David Conrad’s 02015 post about #LPWAN radios like #LoRa, when he was at Beep Networks. This seems to be a copy of his post from the Beep Networks blog.
#video of someone recreating #Gelbart’s bending brake. #manufacturing #toread
#video on difficulties of #manufacturing in “America” (but he’s so provincial he means the #USA). Specifically a knit sweater, made by “our knitting partners”, who blamed the yarn spinners, who furiously blamed the knitters, but were wrong. So he bought yarn from overseas and asked NCSU’s Wilson College of Textiles for help, but still doesn’t know enough to explain in the video what was wrong with the yarn. This was pretty boring but would be interesting if he knew something about #fiber-arts.
Harry Baals was the mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, until his death in 01954. #humor #history
#JWZ’s testicle in an egg cup, commenting on Hacker News
this museum has two printing presses from 01650, two of the oldest that still survive, even though Gutenberg’s printing press was 200 years old at that point. Photos. #history
#history of #public-shaming of “Dog Poop Girl” in 02005.
the archives of Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight, which revolutionized data #journalism before being consigned to the memory hole by its new owners. #archival
Olin Shivers’s famous “autoweapons” messages. “One of the incoming first-year hot-shots had taken out Prof. Felton with a head shot from 500 yards. We were all really impressed, and I think it was generally agreed that Felton couldn't have asked for a more painless, appropriate end. It was a beautiful, almost poetic way to cap what had been a textbook career of brilliant, original mathematical insights punctuated with outbursts of random, deeply unhinged violence.” #humor
the center of classical complexity theory: what can you reduce to SAT and vice versa?
“Google I/O Kickoff: Pre-World Cup Hack” this Saturday. #tourism
