One of the first words I saw this morning was “gravitas.” I thought I knew what it meant, and here’s a definition from the Google search results.
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For what sounds like it might be the first time ever, Solar City today produced enough energy to charge every Tesla car in the world. All we need now is lot more Solar City and Tesla. More information available at this tweet.
“Center for Reincarnation Studies.” Another great comic from speedbump.com.
I learned about the Pebble Mine project in Bristol Bay when I lived in Alaska in 2010-2011. This image tells of some of the problems with the mining project, including the need to manage the waste for “hundreds of thousands of years.”
Here are a few more quotes from the adn.com article:
“The mine footprint would be enormous. The pit would be nearly as deep as the Grand Canyon. The pit, tailings dams of processed ore, and waste rock piles would cover an area larger than Manhattan ... the deposit is in the watersheds of two major salmon rivers, which together support about a quarter of the world’s wild sockeye salmon, according to EPA.”
I don’t know about you, but I had to attend my college classes, do the homework, take quizzes and tests, write multiple papers, etc. This stuff at the University of North Carolina is a joke. (Image from espn.com.)
A cool feature of the Scala REPL is that you can reset/clear a REPL session. To do so, just issue the :reset command, like this:
scala> :reset Resetting interpreter state. Forgetting this session history:
Assuming that you already have at least a little history in your REPL session, the :reset command will show you everything that it dumps, so the full output looks more like this:
Brendan Gregg writes about working at Netflix for two years, where he references the Netflix “culture deck.”
