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Matt Williams

@Grabber5_0

Husband, father, car guy, shuffler of bits. Royals, Chiefs.

Katılım Aralık 2009
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Matt Williams
Matt Williams@Grabber5_0·
@DoctorLemma Wrong. Half those people are on the far side of the planet, not in the photo. 😝 (Well, I suppose that depends on what continents are facing the camera, so maybe more or less than half. 🤔
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Dr. Lemma
Dr. Lemma@DoctorLemma·
For nine years, an astronomer begged NASA to turn a spacecraft around and take a single photograph. When they finally agreed, the planet it photographed was smaller than a pixel. The astronomer was Carl Sagan. The spacecraft was Voyager 1, launched in 1977 to study Jupiter and Saturn. By 1981, it had done its job and was heading for the edge of the solar system at 38,000 miles per hour. Sagan wanted it to look back once. He knew the photo would have almost no scientific value. Earth from that distance would be a speck. That was exactly the point. NASA worried. The Sun was still close enough to fry Voyager’s camera sensor if they pointed it the wrong way. Other missions kept getting priority. The years ticked by. Sagan kept pushing. They finally said yes. On 14 February 1990, roughly 6 billion kilometres from home, Voyager 1 turned its camera around and took 60 photos of the solar system. One of them captured Earth as a tiny dot caught in a stray beam of scattered sunlight. That single image became known as the Pale Blue Dot. The entire planet, every person who has ever lived, every war, every love story, every sunrise, was 0.12 pixels wide. Thirty-four minutes later, Voyager 1 powered off its cameras forever to save energy for the long journey ahead. It has never taken another picture. Sagan later wrote a book about that single pixel and called it Pale Blue Dot. He died two years after it was published. Voyager 1 is still going. It’s now over 24 billion kilometres away, the furthest human-made object in existence, still sending back faint signals from interstellar space. Does that dot make you feel insignificant, or does it make everything on it feel more precious?
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Moddable
Moddable@moddabletech·
Touch – coming soon to @Pebble. Alloy makes it fast and responsive. Standard JavaScript. ECMA-419 touch API. Poco mini-drag app, freshly updated by @stc1988. This is what the future of Pebble feels like.
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Matt Williams@Grabber5_0·
Just a request to the @Pebble team: please don't ever remove the "Start watchface" button from the Pebble app. It allows me to get back to the watchface on my P2 watches with the missing and/or broken back buttons. Yeah, I'll fix them someday.. 😂
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Matt Williams@Grabber5_0·
@S1apSh0es As nice as it looks, having driven on KS speedway at dusk, it was really hard to see going into turn 3. But maybe they are better than average drivers. 😉😁 (Old reply I just found in my drafts folder 🤣)
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Matt Williams@Grabber5_0·
@Pebble I just noticed the thumbnail preview shows the wheel cropped. That is incorrect. It's only cropped on the legacy Time and Time Steel with the smaller screens.
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Dmitrii Kovanikov@ChShersh·
In the age of AI, knowing Vim still helps me daily. Truly a timeless essential skill to have.
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E. Rex Shawn@3_Rex_Shawn·
@davepl1968 @ChShersh Dave, even though everyone else in the comments missed the joke, I want you to know that some of us laughed!
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Sasquatch Vinnie@SasquatchVinnie·
Soooo, what did you guys do all day on the Royals off day?
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jhfyf
jhfyf@Justanotherlake·
@bobfescoe This has to be up there
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Matt Williams@Grabber5_0·
@ericmigi @Pebble Some amazing entries out there already, but I'd love it if everyone with a round watch would check out my new Roulette Wheel watchface and give it some love! Optimized for Round and Round 2, but also supports the Time and Time Steel. apps.repebble.com/49907e615cc64f…
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Eric Migicovsky
Eric Migicovsky@ericmigi·
Haha someone made a bezel mode to turn Pebble Round 2 into a PTR
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Sakshi Sugandhi@SakshiSugandhi·
what operating system do you use?
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Sasquatch Vinnie
Sasquatch Vinnie@SasquatchVinnie·
For everyone arguing that it was about cable networks, it was about both
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Eric Migicovsky
Eric Migicovsky@ericmigi·
Now that PT2 is fully in mass production, we're working on reducing power consumption in PebbleOS. Building a bunch of fun (to me at least lol) tools to help with this! Here's some charts of where we're starting at. Asterix is the codename for P2D, Obelix = PT2.
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Eric Graves
Eric Graves@EricGravesKMBC·
Kansas City now has a 121 y/o bridge with a restaurant, event venue and huge public space stretching across the Kansas River. Rock Island Bridge might be the most unique spot in KC. The founder says it’s a “steel park with amenities.” We’ll tell you all about it on @kmbc.
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