cjdaly

Did you see the article claiming Hunter Biden's laptop wasn't really Hunter Biden's laptop, but rather had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation"? If stories like this, run by fake news sites such as NPR or NYT, popped up in your social media feed about the 2020 U.S. presidential election, they probably came from a tiny group of people with a massive impact.

multi-color is lots of fun! https://github.com/cjdaly/FishCoin

For your embedded cistercian projects: https://www.tindie.com/products/savageelectronics/rgb-cister...

(I'm not the maker, I just noticed these last year on Tindie and picked up a couple.)

Sketchup has a Ruby API. This book is good if you can find a copy:

https://www.amazon.com/Automatic-SketchUp-Creating-Models-Ru...

> get enough people vaccinated that community spread stops being a thing

The problem with this plan is that vaccinated people still catch and spread the virus. The available vaccines do not create "herd immunity" in the traditional sense.

I think the best argument for getting a vaccine now is you will be much less likely to get hospitalized (and/or die) if you catch COVID after being vaccinated. But that argument may not apply to people who already caught it, recovered and now have some natural immunity.

here is a satellite view I've been watching, also from NOAA:

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G1...

Interesting that this is happening at the same moment Glenn Greenwald is promoting (Canada based) Rumble as a free-speech alternative to Youtube.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/strengthening-substack-jour...

I agree with you. Cargo cult is when physical goods are delivered by some high-tech society to a lower-tech one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult).

Buying stuff from Amazon is more like cargo cult than Clubhouse is.

['belonged to intelligence'](https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epsteins-sick-story-pl...)

if you want to be extra confused, look at the HalloWing:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3900 https://www.adafruit.com/product/4300

it's a feather mainboard, but with the 'wing' nomenclature.

... also check out the TinyS2, which has the form factor of the TinyPico, but it has the ESP32-S2 SOC

- https://unexpectedmaker.com/tinys2

I buy from all of those places, but when they are sold out I also check digikey (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/raspberry-pi/SC09...) and canakit (https://www.canakit.com/raspberry-pi-pico.html). They both have it now. Digikey says "2 in stock" but I think this really means "2 per customer" because there is another view I found where it looks like they have 14000+ in stock (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/evaluation-boards...)

the chip can do some video, but low res:

- https://excamera.com/sphinx/store.html#gameduino-3x-dazzler-... - https://www.adafruit.com/product/4984

yes! I found these on sale at digikey. Search for "arduino nano rp2040". They cost about $28.

... another place I have order from in the past that has some in stock: https://www.canakit.com/raspberry-pi-compute-module-cm4.html

digikey has some in stock now. like this 4GB / 16GB:

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/raspberry-pi/SC02...

... search for "pi compute module 4" in digikey. I see 5 different ones in stock now.

Also, Adafruit has this one in stock: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4791

even the BBC is pushing RISC-V: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/17596

I think, like the dollar/taxes example, it is circular but self-fulfilling.

If you asked a central banker why they value gold, I suspect they would cite the "Rare but not too rare" and "Easily distinguishable from look-alikes" (in other words, hard to fake or counterfeit) points from the article.

And the average person, on learning an ounce of gold costs about $1780 (today), I think will perceive this as valuable - a small thing with such a high price. And if central banks dis-horde, the price goes down and the typical person sees it as less valuable.

The article leaves out one big factor in why gold is valued. Similar to "why does the dollar have value?" (answer: taxes), a fundamental source of gold price support is that central banks all around the world - by longstanding official policy - horde gold (in metric tonnes) and treat it like a reserve currency/asset.

Central banks could change their policies in the future and (e.g.) sell all their gold for bitcoin. If that happens, gold price will go way down and I will look for a 3d-printer that prints with gold filament. :-)

there are certain, specific individuals who could stop and it would make a huge difference. someone decided to punch this hole in the ground. someone directed the engineering. I’m glad this new Sentinel-5P sat is up. it’s hard to manage what’s not being measured.

sort of related to this (indie gaming hardware), I recently got the Adafruit PyBadge. You can program it with CircuitPython, Arduino or MakeCode (a microsoft visual coding IDE). fun if your idea of fun is making the game and then playing it, or figuring out how to port some existing game.

that doesn't sound like a fair comparison. How many human interventions were there in the 2-3 million Uber miles?

yes! for headless/server type applications I think this is the sweet spot right now. In the US, Ameridroid is faster than ordering direct from pine64 (in my experience).

The biggest downside for me is Rock64 doesn't have an OS with the pedigree of Raspbian. I'm running the 'ayufan' minimal ubuntu xenial, and it seems solid. but when I've played around with a monitor in the full xenial build I've seen some crashes and lockups.

These little computers are floppy and like to slide off the desk under the weight of their own USB cables. This has led me into many adventures with wall mounted enclosures.

[0] https://github.com/cjdaly/CompuCanvas