Human folly for 02024-08-21

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• Index (opendsa-server.cs.vt.edu):

  open-access #ebook under an MIT license, a textbook on #algorithms and data structures

• Handwriter (github.com):

  handwriting #font using #neural-networks in #wasm embedded in #Harfbuzz

• US manufacturers seek retroactive tariffs on solar import surge (pv-tech.org):

  Qcells, First Solar, Meyer Burger and REC Silicon (the American Alliance for #Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee) have filed allegations that increased solar imports from Vietnam and Thailand are “injuring the US solar industry” asking for retroactive tariffs. #USA #politics

• How to build a 50000 ton forging (construction-physics.com):

  Brian Potter’s account of #manufacturing #history in #USA, and in particular the Heavy Press Program

• Australian government approves aapowerlink project to export solar to Singapore (pv-tech.org):

  #Australia to build a 2GW #HVDC powerline to #Singapore to sell #solar #photovoltaic #energy

• A record setting day in ERCOT (blog.gridstatus.io):

  #Texas #ERCOT #solar #energy hit 20 gigawatts yesterday afternoon (Tuesday the 20th), its second all-time high, as well as record battery discharge (3.93 gigawatts), record gross load, and record "net load", whatever the fuck that is. And LMPs hit the US$1000/MWh offer cap.

• Cryptocurrency Shan Hanes pig butchering scam (cnbc.com):

  #fraud #crime #USA Elkhart, Kansas CEO Shan Hanes looted his bank because he was a pig being butchered?

• Sortfast (cantrip.org):

  discussion of #sorting #algorithms #performance and cmov

• (youtube.com):

  #manufacturing molds for wire repair with a hot-glue gun using #3D-printing to overmold hot glue over broken cables to make a waterproof flexible repair. He uses vegetable oil as a mold release and PETG for the FDM printing. Very nice neat results.

• (youtube.com):

  #3D-printing experiments on material properties of thermoplastic elastomers such as TPU, with a Charpy hammer test and tensile strength. #video #CNC-Kitchen