Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics Of Magic Windows.
I recently made a physical object that defies all intuition. It's a square of acrylic, smooth on both sides, totally transparent. A tiny window. But it has the magic property that if you shine a flashlight on it, it forms an image.
If you’ve worked in a software company you also know that command and control is the status quo, even when they’ve wrapped it in an ‘agile’ flag. They’ve just gotten better at masking it with brainstorming meetings, discussion formats, Slack emoticons, performative ‘wokeness’ (that never leads to actual ‘woke’ policies) and chirpy HR lackeys. The mask is just a mask.
The Gravitricity system…
…uses weight configurations totalling up to 12,000 tonnes in a deep shaft, suspended by a number of cables, each of which is engaged with an electric winch capable of lifting its share of the weight. Electricity is stored in the form of potential energy by raising the weights. Power is then generated by lowering the weights to turn a generator.
All Time Worldwide Box Office for R Movies.
159 Pulp Fiction
168 Braveheart
175 JFK
Vale is a command-line tool that brings code-like linting to prose (via smashingmagazine.com).
Vale differs from most writing-related software in a significant way: it doesn't attempt to teach you how to write; it's a tool for writers. In other words, Vale focuses on allowing its users to create their own collections of rules (known as styles) rather providing its own advice.
You’ll need a Tor browser for this verrry important announcement.
Just noticed I totally missed there are different versions of Onion addresses, and that older and shorter ones (v2) – like p3korg7lctmlnfrj.onion – are becoming inaccessible in October and need to be replaced with longer ones (v3, see above).
Why some of the smartest people can be so very stupid.
(…) stupidity is perfectly compatible with intelligence: (…) Indeed, in at least some cases, intelligence actively abets stupidity by allowing pernicious rationalisation: when Harry Houdini, the great illusionist, took Arthur Conan Doyle, the inventor of Sherlock Holmes, through the tricks underlying the seances in which Conan Doyle devoutly believed, the author’s reaction was to concoct a ludicrously elaborate counter-explanation as to why it was precisely the true mediums who would appear to be frauds.
A biography of the pixel, the elementary particle of pictures.
Americans are usually taught that Claude Shannon first proved the sampling theorem, but he never even claimed it. It was ‘common knowledge’, he said. Several countries have claimants to the title, but Kotelnikov was the first to prove the entire theorem as it’s used today. Russians certainly believe so. In 2003 in the Kremlin, on the 70th anniversary of Kotelnikov’s proof, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin awarded him with the Order of Merit to the Fatherland.
“Breaking changes happen often on the web, and as a developer it’s good practice to test against early release channels of major browsers to learn about any compatibility issues upfront.”
Yikes! To me, this appears wrong on almost every level.
To me, too.