Posts by Daniel Pratt
Great animated explanation of the invention of color tv
Joking aside, the fact that top FAANG engineers get paid like sports stars, makes this plausible
Joking aside, the fact that top FAANG engineers get paid like sports stars, makes this plausible
Los fans de Trump decían que negociaba como si estuviese jugando al "ajedrez 3D" pero desde aquí parece un viejo chocho intentando jugar al Risk con los billetes y las casitas del Monopoly.
Abomination
"We have basically given up all discipline and agency for a sort of addiction, where your highest goal is to produce the largest amount of code in the shortest amount of time. Consequences be damned."
What makes the rocks from these places uniquely suited for sliding across a rectangular slab of ice toward a bullseye target? And are these really the only places to find suitable stones?
un tesoro
Smuggling podcasts into a Burmese prison
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Esta semana en el podcast: El Club Sándwich como eslabón faltante. ¿Cómo hablar de la guerra con tus hijos?
And yet the decimal point of π taunts us like the gun barrel of the unimaginable. If we ever reach the last digit of π, we will have known the universe.
“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”
I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am
Fitzcarraldo
Can this be a solution?
Such an innocent key combination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVD-sjtFoEI
A study of zebra finches — songbirds whose repertoire is learned, not hard-wired — mapped particular notes of melodies sung in the daytime to neurons firing in the forebrain. Then, during REM, the neurons fired in a similar order: The bir...
www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/11/birds-dream-r...
But what makes the rocks from these places uniquely suited for sliding across a rectangular slab of ice toward a bullseye target? And are these really the only places...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-quirky-geolo...
Hendrix’s mission was to reshape both the electric guitar’s envelope and its tone until it could feel like a human voice. He tackled the guitar’s constraints by augmenting it. His solution was essentially...
spectrum.ieee.org/jimi-hendrix-systems-eng...
damaged goods
20+ years of broken promises
https://pxlnv.com/blog/window-chrome-of-our-discontent/
Cuál es tu cover favorito de Bizarre Love Triangle?
https://www.afinidades.org/6913
When the deer damage plants, they expose woody lignin and plant terpenes, types of compounds also known to exhibit photoluminescence.
www.sciencealert.com/deer-create-mysterious-u...
When the deer damage plants, they expose woody lignin and plant terpenes, types of compounds also known to exhibit photoluminescence.
www.sciencealert.com/deer-create-mysterious-u...
Mapping New York Chinatown | Reflective Urbanisms
https://nyc.reflective-urbanisms.com/
Mapping New York Chinatown | Reflective Urbanisms
https://nyc.reflective-urbanisms.com/