Lol

author: Don't build the Torment Nexus

us techbros: Look at this magnificent Torment Nexus we built from the book "Don't build the Torment Nexus"

europe: You are not ethical enough to build the Torment Nexus out of the book "Don't build the Torment Nexus"! We must build it ourself!

sheesh dumbasses everywhere

Ermergerd! Threrberck!

Marl

MAAARL

mmmmh vesicular basalt ❤️

I don't know. Petrified wood isn't all that common. Why do you think it's that?

To me it looks like a finegrained, silicious, sedimentary rock. Might be slightly hydrothermally altered or metamorphosed, can't really tell from the photos.

That's not to take away from the coolness of the rock though. It absolutely is a cool rock. I absolutely adore that quartz vein.

not only likely... i read somewhere that make more money with linux stuff on azure than with anything else they do can't find the source rn tho

that ain't an egg! that's at least three eggs in a tan trenchcoat!

I think it's some kind of (maybe hydrothermally altered) sandstone.

That vein is quartz, i'm pretty sure. Does the rest have a slightly grainy texture or is it smooth?

are there any (hard) rocks that don't tumble well? like i get that chalk or soft limestone or something might not be the brightest idea. but have you tried anything except crystals? i'd be interested how e.g. gneiss or granite tumble. i mean it's obviously dependend on the specific rock but still

So, of the two JavaScript, because motivating them to program is more important than anything else if they have no prior knowledge. javascript has great tooling and faaar less hurdles to get something going then C. Personally i'd go with TypeScript if it has to be anything in this family of languages, because making them think of types early on is helpful when moving to anything more than little web apps. If any other languages are considered, i'd go with python with type hints because it forces you to format your code somewhat readably (believe me, i know that it's possible to write unreadable python code) but is really low on boilerplate, has great tooling (at least third-party, use uv) as well as stellar IDE support and allows for multiple different paradigms to be explored.

yeah sure but the breathable surface area of the jar is miniscule in comparison to its volume also CO2 is heavier than air so every pore in that mycelium block is full of CO2 and it can't go anywhere and humidity doesn't matter if the thing can't breath

I'm not a grower myself but fungi need oxygen and produce CO2 iirc. So if you put them into glass jars with small openings on top, it might just saturate with CO2, which of course then kills the fungus. Just spitballing though.