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today in youtube: recreating blue monday using 80's casiotone keyboards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9mm0YlMa9I
well, except for the ohm sample, but that's fair enough as they use a sampling keyboard
I thought it would be a fun challenge to do a cover version of New Order’s Blue Monday using only vintage consumer-grade Casio instruments. This is an edite...
It took five years to write, but here's the full story behind Lambda School, Silicon Valley's disastrous foray into for-profit education.
I explain how they burned through $120 million in funding, why Income Share Agreements failed, the crimes committed along the way, and how one developer turned journalist put an end to the fraud.
Two days after his company's downfall, Austen Allred wrote: I wish people could see how ugly it is to be envious, and how obvious it is to those around you when that's what's happening. There's not much uglier than trying to tear someone down because they achieved what you wish
Spent the weekend in Vegas.
on the last day, went to one slot machine and spent $40.
Ended up making $98 in return.
Dan: 1
Vegas: 0
Today, June 12, Brad Hamilton is made manager of the Mi-T-Mart after thwarting an attempted robbery (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, 1982)
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I graduated high school the same year my dad turned 50.
This year I will turn 50…
…and my son has graduated high school.
Starlink is killing Hubble
Something about this plan to move Hubble, didn't make sense. If the space telescope still has 10 years of useful life, why this risky SpaceX mission to boost it's orbit now?
Well it turns out the main thing threatening the utility of Hubble is... wait for it... SpaceX Starlink satellites, which orbit just above Hubble constantly "photo-bombing" the images. Within a few years there will be so many Starlinks that Hubble will be useless.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/science/hubble-spacex-starlink.html
2020: Microsoft sets goal to be carbon negative by end of the decade.
2023: Microsoft's emissions are 30% higher than in 2020.
Main cause? The relentless push to meet AI demand, which requires new data centers built out of carbon-intensive steel, cement, chips.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-15/microsoft-s-ai-investment-imperils-climate-goal-as-emissions-jump-30
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