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Replying to @brentrubell
I appreciate that they were designed to be fixable! Seems like that’s so much the exception these days.
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Replying to @brentrubell
I had the same thing happen to my QC15’s! Got some replacement ear pads from Bose and it gave them a whole new lease on life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iptwFe2SWug
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What the fuck did my eyes just see? How on earth is this an appropriate response? Also in what universe does that question even warrant this kind of response? https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1241041500936568838
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Today retooled the COVID website I made. Felt unsettled watching the death toll mount, reading about lives lost. Comparing the pandemic to other forms of death felt ugly. So now it just has basic stats & info about the JSON feeds, which I sense are useful. http://www.thebigboard.cc
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Replying to @tarahaelle
I sense there’s a fork in the road. The Trumpian us-v-them zero-sum worldview, vs answering to our better angels; folks in Texas helping folks in Seattle or NY because that’s just what we do. We’ll either stay divided, or find a way to help each other despite it all. Join or die.
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RT @bradleyziffer: So, the last week I have been battling COVID-19 & Pneumonia. Never in my life have I been this ill. “Young people aren’t…
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Replying to @pencerw
Also curious if they’re breaking into radio and TV broadcasts; I often hear “a test of the emergency broadcast system,” and the weather people certainly use it when there’s flooding or a hurricane, but who presses the button when there’s a pandemic? Did we drop the ball here too?
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Replying to @nakanaela and @tannewt
Yeah, the Presidential Alert. I’m as skeptical of this President as the next guy, but I wouldn’t mind him pinging America for this. Also here in TX we get loud Amber Alert texts for every missing toddler. Not a word about this. It’s extremely strange, like no one is at the wheel.
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Replying to @Whyaduck and @adafruit
Oh! I just got what you meant by outward-facing. No the intent of this is for the wearer to be able to monitor their own temperature. An outward-facing thing feels way too dystopian for my taste; let’s just follow the CDC guidelines and be kind to each other (from a distance tho)
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Replying to @tannewt
My mom was talking to a handyman, Spanish speaker, who’s been working jobs and presumably listening to the radio, but he had no idea that there was anything going on. I don’t know how that’s possible. But it indicates to me that at least some people aren’t getting information :/
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Replying to @Whyaduck and @adafruit
Right now the sensor itself is inside the brim of the hat, touching my temple (position A on the diagram). In the photos though it’s somewhere between my temperature and ambient, since I had to take off the hat; in one picture it’s measuring the temperature of my right thumb. 👍🏽
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Replying to @tannewt
That’s especially bizarre to me. Of all the places, I would have expected them to make use of it in Seattle or NYC. Like, why do they do the tests every other week if they’re not going to use it to inform people in an emergency?
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Replying to @josecastillo
Currently only displays skin surface temperature (need an ambient temperature sensor to understand what the number means) but I think there’s a formula, or some guidelines at least. My sense is that monitoring/logging our temperatures might become important in the months to come.
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Wasn’t able to get in to the big @adafruit Show and Tell (popular this week!), but wanted to share what I’m hacking on anyway. Very prototype: I put a Feather in my cap. And a temperature sensor, OLED display and some clear acrylic, to make a wearable, real-time AR thermometer.
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Open question to US people in my feed: what is your city and have you heard the Emergency Alert/Broadcast System so far? My mom met someone today who was literally unaware of the pandemic; it seems this is exactly the thing the EAS is intended for, and I haven’t heard it once.
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“Since they’d left, the coronavirus exploded in the United States and around the world, he told the group. Italy was under lockdown. The stock market was plummeting. Professional sports were suspended… Tom Hanks had it. ‘Half of us thought he was joking.’”https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-news.html
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You absolutely must read this thread. It’s sobering. https://twitter.com/jeremycyoung/status/1239975682643357696
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Replying to @josecastillo
More broadly, the next chance for Sanders to get a significant number of delegates is in 41 days in NY… where the number of COVID-19 cases will be peaking. Even then he won’t get enough delegates to change the outcome. I worry continuing is irresponsible. https://www.syracuse.com/coronavirus/2020/03/coronavirus-to-peak-in-ny-in-45-days-thousands-more-hospital-beds-needed.html
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Numbers. It’s over. Biden could lose all remaining contests by four points and still clinch with a delegate majority; Bernie would need to win >63% in each to do the same. In 2016 he only managed that in three states: AK, ID and UT. Even Vermont only went 62% for Sanders in 2016.
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RT @jheil: Today, @realdonaldtrump said: “I’ve always known this is a pandemic. I’ve felt that it was a pandemic long before it was called…
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COVID-19 data feeds, using JHU data. v experimental; right now it’s a cron job and some crossed fingers. don’t rely on it for too much. http://www.thebigboard.cc/feeds/v1/global.json http://www.thebigboard.cc/feeds/v1/countries.json http://www.thebigboard.cc/feeds/v1/australia.json http://www.thebigboard.cc/feeds/v1/canada.json http://www.thebigboard.cc/feeds/v1/china.json http://www.thebigboard.cc/feeds/v1/us.json
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Wow. I’m working on a feed for country and state-level COVID data; saw it spit out 1,700 cases for the state of NY. Seriously started looking for a bug in my script before it dawned on me that the number might be real — and it is real. Stay safe. Stay in. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/17/new-york-state-coronavirus-cases-soar-to-more-than-1300-hospitalizing-19percent.html
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Retweeting my own tweet because seriously, 3 weeks ago he was bragging about cutting the folks who were going to help us get ahead of this thing and now he’s lying about it. How is this not costing him voters? How is this not the whole election? People are going to die over this. https://twitter.com/josecastillo/status/1239744285454618624
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Words fail to contain my fury. Three weeks ago the President was bragging about cutting funds for pandemic readiness. 17 days later he’s lying about knowing about cuts, and apparently trying to blame Dr. Fauci. We need a leader right now; instead we have a conman and a charlatan.
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“Trump’s 10-minute Oval Office address… was riddled with errors, nationalist and xenophobic in tone, limited in its empathy, and boastful.
“Futures for the Dow Jones industrial average fell in real time with virtually each word Trump uttered.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-coronavirus-teleprompter-speech/2020/03/12/81bc8a3a-647a-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html
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State of the race, post-mini-Tuesday. I ran the numbers for each candidate hitting 30%, 35%, 40%, 45% and 50% of pledged delegates. Surprisingly, Joe Biden could actually clinch the nomination by winning 53% of remaining delegates (Bernie would need 60%).
Next Tuesday is big.
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So far this year, Coronavirus COVID-19 has probably killed more people than multiple sclerosis, but fewer than accidental firearm discharges. I really hope this web page isn’t in poor taste; honestly, I feel like I learned a lot putting it together. http://www.thebigboard.cc
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This is probably going to become a hardware project at some point, but for now I think I’m going to throw it online somewhere. #COVID19 as compared to other causes of death, prorated to today’s date. Gallows humor, maybe, but also useful to put the disease into context?
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Replying to @pdp7, @ohsummit and @anool
I printed it! In pride colors, with a lot of filament swaps. Agree with others that flipping it upside down is the way to go; did another test print that way that turned out better, if not quite as colorful :)
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ROAD TO THE BOOK #3! This one is so much fun. In which we solder the countdown clock to a perma-proto; build a simple SAMD11 microcontroller board from scratch; and then power the one with the other. Next week: the protoboard moves to a Feather-shaped PCB. http://oddlyspecific.org/2020/03/05/road-to-book-3-prototyping-a-feather/
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Replying to @josecastillo
6/6 It’s a signal of how far we’ve fallen that even in writing this fiction about a ruined America, @MikeJudge still had an instinct that the man in the office of the Presidency would rise to the occasion; that even a fool would still put the interests of the nation first. Alas.
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Replying to @josecastillo
5/6 When confronted with proof that the expert was right, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho puts his ego aside, CHANGES HIS MIND, and ACCEPTS SCIENCE-BASED EVIDENCE. It’s a refreshing contrast to the situation we have right now at the top. You know, fiction.
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Replying to @josecastillo
4/6 The crisis, incidentally, involves crops not growing, and the expert he hired realizes that it has to do with soil chemistry. For a variety of economic reasons, President Camacho then sentences him to death. But what happens next is another example of Camacho’s leadership:
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Replying to @josecastillo
3/6 It would be easy to make the case that Idiocracy has come true early. But here’s the thing that gets me: President Camacho is a far superior leader to @realDonaldTrump. In the film, he’s faced with a crisis. So he hires an expert, and gives him wide latitude to address it.
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Replying to @josecastillo
2/6 If you haven’t seen the film, the setting: 500 years from now, the United States has become an anti-intellectual wasteland. The U.S. Presidency is a role more for an entertainer than an executive, hence President Camacho, a pro-wrestler-and-former-porn-star turned politician.
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This story reminds me of a thought I often have, about why we are so screwed. It has to do with the film Idiocracy, and my longing for the stable, steady leadership of President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho (spoilers, and, a thread; 1/6). https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-coronavirus-death-rate-cases-symptoms-hannity-fox-news-a9376756.html
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A preview of the guide I’m working on for tomorrow. I really hope I’m explaining these things well; the goal is to build the simplest microcontroller board possible with like a dozen parts, and to explain each one’s purpose as it goes into the protoboard. https://github.com/joeycastillo/oddlyspecific.org/blob/master/_posts/2020-03-05-road-to-book-3-prototyping-a-feather.md
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The primary is a data driven process and I’m a data driven person (also I do this every 4-8 years). So, a chart: the state of the primary, and the percentage of remaining delegates each candidate would need to win to reach 25% and 33%. I’ll be updating this throughout the spring.
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A friendly #supertuesday reminder: no matter who you’re rooting for tonight, all these candidates are great. Sanders inspires a movement. Warren is brilliant and tenacious. Biden brings a lifetime of experience. Keep in mind the election that matters most. http://www.voteforthedemocrat.org/president/
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road to the book chapter 4 board, just sent to the fab.
I like this one.
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Quick #voteforthedemocrat update: now that the primary is underway, I’m sorting by delegate count instead of alphabetically. Also: now there are six? Which is funny because I feel like last month there were like seventeen or twenty-two thousand candidates. http://www.voteforthedemocrat.org/president/
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RT @tarahaelle: With @PeteButtigieg just announcing he’s left the race, I want to tell a story about the Nevada debate and my son that’s re…
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testing next week’s Road to the Book entry before I start writing. The next two guides feel crucial; moving from hacking on protoboard to drawing a schematic and laying out a PCB was the biggest leap for me last year. Also, this through-hole feather is better than last year’s :)
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Road to the Book #2: The Countdown Clock. Technically part one in a three-part series; talks about prototyping, current limiting, I²C, talking to shift registers and calculating the number of calendar days since November 24, 4714 BC. (long story) http://oddlyspecific.org/2020/02/27/road-to-book-2-the-countdown-clock/
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RT @issackelly: Most of the parts arrived for my build of @josecastillo’s (soon to be my!) open book. Such a pretty PCB https://t.co/aeGinL…
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possibly coming tomorrow: Road to the Book #2, The Countdown Clock. This one weirdly sprawls across three lessons, but if my outline is to be believed, by guide #4 we’ll get from breadboarding this nest of wires, to understanding the basics of PCB design.
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DEAR DEMOCRATS: Please don’t nuke other Democrats. One of these people is going to be our nominee, and we’re going to need every vote. I get that you want to be president, but if you don’t get the nod, don’t salt the earth behind you. We have to win this. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/24/bloomberg-debate-strategy-bernie-sanders-117276
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Replying to @zeoluxfero
The plan is to assemble one tomorrow and then put them on tindie if everything looks good
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ADVISORY: I’m a jerk, and apologize sincerely to @JLCPCB for freaking out publicly over the surface finish of these boards. Just swabbed them with a lead testing kit; they are in fact lead free. The boards look great! And I’m just gonna stay off Twitter for the rest of the day :/
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fyi, I’m deleting all my tweets talking about the board until I actually test it with a lead testing kit. I reacted emotionally when I opened the package, but it’s irresponsible for me to speak before knowing all the facts.
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