Udi Falkson

You all are overthinking your side projects. >This guy made digital balls physically bounce off real objects/sticky notes using just a webcam, a projector, and JavaScript. Go build something fun. (via ig/bongyunng)

Trump: I hang out with losers because it makes be feel better. I hate guys that are very, very successful and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people that like to listen to my success.

not sure there is a greater indication of where the future is headed than China devoting its entire industrial capacity to mass producing solar panels and cheap electric cars while America destroys all its wind farms due to the personal whims of one retard during an oil crisis

Andy Weir announced a new novel with "no details yet" Brother we already know: regular guy gets stuck somewhere impossible, MacGyvers his way out with real science, makes us laugh while we ugly cry, and we all finish it at 3am on a Tuesday. Take my money.

@janrosenow When are u gonna learn? How many more times has to happen? It's not gonna be lineal. It never is.

The background noise in open offices, in multiple experiments, decreases the ability to do analytical work, increase bugs in software, and decrease the ability to find bugs. Open floor plans are just a bad idea for any solo work.

This is central banking in a nutshell: A group of rich guys go to the king and say: "Hey, you need money for your war. We'll give you all the money you want." The king says: "Great, where's the money?" They say: "We're going to make it up. We'll write numbers in a book and that's your money now." The king says: "What do I owe you?" They say: "You pay us back with interest." The king says: "Where do I get that money?" They say: "You tax your citizens." The king says: "What if I can't pay it all back?" They say: "That's fine. We'll lend you more. Same deal." The king says: "And what do you do with the IOUs I gave you?" They say: "We use them to prove we have money, so we can lend even more money to other people and charge them interest too." The king says: "So you made up money, lent it to me, I tax my people to pay you back, and then you use my debt to make up even more money and lend it to everyone else?" They say: "Yes." The king says: "What did it cost you?" They say: "Nothing." That's literally how the Bank of England started in 1694. The Bank was formed to finance King William's war with France. The king gave the Bank a charter, granting it a monopoly on money. The king could have as much money as he wanted. The bankers could always earn interest. Taxpayers covered the bill. Now replace "king" with "United States Government" and you have the Federal Reserve in 1913. Same story, different country. It doesn't end there. 185 central banks exist in the world today. Across the globe, the governments get as much money as they want, the bankers load their pockets with interest, and the taxpayers pay for it all. Oh, and if you don't pay your taxes, they'll fine you, penalize you, or throw you in jail. The ONLY way out of this is to STOP USING THEIR MONEY. As long as you're using the money that central banks control, the central banks will have control. You have to stop giving them energy. Use a different form of money that they can't control. This is why Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin.

Incumbent German electricity suppliers said in 1993 that renewables could not provide more than 4% of electricity in the long run. In 2025, renewables provided 55.9% of Germany's electricity — 14 times the predicted ceiling.

You guys like my new bumper sticker?

Wild figures in two decades of EIA retrospective data. Solar getting it wrong gets all the airplay. But the consistent underestimation of natural gas exports and the speed of coal's collapse are just as striking, even at 3-5 year horizons.

@patrickc @SoundPrintapp

Have wanted something like this for ages — it looks great.

@kaifpanwer @patrickc We put a lot of effort into calibration of the db meter using phones. Pretty accurate. Data is crowd sourced from SoundPrint users via their phones.

@patrickc how would they monitor it? would they place a active condenser mic? decibel depends on what mic you're using and what interface. even on 92 db one, if you place a supercardioid it would sound very quite.

@JoshSchoen @patrickc It works great internationally

@patrickc I want this for the whole world; one reason why Japan is so pleasant

First time in history, an oil crisis isn’t strengthening the system—it’s accelerating the exit 1973, 1979, 2008… every shock reinforced oil This time? We’ve got an off-ramp: EVs, solar, batteries Crisis → electrify → less oil The system doesn’t recover… it gets replaced

.@SPeitsch: "And they tell us that waiting 20 years to build a new nuclear power plants isn’t a stall tactic to bind capital and prolong the use of fossil fuels. Solar pays for itself in 3 to 5 years, and then you can take all that money and invest it in more solar." 🌞🌞🌞

I've never seen anyone make this Bitcoin argument before: People see Bitcoin as a replacement for fiat. But what if you flipped it around? What if fiat was the replacement for Bitcoin? Imagine Bitcoin is the monetary standard. It’s the money that’s been normal since birth. Decentralized. No one controls it. Can't be inflated. Runs on math and energy. Same rules for everyone, no exceptions. Now someone walks in and pitches you a replacement: "We're going to let a small group of bankers and politicians control the money supply. They can print as much as they want, whenever they want. It'll lose purchasing power every single year. And if you don’t play by their rules, they’ll fine you, penalize you, or throw you in jail.” Would you opt in? Would anyone? The only people that would opt in are the bankers and politicians, the same people who decided that fiat would be money in the first place. Think about that. You never had a choice. You were never given a vote. It was only up to them. Fiat — by decree. The fiat system goes back over 100 years — and central banking goes back even further. That system has entrenched itself into society. It’s created economic schools around its ideas. It’s built entire industries around profiting from it. And it’s made itself the default so no one thinks to question it. Bitcoin is not the crazy idea. Fiat is. It’s just been running so long that people have normalized it, so when an alternative monetary system pops up, people call it crazy. When you flip the script and view the world from the Bitcoin lens, the ridiculousness of fiat becomes obvious. Simply stated... If Bitcoin had come first, nobody would agree to fiat.

made my computer dramatically play BBC news music before every meeting

In 3 yrs this #solar installation at an Arkansas high school turned the district’s budget from a $250K deficit to a $1.8 million surplus. They're using the surplus to pay teachers more We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #ClimateAction #climate #NoWarNoWarming