
jesterpm
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I don't use my google account for much anymore, but I love the idea. I tried very hard to use it and... it didn't work.

I went to my google account and clicked "Create a passkey", but apparent my "device doesn't support creating passkeys" (Linux, Firefox).

The page said my Pixel 2 has an automatically created passkey, so maybe I could experience the "use another device to sign in" flow. Opened a private window and my only option was a password (but there was a feedback prompt asking why I still wanted to use a password).

I tried again with Firefox on Android, but the "Create a passkey" button doesn't even appear. Same story with Chrome on Android.

Is it just me, or does the future look a lot like Internet Explorer in the early 2000s?
jesterpm
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Sometimes. Sometimes the fast thing is just heavily parallelized.
jesterpm
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
RA (Router Advertisement) handles announcing the prefix for SLAAC addresses and DNS.
jesterpm
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I suspect the lock is more about keeping other people's trash out than keeping theirs in.
jesterpm
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I expect that's a corollary to Parkinson's law
jesterpm
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
On our last road trip, I gave our 4 year old a printed map with the route highlighted and lettered milestones every hour or so. I was hoping to give a sense of scale (how far away are we, how far we do we travel in a certain time, etc.) that's harder to convey with a digital map. It also worked to practice letters and cardinal directions (we're at K, what's the next letter? the road turns at M, which direction will we be going now?). It worked rather well, but probably because he got a gummy bear at each waypoint.