Slip rings were mentioned in passing in this video about mowing a lawn using a laser. I've often wondered how electrical connections are passed through a rotating joint, and it turns out this is how!! 🤯

The wikipedia pages for this also mentioned wireless slip rings, which sounds to have limited application for energy transfer, but is still effective for data connections. Though I can't help but wonder what the range on such a device would be. This could be an interesting attack vector relative to device security 🤔

"Trim Size" relative to writing & books is the height and width of the pages of the final book. source

I learned of the shorty story The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges (pdf link), wherein the known universe is an endless library containing every combination of characters (or a 25 character alphabet plus a limited set of symbols). Given that the story acknowledges that groups of non-english speaking people exist nearby:

It is true that the most ancient men, the first librarians, used a language quite different from the one we now speak; it is true that a few miles to the right the tongue is dialectical and that ninety floors farther up, it is incomprehensible.

It's a little curious that the entire library contains only an alphabet from a single language 🤔 But I suppose details like that aren't the focus of a story exploring a meaningless infinity through the lens of finite mortality…

Found this while reading The Library of Babel. This is latin for "from eternity". Wikipedia article

an artisian-like figure responsible for "fashioning the universe" (taken right from wikipedia). This is comes from several schools of philosophy, none of which I'm familiar, but all of which look like would be good follow-up reading 👀 📚 This was referenced in The Library of Babel

Found this written as "inimitably" in The Library of Babel, but means the inability to be imitated.

Good golly I can't really pronounce this. The google pronunciation kinda helps but oof this is quite a word! Looks like this is to convert or attempt to convert believes, commonly (or maybe specifically?) related to religion. Dictionary definition

But obv I already knew what this was relative to grammar, but there's an adjective meaning that I was unfamiliar with! As an adjective it means "to be in harmony with, or in agreement"

A plural noun meaning signs, indications or distinctive marks ⚠️

A noun meaning someone who intervenes on behalf of someone else. Sounds like it's more commonly used in legal contexts

To overlap, or to have adjacent edges that overlap, or to overlap with regularity

Title says it all! Was looking at some resources on the nation weather service, clicked an ftp link they had and it prompted to open in Finder! It was pretty slick- there's more details here: https://www.macgasm.net/software/how-to-ftp-on-mac/

TIL grpc reflection is a thing, and is crazy easy to add to an existing go project: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/blob/master/Documentation/server-reflection-tutorial.md

I was aware of this word before, mostly through context, but it was interesting to see the concrete definition, which is "an uncertain belief"

A noun primarily meaning a consequence of a disease or injury, but seemingly less generally meaning a secondary result of some event.

A pyrrhic victory is essentially a victory while incurring losses as significant as if the conflict had been lost.

An artificial mannerism in communication, either in behavior, speech or writing. Specifically designed to impress. Found this while reading about Elizabeth Holmes 😅

TIL that useEffect in react will run the callback either synchronously or asynchronously depending on how it's called: https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/22506 (with further info here: https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/21400#issuecomment-830432003 )

TIL the concept of the "small world network" relative to graphs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_network#:~:text=A%20small%2Dworld%20network%20is,number%20of%20hops%20or%20steps .

you can connect multiple Kubernetes clusters together, and that there's value in that beyond multi-region support: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/multi-cluster-kubernetes-with-gke-at-geotab