Unicode 16 now includes retro video game sprites [pdf]
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Is MathAcademy Worth It? Thoughts After 2k Experience Points (XP)
For the past two months, I’ve dedicated daily practice to MathAcademy.com, accumulating more than 2,000 experience points (~40 hours of total work). Main takeaway: MathAcademy is extraordinary. MathAcademy.com is an online platform that adapts to each student’s learning pace and style, ensuring mastery of mathematical concepts through scientifically-backed methods. Currently ~$50 per month. In this […]
CrowdStrike ex-employees: ‘Quality control was not part of our process’
Some former employees said quality checks on software were rushed at times to get products launched quickly. “It was hard to get people to do sufficient testing sometimes,” said Preston Sego, who worked at CrowdStrike from 2019 to 2023. His job was to review the tests completed by user experience developers that alerted engineers to […]
The Lego Great Ball Contraption
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Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)
A colleague of mine shared a story from Windows XP product support. A major computer manufacturer discovered that playing the music video for Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” would crash certain models of laptops. I would not have wanted to be in the laboratory that they must have set up to investigate this problem. Not an […]
Tesla Semi fire in California took 50k gallons of water to extinguish
In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tesla Semi. Courtesy: Tesla A single-vehicle collision last month involving a Tesla Semi electric truck took 50,000 gallons of water to extinguish and required aircraft to dump fire retardant overhead, according to a preliminary report on Friday from the National Transportation Safety Board. The crash, […]
Modular Monoliths Are a Good Idea
I’ve been doing personal angel investing for several years. I’m excited to announce that I’ve launched Materialized View Capital (MVC). MVC is a micro VC fund where I’ll continue investing in early stage infrastructure startups. I’ll also continue tagging any companies that I mention on my newsletter with a ﹩ if I’ve invested in them. […]
The End Times have come for the Pinboard bookmarking service
In the years following the Great Recession, from 2010 to 2013, many web services went offline. In retrospect that was the end of the Berners-Lee web. During that time, starting in 12/29/2011, I started using Maciej Cegłowski’s Pinboard bookmarking site as a kind of micro blog. Pinboard filled part of the Google Reader Social vacuum. There were […]
Mecanum Wheel
Movements to any directions: blue: wheel drive direction; red: vehicle moving direction. a) Moving straight ahead, b) Moving sideways, c) Moving diagonally, d) Moving around a bend, e) Rotation, f) Rotation around the central point of one axle The Mecanum wheel is an omnidirectional wheel design for a land-based vehicle to move in any direction. […]
Meta fed its AI on everything adults have publicly posted since 2007
/ Unless you’re in the EU, there’s no ability to opt out of AI training settings that keep Facebook or Instagram posts public. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta has acknowledged that all text and photos that adult Facebook and Instagram users have publicly published since 2007 […]