Especially Transcendental Cha Cha Cha

With computer stuff, you can do even better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming

TL;DR: your documentation and your shell script (sequence of console commands you run to accomplish the task) can be the same file.

(Dunno what kind of chemistry you do, but you may have already come across this concept in the form of Jupyter notebooks or something like that.)

While I’m at it, I’d also like to mention Ansible and Git, for when you really want to keep good records and have a reproducible setup. Don’t worry about them immediately as it’s probably too overwhelming to learn all at once, but keep 'em in the back of your mind for later.

Honestly, I don’t think it’s possible to get by just trusting any particular guide without developing at least some actual understanding of the concepts underlying what you’re doing. The field is just too wide and rapidly changing for any source of info to be authoritative (and stay authoritative indefinitely after the guide is written), so it’s super important to develop the skill of looking up multiple different and possibly conflicting approaches to the task, thinking critically about them, and then synthesizing your own approach that works for your specific situation.

No, we need to slam a Top 40 classic rock song in there because that’s the only thing the plebeians who see this movie will understand.

See also: the Beastie Boys bullshit in JJ-Trek.

Considering how few references there were in the post

Why use many words when few words do trick?

Flash was also cancer that ruined web pages.

The reason Java Web Start wasn’t, was specifically because once you clicked on the link, it downloaded the app and started it as a real desktop application, with its own window and taskbar entry and whatnot. It didn’t rely on being embedded in HTML (I’m specifically not talking about Java applets, BTW – they sucked too) or manipulating the DOM for its UI; it could use Swing and have the same look and feel as a native application.

Shoulda been something more like Java Web Start.

to make pages run faster and better.

Huh, well that’s a funny way of saying “break the model of web page as document and fuck up the entire web!”

You can tell there ought to be substructures because he used comments to label the different groups. That’s a code smell right there.

25% worse over what time period?

70% Christian, 3% Atheist, 1% Muslim, 2% Jewish… WTF are the other 24%? Don’t tell me there are that many Buddhist/Hindu/Shinto/etc. folks here! Something’s not adding up.

I find myself wondering how these figures have changed over time. Did we actually get worse, or have we always been this fucking ignorant?

Nominally “Christian” because they like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

I used to dream of a utopia like Star Trek.

Be careful what you wish for.

It depends on the transit service, and how much their IT people suck. I’m pretty sure there have been multiple attempts to make standardized APIs for this sort of thing, but you shouldn’t necessarily expect them to be widely used except maybe in Europe.

Do a web search for “[transit service name] API” and start from there.

Edit: My local transit service apparently publishes a GTFS feed, which may be more widespread than I assumed, but I’m honestly kinda surprised they didn’t try to roll their own or something stupid like that.

Grass does make flowers; they’re just typically really small (unless it’s something we’ve bred to be big, like corn or wheat).

For example, bermudagrass in flower:

Only thing it didn’t have like the Basilisk was BT functionality, which in my use case wasn’t a deal breaker.

Batteries are kind of a deal-breaker for me anyway. If I were to get a wireless mouse, it would have to be the kind that’s powered by induction from the mouse pad.

I also like my Redragon mouse, a “Griffin M602A-RGB”. I picked it entirely because (a) the shape fits my hand well, with well-sculpted indentations for my thumb, ring, and pinky fingers, and (b) it’s cheap, but not so cheap it isn’t still decent.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t made it past (or even to the end of) that episode either. I’ve tried a couple of times, but end up stopping after a few minutes just from the sheer cringe.

And I really like the rest of the show, to the point where I don’t want to skip any episodes, but that one I really ought to skip.

I’m surprised there aren’t massive protests scheduled for July 4.