That’s how you can tell if you’re accelerating

40,000 Dollarbucks!

T U V O K T O B E R

Security Theatre

So many things are outside of your control, and all any of us can do is look after the people that we have the power to help.

In the context, I’m sure your job feels unimportant and trivial, but for those around you it’s an island of stability in the storm of chaos.

The Saga of Boatmurdered

In some markets, the power price actually goes negative and consumers can be paid to use energy.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/20/energy/three-mile-island-microsoft-ai/index.html

I think there’s plenty of money out there to use excess power, someone just has to connect the dots…

Most use a horizontal single axis configuration and could just tilt the panels away from the sun.

The real question that we should be asking, is why nobody can think of what to do with free energy?

Desalination? Mine Bitcoin? Giant space laser?

Ah, so it’s not just software developers

Everett’s home life explains a lot about his demeanour in public…

The Riker Maneuver

They changed the format in the last season and did a bunch of smaller myths and the build-team was less involved. They basically knew they weren’t going to do any more, so none of the cast were invested.

MissingNo is evolving!

A few things to note:

JavaScript is not a “batteries included” language - if you need math functions or cryptography or any kind of utility, you need to load it along with your script (usually from npm).

Loading a lot of small files is slower than streaming one big combined file, so tools like webpack will stitch all the files in your node_modules directory and minify it, so it’s not unusual to have big files like this.

Does the site actually need all this code? Probably not! The ridiculous part is that every one of those npm dependencies has it’s own list of dependencies, so just grabbing a small handful of libraries can result in huge trees of files!

Even more insane is that many of these probably have shared dependencies, but very slightly different versions, so multiple almost identical packages get downloaded.

Worst of all is that is most packages probably don’t use 90% of the code in the dependencies that they do need - e.g. if you want a “sin” function from a math library then you’ll be downloading “cos” and “tan” too.

There are tools like tree-shaking and pruning that help to remove unused packages during the bundler step, but I rarely see them used. It’s a lot of extra configuration and setup when mostly the products aren’t affected by a few extra KB or MB.

Anyway that’s why js and node and npm suck to both work with and to use. The site probably doesn’t need all that extra code, but there is no easy way to prove it so you get everything “just in case”.

Well, that answers that question.

Too bad all the pros moved to the Corgitech scene

I think it might be a riser or part of a sprue from a larger cast part

Andy B, - good first name for a tester

I assume just normal credit card payments online? PayPal started because people were scared to use their card online, but now you get all the same buyer protections and insurance.