The Grand Canyon! Must seem even grander to an ant
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Is "research chemicals" a euphemism or are you literally referring to chemical substances/precursors purchased and used by laboratories that are also available to the public?
Power cut
Are kernel maintainers not unpaid volunteers?
Yeah I had convinced myself that I would only do it for a year and be able to retire much much sooner.
I once applied for a "database admin" job at one of the big credit card companies. The job description was basically "run all our Oracle databases" and the salary was in the mid 2 millions USD, but I assumed that figure was typo'ed or something ( an extra 0 maybe?)
In the interview I learned that there was no typo and it was to be one of the seven people on the planet that run the databases for this credit card processor. They said "if the database goes down then we are losing billions of dollars a minute".
Anyways I didn't get the job, but they're not all underpaid.
My business daddy pays for my Apple machine and it's great for ssh-ing into various cloud-based Linux boxes.
Makes me think of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dentition#Dental_formula
Teeth can tell you a lot about an animal. Their size, shape, number etc can tell you what it eats or how it eats or how much it eats. Dental formula can give you clues for how animals are related to each other. If two different animals have the same dental formula then maybe they share a common ancestor or have a similar diet. If two animals are already very similar but have different dental formula then maybe they're only very distantly related or there's been some convergent evolution elsewhere.
I used to work for a startup that laid claim to all "ideas" that I had, in or out of working hours, during my period of employment with them.
Correct. Plywood gets a lot of strength from the alternating grain directions in each layer and the core plys aren't always the same species as the veneer/face plys.
The grain pattern looks like veneer instead of solid wood.
In 2021 there was some planning/writing done for a prequel, but I don't think anything came of it.
That film is having a bit of a cultural comeback, so there's still hope.