"You know how they say 'every day is the first day of the rest of your life'? Well that's true for every day except one - the day that you die"

Maybe not relevant to this news about the Ruby on Rails part of the website, but when Frederick did a talk about the map-rendering server, it needed an extremely specific combination of postgres version and options, and kernel version and options, to have a chance at being efficient enough to work, even on the enormous amount of memory available at the time.

TFW "npm install somePackage" adds hundreds of names to your supplier list, some of whom aren't even adults let alone companies, and the policy says that each new supplier needs to go through a thorough vetting process.

"It's not the copyrighted content, it's mathematical statistics about the content"

Oh, like how saving an image as JPEG is just recording some frequency stats, which just happen to sufficient to recreate the image?

Some earlier commentary on the voyage from the What's Going on With Shipping channel.

Weirdly, if you look at companies on D&B Hoovers, JavaScript is listed as being "owned" by dixie electric controls inc.!

"Now we just need you to calculate equivalent resistance between the points a "knight's move" apart on an infinite grid of 1Ω resistors..."

"It was the stuff of legends, said to give the bearer a glimpse of heaven, plus, it was quite shiny."

And the weights are like a bigger version of the weight-hangers from science classes.

Do you not have banking licenses (someone mentioned FDIC)? Over here, that's how you tell real [regulated and insured] banks from pretend banks.

Another view of it is if people mostly know you through remote-working, social media, computer games etc., then the "digital you" is something with non-physics rules that you can adapt analogously to the matrix.

The voiceless effigy creates bodies in their waves but does not notice the shore. Is our melody not beautiful? - Satisfactory

Seen in a code review (paraphrased):

"Why does this break when you add comments in the middle?"

"It's a Jeep thing; you wouldn't understand"

No no no nope, we're not reviving the trauma of that Indiana Jones scene...

"Are you worned (sic)" - kerning strikes again - guessing this was OCR of a printed page?

For context, the steam engine might have been a primitive version of this sort of thing, which can just about lift 0.5kg with twentieth century metallurgy and mass-produced bearings, seals, and pipe-fittings.

Don't zoo-housed pythons live indoors in the same type of glass enclosures as are used for fish tanks?

Definitely. Can't remember if it's in the base game (update: no, it's a mod) but it works like cotton and tobacco.