Playing with a blue laser in the rain - the shorter wavelength is reflected more strongly by water, so the drops sparkle as they pass thru the beam. A green laser shows the effect much more weakly, and a red laser doesn't show at all.

I heard a pipe rattling when my washing machine ran, so set a ladder to check things out in the attic. Wrapped some insulation around the washer's supply hose, then came down to listen for any effect. Meanwhile, this little guy with his short stubby legs managed to climb the ladder. Still dunno how he even reached past the top rung. Of course he couldn't climb down again. #caturday

Hint: wrapping a GUI around a complex commandline tool doesn't inherently make it more user-friendly.

Hackers love breaking into M$ Active Directory. Use #OpenLDAP instead.

A couple decades ago I downloaded lists of given names and surnames and their frequency from the US Census. I used it to randomly generate names for populating an LDAP server for benchmarking, to have a more realistic data set than just "user xxxx". I also used lists of street and city names, with random ZIP codes. Haven't used that in a long time; the workloads we see nowadays don't tend to have postal addresses. Funny how data relevance changes over time.

Ugh. Bought a bottle of cabernet sauvignon today, which isn't my first choice (usually go for malbec). Opened it up, poured a glass. Smelled wrong, tasted odd. Like almost vinegar. I thought maybe I'm really out of touch with how cab should taste... Read the label more closely: 0.4% alcohol. Yeesh it's disgusting.

New study shows T cell exhaustion occurs within hours of exposure to cancer cells. I wonder if this deactivation mechanism can be used to treat autoimmune diseases?

ScienceDaily

Study finds hallmarks of T cell exhaustion within hours of tumor exposure

Immune system T cells that should be able to kill cancer cells become dysfunctional or 'exhausted' within hours of encountering a tumor, ...

Ethereum client switches back to #LMDB after too many hassles with MDBX

GitHub

[Merged by Bors] - Switch default slasher backend to LMDB by michaelsproul · Pull Request #4360 · sigp/lighthouse

Issue Addressed Closes #4354 Closes #3987 Replaces #4305, #4283 Proposed Changes This switches the default slasher backend back to LMDB. If an MDBX...

"LMDB is great but I wish it was distributed" - Netflix built a PoC to use #LMDB with Dynomite

Stack Overflow

steps for making a non-distributed db to distributed db [talking about lmdb specifically]

I am dealing with lmdb and lmdb is really fast . But one problem with it is lmdb isn't distributed . Everytime i need to do some maintenance , lmdb...