Today I learned about ESP-NOW over here: Forget WiFi! This Wireless Method is WAY Better?
This looks like exactly what I need for a project I’m planning. I want to connect my WiFi router with a relay between its power source. I can then trip the relay to reboot the router. I need to do this every couple of months and doing it manually is a pain because I have to walk into the other room to do it.
This was less cool than I thought it might be. Still worth watching though. Trick Out Your Excel Quick Access Toolbar with these Hidden Powerful Features.
Today I installed the Video Speed Controller for Firefox. Let’s see how this goes!
These are the controls:
This is awesome! It’s an old demo from IBM from back in 1968: 1968 “Mother of All Demos” with Doug Engelbart & Team (1/3) [re-mastered].
Today I discovered a new YouTube channel Stuff Made Here. They had this fun video: What if we made a camera that sees in reverse?
This is a part of the homework feature of my blog, which is an ongoing conversation with my mate S.F.
Hey mate. Lovely to see you again, as always.
First, two things from last time which I forgot to write up:
I mentioned Veritasium which is a video blog of interest.
I have a note here that says “ASI”. And that’s all it says. Not sure what that was about?
I did consider writing my response to Mark Fisher‘s work Capitalist Realism (which is available on the web here), but in researching him and his work this evening I have learned that he died by suicide in 2017. I think suicide is the worst thing ever and I can’t bring myself to write something which tears strips off people who are no longer here to respond. (I intend to read Mark’s PhD thesis Flatline constructs: Gothic materialism and cybernetic theory-fiction.)
You mentioned Pick of the Litter, noting that dogs are trained to sometimes ignore the command of their master, particularly when it wouldn’t be safe.
One good thing about arguments with friends is that there is always time to pee.
Norvig’s Law: Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
This marketing dude Rory Sutherland is actually quite impressive. I hadn’t expected as much from someone in advertising! He has given a number of TED talks and there are many interviews with him on YouTube.
The documentary about the 2008 financial crisis that I mentioned was Inside Job. Not to be confused with the TV series with the same name (which is excellent, by the way).
My favorite philosopher of the day is Iain McGilchrist. I suspect my own beliefs and preferences diverge from those of McGilchrist but I do really enjoy his thought. I have watched a number of interviews with Iain McGilchrist. He has written a number of books, a few of which I have purchased and intend to read: The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, and The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning.
The book Thinking, Fast and Slow by psychologist Daniel Kahneman demarcates two systems of thinking: one fast and automatic, the other slow and deliberative.
The quotation “the stupid are cocksure, while the intelligent are full of doubt” is variously attributed (including to Bertrand Russell).
Check out Mr Inbetween, it’s really excellent!
Love you my brother, see you on Christmas Day! <3
Today on IRC some of my friends recommended or mentioned:
Also, honorable mention: Eliza for the Neo6502 running Morpheus firmware and Neobasic.
And there are heaps more boxes at HackerBoxes.
This is a note for Future John.
I am reading Fundamentals of Data Engineering which says that beside Ralph Kimball, Bill Inmon had a lot to do with data warehousing in the early days. I’m going to try and read a few of his books, many of which are available in Kindle (and Audible) format from Amazon.
Over on Rory Sutherland – Are We Now Too Impatient to Be Intelligent? | Nudgestock 2024 the inimitable Rory Sutherland made reference to Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule by Paul Graham. It’s helpful to be aware of these two types of schedule.
In the same video Mr Sutherland also referred to The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions – and How The World Lost its Mind which looks like it would be an interesting read.
Oh, and he referred to Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity as well. I don’t think I’m going to spend the money or the time on that one, more’s the pity. I only have one life and can’t do everything I might wish I could.
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