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RiderOfGiraffes

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• Designing an electronic toy – Wildfire Pinball (2020)

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 9/5/21, 9:10 AM, with 4 comments

• Designing an electronic toy – Wildfire Pinball (2020)

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 4/30/21, 9:32 PM, with 0 comments

• A brief history of the numeric keypad (2018)

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 4/8/21, 12:09 PM, with 1 comments

• Brain does not process information and it is not a computer

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 4/5/21, 10:16 AM, with 2 comments

• Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 4/3/21, 5:20 PM, with 0 comments

• Solution to the Windmill Paradox

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 4/2/21, 1:21 PM, with 0 comments

• Ever Given and Suez: Why Ships Keep Crashing

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/31/21, 11:03 PM, with 1 comments

• What Data Can’t Do

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/31/21, 12:45 PM, with 101 comments

• Solving Xkcd 1683

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/31/21, 10:59 AM, with 0 comments

• Space debris removal demonstration launches

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/22/21, 3:18 PM, with 0 comments

• New Royal Navy ship to protect 'critical' undersea cables

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/21/21, 10:03 AM, with 10 comments

• Why a portless iPhone 13 is a terrible idea

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/21/21, 9:41 AM, with 0 comments

• Xorshift

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/19/21, 11:13 PM, with 1 comments

• One company wants to sell the feds location data from every car on Earth

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/19/21, 10:04 AM, with 0 comments

• A prosthetic hand restored my sense of touch

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/19/21, 9:22 AM, with 18 comments

• Owl wings may hold the key to turbulence-proof planes

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/16/21, 11:19 PM, with 0 comments

• Gab, the Online Safe Space for Far-Right Extremists

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/15/21, 5:47 PM, with 0 comments

• Physicists have measured gravity on the smallest scale ever

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/14/21, 9:54 PM, with 0 comments

• 'They become dangerous tools': the dark side of personality tests

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/11/21, 10:09 PM, with 0 comments

• Exchange email hack: Hundreds of UK firms compromised

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/11/21, 9:17 PM, with 0 comments

• Mathematician Terence Tao and the Collatz Conjecture (2019/12/11)

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/9/21, 10:24 AM, with 0 comments

• We may soon have city-spanning 900 MHz mesh networks

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/7/21, 3:10 PM, with 186 comments

• Lessons from Six Years as a Solo Consultant

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/7/21, 11:51 AM, with 0 comments

• Poor Customer Support? (2017)

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/6/21, 6:26 PM, with 0 comments

• NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/6/21, 10:48 AM, with 0 comments

• Hackers use your social media posts to scam you

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/6/21, 10:12 AM, with 0 comments

• We Hate You Now. The Hardest Problem of the Aftertimes

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/5/21, 8:43 PM, with 1 comments

• Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/4/21, 6:34 PM, with 0 comments

• Bookwyrm: Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with ActivityPub

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/4/21, 2:12 PM, with 0 comments

• A blogging platform with no interface

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/3/21, 9:56 PM, with 0 comments

• The UK’s last lighthouse keepers can teach us about isolation

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/3/21, 1:21 PM, with 10 comments

• Why π^π^π^π could be an integer (for all we know)

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/2/21, 4:46 PM, with 0 comments

• GitHub – timholy/ProfileView.jl: Visualization of Julia profiling data

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/2/21, 4:12 PM, with 0 comments

• Co-Op Cloud

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/1/21, 11:14 PM, with 0 comments

• Soda Can Stability

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/1/21, 10:07 PM, with 0 comments

• Zen and the Art of Puzzle Solving

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/1/21, 10:01 PM, with 0 comments

• Math Proof Finds All Change Is Mix of Order and Randomness

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/1/21, 10:00 PM, with 0 comments

• How to Think Like a Genius, According to Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/1/21, 5:47 PM, with 0 comments

• Sir Kazuo Ishiguro: Young authors may self-censor for fear of being “trolled”

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/1/21, 1:33 PM, with 0 comments

• A new spin on organic semiconductors

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 4/17/19, 7:56 AM, with 0 comments

• Tony Buzan, Inventor of the “Mind Map”, Has Died

  by RiderOfGiraffes on 4/16/19, 7:32 PM, with 12 comments