DEV LOG: I'll Take My Code on the Rocks, Please
Ice Blocks
Writing code is like casting an ancient incantation.
If the words are said correctly, in the correct order, and with the perfect spacing, the spell performs flawlessly (its leviosa, not leviosa). But if a single semicolon is out of place, the local volcano erupts and sets the chicken coop on fire.
Since spells (and well written code blocks from accepted Stack Overflow answers) don’t change it would be ideal to capture old code that was written, to invoke knowledge like the Avatar.
Ice Blocks is that. It keeps code blocks that a developer highlights, and on-click, puts them into an active editor. Think of it as copy paste over time and space.
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Ice Packs can be used to cool your computer, but this is a bad idea due to condensation
Life on the Jupiter moon of Europa could be called Europeans
Jupiter’s system of moons is replete with oddballs.
Io, Jupiter’s closest moon, is tidally locked and structurally stressed by interactions with Jupiter and with other moons, pumping enough heat into the little orb to render molten its interior rocks; Io is the most volcanically active place in the solar system.
Jupiter’s moon Europa has enough H2O that its heating mechanism—the same one at work on Io—has melted the subsurface ice, leaving a warmed ocean below. If ever there was a next-best place to look for life, it’s here.
(An artist coworker of mine once asked whether alien life forms from Europa would be called Europeans. The absence of any other plausible answer forced me to say yes.)
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