> The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Very relevant to what's going on today with National Guard and ICE deployments.
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/14/10th-amendment-ice-trump-il... (or please google whatever source you find reliable about the topic)
I'm continuously surprised by how difficult it is to plug things together and how non-descriptive cable "standards" are about the actual capabilities of cables and connectors.
Having an egg is relatively hard on parrots. I've given her lots of food and warmth to prepare. She is comically hungry -- she's usually not such a big eater, but she's happy today to be scarfing down her apple slices, fruit pellets, and safflower seeds.
She usually sleeps at the bottom of her cage, beneath a towel I put down for her. It's already unusual for parrots! But tonight she has made quite a nest with her towel: It's folded in half like usual, but she has nuzzled her way between the fold, so she has the towel underneath and on top of her. It's super cute.
I'm treating her with delicacy but she is determined to be a wild child of a bird. She's still flying around during the day and moving around plenty. I don't think I would be so confident if I had an egg like that inside me.
She has a stone perch that she likes to nibble on when she's working on an egg. I've wondered if it is some innate need to nourish herself with calcium, or if it's stress relief :)
So that's my night. Sitting outside of the metaphorical delivery ward with a metaphorical cigar, making sure she lays this egg that isn't even fertile to begin with! Birds :)
methinks: Calcium is required to make the egg shell. Calcium supplements would help, just in case "Life finds a way".
We keep a rabbit indoors, free roaming in the house, now for 7 years, I expect he will do 10+
Would you prefer to live freely for 6 months or have a hopefully comfortable life for ten times more. Before anyone jumping to say “freedom!” why don’t you do it already? Why are you keeping your body prisoner indoors?
What does this even mean in the context of humans? People do go outside.
It also seems like the sibling comments are misunderstanding your last sentence, it's not about the "you" in that sentence having self imposed limitations, it's you being literally imprisoned by an external source without any way to get out. So asking "why are you a prisoner inside" doesn't make any sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfields_Water_Supply_Scheme
I'm looking into rennovating a massive agricultural machine shed ~ two stories high in the middle built some 80+ years ago using sections of spur pipeline as central upright poles to hold up some beefy jarrah trusses.
The "verandah" wings flaring out from there were bulit from flimsier timber that's rotting and the iron sheet walls are starting to peel away.
The posts are of interest as they have old markings and water fittings, tee pieces, etc.
It's not far from one of the original steam powered pumping stations that moved water through the main line.
Hoping they do it for April 1st one year.
I also recently learned that you can get ancient coins for very little money if you don’t care about resale value or need them to be in pristine condition. I bought some coins from kingdoms that I’d never heard of. Many are thousands of years old! It’s fun holding a piece of history like that.
Oooh, thats a good one. Next read the Architects paradox, Why Greatness cannot be planned and Understanding Variation and your views of the world will be forever altered. Or pick up "Architecture Modernization" by Nick Tune if you want more tools to do stuff and if you do not want to achieve enligntenment.
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Where did you acquire cheap ancient coins? ebay? May be cool to get some for my dnd group
Recently I learned that only 3% of Latin works from 1450-1700 (including renaissance and scientific revolution) have been translated. Secondrenaissance.ai
At this point just learn latin
The idea is to use something like a slider that shows different images combined with a memory task, like "find out the pair of images" and then offer maybe a text input field where the user has to write 1,2,3 or something similar with the image numbers to pass the captcha.
The tldr is that I'm abusing the famous panda image that's classified as a gibbon as a technique to build a bot captcha.
It was generating the wrong output — that is: not the same as on Windows.
My fix initialized a thitherto uninitialized array with the VisualC++(ca. 5.0) debug build default value.
The funny part is how far the mathematical version of the problem is from what measuretocut.com actually needs to output. In reality you have kerf, ugly offcuts, and the fact that nobody wants a cutting diagram that looks like a circuit board. We really have to take into consideration a 2nd optimization, it needs to be an output that a person in a shop can glance at and immediately understand.
I don’t even want to use it, I just want to get legacy code building on a modern version of Vite without rewriting a couple thousand lines of code. Aaaargh
Most of my career has been JS and TS and I have no idea what this means.
JavaScript is actually based on a standard called ECMAScript. ActionScript shares this standard, as an example. In 2015, we got ECMAScript 5, which modernized JavaScript in many ways. With that came many changes such as ECMAScript moving to a yearly update cadence, in response to the large amount of effort involved in implementing ES5, which came with a ton of changes.
One of those changes was ES modules, or ESM, which provided an official way for working with modules. The import/export syntax you're used to is a part of that spec. Before this, we had competing non-standard specifications for module loading, such as CommonJS.
ES5 reduced the need for tools such as lodash, and so it's less common in newer projects. It also is old enough to have been around before ESM was adopted, and is a large project, and so like many projects it either had to completely rewrite everything, or use transformation tools such as babel. If not, the user was responsible for using babel/etc to transform the code. Now, in modern stacks, because this is unnecessary, native support for CommonJS is being phased out, leading to OP's conundrum.
Now we have TypeScript, and the horrors of JavaScript 10+ years ago are a fading memory.
Thanks for taking the effort to type out a history lesson though, hopefully someone will benefit from it.
As someone else pointed out below, it was the use of ESM as a verb that threw me off.
The package doesn’t export lodash/fp in the ESM version.
The downside is that now I'm wondering if I could write one in SQL.
We shouldn't feel bad, Guide van Rossum was there once too!
When transported on cargo flights, they are double packed as cans in a barrel in a crate, and considered UN classified "miscellaneous dangerous goods" with identification number UN3334 "Aviation regulated liquid, n.o.s." with accompanying scary(albeit monochromatic) warning stickers, if at all accepted. When transported on ocean going vessels, they are often required to be in its own shipping container, again double packaged and correctly labeled.
Am doing data engineering for some big data (yeah, big enough) and thinking about efficiency of data enrichment. There's this classic trilemma with data enrichment where you can have good write efficiency, good read efficiency and/or good storage cost, pick two.
E.g. you have a 1TB table and you want to add a column that, say, will take 1GB to store.
You can create a new table that is 1.1TB and then delete the old table, but this is both write-inefficient and often breaks how normal data lake orchestration works.
You can create a new wide table that is 1.1TB and keep it along side the old table, but this is both write-inefficient and expensive to store.
You can create a narrow companion table that has just a join key and 1GB of data. This is efficient to write and store, but inefficient to query when you force all users to do joins on read.
And I've come up with a cunning forth way where you write a narrow table and read a wide table so its literally best of all worlds! Kinda staggering :) Still on a high.
Might actually be a conference paper, which is new territory for me. Lets see :)
/off dancing
Table1 = {"col1": [1,2,3]}
Table2 = {"epiphany": [1,1,1]}
for i, r in enumerate(Table1["col1"]):
print(r, Table2["epiphany"][i])
What is really happening? Are these streaming off 2 servers and zipped into 1. Is this just columnar storage or something else?
Were your table is stored shouldn't matter that much if you have proper indezes which you need and if you change anything, your db is rebuilding the indezes anyway
breaking it in the first place was more fun
Wikipedia says it is the fastest growing religion in the world.
Chosen to be independent of a mariners orientation.
Starboard - most sailors were right handed and the steering oar was placed on the right. Star = steer. Board = side of boat.
Port - as steering oars got bigger, boats tended to dock on the left hand side. This became to be known as “lardboard” which sounded too much like starboard, so it was changed to “Port” (as in the side typically facing the port side.
That there's "metal paste" [1].
That the zodiac killer's messages have been cracked for five years now (I didn't know they were cracked to begin with) and that it was a shift and substitution cypher [2]. The telltale clue was that the symbol frequency was uniform but under shift it become non-uniform.
How to solder those pesky connectors that come on the tiny servo motors you can get from Aliexpress [3].
That Firefox only has 2.3% market share [4].
Multiscale 3d truchet patterns are freakin complicated [5].
That prioritizing tasks by the linear combination of priority and effort remains a good strategy.
[0] https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/01-cathedral-megachurch-b...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys-RMVJ89dk
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CJsKJ0XKP4
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHulZtR2Qkg
[4] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
[5] https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2018/bridges2018-39.html#...
Solved Zodiac Killer ciphers:
• Z408 (July 1969): Solved in days by Donald & Bettye Harden.
Message (with misspellings): “I like killing people because it is so much fun it is more fun than killing wild game in the forrest because man is the most dangeroue anamal of all to kill something gives me the most thrilling experence it is even better than getting your rocks off with a girl the best part of it is thae when I die I will be reborn in paradice and all the I have killed will become my slaves I will not give you my name because you will try to sloi down or atop my collectiog of slaves for my afterlife ebeorietemethhpiti”
• Z340 (November 1969): Solved in 2020 (after 51 years) by David Oranchak, Jarl Van Eycke, and Sam Blake; FBI confirmed.
Message (with misspellings): “I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me that wasn’t me on the TV show which bringo up a point about me I am not afraid of the gas chamber becaase it will send me to paradlce all the sooher because e now have enough slaves to worv for me where every one else has nothing when they reach paradice so they are afraid of death I am not afraid because i vnow that my new life is life will be an easy one in paradice death”
What surprised me the most was that shiro (white) miso and aka (red) miso are both the same mix of soybeans, salt, and rice malt but fermented for different periods of time. As the miso ferments for longer, its color becomes darker while its flavor becomes milder and more complex. Beyond 3 years of fermentation, you get diminishing returns as its flavor becomes too acidic.
After the tour, we got to sample some of the naturally fermented 3 years old miso, and it was easily the best I've ever had. Most miso you can buy in a grocery store is created through forced fermentation over a few months, so if you ever get a chance to try naturally aged miso I would highly recommend!
r, err:= fn()
I've secured a single interview, company seemed like a great fit. System level Go apps, my bread and butter. No longer have to split my time with frontend? The dream.
On round 2 their CTO basically shut me down 2 minutes in saying they're unwilling to do any sort of training and only looking for existing experts in their very specific niche. In round 1 the interviewer told me I seemed like a very good candidate, very positive about my experience. Said they'd been looking for a long while and I was one of the most experienced Go backend developers they'd interviewed. Round 1 was frankly one of the most positive interviews I'd ever had. Got extreme whiplash as round 2 was cut short at about the ten minute mark.
I don't know for sure but I think a lot of companies are looking for an absolute Cinderella given the glut in applications. I don't think that guys going to find her.
It's been a couple months now, their job posting is still up. I'd have been well up to speed and making meaningful contributions by now.
Also that Newfoundland has a pretty unique music tradition, that captures what irish music sounded before the Great Famine
If anyone has any experience with this, please do chime in :)
I also learned that on Aug 12th this year a total eclipse of the sun can be observed from certain parts of Spain.
Related video for those curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKNB04slCUA&t=3s
In Europe we have standard screws. Building with only M5 screws is a joy.
I now have several plants in there that are supposed to be especially good at sucking up CO2, and my sensor reports that the current level is slightly below atmospheric ambient CO2 levels.
I also wrote up a blog post about the structure of the Washington state legislature, which began its sixty day session for 2026 earlier this week. https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/01/how-the-washington...
I open the window.
Any chance you can share a picture of the size of your room and amount of plants and type of plants?
I have a co2 device which gets red and this triggers the window opening for me asap
I have a Netatmo home device that measures PPM and have been observing the trend lines throughout the day. At some points my flat gets up to about 1400, which the device says is bad, and sometimes it goes down as low as 500. I've noticed a pattern but can't quite connect that pattern to my activity or the surroundings. It starts going up around 4pm, which could be homewards-bound vehicles, but it seems to trend even on weekends when there is lower traffic. Maybe I start breathing differently at these times. I'm quite interested in getting to the bottom of it. Unfortunately I'm west facing so plant use is quite limited.
What is the atmospheric ambient CO2 level? Is that variable based on location?
I've learnt a few things:
- I had my sensor on my work desk which meant the CO2 pooled, and was increased dramatically by my breathing almost directly onto it. Moved the sensor at least 1.5m
- I had the sensor quite low down, where CO2 pools (being heavier), so moved the sensor to eye level
- CO2 seemed to increase when cooking (same room), so while cooking I open the windows and let the warmth flow out of the building
It's about a company (https://neoplants.com/ ) which genetically enhances plants and soil with a product you can buy to make them much more efficient at filtering the air. It apparently does work rather than being a placebo.
The first one really hit me hard and prompted me to write out my own thoughts (https://jesperreiche.com/seneca-letter-2/) whether I will keep doing that I am a little unsure. It feels on the border of how personal I want to be/share on my blog.
P.S. I can see the irony in writing about me going to the source instead of consuming other peoples interpretation and then sharing a link to my own interpretation :)
Regarding cameras, it's harder (and more expensive) to wrangle with gear acquisition syndrome (GAS) but after switching from Canon EOS to Fuji, because the Canon stuff was too heavy when hiking, I managed to restrain myself most of the time. Because the question always is whether my images would become better with different gear or with more trial and error.
I opted for trial and error and eagerly watch a selected number of YouTube channels who almost always show me that I should and can improve myself and not my gear.
With regards to cameras, I also came to Fuji although from Nikon. But I agree, the important part is getting better at photography and the better you know your camera the more it can become an extension of yourself.
There is just something very alluring about the daydream of having the new camera and taking those "perfect" images. When in fact nothing is keeping me from going out and shooting those "perfect" images with the camera I already have.
I just rebuild a speed queen dryer that broke with spare parts from Amazon, which revealed a remarkably simplistic engineering. Very surprised by how simplistic the mechanism was. It’s incredible how over engineered most laundry systems have become.
Also spent some time digging into the integrations between Tesla FSD and rideshare services today. It’s remarkable how much progress has happened.
I wonder that's a new corporate strategy - charge randomly till someone goes through the pain of IVR and spends 15 mins with support. Must generate quite an upside for them if it is indeed a strategy.
This is the same Airtel that auto opened payments bank accounts without customer consent or knowledge while getting a sim card. They even got cash deposited into those accounts from the govt direct benefit schemes while keeping their customers in the dark.
I'm sure its completely "accidental" and they'll have more of these glitches and mistakes in the future.
I’m used to “pixels are three little lights combining rgb colors”, which doesn’t work here, so I went on a rabbit hole and let me tell you, analog TVs are extremely impressive tech.
Getting an electron beam to hit a glass, making the chemicals on it spark, covering it in a “reading motion” for hundreds of lines, and doing that 60 times a second! And the beam is oriented by just careful usage of magnets. It sounds super sci-fi for an already dead, 130 years old technology.
I also learned that my childhood was a lie. Turns out that the logic in consoles of the time was tied to the speed of the beam, which in turn used alternating current’s frequency as a clock. This means that since European current changes 50 times per second rather than 60, our games played in slowmo (about 0.8x). American sonic was so much faster! And the music was so much more upbeat!
I need my Universal Basic Income now! Help.
I knew this was something coding interviews delved into: "if it doesn't fit in memory", but until like yesterday I never went down the rabbit hole. I have to say it was a nifty trick.
Loving this post.
Then I was sick all last week, so ended up down a rabbit hole about the current card collecting bubble (right word?). Super interesting.
My daughter likes to install random games on iOS that have been advertised to her on other apps, and I wonder if some of those work as residential proxy behind the scenes.
This came from reading about the gut microbiome, which was spun off from reading a book about Ultra Processed Foods (Ultra-Processed People). I've been trying to remove UPF foods from my daily consumption, trying to lower the ratio of them I eat (the average is supposedly 60% for adults in my country), since the academic link between UPF and dementia is quite strong now. It's quite shocking to see just how much of a typical supermarket/food store is UPF, and where many of the emulsifiers and preservatives come from.
Yesterday I was reminded of “Rapid Serial Visual Presentation” for speed reading, where the words are presented so you do not have to move your eyes. I am currently trying it out with a Chrome extension called SwiftRead. I set the text size so it fits into my fovea area. I used a fovea detector website I saw on HN a while ago: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4dsXzM (make the pattern full screen, then you can see the size of your fovea).
I also learned that I can reduce some of the strain by moving my head more toward the things I am looking at on the screen.
Some things work OK, but still not as good as commercial VPN providers.
Sorry, no positive news yet. But it's only noon.
Basically it relied on a checksum algorithm that was previously in yet another external library but was now in the standard library so that call needed to be updated and variables carrying around the old external library had to be underscored out.
It was a good lesson in traversing error messages and going from an angry VM step by step to a clean success. Not to hairy for a junior to understand when explained, and also not too time consuming to burn out interest, while still a bit of a challenge.
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