I see these things all over Latin America and stayed at a bunch of places that have them. It can get SUPER hot. The cool thing about them is that the pipes that heat the water are vacuum sealed and don’t heat the water directly. I forget the exact mechanics of it, but it pretty much doesn’t matter what the temperature is. It can take that solar energy and add it to water.

It looked like it was a combination with that and the chemical they washed it with. Also, for this particular product, it isn’t healthy to use the sulfur treatment, it seems. The producers said something to the effect of, “we know this will cause problems for people, but the fruit is prettier and we get better prices for them”.

The news company said that they tested them as well and found them to be toxic.

I just read the 25 pages and they used a lot of hard data from China’s own databases, though the data is very limited access and particularly opaque even when compared to other regions according to the report, and it looks pretty compelling.

Edit: I’ll add that I’m changing my mind about it. I used to believe it, then I started to distrust it, but now I guess I’m coming back to it. What’s pretty wild is I’ve watched videos of people going to Xinjiang and it looks totally normal. Mosques everywhere, arabic text, people smiling, etc. Then on top of that it’s pretty clear that western capital wants to reduce China’s gains, so of course we’re happy at these reports.

But the quickest way to clear it up would be for China to let the UN come and look and interview people, but they aren’t. I do recognize that UN investigations tend to come with US spies, but I don’t really see what’s over there to hide, anyway.

Funny thing about that, I used to do sound stuff and we’d tell people to practically kiss the mic. Just put it right on the chin and make out with it. Not the last part, but just about that haha

We’re evolving too!

Instructions unclear. Watering gooses. Edit: (yes, I know)

I actually had a coworker who bought a 100 year old house and turned it into a homestead before quitting software. I think he was on to something.

The implication is that to get promoted, you have to kill your mentor and take their job

I once watched a video lecture from the guy that implemented lambdas in the JVM and he was giving community feedback that he received. He said, “Obvious but wrong answers have the word ‘just’.”

wait, in C++, if you don’t assign the value to that pointer, it’ll be whatever happens to be at that block of memory of something!?

oh shit you have the actual physical layout! did you move the keys yourself?

I use colemak and swap the caps lock and backspace keys. It works well for both coding and typing in non-english languages that I know. But those are just the ones that I know

of course there’s an XKCD for that

I heard this story but with the original Kirby game

That was actually a well written article and worth the length

Kotlin ‘built by communism’? Because the founders of JB are Russian? Is that it?

I had to think about that a bit. I remembered that Tetris was made by a Russian guy for the purpose of stress testing the computers of the day - or something to that effect.

We’ve finally evolved from Excel!

Edit: I saw a presentation on functional programming where the guy said, “Do you know what the most widely used functional programming language is and that the world would stop running without? Excel!” (or something to that effect)

App stores and their systems don’t usually have the ability to deploy diffs, so the whole package goes out

“As teens take to cars, parents ask: Is this freedom or danger?”