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When learning kayaking you have to practice a water escape, I wish there was something similar for driver's ed in the Netherlands. Thinking about it is terrifying.

That device's legacy lives on and is still in active use, though the main customers are now cows: https://www.dutchnews.nl/2021/05/rotterdam-floating-farm-cri...

Most likely the latter. Thousands of bikes, a hundred people, and more than thirty cars fall in to Amsterdam canals each year. "What to do if your car falls in the water" is part o…

Very cool! Have you considered rendering clouds?

p.s. thanks to all those working this week :)

A tiny bit more context here: https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/discussions/3312#disc... (I opened this discussion 2.5 years ago and get an email from github every once in a w…

I hate to admit it, but flaky tests almost always highlight weaknesses in my software architecture. And fixing a flaky test usually involves making the actual code more robust.

> Who tests the tests? To me it's a bit like double entry bookkeeping. Two layers is valuable, but there's rapidly diminishing returns beyond two.

I think it's relative, right? That's how abstractions and interfaces work. I can write a module with integration tests at the module level and unit tests on its functions. I can no…

My guess is the tunnel will become the preferred roosting spot for the bats.

> We once saw a comment in the generated code that said "I need some coffee".

B1M covered this. The video has a fun animation of the political history too: https://www.theb1m.com/video/italys-12bn-bridge-mystery

Yep! But I don't.

I usually just use asyncpg.

Why is the first one needed?

Don't sprinters start with 4 limbs on the ground? The advantage of the 4 limbs seems to be gone by the second step. Trail runners often run with poles on up or down hills. Not sure…

related: https://bdickason.com/posts/speed-is-the-killer-feature/

Sebastián Ramírez created FastAPI and SQLModel, and was an early adopter of Pydantic. Samuel Colvin created Pydantic.

At a smaller scale, the efficiencies gained from properly designing the system are not a major savings. That said, if I had a garden with a big fountain I absolutely would try to m…

I suppose it's correct to say EPANET competes with expensive commercial offerings, but it's actually available completely free: https://www.epa.gov/water-research/epanet I know som…

related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40757996