jasonpeacock

Here's a good video showing how a bike actually works, and the relation between steering and leaning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cNmUNHSBac …

It's the classic "the glass isn't half full, the glass is too big!"

This is the real take-away: > Baran is not an engineer by education. He started working at the factory in 2017 as a helper — dusting, cleaning, and organizing items. A year later, he got the opport…

I have, and it was amazing. You could quickly make the changes you want not worry about what else breaks, then run the tests. The tests that you expect to fail would fail, and you fix them. Then you f…

There used to be "rent a dent" discount car rentals that did exactly this. You could save a bunch by renting a clearly used (and usually scuffed/dented) car. I agree about driving a bra…

I thought this was something obvious that everyone did? I was definitely doing this 15+ yrs ago when I built web services. It's the only path of sanity when you have to support multiple versions …

From the post: > APL isn’t on the list of [Exercism] languages but I’ve seen it in codegolf (codegolf.stackexchange.com) solutions often enough that it seemed worth a look.

> the once or twice a year that I happen to set up a new machine This was me for a long time - but then I started using ephemeral (EC2) hosts for remote development, and while I wasn't setting…

I have a work mac, work linux, and home mac. I want the same terminal-based development environment on all of them, but each requires just a little bit of customization. For example, the .gitconfig fo…

Everyone hand-rolls their own dotfile management system, but YADM already does everything you need: https://yadm.io/

A coworker used to solve Project Euler[1] problems using SQL while they waited for DB indexes to rebuild or tables to restore from backup in the middle of the night. [1] https://projecteule…

Article source from his site (non-Medium): https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/01/managerial-discretion/#ju... …

We use an Aquasana under-sink filter for our drinking water, it removes microplastics (and other stuff): https://www.aquasana.com/under-sink-water-filters/claryum-2-... I admit I…

Exactly. I've heard so much "you must follow MISRA!" but MISRA is not actually the requirement - it's a solution that satisfies the requirement, and there can be other way to satis…

Online dating, we were both in our 30's. I'd been meeting people through both IRL (work, group activities, friends-of-friends) and online dating since my 20's. Stick with it :) Also, ra…

Still, what is blocked by lack of standardization or specification? Many (all?) languages were successful before being fully specified, and many still are not ( cough Python cough ) yet that has not…

Why does Rust need ISO standardization - what is blocked by the lack of ISO standard?

Here's a good article about why Rust has a small stdlib: https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/rust-stdlib/ …

And I thought ice-nine was bad…

Because logging is persistent. Once I have good logging implemented for a section of code I can always enable it and see what's happening every time the application runs. Debuggers are one-offs. …

This is also being done very effectively in some US cities like Houston: https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/how-houstons-homeless-s... …

Fasting is good, and depending how strict you are... Fasting promotes autophagy and improves insulin resistance, if you do actual fasting (no calories during fasting). Many people have what's cal…

See also The Hacker's Diet[1][2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hacker%27s_Diet [2] https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/ …

In emergency responder training, they teach you "Don't just do something, stand there!" And this is exactly why. If you rush in, you have a good chance of becoming another victim - elec…

It's less about being the best (no criticism of NASA) but rather engineering decisions to _guarantee_ the planned mission, which means you over-engineer and thus get extra performance/reliab…

I spent a summer in college working construction as a general laborer, making $20/hr. I was rich!! ...and every person on the jobsite said "stay in school, don't do this full time"…

It's not that simple, alas. When the WALK sign is on, there's a minimum time required for pedestrian crossing that has to be allowed. Signals can switch faster and respond to traffic needs m…

They aren't alone - here's a college student who also commute by commercial flights to avoid high local rents: https://onemileatatime.com/news/college-student-flies-clas…

Because cars on a road have obvious intention and clear rules to follow, but bicyclists/pedestrians on a sidewalk do not. How do you know someone on a sidewalk is waiting to cross vs just stoppin…

"I'm 99% convinced that no one actually _understands_ zettelkasten" Fixed that for you ;) For real, anyone interested should go read the original book (How to Take Smart Notes[1]) and y…