Out of interest, how does this work? In my ignorance, I'd have imagined a number of different chemicals with similar properties DMT that would also dissolve in the naptha. Does DMT just happen to have highly unique properties?

It’s what we call like dissolves like. DMT is non-polar (oil like) and will go into the naptha solution. They give another option of using some other solvents. I believe Naptha is probably less toxic than the the petroleum solvents.

Naphtha is a bulk petroleum hydrocarbon commodity found in numerous grades.

It is a major highly flammable component of gasoline but has low octane rating on its own. So to make it into gasoline they boost it with major percentages of high-octane blendstocks and ethanol plus detergent packages and additives for motor fuel use. This is the type of naphtha where things like the benzene and sulfur content are present but not in excess of the agreed amount. For fuel use the color of the material does not need to be as water-white as it does for paint.

Naphtha itself is supposed to be a clear distilled petroleum product that evaporates without residue and there are grades for use as paint thinner having various evaporation rates to choose from. For decades in places there have been restrictions on things like benzene in paint materials so there are naphtha grades certified to meet these requirements, unlike for fuels benzene is usually then certified as being absent, and "odorless" varieties will have little to no sulfur.

The barbecue fluids, which are mostly slower-evaporating, I wouldn't think would be recommended.

Regardless, any (potentially undesirable) thing the solvent picks up on its way to the test tube or evaporation dish will end up in the residue at its final stage.

Alkaloids OTOH would not be such a short message . . .

> Out of interest, how does this work? In my ignorance, I'd have imagined a number of different chemicals with similar properties DMT that would also dissolve in the naptha.

Sure, that's right. The extraction step ... converting alkaloid salts to free base, mobilizing to nonpolar fracton... would indeed give you a mix of chemicals; DMT is not unique in its electrical properties in this regard.

The following step (crystallization) dramatically bumps up the purity of your sample.

Yeah, this would pull out a bunch of other alkaloids as well as I understand it. I guess it depends on what the specific plant contains.

Not for standalone CLI utils - the LSP is more about powering IDE clients. You could author a CLI that invokes LSP under the hood, but there's no need to tie the output format to that dictated by the LSP.

Who are you quoting there?

wooosh

An interesting use case I saw was on a complex VoIP system with lots of internal message passing, following an actor model. There were tens of thousands of unit tests to assert all kinds of crazy interop scenarios, and the system clock was mocked out globally.

So you could set up multiple incoming streams, advance the clock to a very high level of precision and assert e.g packet A triggered packet B after 20ms, or timer X fired after 1s. This made the tests extremely reliable and fast to run, since you were pretty much CPU bound - something that I don't think would have been otherwise possible.

I also had this sentiment, but I feel like VSCode as of late has pretty much proved this wrong. There's no discernable difference in responsiveness to me between it and any other native IDE I've used. And it's a pretty complex example.

VS Code is really good, even better than Slack. They just demonstrate that JavaScript can build some nice UI when not constrained to a browser.

I believe a nonce is used to prevent replay attacks, but wouldn't be surprised if there are some fobs out there which are vulnerable to replay.

I was really impressed with one of the interview rounds I was given at Microsoft - I was shown a mock code review and asked to comment on bugs (ranging from easy to spot like null reference exceptions, to harder like race conditions and edge cases) and code quality.

It felt like good fair test of someone's day to day ability, isn't really something you can grind for, and presumably also gives quite a good quantitative measure of a candidate if you assign a weight to each bug/quality suggestion.

It's actually pretty common on older guitar amps. I've got a Marshall TMB replica which has this issue when the guitar isn't plugged in. If you turn it up loud enough, you can make out sentences clearly. I thought I was going crazy when I first noticed it.

Amazon is in an unusual place of both controlling the market and entering the market however. That doesn't really fit with the nice simplistic ideological "Free market" concept. It's hard to see any motivation for them not to game the system if there's no regulation preventing it.