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The best resources I’ve found: Amazing intro video by ex-NASA YouTuber Mark Rober: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi29dbPnu28 To fundamentally understand what Arduino and similar microcontroller platforms (e.g., ESP32) are, what the major components of a common Arduino board (e.g., Arduino Uno) are, read
Learn everything Acquire every skill Make money by using the above knowledge and skills to make the world better Use said money to hire people to build new things that make the world dramatically better Invent entirely new industries that make the world better still Spread this spirit to a
Brilliant Labs’s Frame: https://brilliant.xyz/products/frame Team Open Smartglasses: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4ZY760EIUc4 Voidstar Lab (not a product but maybe I should build these they’re so dope): https://youtube.com/watch?v=50614QMNQPo
The midwit meme's structure can capture many, many, many fallacies humans commit. I'll post my favs below. Source
I consume a lot of information. Sometimes people ask me how I’ve come to know what I know about political ideologies and many issues that crop up in the news. Below you can find links to various high-quality, honest information sources that I highly recommend, with most people
Humanity needs the future of software to have the following two properties: Security Simplicity Rust makes software much more secure, and significantly less simple. Security Security-wise, replacing all the world’s C and C++ with Rust is A Big Deal, especially with AI-powered superhackers on the horizon . This fundamentally
Today, almost everyone who thinks they know what WebAssembly is is wrong. WebAssembly is not a toy that runs in the browser to sometimes make your JavaScript go faster, no. WebAssembly is the technology that is about to achieve something unprecedented in the history of software: we are on the
Pony ’s design goals are commendable, but its author does not sufficiently care about simplicity, or does not know how to achieve it. Example line from https://tutorial.ponylang.io/generics.html – env.out.print(a.get().string()) Here’s the equivalent line in V , which is
I just did a quick semi-deep dive into learning assembly! Why? Because revolutionizing computer programming is a high priority for me, and I no longer trust the wobbling tower of poorly-designed abstractions that modern computing is built upon. Will revolutionizing programming require the replacement of the most fundamental abstractions we
Open source pioneer Bruce Perens has written a close-minded, condescending, fallacy-laden blog post defending something that is not even under attack, namely the definition of open source license he originally penned over 20 years ago. Why is this worth mentioning, you ask? A growing number of us are trying to
Slides: https://tryingtobeawesome.com/files/cryptoparty-nb-aug2019/ Virtual handout of recommended privacy tools: https://tryingtobeawesome.com/files/tools.pdf
Policies that I believe would make the US a dramatically better place: Tax some substantial fraction (~20%?) of the money companies save outsourcing jobs and use that money to retrain the workers who were laid off We truly can have an economy with all winners and no losers, even as
TL;DR: Wire doesn’t make you use your phone number as your identifier, which is huge IMO. But Signal has the best security track record and doesn’t store your contacts on its servers, unlike Wire. Somewhat longer version: Signal Pros Best security track record of any
Since some people have recently asked, the supplements I recommend to everyone (at least give them a try!) and that I take every day are: Lecithin Phosphatidylcholine This brand actually includes lecithin already Vitamin B-complex Fish oil I was getting the ones from Wonder Labs but maybe they’ve
Here are some techniques for discovering your values: Ask yourself (and write your answer) – who are the greatest people who have ever lived, and why? What are the most awesome projects/companies/nonprofits that you have ever heard of? Think about what it is about them that you love