ArcticLandfall

How floats work is a non-trivial part of my 3rd semester CS course (Computer Architecture) in the US, I'd imagine the same applies to every other good college.

Wireless devices go through an FCC certification process that publishes teardowns. And iFixit posts.

The ESP32 comes with SBC built in, and the (open source) software is still under development, so presumably it'll get added later.

As someone genuinely passionate about technology who sees the 90% in it for just the easy money at college, I'm very happy. Less superficial monetary incentive means people who are truly passionate about the craft will have more of an opportunity to shine.

Bo Burnham's "Lower your expectations" is a hilarious comedy song covering this exact point. For both men and women.

Individual Geocities pages are not valuable landmarks, but Geocities as a whole - the aesthetic, the community, the history - is definitely something to preserve. And the cost of saving all of Geocities is a tiny fraction of any physical monument.

> You live in a city bubble

Or relatively, you live in a suburban bubble? Different lifestyles, different modes of transport.

Can someone ELI5 why MBTA has to trust the balance stored on the card in the first place? It seems like this whole issue would go away if they just kept the balance on the server and flagged cards that did not corroborate.

> Sunglasses before control over the 100s of Millions of devices

More importantly, medical eyeglasses that many people rely on to see properly.

BitTorrent is a great example of GPs idea, but neither that nor IPFS will work across those latencies in their current state.

Some distinction will definitely be needed between 'requesting from earth' and 'loading from your roommate' in the UX. Early implementations might even centralize cache-state.

No-touch menus and QR codes don't have to be a binary choice. Menus can be posters on the wall, papers inside a glass table, or anything else.