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Okay, now I really want to ride a steam-powered monorail

And Jóhann Jóhannsson (RIP)

The full backstory of this clip is a great read:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/an-oral-history-of-tim-curry...

CO2 sensors are not all created equal. The price of a good one is a large chunk of the cost of the device.

And yet it didn’t accept JORTS :/

Incredible, by far the most comprehensive review of techniques for beautifying and branding QR codes.

What I would love to see as a companion to this is some sort of rigors benchmark for scanning that attempts to quantify how much real-world scanability is lost. There must be some decoding benchmarks out there that simulate common types of distortion, damage and degradation. What did the original designed of the QR code use to evaluate their work?

Screenshots of Vette! at MobyGames:

https://www.mobygames.com/game/799/vette/screenshots/dos/

I don't think that's quite correct; every CS program I've seen involves writing code, quite a lot of it. What they don't teach is /software engineering/: working large codebases, maintaining code, dealing with legacy code, long-term collaboration, working with product managed and designers, etc. That's stuff that you mostly end up having to pickup in the real world outside school.

Good lord, why would you make your website so intentionally hard to read?

Michael Jackson was a pop star. Selling out was never a sin in pop music.

Agree, this needs context. I thought this was like some sort of unclaimed government funds thing or something at first.

There was one in Strasbourg, France, by the cathedral

This is arguably what MVP is supposedly to mean

The episode is "Mark Zuckerberg: The Worst Person of the 21st Century (So Far)", in three parts (eps. 43-45) [1] [2] [3]

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srIt1RFE-Zo

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2icLml1LJUE

3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxNYbfYiG2c

*cues

If the idea of spending a summer in a firewatch lookout tower sounds cool to you, I highly recommend the indie narrative game Firewatch [0]

0: https://www.firewatchgame.com/

> they're all sold out to froufrou boogies!

That's specious, Trader Joe's is cheaper than other stores for plenty of items

For me, the images and text are out of sync; by the time the focus in the image has moved to the next item, the text is already hidden under the image.

Does not work in Firefox's reader mode, unfortunately

Sometimes I think people forget how capable computers are. 500k is not much. You can just slap that in a Lucene instance. This is a solved problem.

Oh jeez, I hadn’t thought about the blocked element being different than the aria-tagged one. What a nightmare

I literally just left a Trader Joe’s and I couldn’t find a single tin

What's with the xpath selector? Is that just matching deeply nested elements?

What is a "finished" cookie?

Buying clothes at your destination doesn't always work out if you're not a standard size -- which may vary dramatically depending where you're going.

> The term "ice cream" is pretty well regulated in the US. Really shows where our priorities are as Americans.

Most natural food products are regulated in the US [0]. Ice cream is not unique in this regard, nor is the standard is particularly onerous compared to others. It easily fits on single page [1].

0: https://www.ams.usda.gov/grades-standards

1: https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/IceCreamI...

It’s also very over-designed; there are multiple different styles for headings, subheadings, pull quotes, section headings, etc etc. All with their own colors, font faces, font sizes, etc.

And it’s all too bloody dark!

Any particular reason that “Andiamo” is so popular? It’s apparently Italian for “let’s go” but why is in the top 10? Is there some reference I’m missing?

The icons for the different shapes don’t really make a lot of sense. It’s not really obvious how some of them work and many are quite unlike the actual pattern (which you have to scroll down to see on mobile).

Also Cahill–Keyes M, which I’ve never heard of or seen before, is described as “the classic M”. That’s not really helpful.

There's a weird bug with the infinite scroll where the page width and/or column widths randomly change slightly when I hit the bottom of the page every once in a while