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Tinder Settles Lawsuit With $11 Million Worth Of Super Likes
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Debunks Home Run Animation Depicting Ball Launching Into Stratosphere
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Replying to @josecastillo
ICE Agents Hurl Pregnant Immigrant Over Mexican Border To Prevent Birth On U.S. Soil
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Replying to @josecastillo
Florida Candidate Says Alien Abduction Doesn’t Define Her
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Replying to @josecastillo
Study Finds Fewer Millennials Want To Live
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Mention of the old Real or Onion game made me think it’d be fun to let folks play it, so here goes: these are 10 headlines from 2017-2020, edited only for length. You have to guess whether it’s a real headline (and thus a real story) or an Onion headline. Let’s see how you do! 🧵
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A few years back I had a game with some colleagues. Someone would post a headline and folks would have to guess: is it real, or is it The Onion? Alas, reality got too absurd for it to be fun. Case in point: how would you even parody this? I don’t know what you could do to it. https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1511063770356924417
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Replying to @edderagdev and @Twitter
we should formulate an exit strategy. Probably Mastodon?
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Replying to @josecastillo
Much better this morning. And the elevator is working again! Still it is a full moon, so I’ll be on the lookout for any more haunted objects.
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Replying to @grandars
It is, and this makes a lot of sense! Especially being so close to the right margin — if it did hit that right margin (for whatever reason) it would probably re-home itself, right?
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Replying to @josecastillo
It was 50/50 by the end; more dumb luck in hard mode. Wordle 300 6/6*
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Replying to @gennyble
Could be! Alternate take, hear me out: ghosts are real and they’re upset about Elon trying to buy twitter.
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Replying to @kfury, @gennyble and @gojimmypi
Octoprint, so the gcode was all uploaded beforehand. The weird part is that it was wrong for a few layers, but then it snapped back to *exactly* the right spot. It feels like either a really strange slicer bug or a really strange mechanical glitch, but really strange either way.
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Replying to @josecastillo
huh. And now the elevator door is jammed as I’m trying to take my bike downstairs. the machines are just haunted tonight.
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Replying to @gennyble and @gojimmypi
I think it was a printer thing; PrusaSlicer has never done something like this before.
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Replying to @gojimmypi
Octoprint, and I have no clue 🙃
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Replying to @rglenn
I’m not sure! one of the shopmates set it up. I’ll look into it more tomorrow; for now I’m just hitting print (again) and biking home for some 😴
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Replying to @gojimmypi
Solidly attached to the bed; according to the timelapse, the printer just decided to do a few layers offset on the X-axis, for a laugh.
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Replying to @josecastillo
(what it was supposed to look like)
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Replying to @josecastillo
Whoa. Timelapse suggests… that’s exactly what happened?
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Wow. Just dropped by the shop to start the next 3D print in a series, and this is without question the strangest print failure I’ve ever had. It’s like it printed some of the part off to the right, but then… thought better of it?
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Replying to @josecastillo
once again I pick the weird word before the right word. Wordle 299 4/6*
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Replying to @bradanlane
E-paper’s cool! Be wary though of powering those all-in-one SPI displays directly; the controller chips often have higher quiescent current than you’d expect. Best to be able to cut power to it entirely if you can.
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Replying to @bradanlane
Yeah personally I’d make a couple of different segment choices for a couple of letters. And you can unambiguously display some letters (like M and W) with two digits, which is admittedly a big ask in a three digit display. IDK. In the end, as with most things, it’s a tradeoff.
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You love to see it. (I particularly admire this vandal because they pulled it off on Union Ave, literally across the street from the police station; in fact you can see it at the left side of the frame)
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Replying to @josecastillo
Again: the things we can do.
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I’m not the earliest adopter, but I was one of the first million people on @twitter (January 2007, user #684,143). I love this hellsite. But if Elon buys Twitter, I’m out.
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Replying to @brentwgraham
in a way you’re making my point tho: there’s nothing inevitable about a system where publishers push kickbacks on mom and pop shops. Capitalism has so thoroughly captured our minds that the mere suggestion of another way leads the mind back to the inevitability of the status quo.
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Replying to @brentwgraham
It is depressing though that the relentless paperclip-optimizer that is capitalism has us convinced of the inevitability of this kind of thing. Like it’s just unimaginable for a person who likes books to succeed in opening a bookstore, because in the future all stores are Amazon.
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No human-curated bookstore would ever have this problem. https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1514602618240188428
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Replying to @tahnok and @tomfleet
This was one of the thoughts behind the design of the sensor board pinout: the analog signals are there just in case you can build your sensor out of discrete components, but if there’s an I²C or SPI component that puts it all in one box, you can use the pins that way instead.
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Replying to @oscherler
The S and the T are nice to have! Lately though I’m going with “Audio” because if I can work an E into guess 2, I have all the vowels. (this really helped me that day the word was “Nymph”)
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Replying to @tomfleet and @tahnok
This I do not know! It would be a very intricate operation though. you’d have to cut an incision in both the internal enclosure and the front face.
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Replying to @tahnok and @tomfleet
A millimeter or so is the tallest I’ve gone. At one point I think I measured 1.1 mm as the thickness of the little plastic spacer? But it’s difficult to give an absolute maximum when I haven’t quite tested the limits yet.
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Replying to @tahnok and @tomfleet
One thing I’m unsure about in your design: I’ve never put parts over the top right area of the sensor board, where the CPU is. My fear has been that there isn’t enough clearance there, and that they might impact the LCD. Hence the dotted line in my boards: https://twitter.com/josecastillo/status/1460068761034182657
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Replying to @tomfleet and @tahnok
It’s transflective, not reflective, so some light shines through from the front (same way LED light gets through from the back to illuminate the display). It’s enough that a simple phototransistor light sensor works. Unsure about UV wavelengths though. https://twitter.com/josecastillo/status/1460077872119529474
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Replying to @PantsSlide, @tudelft, @George_Cave and @MakeAugusta
unfortunately the watch did get bit by the chip shortage; there’s a nine-month delay on the chips for the watch. It’s a mega bummer. I wrote about it here: https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/sensor-watch/updates/blue-boards-shipping-check-your-address-green-boards-delayed-and-other-news-of-the-watch
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Replying to @PantsSlide, @tudelft, @George_Cave and @MakeAugusta
Not sure if they’re posted, but one that I loved: a student strapped the watch to a bottle & made an app that reminds you to drink water — with an animation of a bottle filling up, since the watch is sideways! Instead of making a smart wearable, they imbued an object with smarts.
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Replying to @josecastillo
also @MakeAugusta I tagged you because these are three of the boards y’all made for me :)
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Replying to @josecastillo
You can actually try out the tool George built for prototyping these interfaces! Unlike the watch emulator, which runs code as it would on device, this tool lets you draw and animate screens and link them together to create an app purely from imagination! https://watch.interactionmagic.com
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This is so cool! Last Wednesday, Sensor Watch was front and center at a @tudelft workshop on building minimal user interfaces. @George_Cave led students through imagining new applications for the humble Casio wristwatch, and Sensor Watch allowed them to actually wear their ideas!
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Replying to @josecastillo
not the best, but when you see it, you see it. Also: I think I’m retiring my old start word. “Arise” was fine before hard mode, but lately I want to wrap all of my vowels by guess #2. Wordle 298 4/6*
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Replying to @__femb0t
cats can fly the plane a little bit, as a treat
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!!! https://twitter.com/tahnok/status/1514057178944000006
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I feel seen. https://twitter.com/deshipu/status/1513985450905677839
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Replying to @bradanlane
I have not run across alphanumeric versions of these! Off top of head, at 1/4 duty, with three 14-16 segment digits, it would have to have 16 pins which would at least make it wider than this one. I’m sure it could be made though.
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Replying to @deshipu
You may well lap me; due to the lockdowns in Shenzhen, my LCD fabricator may not have final displays for me til later this summer. Gonna do what I can, but making things remains hard in 2022.
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Replying to @josecastillo
Note that the final version will use a positive reflective type screen (not inverted like this) and it won’t have a backlight, since that defeats the whole low-power value prop. I just had some negative type displays fabricated as an experiment, and they were the first to arrive.
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This little LCD FeatherWing is going to be so much fun once I sort out the PCB issues. Just threw together a demo of some of the kinds of stuff it could be good at displaying. Limited, but versatile; it’s also the lowest-power display tech that can fit into a FeatherWing doubler.
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Fuck me, the Republican Party of Texas has added me to their mailing list and they’re sending me transphobic hate mail. Hey @TexasGOP: don’t pick this fight. Trans Texans are Texans and trans rights are human rights.
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