Timeline for engineer list by rozzin
rozzin
engineer
Thursday, 29-Nov-0001 19:00:00 EST
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#Openmoko #WikiReader #teardown: http://wiki.seabright.co.nz/wiki/WikiReader.html
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Newton actually invented these 10 years earlier, but didn't sell them. https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1068617043606470656/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/53010
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And somehow a search for "klein socks" returns *lots of hits but not at all what I was expecting*....
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Interestingly, websearches find many kinds of Einstein socks, but no Oppenheimer socks, Feynman socks.... And !TIL that #Einstein was the one that never wore #socks. #irony
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@steve, those are pretty excellent socks!
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It's the last lecture of the fall 2018 #PHYS1303 and what socks am I going to wear for my lecture, "Light and the Dark Cosmos"? Yer darn right they're my electric Einstein socks! https://twitter.com/drsekula/status/1068114822913564677/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/52981
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Wombats #poop *cubes*!? https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/wombat-poop-cube-why-is-it-square-shaped/
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Well, that has to be one of the most unexpected #crossover posts ever: "education, parenting, infosec, superpowers, poop":
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Conversations with kids, about #umwelt, #superpowers, and #infosec:
"Why are they looking at me?"
"Because they heard you fart."
"Whhhhat do you mean?!?!"
"Hearing people can hear farts."
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https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/11/tell-them-to-stop-listening-to-my-farts/
!education !parenting #poop !security
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I do like Death Wish !Coffee's branding and merch, like this "viking coffee horn": https://www.deathwishcoffee.com/products/death-wish-das-horn
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#q «“Meh, it’s a cup of coffee,” he said after his first sip. Fifteen minutes later, he said, “I’m kinda high right now.”» !coffee https://status.hackerposse.com/url/18019
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A comparative chart of caffeine-densities of 9 brands of !coffee, with McDonald's on the low end at 9.1 mg/floz and Death Wish at the high end with 54.2 mg/floz: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/caffeine-in-coffee_b_3671665
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@rozzin The devices perform some kind of auto-negotiation to decide which way the power/data flows. But like everything automatic, it often fails. And devices rarely have a manual override.The most popular incident was probably with the first Type-C Macbooks in 2015. If you plugged an Android phone into them with a Type-C cable, the phone would charg…
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... and putting our own kids to bed at the end of yet another exhausting day, I consider how much easier it is to make babies than it is to make adults. !parenting
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@palmella helping out a friend who just gave birth reminds me how much easier it can be to put the babies in than to get them out...
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So is USB Type C effectively a retraction of the original #foolproofing goals that led to the differentiated A-vs-B upstream-vs-downstream connectors, or what?
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>grab type-c to type-a cable
>grab laptop
>plug type-a end into laptop type-a port
>plug type-c end into laptop type-c port
>laptop starts charging itself
I fucking did it. Unlimited power.
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"The World's Strongest" !coffee? https://www.deathwishcoffee.com/
Joshua Judson Rosen
Stephen Sekula
Quad ????
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