Notices by Florian 'floe' Echtler (floe@hci.social)

This is one of the simplest and at the same time smartest things I've ever printed: a tweezer for multimeter probes so you can use them one-handed. Kudos 👌

https://www.printables.com/model/1208377-multimeter-dmm-probe-tweezer

#3dprinting #electronics

@inthehands 5 bucks into the bad pun jar, stat!

@MrLaCave @bitboxer For an overview, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM#1910s%E2%80%931950s

Also some more details: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/29/humanities.highereducation

@dalias If you rip out the LTE modem and cut off the logos, they might still make for useable cars?

@isotopp @evawolfangel @larsweisbrod @tante Wenn ich an der Stelle mal dazwischen-nerden darf: wie wird das denn auf Modell-Ebene gelöst, d.h. Sachen zu zensieren, ohne auf preprocessing und postprocessing angewiesen zu sein? Gibt es da ein separat trainiertes Layer, das bei unerwünschten Themen den Output überschreibt oder so?

@leah TBH, I've seen several attempts to teach functional programming and those didn't exactly go well either... 🤷

@codinghorror Goldeneye. I will not be taking questions.

@brett P.S. perhaps throw a Chernobyl reference in there for good measure, e.g. something like

POWER OUTAGE TEST IN PROGRESS
EMERGENCY CORE COOLING SYSTEM
TURBINE 3 SPINNING DOWN

somewhere in the corner 😈

@brett You, sir, deserve an award 👏

We recycled a HelloFresh delivery box as a baby shower gift box and I must say I'm rather proud of the results 😁👌

#upcycling

Okay, I think what the Voyager 1 team pulled off is one of the greatest feats of debugging in the history of computing 👌

46 years old hardware, 22.5 hours of light delay, and zero tolerance for mistakes. I'm getting nervous tics just thinking about it 😵💫

#voyager #debugging #space

@aral I am kinda curious about what they'll try to brew up next. Judging from the last hype cycles, it a) has to burn massive amounts of computing power, and b) disproportionately benefit a few early adopters. 🤔

Holy cow, they monkey-patched the software on the Odysseus lander something like 2 hours before touchdown on the lunar surface 😬

The navigational cameras had apparently failed, and they managed to re-route cameras from one of the scientific payloads to fill in for the navcams 🤯

That's... impressive.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/a-little-us-company-makes-history-by-landing-on-the-moon-but-questions-remain/

@emilygorcenski I'm a big fan of Tree Style Tabs, which does something very similar to tab groups (and then some): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/

@cstross @benbe well, it seems like there is considerable disagreement on what would happen, so the only possible approach for serious scientific persons such as us is obviously to try it out. I vote for Mar-a-Lago as experimental site 😜

@babe @goatsarah @mvilain oh hey, you caught one! A bit like Pokemon, no? 😉

I've already said in January that I won't be submitting to, reviewing for, or attending #CHI2024: https://hci.social/@floe/109658352678581278

Now after the #Maui fires, there's renewed discussion about #whychi - read below for a very thoughtful appeal for not supporting CHI this year.

https://www.chiinhawaii.info/