Code That Includes Commented Out Code Negatively Impacts Performance. Removing The Commented Out Code

Guy in front of me at the store talking about how some words should be illegal. Didn't have it in me to explain how things work. Guess he may never know.

Hate speech isn't real. Please stop making stuff up and go touch grass

people don't change as much as you think they do. they mostly become what they already were.

TIL: early movable-type printers would store the normal letters in a case on a bottom shelf, and the capital letters in another case on a top shelf, and that’s where the terms “upper case” and “lower case” come from.

One of the reasons black coffee is posited to be beneficial is because it upregulates glucoronidation, which is a phase II metabolism reaction involving the covalent addition of glucuronic acid—triggering an elimination and detoxification mechanism for lipophilic compounds. Additionally, since glucuronides are charged, this also triggers the excretion of the parent compounds in urine and bile. tl;dr black coffee triggers enzymes, increases metabolism, burns fat, and causes the body to excrete various things that are posited to potentially harm us in some circumstances.

what? no, i'm not a vampire. watch i can literally go in the sun (-1 hp) (-1 hp) (-1 hp) (-1 hp) (-1 hp) (-1 hp) (-1 hp) (-1 hp) (-1 hp) (-1 hp)

Beautiful Pit Viper (Trimeresurus venustis), family Viperidae, Thailand

Venomous.

photograph by Justin Coburn

People say things like "I've destroyed my sleep schedule." But I am one step ahead of those people, because having a sleep schedule is required before you can destroy your sleep schedule.

I've seen posts going around claiming that petting animals is basically tricking them into thinking they're being groomed, and it's bugging me because, like, there's no trickery afoot. Petting and scritching are grooming activities. They help to dislodge loose fur and foreign objects and more evenly distribute protective oils, among other things. Primates are social groomers, and the human impulse to scritch is the legacy of our primate ancestors. We see an animal we like, even a dangerous one, and the monkey brain says "groom that thing".

*through gritted teeth* it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done. it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done. it doesn’t have to be-