Ice Spikes: Strange things you can find in your freezer
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Reminds me of the John Carmack quote someone added on another discussion yesterday: "A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in."
Also reminds me of a line from a book (I can't remember which one), that was quoting an NSA representative in a meeting saying something along the lines of "our business is in the gaps between systems". My memory / interpretation taking it as: where one process ends and another one begins - that's where there's ambiguity, wiggle room, it's not process A's problem now, but it's not yet process B's problem, so what can we do to get in there and "make the ice spike".
The interesting things happen at the edges (in this case it's the middle, but that's missing the point).
True in biology also. Much more diversity at the boundary between ecosystems.
My kids and I observed these ice spikes every morning when I took out the trays to for iced coffees, and I always wondered why I'd never seen them anywhere else in the world.
It's almost a nice retroactive confirmation that the water delivery service we relied on was selling distilled water as advertised!
https://www.healthline.com/health/can-you-drink-distilled-wa...
The mineral content in even mineral water (never mind tap water) is miniscule.
"Since distilled water doesn’t contain its own minerals, it has a tendency to pull them from whatever it touches to maintain a balance. So when you drink distilled water, it may pull small amounts of minerals from your body, including from your teeth."
No - some things are small enough that they cannot.
interns get to do some of the coolest things
ba-dum-ta
Like take the blame when things go wrong like testing a major email notification system.