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Had something similar to this with the kids with Lego Duplo tracks, similar topology but the switches gave the system state. Going "backwards" through a switch set the train to return that direction when coming the other way.

So we had a goal to make the train do interesting behaviors, like cover the entire track autonomously, pushing the switches itself. The biggest run I remember was a 4 bit counter.

Kid is now entering his last year of CS + Maths degree, so I guess it checks out.

Depends on if you’re wearing a wing suit or not.

What’s more, they will scale up with increased resources on the site.

If you redline at 20 searches a sec, and put in 4 more workers, suddenly you’re serving 100r/sec to the bots, paying 5x for it, and your users are still seeing shit qos. I've seen multiple cores of nginx saturated just dealing with one dos/crawl run on a somewhat high profile site.

I think Jurassic Park was pretty similar craziness. Definitely pushing the CGI aspect, and super super popular.

First generation powerbooks, the 140/170, were amazin keyboards. The 100, not so much.

I bought 2 M13s (one black, one beige, the one with the builtin track point) in Seattle thrift stores in the early 2000's, one was $5 and one was $10.

At one point, other copies were both $300 plus on ebay.

Sadly the black one has an intermittent issue with some of the keys where hits are doubled, but the beige one is still a daily driver.

From my son's experience in calisthenics and looking around at the group he sometimes trains with, there are definitely a lot of overload/overuse injuries, at a range from just needing rest to bicep tears.

One time I got an entire center row of 5 seats going from Seattle->Heathrow overnight.

And there are a lot of middling bakeries in Europe.

Haven't spent much time in Belgium, but I was disappointed in the average quality of the bread in small bakeries in France. There was one awesome organic bakery in Paris near the catacombs tour, and one hypermarche (forget where) that somehow had an absolutely incredible rustic baguette. But the little shops in towns, eh. And most of the hypermarches. Germany is also kind of average, the Reve bakeries are reliably on the good side of middling, but nothing that I'd consider incredible.

The whole obsession about measuring giving exact hydration percentages is strange to me.

Assume you have 100g of flour at equilibrium 20% ambient humidity, and the same 100g of flour at 80% humidity.

I don’t know how different the effective moisture content would be, but measuring the weight of the flour to the gram seems like you’re including the moisture in the weight of the flour. Maybe one packs denser on a scoop. I don’t know. But I don’t necessarily think it’s more accurate.

On the other hand, it’s really easy to just pour in 540g of flour, mix in a shy tablespoon of salt, 280g of water, and a good glop of starter. Far easier than trying to get consistent scoops or measure to the meniscus in a liquid measured.

Eh, I found the Seattle artisanal bakeries (Fremont, Grand Central) to be better than all but the best I’ve found in Europe.

It is/was legal on rural interstates in Washington. I've cycled down I90 in roughly the North Bend area (in the late 90's).

Few different use cases, other than just a general swiss army knife for vaguely tabular data.

* fastapi + duckdb + parquet for the backend for a relatively high profile website

* wasm duckdb + react for a few visualization websites

* yaml driven ETL from lots of sources, principally ugly spreadsheets, into usable data. More T than E or L really

Saw this before the evening bus commute, trying it. 15 min in, not sure it’s working for me.

I run some moderate profile gov and ngo opendata sites, and I’d say that bot like traffic is 99% of the requests we’re seeing on some sites.

Mostly current valid user agents, lots of ip addresses, but the traffic patterns are not organic. I’m not clear if it’s bad ai scraping or dos, but at some level it’s indistinguishable.

Unschooling works for a fraction of kids, and at some stages of their life.

How big is that fraction? In my experience being around a bunch of home schoolers (and adjacent, and school system), some of whom were more in or out of unschooling, I think it's small enough that it should be a rarely considered option.

There are some kids where it will work _really_ well. I've interacted with a couple. There are a lot of kids where it really doesn't work, especially in a distraction rich environment.

Unfortunately, digeridoo playing is just as disruptive to partner's sleep as snoring is. Perhaps they should try bagpipes?

Apple 2 was often az/,. .

Ubuntu has patched as of this morning. Debian doesn't look like they've patched trixie yet.

I paid the equivalent of $12.50 a gallon for diesel at the peak price a month or so ago.

Personally I’d look for the coveted 5 eights uptime.

I've seen issues last week onboarding a new employee, where emails from Jira and Slack and lastpass just weren't getting through.

I doubt it. The spanish (really tetra pack) wine was dry, and after double distilling it was basically moonshine. The Hungarian one was more in the mixing back into the undistilled wine -- making something akin to port+ strength that drinks like wine. It's the same idea behind pineau, first distilling + the cheap young white wine of the region.

The best I’ve ever done was a double distilled Spanish box wine we picked up for 1eur/l. The wine was undrinkable, but the brandy was sooooo smooth.

Next best was cheap tokaij furmint, distilled once and then mixed back into some of the undistilled wine. Basically the same thing as pineau de charante, but Hungarian and on the kitchen table.

  It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
  The minor falls, the major lifts

This is a strong contender for an Ignobel.

I get that feeling in Lidl. Their ambient music used to be somewhat identifiable, now it just seems a bit off.

Damn, the number of these that I've had.

Hardest choice for me:

Apple Extended Keyboard 2 vs TiBook.

Had both, Used AEK2s for a decade or more, still have the TiBook with Myst on it.

In Ireland, we’re running at about 75% renewables for the day, with most of that being wind. The absolute numbers are smaller, but that’s a peak of about 500 MW of solar and 3.6GW of wind, against something like 5-6Gw of demand.

When I visited CERN, they mentioned that there were some large number of protons in the ring at a time, and the runs would last a significant amount of wall clock time. (Don’t remember the exact numbers, but I think it was like 10^19 atoms of H, and days of wall clock)

The upshot was, it was likely that less than a mol of hydrogen had been run through the ring.