You can follow along with the video with these interactive versions of my circular slide rules. Drag the wheels around, click on the center of the pointer to rotate it horizontal for easy reading: https://osresearch.github.io/sunwheel/rule.svg and https://osresearch.github.io/sunwheel/haversine.svg
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Are you interested in learning more about finding your position with a sextant and my slide rules?Are you interested in learning more about finding your position with a sextant and my slide rules? Are you curious how to calculate the current time based on the position of the moon? Do you want to hear me say "uhm" a lot? Then you might enjoy this poorly produced followup to my #39c3 talk explaining some of the more complicated bits of celestial navigation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcTrZdWb5fc
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Just acquired a new tester and it has shown me that so many of my USB cables are lies.Just acquired a new tester and it has shown me that so many of my USB cables are lies.
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There was a #39c3 talk on PTP that looked interesting, but had ai slop images and the presenter said they used chatgpt to code some of their presentation (and which they blamed when that part of the demo failed).There was a #39c3 talk on PTP that looked interesting, but had ai slop images and the presenter said they used chatgpt to code some of their presentation (and which they blamed when that part of the demo failed). And this morning there was a potentially neat article about hosting websites on a SPARC1, which diverged into unrelated MCP sloperations, so the whole article is suspect and not worth sharing. More disappointing evidence for the #DeadInternetTheory...
