The GPIO engine is a simple state machine that can be programmed to implement high-speed data transfer, digital video output, and many other purposes. It is one of the best and most innovative features on the Pico.

It’s going to be like hypnosis. “When you wake up, I’ll say the magic word Abracadabra, and you will believe you are a chicken and cluck while waving your wings.”

I think manufacturers need to get a lot more creative about simplified computing. The RPi Pico’s GPIO engine is powerful yet simple, and a good example of what is possible with some good application analysis and forethought.

I made myself a 3-D printed drain cover

https://github.com/profdc9/FreeCADParametricModels/tree/main/Sink-Drain

And it traps the hair and I don’t have problems with clogging. It’s a parametric part so it can be adjusted for most drain sizes.

Computers are only at fault when its convenient to blame them.

I really think that Musk is like the modern Citizen Kane, and we need a new Orson Welles to show the depths of his depravity.

Baghdad Bob could not be reached for comment in his bomb shelter.

Quantum states are incredibly fragile and can be disturbed with even the slightest interaction with the environment (called decoherence). These devices are cooled and isolated to the most extreme degrees possible and still at present decoherence severely limits the computations that can be performed.

A quantum computer using current technologies can’t scale to that size. Enormous advances over what is now currently possible would be required to get it to that number of qubits, and then the whole issue of cooling can be revisited.

So I have a LLM read a book and paraphrase its contents, that’s not stealing?

In other news: we have lawyers to protect our copyrights, you don’t. Suck it.

That’s a lot of wheels. I’d hate to have to inflate all those tires.

Yup, this is really maximize shareholder value. I can totally see this teambuilding event doubling dividends. Wait? You said the company never pays dividends and rarely buys back its stock? Wow, I am really seeing those profits!

CAPTCHAs are solved by consensus. Whatever the CAPTCHA thinks a bicycle is depends on what people before it selected. Sometimes it doesn’t know and just uses your answer to set up future CAPTCHAs. So you should be thinking: what would other people (or bots) select for the CAPTCHA.

I just took a Core i5, 6 GB RAM laptop from 2011 and reinstalled Linux Mint and put in a 1 TB SSD. The difference between that and Ubuntu 23.10 and a 750 GB 5400 RPM drive was like night and day.

It’s a big improvement from making them from straw.

I made a multi-effects guitar pedal that is open source hardware and software

https://www.github.com/profdc9/GuitarPico

With all this money they’ll raise from the IPO, maybe Reddit will finally be profitable! It’s definitely not a way for investors to unload their turds on the public.

Some military devices help prevent conflict and minimize its harm. A lot of modern warfare is increasing situational awareness. For example, radar, night vision, surveillance, reconnaissance, electronic warfare, tactical communications, and signals intelligence. Of course, these technologies can be used in a way that harms as well. But the alternative is a blind slugfest that probably harms a lot more civilians and friendly fire.

An English-Latin phrasebook, a survival manual explaining how to recognize plants, grow food, handle livestock, set traps, and make simple shelter, e-reader loaded with modern books and a usb solar panel, a multitool, sewing kit, a small dagger, cerium/magnesium flint, first-aid kit, antibiotics, water treatment (Sodium Dichloro-S-Triazinetrione), preservative and neutralizer (sodium metabisulfite), salt, potassium chloride, peanut butter.

But I’d probably be quickly ambushed and killed nonetheless, or hauled off to the slave markets.