The XKCD about how much of the UK was dug up for coal mining (3 inches) was cool.
But I wondered: What would it look like as a cube? My maths (probably wrong) says it’d be about 18km^3.
Plonked onto London, that cube would run from Enfield down to South Croydon, from Creekmouth across to Southall, and the height would be… twice that of Mt Everest!

More simply, in terms of Everest, it’s probably about 33 Everests. The largest mountain on earth, dug up and burned 33 times over. And that’s just one country’s coal production. 😥

https://xkcd.com/2992/

Just created a group of Android Perf volunteers at work that are making themselves available for teaching, mobbing, etc.. and really happy that we've found a great name for it:

Android Performance EXperts, aka APEX

#AndroidDev

I wrote about some complex automation I achieved, safely, with Gradle

https://dev.to/autonomousapps/one-click-dependencies-fix-191p

Droidcon NYC is a good conference to learn about Xcode

https://nyc.droidcon.com/jesse-wilson/

Crowdstrike fucked up. But the horrible failure mode is Windows’ fault.

The regular Chrome browser has the same challenges as Windows: run everyone’s code, run everyone’s extensions, keep everything up-to-date.

But when something breaks, Chrome doesn’t fall over. One crashed process can’t take out the system. Google can remotely block broken or malicious extensions.

Why doesn’t Windows do this?

AI plays NetHack, runs into long-forgotten lunar code

I dimly remembered that NetHack had this feature, although I never played it much; where modern immersive games track the sun and weather (PokemonGo, for one) back in the days of VT100 we had more blunt easter eggs for addicted players…

Unrolled at: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1793930355617259811.html

So here's a story of, by far, the weirdest bug I've encountered in my CS career.

Along with @maciejwolczyk we've been training a neural network that learns how to play NetHack, an old roguelike game, that looks like in the screenshot. Recenlty, something unexpected happened. pic.twitter.com/AFTgRm1gtv

— Bart?omiej Cupia? (@CupiaBart) May 24, 2024

https://alecmuffett.com/article/109866

#games #history #nethack