nindokag
when I sarcastically say "thanks Brendan" about Javscript design flaws, I'm not really blaming Brendan; none of us would have designed a good language in the two weeks Netscape gave him. I'm really saying "Thanks, inscrutable market forces that led to Brendan's 2-week side-project becoming an industry standard that nobody in the last 20 years could change without breaking the web"
Computers are nothing but giant piles of historical mistakes kept for backwards compatibility, from QWERTY on up
Squeep!
I AM CRYING
We, Australia, which does not exist but I digress, printed 2.3billion dollars of new currency with a spelling error and they’re still going in to circulation.
I must have one.
Stephanie Jessop, Space Pirate
what if a chair but it's also a roomba?
why should cats be the only ones who get to ride on roombas?
nindokag
(I mean, the real answer is that there are three ways of dealing with climate change: the cheap way, the expensive way, and the INCREDIBLY expensive way.
The cheap way would have been to act 40 years ago. The incredibly expensive way is to do nothing.
https://newrepublic.com/article/153702/green-new-deal-costs-less-nothing
"The Green New Deal costs less than doing nothing")
Esteban Manchado Velázquez
Music Monday! This week: Bossa Nova. The bossa nova (lit. "new wave") is a Brazilian style of music that has a fairly recognisable rhythm. Although there are many ways to play it on a drumkit, a typical "full" drum part would be this: http://music.hcoder.org/music-monday/Bossa%20Nova.mp3 (if that's your thing, here's the sheet music: http://music.hcoder.org/music-monday/Bossa%20Nova.pdf). To show the three typical layers of the rhythm when playing on a modern drumkit, it adds each layer one at a time.
1/2
nindokag
My company (kWh Analytics) got together with 9 other companies to talk about risk factors, i.e. reasons we see #solarPower projects underperforming their estimates. Here's our report, with each company contributing a page.
It's a dense read but there's a lot of really good information here, if you want to learn about the nitty-gritty of providing solar power, and where the industry has room to improve.
Austin Seraphin
I had an interesting revelation while floating in a sensory deprivation tank relating to #echolocation and #Qigong. https://austinseraphin.com/2019/05/08/a-healing-sound/
nindokag
Cool positive thing I learned today:
Since 2007, 20 african countries have been planting a wall of trees across the Sahel to stop the spread of desert and restore the environment
nindokag
https://grist.org/article/insurance-experts-rank-climate-change-as-top-risk-for-2019/
Survey asking insurance actuaries about risk ranks #climateChange above any other risk for 2019
this matters because of the extent to which insurance company policies have taken the place of government regulations these days
riga
weird and wonderful — maybe i’ll have a spinach heart in the future
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/human-heart-spinach-leaf-medicine-science/
Strange Attractor
Not at all! My training is in systems design engineering.
However...I've been through a lot, including knowing several people who were diagnosed with cancer, some who are still alive, some who are not.
And also much weirder life experience that I've had to make sense of. I've had to get good at some of this just for day-to-day life.
I've been spending time lately on things for which there are no known good answers. Annoyingly no option to ask for advice or outsource.
Strange Attractor
It's a tough thing to deal with, even one or two steps removed from having to deal with it directly.
A reminder that it is ok to be upset about upsetting things. (Sometimes I need this reminder.) As in, you could be patient with yourself even if you are having a harder time processing this than you expected.
Ross Schulman
@xor
It makes you feel almost special and infuriated at the same time.
Parker Higgins
I'm experiencing the very rare Linux problem where no amount of searching appears to turn up anybody else experiencing the same thing and it sure is a lonely affair!
Parker Higgins
I was still logged in to Mastodon!
Parker Higgins
I had to repartition my whole hard drive and reinstall my operating system, and it's the wildest thing to me that you can copy over one folder and your Firefox is not only the same, but the same TABS are open
Strange Attractor
Since breathing in ionized particles was proposed by Fews, 1999, as a possible mechanism for how power lines might affect human health, the sameness of the upwind vs downwind results make this hypothesis less likely, at least in regard to leukemia.
https://europepmc.org/abstract/med/10622258
Strange Attractor
Children who live within 600m of a high voltage power line (132 kV, 275 kV, 400 kV) at birth are more likely to develop leukemia. No difference between downwind and upwind distances.
Draper et al, 2005.
https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc558197
Laura Ritchie
if you're watching now- there's a guy jamming on a wooden flute in the bottom left of the screen. I LOVE THIS! (at about 9min 30 in the recording) ps it is 2am here
https://chiplayer.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=d3c843c7-add4-46b3-8368-aa3e00eb28aa
nindokag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyGqToLJBx4
my taiko drumming group performing at the Cupertino Cherry Blossom festival on Sunday
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