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Will check this out and see how it measures up to my favorite book on the topic, The Gene: An Intimate History [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gene:_An_Intimate_History
Googling says Quanta is online only. Anyone know of similar publications that print?
What evolutionary advantage, I wonder, is there to Ruppell's griffon vulture flying at 11400 meters?
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"Nothing is certain but death ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶a̶x̶e̶s̶.̶"̶, taxes, and ads."
A Vibe is not a Function—
Yet—how it compiles so—
An unseen kind of Language—
That only Coders—know—
This reminds me for some reason of my preferred answer to the Microsoft interview question "Why are manholes round?" A: Because the average cross-section of a human being is roughly circular.
And what of the other 38 states?
The graphic shows those tractors are also not adopted in Texas, Montana, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Tennessee, all top 10 farming states by acreage. [0]
California is an ironic example due to its tech industry, but hardly seems like something specific to "dysfunctional" California, as suggested by other commenters.
[0] https://www.agriculture.com/farming-across-america-a-state-b...
A good reminder to not bikeshed the codebase keeping up with the latest name for something, as tempting as it is. A note in the README should suffice.
- Line (Standing in the queue…)
- London (they’re all queued up, innit?)
- Log (*backend distsys handwaving*)
- Mail (what do you think an inbox is, anyway?!)
- Round (homophone “Q” is a typographically round letter)Bad on Disney for subsequently greenlighting Mufasa: The Lion King (2024).
I’m curious how much difficulty falls off over time after regular play. I’ve only played one puzzle, but without expanding the rules of the game, I feel like the following approach is all I’d need to solve any other puzzle pretty easily:
1. Build local early to save taps. Two squares touching can be painted with 1 tap and 1 flip. 2. Use taps in the middle of the game to create “pivots” for flips. 3. Big and “obvious” symmetries are solved with flips towards the end, taking advantage of “off the edge” squares getting ignored. 4. Fill “islands” (white squares without a corresponding white square for any axis of symmetry + pivot + valid flip) last with taps.
Did you ever try it with hexagons and 12 flip directions? >:)
(Actually, I turned _them_ off, and promptly forgot about the app over a year ago.)
- pretty print and indent “json-like” string (ex. Python object str) from a log, or json with typos (extra commas, wrong quotes, imbalanced brackets…) with a summary of errors at the end.
- verbal description (numerically listed) of the changes between two commits of a yaml file, esp when order has changed making git diff hard to read.
I just tried the same thing last week and it took an hour (half of that was mounting it to my ceiling). I only set up a WAP though, no controller.
We visited Blue Lagoon on Monday. It’s definitely a tourist destination and slightly gimmicky, but overall we enjoyed it. It’s organized, relaxing, and a great photo op.
Maybe the term is fair if you’re expecting something “authentic locals” do, but it has none of the long lines, price gouging, or disgruntled staff of real “tourist traps” I’ve landed in.
The criteria is a little clearer compared to “config” files, which could mean a lot of things.
I just started my first Go tutorials this week. One of them was go.dev's Writing Web Applications [0]. I was actually struck by the lack of boilerplate (compared to frameworks I've used in Java/Python/etc.) involved.
I get that it's a toy example, but do you know of any better write-ups on what a production Go web server in industry looks like?
(Props to them for their effort and this writeup, of course.)
Callers without Vision Pro show up on calls like normal. Vision Pro wearers are portrayed by a 3D representation of them wihtout the headset on.
> This was one of the most difficult challenges we faced in building Apple Vision Pro. There's no video conferencing camera looking at you, and even if there were, you're wearing something over your eyes. Using our most advanced ML techniques, we created a novel solution.
> After a quick enrollment process using the front sensors on Vision Pro, the system uses an advanced encoder-decoder neural network, to create your digital Persona. This network was trained on a diverse group of thousands of individuals. It delivers a natural representation which dynamically mathces your facial and hand movement. With your Persona, you can communicate with your a billion FaceTime-capable devices. When viewed by someone in another Vision Pro, your Persona has volume and depth not possible in traditional video.
I wonder how Slack will handle this, or any other tool where both filenames and (auto-hyperlinked) hostnames get passed around. Honestly, the new domains these will enable don’t feel worth the added confusion from overloading the extensions.
The author quips that "twenty questions isn’t enough to guess almost anything", but I wonder if most people taking their first crack at the game (usually as children) pick something squarely in the 2^20 most popular things.
(My friend's dad was really good at picking words. I remember he stumped us for an entire restaurant visit with "the cub in the Chicago Cubs logo".)