Today I Learned:
1) …a small piece of the intricacies of high-level Super Smash Bros. I learned about wave-dashing, and about a few of the one- or two- or three- frame tricks with various characters. I performed my first-ever short jump, and learned how to double-shine with Fox. Just a heads-up — Erik Jue is very, very good at that game. It’s beautiful to watch, if a bit bewildering to a plebe like I.
2) A modern fighter jet has about as many lines of code as an old-ish operating system, like one of the Linux kernels from a couple of versions back… but a modern smart car has some of the most code of any single system, far more than, say, Windows 7. Also, something I knew the pieces of but never put together… pretty much all modern operating systems, with the possible exceptions of some mobile OSes, have more information content than most bacteria. That makes bacteria all the more impressive to me.
3) A handful of fresh basil does wondrous things to jarred pasta sauces, even to sauces that already nominally have basil. Just chop it into fine strips and throw into the sauce in a saucepan, you won’t regret it. Trader Joe’s sells really convenient packs of basil for a couple bucks that are each good for something like two to four jars of sauce.
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