Will I ever rewrite curl in rust?
I don't believe in rewrites, no matter which language. I believe in replacing code and fixing components gradually over time. That *could* mean that we have a curl written mostly in rust in 10 years. Or in 20 years. Or not.
Fun little trick in the Sunday New York Times crossword yesterday: the central theme clue was "The better of two sci-fi franchises", and regardless of whether you put Star Wars or Star Trek, the crossing clues worked
The picture is from "General Zoology" by George Shaw, vol. ii, part 2, page 458, published in 1801. It's even on the Internet Archive! https://t.co/taluV6jaXw
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I still remember the a post-mortem at Uber after a longer outage in an unprofitable region:
BUSINESS IMPACT (IN $):
“We technically reduced losses for the business by $$$ by not being able to serve tens of thousands of loss-making rides this time.”
A 1936 L&R clock cleaning machine. Although most watchmakers have moved onto ultrasound machines, these three-dip centrifugal cleaners actually do a much finer job in much less time. The black barrel is actually a heating chamber with a blower which is the final stage.
I don't know who else needs to know this, but an INT variable has limits..
Type int, which uses 32 bits giving it a range of -2147483648 to +2147483647, inclusive..
Today's date string ["YYMMDDHHMM"] is 2201010001, which is larger than that.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Taking physical computing to the next level by trying to project a laser dot onto a map to show the real time ground track location of the ISS.
Longitude is working, but it takes the ISS 90 minutes to traverse the map. Testing is sloooow, but trigonometry in action kids. 🛰