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werdnapk··on A Typology of Canadianisms
Restroom has always puzzled me. Seems like it should be an alternate name for a bedroom instead.
werdnapk··on A Typology of Canadianisms
I've never heard that one... what part of the country is that from?
werdnapk··on The story behind Caesar salad
This is my go to: https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/caesar-salad-dressing....
werdnapk··on The story behind Caesar salad
Once I started making my own Caesar salad dressing at home, Caesar salads for me at home went from meh to unbelievable... basically what you'd get at a nice restaurant. So make your own dressing and never buy the bottled stuff... it's so worth it.

I also add fresh cooked bacon (NEVER bacon bits) and capers.

werdnapk··on They tried Made in the USA – it was too expensive for their customers
Isn't this how capitalism works? What the USA claims to be the best at?
werdnapk··on If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)
Click on the planet symbols at the top to fast track.
werdnapk··on Coffee for people who don't like coffee
An aeropress is really an amazing piece of coffee making gear. I used to use one when I was on a budget and found it to be the best method of making coffee for little investment. There are a few tips and tricks worth looking up, but once you have things sorted out, it brews great coffee.
werdnapk··on Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read
I've been working with Ruby full time for pretty much 20+ years as well and there's many parts of it I've never used, although when I need one of it's many features, I love that it's there. I just used a refinement for example last month for the first time to help clean up some code that I didn't want polluting top level classes everywhere.
werdnapk··on Firefox tab groups are here
This looks to be a bit more integrated into the UI than the old version. The old tab groups always seemed like a bit of a separate "app" and I tried to use them, but never really used them much because I had to manually switch to the tab group view and it just didn't seem very cohesive.
werdnapk··on OpenAI o3 and o4-mini
I've used AI with "niche" programming questions and it's always a total let down. I truly don't understand this "vibe coding" movement unless everyone is building todo apps.
werdnapk··on An Introduction to Stochastic Calculus (2022)
Most web developers don't even know what a binary tree is, nevermind rebalancing one.
werdnapk··on The last RadioShack in Maryland is closing
Specialty retail is what I generally buy from brick and mortar as it's almost always cheaper in-store compared to what I find online.
werdnapk··on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
And that's a problem... reasonable people now don't.
werdnapk··on Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant
A major point of crypto is based on tracking as the ledger (blockchain) is completely public.
werdnapk··on Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers
Turns out AI isn't smart enough to figure this out yet.
werdnapk··on Writing your own C++ standard library from scratch
So I haven't been a C++ programmer for almost 20 years now (I would have considered myself very experienced with it at the time) and STL was the Standard Template Library for me back then. Is the Standard Template Library no longer in (widespread) use? Would any modern C++ programmer use it anymore?
werdnapk··on The polar vortex is hitting the brakes
The "entire scale" has no maximum. So your waste of the Celsius scale from 35-100 is Fahrenheits waste of the scale from 0-32 or whatever you're trying to base your comments on.
werdnapk··on The polar vortex is hitting the brakes
Because it is the same.
werdnapk··on Tesla loses ground as Chinese EVs dominate global markets
FSD is required for robo-taxis... so as Elon has said the last 10 years... "next year". Tesla doesn't use lidar either, so good luck with the FSD.
werdnapk··on This is no world for an axolotl
If there's a major organ in the part you cut off... good luck.
werdnapk··on Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update
As a user/customer, if I'm part of that 1% with an issue and get the same sort of "canned" response you see on the mentioned thread, I feel like me as a user doesn't matter. I guess the next step is calling customer support and then having the person on the phone making me go through their checklist of things I've already tried and again, feeling like this is of no use.

I think it usually takes a big rollout for these big companies to actually "hear" their users.

werdnapk··on The Lost Art of Logarithms
Oh, the hours I'd spend browsing through tech books back in the day... good times.
werdnapk··on Mysterious tunnels sketched by Leonardo may have been found
Apparently they have an app that citizens can check to make sure they're not dating a relative.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/kissing-cousins-icelandic-a...

werdnapk··on El Salvador's crypto experiment ends in failure
Doesn't take working at a crypto company to realize 99% of crypto is a scam. Meme coins, ICOs and NFTs were the icing on the cake for me though.
werdnapk··on Introducing command And commandfor In HTML
The popover API is not a replacement for <dialog>. It's an alternative to some dialog like functionality if the use case is right.
werdnapk··on Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front? (2024)
<frameset> replaces the <body> tag. TIL
werdnapk··on Why Ruby on Rails still matters
Why? That's like somebody saying Linux has to distance itself from Linus because they have some sort of grudge against them or they don't like the authoritarian position they have over the project.
werdnapk··on DOGE employees don't understand the basics of SQL
Just wait until they come across some mainframes and need to figure out JCL.
werdnapk··on Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?
If there's a smell then the coop isn't being cleaned enough... simple as that. Ours coop is cleaned every day or two and there's zero smell.

It's like a cat's litter box. If it smells, then clean it more often.

werdnapk··on Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport
It's been extremely windy in the region today.
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