drdrang

drdrang, 5 months ago to random

You may have seen links to this story about Y2K in your timeline. It reminds me that there are people who think the dangers of acid rain and chlorofluorocarbons were overblown because mitigation was largely successful.

https://time.com/5752129/y2k-bug-history/

drdrang, 27 days ago to random

Of all the people Altman could’ve tried to take advantage of, Scarlett Johansson seems like the worst possible choice. She sued Disney.

drdrang, 11 months ago to random

Maybe I’m just stupid, but I’m still pretty happy on this failing platform.

drdrang, 4 months ago to random

☃️ Hardware that everyone knows and software that no one knows.
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2024/01/my-mac-40th-anniversary-draft/

drdrang, 1 month ago to random

Just read that a small Chicago restaurant group has been bought out of bankruptcy by an “Austin-based restaurant fintech startup.” This collection of words is, I believe, one of the signs of the Apocalypse.

drdrang, 2 months ago to random

☃️ A brief review.
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2024/04/my-2024-eclipse/

drdrang, 1 year ago to random

Thirty years ago, Michael Jordan gambled in Atlantic City the night before an Eastern Conference finals game, and it was a big controversy. David Stern had to do an investigation of sorts. Tonight’s Celtics/Heat game will be sponsored by online gambling companies, with Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley breaking into the game to explain their latest bets and clips of several active NBA players appearing in a FanDuel commercial.

drdrang, 1 month ago to random

Apple has accomplished one thing with the Files app: it’s made people a lot less critical of the Finder.

drdrang, 11 months ago to random

Oh look! Another way to waste the limited time I have left on Earth.

drdrang, 10 months ago to random

Maybe I’m nuts, but I think reporters are mistaken when they call Trump Employee 4 a hero based on the new indictment. I think that when he says he doesn’t have “the rights” to delete the surveillance video on the server, he’s not talking about legal, moral, or ethical rights. He’s talking like an IT person, saying that his account on the server doesn’t have permissions to delete the files.

drdrang, 7 months ago to random

☃️ How I'm using a single notebook.
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2023/10/one-notebook/

drdrang, 6 months ago to random

I’m sorry, but you can’t just redefine “failure.” The recent SpaceX test flight had many successful aspects, but it also had several failures. SpaceX may be happy that it learned a lot from this test, and it’s one of SpaceX’s best traits that it learns from its failures. But just because it didn’t destroy its launch pad this time doesn’t erase the fact that it did so the last time. Just as a Derek Jeter home run doesn’t erase a previous strikeout from the record books. https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/11/heres-why-this-weekends-starship-launch-was-actually-a-huge-success/

drdrang, 11 months ago to random

☃️ I tried tracking my pills in the Health app but have found a better way.
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2023/07/better-medication-tracking/

drdrang, 10 months ago to random

I guess we should thank Musk for publishers taking up RSS again as they back away from Twitter.

This is not unlike thanking Hitler for the rapid improvement in British radar.

drdrang, 2 months ago to random

I’ve investigated a few ship/bridge allisions in my career, but the scale of the Key Bridge collapse is just overwhelming. I don’t remember the design rules for the structures that are meant to fend off vessels, but I doubt they were written for ships of this size.

drdrang, 11 months ago to random

In case you were worried it would leave you unconnected for a long time, today’s rapid security response update took under 5 minutes to install on my phone.

drdrang, 2 months ago to random

☃️ An elementary structural mechanics problem and a moderately complex plot in Mathematica.
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2024/04/moment-diagrams-for-simply-supported-beams/

drdrang, 2 months ago to random

☃️ Combining Mathematica with Castigliano’s Second Theorem.
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2024/04/moment-diagrams-for-continuous-beams/

drdrang, 2 months ago to random

☃️ A short derivation with G and g.
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2024/04/gravitational-potential-energy/

drdrang, 9 months ago to random

☃️ A couple of things I learned and one reasonable guess.
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2023/09/iphone-15-pro-facts-and-estimates/

drdrang, 6 months ago to random

☃️ A short piece of code to followup on a John D. Cook post.
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2023/12/dates-triangles-and-python/

drdrang, 9 months ago to random

☃️ Decades of determining storage requirements for finite element matrices finally pays off.
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2023/09/a-football-score-matrix/

drdrang, 6 months ago to random

Socrates said the unexamined life isn’t worth living, but he never had to see all his friends posting the music they listened to over the past year.

drdrang, 1 month ago to random

☃️ A knockout.
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2024/04/doug-mcilroy-and-bing-copilot/

glennf, 5 months ago to random

Pretty sure as a total non-expert that they are going to find a maintenance record showing that the Alaska plane didn't have these bolts installed at all… https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67919436?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA