James Magahern

This was today's Famous Diff

Locomotion - 2002 - Latin America

Same here

Home of Actor Wesley Snipes, Windermere, Florida, 1997

Building Your NEO

Looks like a giant AirPods case

Imagine if codex existed in 2012

the excitement of old tray CD drive because it was the one programmable motor in your PC that you could use to do something in the real world

Craziest iPhone video ever taken

@Gralgrenadier @kiryussideburns @353dayseggos It’s supposed to look like a tongue, actually. Like “mother tongue” 口👅

@kiryussideburns @353dayseggos Aso looks like a mouth making sounds. Kind of?

guy in front of me left the atm in chinese but i found the language button because one of the characters was 言

@wesbos We ran a kitchen computer for many years. Guests love it!

I’m bringing back the kitchen computer

@jazzychad @_chuckyc @DeepDishSwift LOVE the Flynn’s jacket! Can’t wait for Encom OS 18

Welp @_chuckyc got some amazing shots of me during my @DeepDishSwift talk 😂 I had an amazing time giving my talk!

@micsolana @braelyn_ai You gotta eat it while it's hot. It goes from amazing to mid as it gets to room temperature

@braelyn_ai tasted like school cafeteria pizza but big and gooey

joined a san francisco pizza crawl this weekend, investigating most of the top spots. results fyi:

blossom in Utah Deserts

America’s next leap is underway.. Godspeed Artemis II 🇺🇸

Liftoff. The Artemis II mission launched from @NASAKennedy at 6:35pm ET (2235 UTC), propelling four astronauts on a journey around the Moon. Artemis II will pave the way for future Moon landings, as well as the next giant leap — astronauts on Mars.

Maaannn, I wonder if anyone kept any of those big OSX windows from the second picture. I'd pay top dollar for the finder window.

Those wheels you’re looking at are 0.75 millimeters thick. That’s half the thickness of a US dime. Each one was carved from a single block of aluminum, and NASA sent six of them to Mars knowing they’d eventually shred. Curiosity was built for a 2-year mission. It landed in August 2012, and by December that year NASA had already extended the mission indefinitely. Thirteen years and 35.5 kilometers later, the rover is still going, but the wheels started cracking just 14 months in. The damage came faster than anyone at JPL predicted. Sharp embedded rocks were punching straight through the skin between the treads. So NASA assembled a Wheel Wear Tiger Team (a crisis problem-solving tradition that goes back to Apollo 13) and got to work. In 2017, they uploaded a traction control algorithm from Earth that adjusts each wheel’s speed in real time based on the terrain, reducing force on the front wheels by 20%. They rerouted the rover to softer ground and started driving backward when possible, because pulling wheels over rocks produces less force than pushing them into rocks. The wildest part: if enough treads snap off, Curiosity is designed to find a sharp rock on Mars and use it to deliberately rip out the damaged inner section of its own wheel. JPL tested this on a replica rover and found Curiosity can keep driving on just the outer third. They predict this won’t be needed until around 2034. Every 1,000 meters, the rover pulls over and uses the camera on its robotic arm to photograph its own wheels so engineers on Earth can count every crack. Each wheel also has tiny holes that spell “JPL” in Morse code, which Curiosity uses to measure distance by photographing its own tracks in the dirt. These photos directly changed the next rover. When NASA built Perseverance, engineers 3D-printed about 70 different tread designs before landing on 48 curved treads instead of Curiosity’s 24, with thicker skin. They tested the new wheels over 60 kilometers and got zero damage by Curiosity’s original failure definition. “A boring graph with no data on it,” as one JPL engineer put it. A $2.5 billion machine doing self-surgery with rocks on another planet because the mission outlasted its design by 6x.

Today marks 25 years since Apple launched Mac OS X.