A Boy And His Atom is the world's smallest movie
Testing Twitter API integration, but also this is pretty cool.
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A Death Row Inmate Asked SCOTUS If He Can Die by Firing Squad, and It Said Yes
Also for those not on death row, we can all die by firing squad now too. Thanks SCOTUS.
Save America’s Patent System
Good problem to solve, wrong solution. Examine patents on use rather than before issuing.
The New York Times: Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Account
Do they mean revoked?
Mimica, which automates RPA, raises $6M Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures
I'm holding out for the company that automates robotic process automation automation.
Snap Out of It, America: Give Kids the Right to Vote
So I disagree with this but it's interesting and well argued. A better idea is my life expectancy weighted voting plan.
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The ease of mail-in voting may increase turnout in California’s recall election.
NYT finally twigs.
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A woman is suing S.F. for $50 million over a parking ticket, saying tire chalk is unconstitutional
In one of the cases, filed Sept. 4, plaintiff Maria Infante seeks $50 million and class-action status after a San Francisco parking enforcement officer wielding chalk on a residential street gave her a $95 ticket.
The second case, filed the same day against San Leandro, demands $5 million for class members whose tires were chalked to financially benefit the city.
Civilization continues to collapse. I had my tongue in my cheek for this proposed constitutional amendment but I'm not so sure any more...
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How to Call Customer Service and Actually Get What You Want
Wired has this generic article on getting support with some insights that might have been cutting age a decade ago. I'm still waiting for CAPTGUAs.
The New York Times: Opinion | Will We Ever Amend the Constitution Again?
See my training wheels suggestion for this.
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25-year retrospective of Nokia's Communicator, the first pocket computer phone that worked
My first mobile phone, and in many ways still my favorite.
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CNN: What's the risk of indoor dining if you're fully vaccinated? Here's what one expert says
The New York Times: Opinion | America Needs to Break Up Its Biggest States
I'd rather get rid of the electoral college and have a national, ranked choice vote but this is interesting.
I have just updated my blog with two new features for hike posts.
The route is now shown in an embedded Google map. The map has a pin for the start of the hike (and for any geolocated photos included with the post) and a red line for the GPS track. Don't use this for following the route - better to download the KML file and have an offline map - but it's great for getting a sense of the hike.
Below the map is a new hike profile that plots elevation against distance together with estimated total distance and elevation gain. This is fairly tricky as my phone GPS isn't the best and altitude in particular jumps around a fair bit. To make this reasonably stable I take trackpoints every 60th of a mile and I only count elevation gain when it has gone up more than 100 feet. This probably errs on the side of underestimating unless the signal is really bad. The overall shape is a pretty good guide but please don't depend on the distance and elevation gain.
(Hike Map)
(Published to the Fediverse as: Route map and elevation profile for Hike Posts #hike #ithcwy Hikes on ITHCWY now feature a route map and a hike profile with distance, total elevation gain and a chart to give you a good sense of what you might be in for. )
California’s Drought Is So Bad They’re Driving Salmon to the Ocean in Trucks
Don't tell the bears!
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Ars Technica: “I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted
Backup, backup again and then stick another copy in a fire safe.
Export Google Fit Daily Steps, Weight and Distance to a Google Sheet
Accessing Printer Press ESC to cancel
Monitor page index status with Google Sheets, Apps Script and the Google Search Console API
Upgrading from word2vec to OpenAI
Download a Sharepoint File with GraphServiceClient (Microsoft Graph API)
Scanning from the ADF using WIA in C#
International Date Line Longitude, Latitude Coordinates
Enable GZIP compression for Amazon S3 hosted website in CloudFront
Automate Google PageSpeed Insights and Core Web Vitals Logging with Apps Script