05-May, 2024 - morning links, etc.
links, etc Heat Death of the Internet - takahē if this wasn’t so spot on, it would be even more hilarious. #enshittification
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23-Apr, 2024 - afternoon links, etc.
links, etc The Radiant Future! (Of 1995) - Charlie’s Diary this is probably the best thing that i’ve read all week. granted, the week is young. NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth – Voyager perhaps i should should be a little more grateful when i get a decent collection of logs and show tech to dig into an issue.
20-Apr, 2024 - afternoon links, etc.
links, etc 50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2 - IEEE Spectrum there’s something about the engineering of these massive hunks of metal with their smoothed dishes talking to something millions of miles away that’s pretty mind blowing. fold into the mix here that these were engineered and built 50 years ago…
14-Apr, 2024 - morning links, etc.
links, etc Midwest maple syrup producers adapt to record-warm winter more in our ongoing winter and climate malaise
26-Mar, 2024 - morning links, etc.
links, etc A Brief History of Inkjet Printers - IEEE Spectrum kind of 🤯 what these things are capable of. using them for DNA arrays is one of the coolest things i’ve heard in a long time. Robin’s blog – Friends don’t let friends export to CSV mind changed. will send you parquet files from now on.