Very cool. Can this be used to make a better quadrature encoder multiplier? The ones we get in our programmable rotary encoders are pretty crappy when the input frequency wobbles.

As a former Swabian I'm a bit hurt that those beautiful Brezeln get such a low score

Generally Aethelstan gets pretty good coverage on TRIH and the episodes on that era are some of my favorites. Also, the VIP membership tier is called "Athelstan" if I remember correctly.

Learned from this post that Gmail web had POP! Now I'll be mourning loss of a feature I never even used.

I've been using it for many years, super simple way to have many email addresses deliver to a single gmail. The effort I'll spend migrating will be better spent setting up a non-Google alternative

I find AI coding assistants useful when I'm using a new library or language feature I'm not super familiar with.

When I have AI generate code using features I'm very familiar with I can see that it's okay but not premium code.

So it makes sense that I feel more productive but also a little skeptical.

Why are you sneering at people who want to raise heritage breeds?

And, FWIW, pawpaws are a native tree in Pennsylvania. They're either critical or nearly so in distribution, but ... native.

Not sneering in any way, I love those groups and visit when I get a chance. Also a big fan of our local university's tree collections, they are on a mission to preserve variety of specimens.

Maybe for the DB domain author is talking about but the nice thing about a bool is that it's true or false. I don't have to dig around documentation or look through the code what the convention of converting enum, datetime, etc. to true/false is. 1970/1/1 (I was four years old then, just sayin), -6000 or something else?

Nullable helps a lot here but not all languages support that the same way.

The real vibe coding is when you hear the core memory vibrating

Someone showed me a video of people with a radio near a 'magnetic core' computer. They were playing something like jingle bells.

I'm glad to hear that but only if the buttons, wires and connectors are high quality. Pretty sure one of the reasons for everything touchscreen is cost. My mom's BMW has a sort of joystick/knob/button that controls what's displayed on the screen which is an okay compromise.

What happened, did you just get stranded and they came and replaced the car?