@xuv writes

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  • Barefoot developers

    [L]ocal software that means software that is built close to the home and serves the needs of the home. It’s software someone might build for themselves, their family and friends, their neighborhood and community. It solves local problems for local people.

  • Citation de Gregory Chatonsky

    C’est qu’une nouvelle dialectique du maître et de l’esclave à l’ère des intelligences artificielles se met en œuvre. Une dialectique extrêmement trouble où on ne sait plus qui maîtrise l’autre, qui est programmé et qui est programmateur parce que les procédures relationnelles entre l’être humain et la machine semblent s’étendre à toute chose. Dans cette…

  • Quoting Joan Westenberg

    The technical sophistication of the heist doesn’t make it any less of a heist.

  • Quoting Will Lockett

    Musk isn’t an engineer and doesn’t understand iterative design, and now SpaceX and NASA are facing a sunk cost fallacy. You never achieve iterative design with a full-scale prototype. It is incredibly wasteful and can lead you down several problematic and dead-end solutions. I used to engineer high-speed boats — another weight- and safety-sensitive engineering field. We…

  • Killing in the cover

    La Maison Tellier totally kills this cover of the unforgettable Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine1.

  • Mechanical 3D Printer

    Using gravity and mechanisms inspired by the mechanical clocks, Daniel de Bruin created this analog 3D printer. ↬ @raphaelbastide

  • 43 covers 50 cents

    Machine learning voice synthesis does wonders these days. ↬ waxy.org

  • Cats Dominoes

    Explosive combination of cats playing with dominoes in a wonderful Rube Goldberg inspired contraption. ~Luc (video source)

  • 02-02-2020

    En ce jour palindromique, une pensée un peu spéciale me vient à l’esprit pour ces jeunes nés le 02/02/02 qui aujourd’hui atteignent leur majorité. Quelle chance vous avez d’avoir une date d’anniversaire aussi simple à écrire.

  • Funk N’ Roses – Sweet Cover o’ Mine

    (video source)

  • Michel Paysant – “Dessiner avec les yeux”

    /merci @luc

  • History of the Alphabet

    Where does our Latin alphabet comes from? Why are letters in that order? Why do they have these shapes? The symbol for the ox gave the A.The symbol for the house, gave the B.… Fascinating story told by Matt Baker.