Happy 4th July, congrats to the USA for making it through just an a run of just under 248 years with a head of state subject to the rule of law. That's easily the longest stretch in human history, nobody else is anywhere close to beating that record.
Suddenly fascinated with the idea of building mesh networks out of discarded smartphones
I wonder, if you hack the firmware of a cellphone to talk point-to-point with another nearby cellphone rather than a base station, what kind of range can you get? 🤔
Just realised that the purely economic case for UBI is basically identical to the case for VCs, just on a different scale: when people can absorb risks, innovation happens
I have come into posession of a LaTeX style file designed to mimic Strathclyde MSc thesis requirements, that makes the output of LaTeX look exactly like it was made with Word 😩
TeX is 45 years old, and we have a lot of problems with it now because in 1978 it just wasn't really designed for stuff we need it to do in 2023. Plenty of people are working on alternatives to TeX that are suitable for use in 2023, which is *exactly the problem*, because they're not designing something that will be suitable for use in 2068