pop culture #video about the popular #Chinese #mythology of the afterlife, with Horseface and Oxhead and the ten kings of Hell who judge you for your misdeeds, torture you for tens of thousands of years, and then have Grandma Meng wipe your memory with her soup so you can be reborn. Talking head and AI-generated images.
#video #introduction to #Helix, including the new “gw” feature that lets you jump to any word on the screen by typing two letters, taken from an editor called Amp, also reportedly available in Emacs as “Avi”. He shows off some of the #LSP and #tree-sitter features. They’re working on a #Lisp scripting language called Steel for Helix. #editors
journalctl --vacuum-size=500M if you want to waste half a fucking gigabyte on system logs
an alarming conflict started in November between the PRC and #Japan over #Taiwan. #China #politics
discussion of folding bikes, largely with respect to public #transportation
#USB cheat sheet, with signaling rates, connector pinouts, marketing names, etc. #electronics #hardware
#video from #Laney-Tech showing #manufacturing process of case hardening 1018 steel from 10 HRC (Rockwell C) with broken-up charcoal briquettes. “After 8 hours at 1700° [Fahrenheit] [930° in real degrees] the carbon should penetrate one sixteenth of an ‘inch’ [1.6mm].” It reaches 60–62 HRC after reheating and quenching, 58–60 HRC after tempering.