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EdwardDiego··on Reverse Engineering SimTower
I sunk ages into "the world's most brutal elevator simulator" - how does the game model elevator demand? I always wondered if it was some sort of Poisson distribution.
EdwardDiego··on Paraloid B-72
Looking at that just screamed "coolest GI Joe vehicle that one rich kid at your school had and never let you play with".
EdwardDiego··on An amateur historian's favorite books about the Silk Road
I loved his Brendan voyage, bloody ballsy buggering off to sea across the North Atlantic in a leather boat.
EdwardDiego··on MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code
Often refers to doomsday preppers.
EdwardDiego··on GitHub Merge Queue Silently Reverted Code
Same here, ffs GH.
EdwardDiego··on GitHub Merge Queue Silently Reverted Code
This has caused a morning of fun for our team, how do you break one of the most fundamental bits of your system? Time to look at alternatives...
EdwardDiego··on Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
> This post introduces the Riemann integral

Sweet! I'm keen to learn about the basic fundamentals of calculus!

> For each subinterval ...(bunch of cool maths rendering I can't copy and paste because it's all comes out newline delimited on my clipboard) ... and let m<sub>k</sub> and M<sub>k</sub> denote the infimum and supremum of f on that subinterval...

Okay, guess it wasn't the kind of introduction I had assumed/hoped.

Very cool maths rendering though.

As someone who never passed high school or got a degree thanks to untreated ADHD, if anyone knows of an introduction to the basic fundamentals of calculus that a motivated but under educated maths gronk can grok, I would gratefully appreciate a link or ten.

EdwardDiego··on A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform
A frigging Roblox cheat...

And I thought it was bad when my son got compromised by a Roblox cheat, but they only they grabbed his Gamepass cookies and bought 4 Minecraft licenses, which MS quickly refunded...

EdwardDiego··on Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent
You could export BASH_ENV to have Bash processes source a given file at startup.

Zsh has .zshenv, and Fish just has config.fish for everything with the ability to guard certain things within it to login only or non-interactive only.

EdwardDiego··on German Dog Commands
It's better with dogs to use commands that sound harder for hard commands - stop, down, wait, etc. Which German's love of crisply pronounced consonants tends to lend itself to.
EdwardDiego··on €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs
> I think the logistics of calculating cost in real time is something that is extremely hard.

What makes you think that?

EdwardDiego··on JVM Options Explorer
Nah they fixed the JVM to be container aware some versions ago - I do remember dealing with this in early Java 8 days, think Java 10 is when it got fixed, and then it was backported to later releases of Java 8.
EdwardDiego··on The Raft consensus algorithm explained through "Mean Girls" (2019)
Which movie would you use to explain Paxos?
EdwardDiego··on They're made out of meat (1991)
That short story makes me think of the kea (Alpine parrot) of New Zealand.

They're ridiculously smart and dexterous.

When I was a ranger I'd tell tourists to think of them as "monkeys who can fly... ...you're laughing, but I'm serious".

Their upper and lower beaks can move independently like a human's thumb and forefinger, unlike nearly all other birds, and they can also use their beaks like scissors, or to undo screws - that last one is very true, I'm not making it up, their upper beak makes for an effective flathead.

They share knowledge like corvids do, once one kea learns that the self closing door on your shop closes slowly enough, after a human enters, to give them time to get in, steal a chocolate bar and get out, there'll be five more trying it tomorrow.

They can undo zips on your backpack and then undo the latches on your lunchbox to steal your sandwiches, or they'll untie your bootlaces (yep they can undo knots) and remove them from your boots, or remove your tent pegs, or maybe cut your guylines, all of this just for fun.

There was a gang that would deploy one of their number at a viewing platform to act very engagingly and oh so photogenic to distract the tourists while its mates quietly stole interesting things from the hand bags, backpacks,and, if you left the door open, cars(!) of the tourists who were focused on the photogenic decoy putting on a show.

They had a bit of a penchant for passports during my time. Most of which were last seen being dropped into a deep and dangerous mountain ravine by a parrot that then let out a mocking laugh.

There used to be a gang of juvenile males that would deflate tyres at the local public toilets to prove they were tough - because the noise depressing a tyre valve made was scary, so the longer you pressed it, the tighter tougher you were, while your mates egged you on.

They also have distinct and recognisable facial expressions they use to indicate their emotions.

They've been taught to speak in the past - but the fact that they can survive, and indeed, they thrive, in the harshest environment in New Zealand is far more indicative of their intelligence than any Polly Wanna A Cracker would ever be.

EdwardDiego··on Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?
Yeah actually that was preferable. Go look at the fuel prices around the world if you want to analyse why.
EdwardDiego··on Delve removed from Y Combinator
But they "set the record straight"? Right? It was just a malicious actor who stole data from their system!

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

https://delve.co/blog/delve-sets-the-record-straight-on-anon...

EdwardDiego··on Yggdrasil Network
Thank you for the link, that was a great essay and now I need to reread the Discworld novels.
EdwardDiego··on Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools
> Crypto signature library written from scratch.

That's a sentence every white hat cryptography enthusiast loves to hear lol.

EdwardDiego··on Stop picking my Go version for me
I'm struggling to think of a scenario where bumping the minimum Go version you support would be essential to fixing a bug though, because that would imply a massive Golang bug and AFAIK it's pretty stable.

And if it was a massive Golang bug, then maybe everyone needs to upgrade anyway.

EdwardDiego··on Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email
What the actual hell did I just listen to. I really hope those kids were paid decently at this.
EdwardDiego··on Anatomy of the .claude/ folder
I've put some stuff in my global Claude.md to avoid things like...

* Claude trying to install packages into my Python system interpreter - (always use uv and venvs)

* Claude pushing to main - (don't push to main ever)

* When creating a PR, completely ignoring how to contribute (always read CONTRIBUTING.md when creating a PR)

* Yellow ANSI text in console output - (Color choices must be visible on both dark and light backgrounds)

Because I got sick of repeating myself about the basics.

EdwardDiego··on KKR to acquire Nothing Bundt Cakes for over $2B
Does $120m EBITDA really justify a $2B purchase?

Must have some amazing intangibles given what I know of the usual EBITDA multiplier used for such businesses.

EdwardDiego··on Slovenian officials blame Israeli firm Black Cube for trying to manipulate vote
Anyone registered The Torment Nexus as an LLC yet?
EdwardDiego··on How the world’s first electric grid was built
We weren't far behind in NZ, with the town of Reefton electrified in 1888.
EdwardDiego··on The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation
Yeah, bless the Nimrod AEW, WORST RHINOPLASTY EVER.
EdwardDiego··on The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation
I had a bloody die-cast toy of that as a kid for some reason, I thought it was just a fake plane they'd invented to justify a toy!
EdwardDiego··on The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation
I think this one is winning the inverse beauty contest.

It looks like it really wants to scoop up a large amount of plankton mid-cruise.

EdwardDiego··on The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation
The part where it's carrying about a metric ton of phosphate while still being able to take off at that speed is really blows my mind.
EdwardDiego··on We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster
UV also has the distinct advantage in dependency resolution that it didn't have to implement the backwards compatible stuff Pip does, I think Astral blogged on it. If I can find it, I'll edit the link in.

edit wasn't Astral, but here's the blog post I was thinking of. https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/26/how-uv-got-so-fast.html

That said, your point is very much correct, if you watch or read the Jane Street tech talk Astral gave, you can see how they really leveraged Rust for performance like turning Python version identifiers into u64s.

EdwardDiego··on The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation
Now that I googled more pictures of it, I agree, the one in Wikipedia is obviously it's most flattering angle, looks almost... Rutanesque.

This photo though, I see what you mean.

https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/z3envi/the_pzl_m1...

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