Human folly for 02016-10-19

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• Neo trend (perfil.mercadolibre.com.ar):

  a #hardware vendor in San Telmo, Buenos Aires, that sells things like Adafruit OLED shields for Arduinos, Nokia LCD display shields for Arduinos, #Arduino kits, and so on, apparently exclusively via Mercado Libre. Their website is hosted by Nubimedia.

• Show (technoblogy.com):

  library for hooking up PS/2 keyboard #hardware to an #Arduino, using a couple of pins on PORTD and interrupt 0; it’s about 40 or 45 lines of #source-code

• Show (technoblogy.com):

  a scrolling text display for #Arduino using a 128×64 SPI OLED display using SSD1306 #hardware sold by Adafruit, using I think three bytes of RAM on the AVR.

• 1 3 inch 7pin white OLED 12864 SPI interface LCD display module for Arduino p (banggood.com):

  Banggood sells #hardware with free shipping to Argentina, things like Arduino shields, remote infrared thermometers, Raspberry Pis, soldering stands, calipers, adjustable power supplies, blue laser modules, USB endoscopes, lathe tools, CNC control modules with keypads, stepped drills, diamond Dremel discs, , etc.

• Show (technoblogy.com):

  A tiny Lisp computer on #AVR #hardware in 16K of RAM using a PS/2 keyboard and a little OLED display.

• (cachep2p.com):

  Cachep2p is Feross’s new peer-to-peer web decentralization thing, where the users of the web site serve it to each other.

• 363478 United States bars Russian monitors (rt.com):

  #Russia wants to send election monitors to make sure #USA elections are fair; the proposal is harshly rejected. #politics

• US Russia aircraft carrier commentary iduskcn12j1l2 (reuters.com):

  #Russia is sending its aircraft carrier to the Mediterranean. #politics #war

• US China Philippines iduskcn12k0as (reuters.com):

  Duterte in the #Philippines, in #China: “I announce my separation from the United States, ... both in military, not maybe social, but economics also. America has lost. ... I will not go to America anymore. We will just be insulted there,... so time to say goodbye my friend.” #USA still occupies Mindanao though. #politics

• Historic achievement Microsoft researchers reach human parity conversational speech recognition (blogs.microsoft.com):

  #Microsoft researchers catch up in English to Andrew Ng’s team’s achievement almost a year ago, getting speech recognition better than human level. #AI

• Test driven development (neverworkintheory.org):

  In a controlled crossover experiment, test-first development wasn’t significantly better than test-last development in testing effort, external code quality, or developers’ productivity.

• Two months to take Mosul from ISIS says Iraqi general (theguardian.com):

  Taking Mosul, #Iraq from #Daesh is planned to take months. #war

• Ecuador confirms it cut off assanges internet access to prevent him from derailing US elections (thenextweb.com):

  #Ecuador cut off #Assange’s internet access in its embassy at the #USA’s request.

• Epiphany V a 1024 core 64 bit RISC processor (parallella.org):

  Parallella will be shipping 1024-CPU #hardware in Q1 2017 from a TSMC 16FF process. 64-bit RISC CPUs with 64 MB of SRAM on the chip.