Not nearly as light-hearted but probably much more interesting, even if the article is a year old (well, it was to me; I didn't know about these relocation programs):
TIL as of 2018-1-1 you need to have a 609 certification with the US' EPA to buy R-134a refrigerant, and, well, I don't have one
so even if I *did* manage to isolate and plug the leak in this A/C, I'm not likely to be able to recharge it. bah, I guess getting a new one is the easiest way
also I should probably try to fix this broken A/C unit at some point. these damn things aren't built to be user-serviceable anymore though; this one in particular doesn't even seem to have a service manual
Const-correctness in templated C++ classes has some surprising verbosity consequences.
Specifically, if you have a template function F that operates on a template class C<T>, it looks like you have to define F for C<T> and const C<T> if you need both. Template template parameters (not a typo) don't seem to encompass constness.
(If none of that made sense, that's fine, I'm confused too)
The next time I try a jump, I'm going to see if I can feel this phenomenon. These days I feel a sense of calm when I'm committed and I'd like to see if that has physical manifestations also.
I was going to make a snide portmanteau about social media influencers and influenza, but according to OED, the etymology of "influenza" is literally the Italian for "influence". Looks like I got beat to the punch by 300 years
I'm being facetious here (I mean it's social media, what do you expect), but the US Department of State admits this is a major contributor to passport processing delay, and it's also my biggest source of anxiety with my renewal application. An instant-feedback arbiter that both the US and I could use would be fantastic
if that isn't possible but running over people with robots and tagging my face in some facebook database is, computer vision researchers should just give up