In this video 3Blue1Brown investigates the volumes of higher-dimensional spheres.
Buy 12 Broken Ryzen CPUs for $10 Each and repair them for profit?
I was very impressed with how enterprising this guy is! Most just needed their pins straightened out, a few needed new pins, and two were salvaged for parts (i.e. pins).
1986 Sinclair Spectrum+2 repair
In this video I learned about the Metcal PTTC-706 soldering iron tips. I must save my pennies so I can buy myself a pair of these babies!
Falsehoods programmers believe about time
In my feed today: Falsehoods programmers believe about time.
A new grammatical form: universal
The History of Aluminum
This is what it says on the tin. The reason we had a Bronze Age and an Iron Age but no Aluminium Age was because isolating aluminium is pretty difficult in comparison.
The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew
Veritasium reports on the xz hack from a few years back. Basically it was a back door in SSH which was accidentally found by a Microsoft employee who examined a small latency discrepancy.
Convincing wife the 3D printer was worth it
This guy made a handy hook for his scooter in order to convince wifey that 3D printer wasn’t a waste of money. :)
Process Of Making Folding Fan
A Korean master crafts a 350-year-old Hapjukseon folding fan by hand.
Deprecated master/slave signal names
See A Resolution to Redefine SPI Signal Names for notes about alternative names. I also noted in Getting Started with Arduino that alternatives to male/female are pin/socket.
