Thanks for the mention @adafruit.com!
There is also a Faux VT100:
github.com/jpasqua/FauxVT
And a Faux Mac:
github.com/jpasqua/Faux...
blog.adafruit.com/2024/07/19/r...
#retrocomputing #trs80 #vt100 #mac
This was a surprise.
www.hackster.io/news/joe-pas...
#retrocomputing #trs80 #3dprinting
Uh oh. Good luck.
The scientist's 10 commandments
Tired: putting the biblical 10 commandments in schools.
Wired: teaching scientists these 10 commandments for an ethical, successful scientific life.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
When Betelgeuse goes supernova, it is going to make a spectacular sight. This illustration shows what it might look like.
Two space questions I hear a lot:
- Is Betelgeuse about to explode?
- When we see things happening "now" in deep space, didn't they really happen a long time ago?
I decided to answer them both together (with a bonus warning about false precision).
quanta.quora.com/Betelgeuse-i... 🔭🧪
No.
Title of an article that reads: How To Make People Trust You With 8 Simple Tricks
Gotta love the gist of this article: How to trick people into trusting you
Even money? I would have guessed that you were more skeptical than that.
Another great #science video on the #AlphaPhoenix YouTube channel. He creates a mesmerizing system displaying turbulent and laminar flows in a really pleasing way. As always, lots of details of the science of how it is done.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm5A...
"Failure is not an option... it is included with the product"
Highway 1 closed north of #BigSur because of compromised roadway
#Monterey #Hwy1
kion546.com/top-stories/...
🎼🎶 You light up your wife… 🎶🎼
“More than 20 years ago, researchers at the University of California Berkeley and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo launched Project Jupyter…”
It’s great to see the recognition of this work and it’s impact on the scientific community.
#CalPoly
www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...
We (fans of your work) just arrived at Paton Center. Are you still here?
The address listed is very close to where I lived most of my life, and despite the space age theme, it's not a part of Silicon Valley that's busting with hi-tech businesses. It's a little strip of small offices across from a tennis club. These little companies could pop up anywhere at the time.
Is there some reason the bsky app won’t rotate open images on the iPhone? I must be missing something incredibly obvious. Other apps, eg skeets, do this just fine.
I miss Tweetbot/Ivory from Talbots.
Hi Lars, good to know you’re on bsky.
Wow, a HW level sim is great! I considered a larger screen for mine, but I wanted to keep the footprint a bit smaller. As a consequence I had to simplify the badge to make it easily legible.
My #RaspberryPi powered #VT100 replica is coming together. The case is a #3DPrint, it's got a 5" display, and it follows the actual case design fairly closely. Running cool-retro-term as a terminal gives it that old CRT feeling (can't really see it in the picture).
#retrocomputing #DEC
Black and white photo of Seymour Papert. He has a beard and long hair, and is hunched over a clear-domed robot implementation of the turtle.
It’s a leap year!
[SHOWTURTLE]
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That means we get an OTD for February 29th.
[FORWARD 4]
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[DRAW BIRTHDAY CAKE]
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Seymour Papert, co-inventor of LOGO, was born OTD in 1928.
[BACK 4]
🐢 🎂
This one’s for you, nerds of a certain age.
Image: Cynthia Solomon
A closeup of a 3D print with tree supports holding up a horizontal surface
I've always avoided supports when designing models to #3DPrint. I still do, but I have to say that the combination of tree supports and how well they work on my #BambuLab X1 has removed my dread of using them.
Sample phrases from every article that has a title of the form: "Everything we know about [upcoming tv show or movie]". These are screen shots of one such article. It's the Sgt. Schultz of entertainment reporting.
I'm glad the NY Times (belatedly) noted the passing of Niklaus Wirth. The article contains my favorite quote of his:
“Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling — the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.”
#CompSci
So sorry. It's very hard even when it is exactly the right thing to do.
I keep meaning to create a todo list, but for some reason I always forget.
My secret formula for scientific success: Wonderful students and postdocs who teach you far more than you could teach them.
quantumfrontiers.com/2024/02/19/a...
You've done a better job explaining the working principle of MOSFETs and BJTs in 3 minutes than both of my professors did in two semesters of semiconductor physics and semiconductor devices.
I often see comments on educational videos like the one below. I agree there are some phenomenally good videos out there, but if you’re really getting more in 3 minutes than you did in a semester of classes, problems sets, study groups, …, you might want to reconsider the quality of your university.
This is an insult! To the mafia.
Great news for physics and astronomy: Europe gives the go-ahead for LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna mission. We’re headed for a deluge of gravitational wave data that will reveal a lot about how gravity works.
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
Very fun and it seems to have some guard rails.
I don't know why, but I just read an article in the NY Post online. Then, for some stupid reason, I read the comments. Holy Cow! I won't let that happen again.