Some new firmware versions on #HP-12C #calculators are returning badly incorrect results on certain financial calculations (TVV and IRR); “HP” has apparently reverted to old firmware versions because of this.
More about the #HP-12C #calculators bug: “The company HP licensed their calculator production to accidentally shipped a run of units with buggy firmware. Most have been captured and flashed with corrected firmware. Some distributors were unwilling to return their calculators for rework, which is how these ended up in the hands of customers. Anyone with a buggy calculator should contact HP calculator support for a replacement.”
the #HP-12C #calculators bug
as much information as could be found publicly about the board structure and capital ownership of #Nebula, which is majority-owned (83.125%) by “Standard Broadcast”, which is part-owned by a bunch of YouTubers, while a minority stake (16.875%) is owned by “Curiosity Stream”. There are provisions in place for distributing 50% of any acquisition money to the people who put their videos on Nebula, but they don’t own any of it directly. “Unfortunately, without access to one of their contracts, we can’t know for sure what power the broader group of creators actually has. It’s possible that the terms are so favorable for creators that their shadow equity is as good as actual ownership. It’s equally possible, however, that the system was set up in order to keep any meaningful power away from the creators. If the creators don’t control the board then creators don’t control the budget, which means they don’t control the platform.”
#theunitofcaring against #degrowth, but she seems to be almost strawmanning it, though it does turn out her “strawman” is a thing prominent degrowth advocates subscribe to
Someone claims #Pinboard is dying.
#video on designing a clip for a “threadboard” made by #3D-printing, including concerns about layer adhesion, friction, and swivel #print-in-place #mechanisms
#video of #3D-printing a novelty chair in 64 pieces of plastic, held together with hot-glued dowel joints (for which he 3-D printed 173 tapered dowels) reinforced with Total Boat Thixo epoxy, which pushed the pieces apart as it expanded while curing. So he reassembled it with superglue holding the pieces in place while the epoxy cured (over a week). An eloquent description in the middle of how you feel when a project has an unexpected bad turn. He used expanding spray foam to fill a gap resulting from a version control error which resulted in printing the wrong version of part of the chair; this would have badly weakened the chair. The printing took 30–50 print days spread across 4–5 calendar days. The service bureau, "Slant 3D", buys PLA beads for US$1.50 to US$2 per “pound” (US$3.30–4.40/kg) and makes their own filament from it normally; they charged US$568 for the print, though normally they would also charge for their time doing the design.