The Hammerhead Worm
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I tried a new text editor today that's written in rust. I downloaded the tar.gz and it just had a single executable binary in it It doesn't feel any more responsive than vscode, but at least its rust extension seems to work. I wrote like 20 lines of rust without any borrow checker errors so it was a good day?
Back when I worked on space ships, I used gedit and grep. That was before gedit's UI got butchered. Those were the good old days I guess.
I remember onetime around Oklahoma, my grandpa was driving a fully-loaded '94 Maxima with my grandma, aunt, mom, and myself. He then proceeded to drive slowly through a tarantula migration where the entire road was covered with large, dark round, shapes as far as they eye could see in every direction moving northwest. Grandma, who had terrible vision, flung the rear door open and leaned out parallel to the ground like a cartoon character to get a better look. I swear she was about to fall out.
PS: Neovim is the correct answer. Kill regular Vi with fire and nuke VS Code from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. Emacs is for people trying to turn people and the entire world into LISP. Nothing wrong with that, but keep your religion out of my beliefs.
Black widow's are pretty chill, but they're difficult to spot and hide in things.
Brown recluses OTOH are demons.
In the world, the horrific are the huntsman spiders of Australia. Just search Youtube for these monsters. I'd find some other place to live with normal arachnids.
Brown widows are a pain in my rear. Unlike black widows, who outside will hide in holes and places you general don't access, brown widows will hide in places you do - places that aren't pitch black during the day like outdoor toys, and under chairs and tables.
Had phantom black widows on me for days. But they were pretty docile.
I'm not shit flinging. Always wanted to be a 1337 FOSSy cli-only hackerman until I started trying to contribute to a C codebase with a thousand files of thousands of lines of code. Hung my head in shame and installed VS Code.
And anything related to debugging, we have nvim-dap. (Which AGAIN we have the DAP (Debug Adapter Protocol) thanks to VSCode) [1]
[0] - https://neovim.io/doc/user/lsp.html [1] - https://github.com/mfussenegger/nvim-dap
[1] https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim [2] https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/harpoon
Then I moved to Florida.
Hammerhead worms: Attack!
"When Endless Thread producer Nora Saks learns that a "toxic, self-cloning worm that poops out of its mouth is invading Maine", she starts sounding the alarm about the impending eco-doom.
Until, that is, state experts clue her into the "real threat"; a different creepy crawly wriggling towards The Pine Tree State's gardens and precious forests, and fast.
In an attempt to find out more about this real threat, co-hosts Ben Brock Johnson and Nora Saks tunnel down a wormhole, encountering a long history of xenophobic rhetoric about so-called invasive species, and some hard truths about the field of invasion biology itself. Eventually, they wind up at a community garden in Bangor, Maine, where the worm wars are playing out in real time."
Figures 3 and 4 show the estimated increase in range through the 2070s with continuing climate change. It looks like these nice little neurotoxin-secreting worms will become more widespread, which sounds great.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/alberta-rat-free
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/15/alberta-rat-ca...
Well that's a new wrinkle. Wonder what it does to birds.
I am very interested how organic growers in NZ deal with them. If they're a problem in their native regions.
Their mouths are in the center of their body, so if that part is destroyed anything that is going to regenerate will have to deal with the inability to eat while doing so, which is problematic!
Other examples of nativized species like this are dandelions and trout.
Eerie...
Why the need for protection? Does it bite?