lime!

peanuts. don’t knock it unless you’ve tried a chicken-peanut-curry-pineapple pizza

they don’t make those anymore, they didn’t want to be associated with the image so they sold it off. they do make excavators and submarines though, in case your mom is looking for a replacement

Solid should have a bigger role in this article than just a mention. it’s literally the standard, it was the standard before atproto, and they just chose to build something else.

every website hurts me

my mother was a new-ager and my father was an engineer. the amount of woo i got exposed to on a regular basis, and the amount of explanations on how it’s bullshit, has pretty much inoculated me against it.

it’s all about theory of work; questioning what would cause the ascribed effect.

the physical description also applies to butter

i was unfortunately responsible for this one…

we developed a wireless communication protocol which was specified in an excel sheet, and it fell on us devs to implement the message types specified in the sheet. however since the specification kept changing we had to constantly update the message types in our tests to make sure they conformed. so i said “fuck it” and built a program that allowed me to “import” an excel file in a python program, which exposed all messages as classes that could be instantiated with automatic unit conversions. just drop the excel file of the day in the right place and run the test suite.

anyway that’s how the excel sheet became the formal API definition

it’s pretty neat

thanks! love me some science pedantry.

15 years away from a useful result

the implication of einsteins mass-energy equivalence formula is mind-blowing to me. one gram of mass, if perfectly converted to energy, makes 25 GWh. that means half the powerplants in my country could be replaced with this theoretical “mass converter” going through a gram of fuel an hour. that’s under 10 kilograms of fuel a year.

a coal plant goes through tons of fuel a day.

energy researchers, get on it

so it’s right