Sim

Sim

@simland.bsky.social

Programmer, sysadmin. Sometimes make things. Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 UK.

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Replying to @billgates.bsky.social

We have an opportunity to save more lives around the world than ever before—and I want to do even more to help. That's why I'm giving away virtually all of my wealth through the Gates Foundation over the next 20 years.

Learning how to use the Raspberry Pi Pico. There are a few different languages that can be used. Python and C/C++ are the common and well supported ones... but I'm not that keen on either! Now looking at TinyGo.

My first Pico project used the Arduino IDE as I had used this previously. It's a USB HID interface for an arcade style joystick and buttons.

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Replying to @edzitron.com

Meta will burn down everything in search of growth. They have been doing so in broad daylight for years. They will make people angry and sad and hateful (and have done so before) in search of growth in their dying platform. They will make everything worse to create growth. It's a death cult

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From HN: 2025: - is a square: 45² - is the product of two squares: 9² x 5² - is the sum of 3-squares: 40² + 20² + 5² - is the sum of cubes of all the single digits: 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ - sum of the single digits squared: (1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9)² Deal with it.

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Everyone's saying Jeju Flight 2216 hit the Muan Airport fence, but no. The plane got reduced to fragments because it slammed into an Instrument Landing System array with a massive concrete base atop an even bigger embankment. It barely even reached the fence.

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Intel launched the Pentium processor in 1993. Unfortunately, dividing sometimes gave a slightly wrong answer, the famous FDIV bug. Replacing the faulty chips cost Intel $475 million. I reverse-engineered the circuitry and can explain the bug. 1/9

Fascinating thread

John Bull@garius.eurosky.social

Alongside "who built Hadrian's wall?", another great example of knowledge falling foul of 'common understanding' is scurvy. The Royal Navy discovered the cure for scurvy, won the Napoleonic War, humanity then lost that knowledge without realising, then got saved by two Norwegian guinea pigs 🧵 /1

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