It’s evaluated right to left, but modifiers are to the left of the functions. I feel like they were specifically trying to be difficult.

Very much so! Mine will run to greet me when I get home and flop on the ground for belly rubs. They actually like belly rubs despite what the infographic says. They’ll climb in to bed with me to cuddle and purr or stand on me and make biscuits (kneading with their paws). Sometimes they’ll be sleeping, and I’ll wake them up to pet them and cuddle, and they’ll vocalize and have body language to show they are happy.

However, they are both terrified of strangers, so it would take multiple days of you visiting before you’d see much of the goodbehavior.

Other cats are fine with strangers. There’s an outdoor cat in my neighborhood that I’ll sometimes pet. He’ll flop about and arch his back while being pet to show he’s having a good time.

Cat body language can be a little counterintuitive to read, but there can be very definite signs that they are happy.

I’m also not sure if this is obscure, but Bloom Filters! It’s a structure that you can add elements to then ask it if it has seen the element before with the answer being either “no” or “probably yes”. There’s a trade-off between confidence of a “probably yes”, how many elements you expect to add, and how big the Bloom Filter is, but it’s very space and time efficient. And it uses hash functions which always make for a fun time.

Oh no! I didn’t know that about Pogo ☹️. Fuck.

When I copy code from somewhere on the Internet, I include a comment with a link to the original. I encourage my team to do the same. Plagiarism should be frowned upon.

The atmega328 was a fine option a decade ago, and I still love them, but they aren’t what I’d recommend to someone new. The Pi Pico or an ESP32 make more sense in the current day.

This seems like a project that doesn’t need super high performance nor tight timing requirements (for anything other than driving displays), so I’d recommend considering Circuitpython or Micropython instead of C++.

Or maybe it’s an oily handprint that was left when it was cold and then the oil affected how the metal oxidized when it got hot.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/

I know of at least one, but it was started by a few people because they had had bad experiences at big companies and wanted a place that put the employees first.

Some people are into that

We actually hired two engineers like that. We didn’t know that they were dating, but we knew we needed to get both if we wanted either of them. Worked out really well!

Jumps not jumped. You are missing an ‘s’ otherwise. I’m amazed how common this mistake is 😁

Jokes on you, I’m already running Linux!

I know ozone degrades some plastics really quickly. I’m not sure if that’s just ozone or also the oxygen radicals, but I’m worried for the plastic parts in your fridge. I’d have to look into ice makers’ construction materials to be sure.

She’s gotten so big! I remember your earlier posts from when she was just a little kitten.

I miss it

Bullshit propaganda making climate change out as an individual issue instead of the systemic issue dominated by a few companies and the economic system that it actually is.

This is also weirdly anti-natalist.

I have one like this but another who puts up with a lot. If I pet her or put a hand on her before I turn in bed, she’s fine with it. I think it’s because she then knows that I’m aware of her. I’ve also accidentally kicked her (not hard) a few times while tossing and turning and she didn’t care. But heaven forbid I sneeze or even inhale like I’m about to.

Ground is a very relative concept in electronics. You are correct about earth ground, but if the case is unplugged and you touch it, you are still grounding yourself to chassis ground. Chassis ground is the important one for this since the danger isn’t electrocution (assuming the PC is unplugged) but electrostatic discharge (ESD) that can damage components.

This is still a massive simplification of the concept of ground.

Probably not as many as we’d like to think. I recently got to run a few days of tests at Lawrence Livermore National Labs with an absurdly massive laser. At one point we needed to bring in a small speaker for an audio test. It took the lab techs and managers about two hours and a couple phone calls to some higher ups to make sure it was ok and wouldn’t damage anything. There’s so much red tape and procedure in the way that I don’t think there’s an opportunity to just fuck around. The laser has irreplaceable parts that people aren’t willing to jeopardize. Newer or smaller lasers are going to be more relaxed. This one is old enough to be my father, and it’s LLNL’s second biggest single laser iirc. And they are the lab using lasers for fusion, so they have big lasers.