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Where can we buy your Calendars.com Reviews Calendar? Google search for "Calendars.com Reviews Calendar" is unhelpful...

#wirelesscharging What are the considerations for designing very small size and low current receiver coils for wearables?

Any advice or reference designs for using very small coils (<10mm x 10mmm) for charging coin-cell powered wearables?

As of today, every passenger car in Manhattan is an Uber. The last private car left via the Willis Ave bridge at about 11AM this morning.

Ok, you can now buy lasers for $0.25 each. What can you make with 1,000 lasers? amzn.to/1VIa13V

Sandblasting with Magic Sand is crazy expensive, but you never have to worry about clumping! (cleanup prettier too)

Bywater NOLO = Willaimsburg NYC (culture) + Seaside FL (collor palette)

#soulcycle, #bywater style

Industry City = Navy Yard + Chelsea Market

After watching youtube videos at 1.5x speed, everything sounds like a slow broken record. Even inner monologue. Weeeeirrdddd.

Happy day! GitHub finally lets you fork your own projects!

Dooh! Spoke too soon - pushing button does nothing. Luckily a simple work-around here bitdrift.com/post/453473893…

We do not deserve the magic of #TimeDomainReflectometry...

To save energy, bikes should always yield to cars unless the bike is going 10x faster than the car. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum

Identifying consumptive events from large impulse changes in measured mass data series

Automatic PR makeup water valves are the empty catch blocks of the plumbing world #javaeverywhere

I know she is just code, but barking orders at Alexa still feels wrong.

Boilers are so hot right now.#chpnow

"Those ain't fried. They're basically just some cucumbers with spices. Y'all still want them?" -our Applebee's server in GA. Really.

How can you profit from the coming #augmentedreality revolution? Sell short crown molding manufacturers.

Refreshing to see so many local & seasonal vendors popping up at MD&M East this year!

There is no Great pallet collar Stagnation.

Oh to be a fly on the wall at the meeting after an audit turned up “irregularities” in compressed air usage...

Crops grown with light from LEDs powered by solar panels. Seems like there must be *some* way to optimize this.... qz.com/705398/the-pri…

Wait, that looks just like your house...

I don' think that would work. The plants would not get enough light because of the shadows from the panels.

There is no brooklyn local non-dairy gluten-free vegan great stagnation! Hell no there ain't! #wffs16

The only time you will ever see less than an hour long line at the food counter at Jacob Javits is during #wffs16

Regional security dinner theater: The bike-sniffing dog on the Staten Island Ferry.

It totally depends on the factory. Some run continuously for years, others 20% fail after 100 hours.

Biggest problem is bad process control on internal potting. Dirt or cracks can kill the chip or snap the bondout wires.

PVC or ABS? Nail polish remover! wp.josh.com/2014/02/28/nak…

tfw you talk to to a stranger for 5 mins before you realize you've worked together for years...but known only by github handles. @hopeconf

"1 star. server barely spoke english. service was so slow we ended up leaving before the soup came."

We are in PEAK NYC right now. Enjoy it. Someday will we tell our grandchildren about the magic that was and they will not believe us.

How many hours does it take to get Crystal Reports running in Visual Studio 2003 running on WinXP running in VirtualBox running on Win10? 4.

So you want to the same people who brought us TSA Security Theater to start making the rules around voting? Really?

A handsome semi-permeable fence. Blocks cycles and cars while easily passing pedestrians. @city_objects #Glasgow

Yes, you can step through, maybe bending forward a bit if you are tall. Easier than it sounds.

The Glasgow Cycle Park is not at all the thrilling clockwise-running velodrome I was expecting.

Dear Microsoft, it is never ever ok to suddenly reboot someone's computer while they are in the middle of something.Who thought this was ok?

A baroque British bike blocker. The fence inside swings so no possible way to push a bike though, but easy to walk.

UK teapots boil in seconds with 240V AC. Want to wire one up in USA. Maybe unsafe because the neutral would be hot?

Municipal grit dispenser. We could have used a few of these in Times Square in the late '90s.

Lots of unnecessary welding just to avoid a right angle. I guess it really isn't hip to be square. #urbanoutfitters

Shocking and unprecedented impact of global climate change... No line for fresh mozzarella! #Hermine

No one showed up for I Am Legend day at the Holland Tunnel today. #emptynyc #Hermine #nophotoshop

If your Nest Protect turns yellow and looses its Wifi link and starts talking about fires, REMOVE BATTERIES NOW. I warned you. #Nest

New citibike beta app can unlock a bike with your phone! Slower than card, but if you left it at home.. #citibikenyc

Test your strength! Come play the #PIXELSTRIKER at #MakerFaire !

Did you loose your drivers licence? I found one with your name on it tonight.

So often,so frustrating. Camera proves they were never actually here. Wish Amazon would let me pay extra for UPS upgrade.

PixleStriker video
youtu.be/Fok8Mg7bFa4

If all software is unpatentable because it is ""a form of language", how about chips that are designed as VHDL? Objects built in OpenSCAD?

Anyone out there have any editorial connections at Instagram? I have a photo that I really think would make a perfect post for their system.

Seen this oldie but goodie Microchip app note? You can even use the internal clamping diodes as rectifiers. ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/A…

So far the camera on the new #PixelXL is disappointing. With 5 days of casual use, the images don't even seem to be as good as S7.

Full truck to NYC, meets fleet of last-mile bikes just outside tunnel, returns directly home empty-no traffic. #HybridUrbanDistribution

Where have all the crackheads gone? Serious question. Went from seeing 1/block to 1/year. Did other less visible drugs displace crack?

Any way to see this in NYC, or too late? Thx!

Deposition and subsequent erosion of industrial pharmaceutical processes.

All SSLs are free now, thanks to google's war on HTTP. letsencrypt.org wp.josh.com/2016/04/01/goo…

Sensory deprivation tank discovery: My body is actually covered in dozens of tiny stinging cuts and scrapes that are masked by normal life.

You know you have teenage girls when your first google suggestion for "H" is "High School Musical Bad Lip Reading" youtube.com/watch?v=BVQSr8…

Businesswomen: 1) does the phase of your cycle impact any of your skills (negotiating, managing, creativity), 2) do u schedule around this?

Bike lane Miami style: The shoulder of a six lane interstate. Trucks wizzing past your head at 80mph even worse than you think it would be.

Next AR short sale: Makeup manufacturers. Question: Who gets to pick AR makeup, wearer or viewer? #personalreality

Steal art off museum walls with google's new Photoscan app. play.google.com/store/apps/det…

orionwelders.com So amazing. You want one. I want one.I have a crappy Chinese knockoff, but not the same. Let's DYI one!

The burger wars are over.... cows lost. If u are a skeptical NYC vegetarian, get in touch and I'll change your mind. beyondmeat.com/products/view/…

Occasionally (literally). You?

"Native Americans used email much as we do today..." #historyrepeats

Will definitely watch, but anyone can USB on ARM. Real hack to USB on AVR 8-bit in 2K! obdev.at/products/vusb/…

Sex:Birth Control :: Food:X.
X is what I want for XMAS, science.
Please?

In 5 years, CGI actors will be more realistic and cheaper than live ones. Who will take the place of movie stars in pop culture worship?

VR SHORT: $100+ ticket to sit in uncomfortable Bway seat and watch same show every night.
VR LONG: Must be there like #blueman & Stomp.

josh.com/sale.htm
Lmk if interested!

There will be no energy hog CG render farms in 5y. Movies will be distributed as tessellated triangles and texture maps.

Million$ idea: Make a lightweight $0.10 blinking LED gadget that takes common size lithium cell w/easy to open case. law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/49/17…

Wishing Github let you make file diff plug-ins. They could be written in JS and make diffing PCB boards, SVG images, PDF files, etc so nice.

Holey handtrucks, that's a lot of jerky! 4,408 units! It will take me WEEKS to eat it all by myself. Please help. coconutjerky.net/#featured

Solder as a structural building material.

When NSA cameras see everything, maybe bail should be getting scanned into a 3D facial recognition database rather than bucks. #CLOSErikers

How long is one millionth of a year? Guess before you click. google.com/#q=(1+years)+%…. Crystals this accurate cost only $3. DS32kHz Amazing.

CW&T Pen Type-B + Nomatic Notebook is the new iPad Pro+. #highlowtech shop.cwandt.com/products/pen-t… nomatic.com/pages/notebook…

I love #frinklang every day. How long can a 6 digit seconds counter run? Takes 1 second to find out. Thanks Frink! frinklang.org/fsp/frink.fsp?…

I propose combining western Greenpoint, Billburg, and Navy Yard into a single geo-unit called "The Kickstarter Koriddor". #wherestartupsgo

Saw a bike make an Uber hit him. Leaned into it hard. Made door dent. I hate getting cut off by too, but this feels like the wrong response.

Where is my machine learning app so I can creamate my kids at RoShamBo? GENERATION OF RANDOM SEQUENCES BY HUMANS citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/downlo…

SILICON SLUT: One who goes out and rebuilds a project on PIC, ARM, and MSP430 - only to go back to AVR because, well, it is comfortable.#avr

"Power received on earth from a GPS satellite (-160 dBW) is as bright as a flashlight in LA would look in NYC." telluriantech.com/pdf/john-vig-c…

"What is one part in 10 billion?
~1/2 cm out of the circumference of the earth.
~1/4 second per human lifetime ."
telluriantech.com/pdf/john-vig-c…

Chip scale atomic clocks are rated in parts-per-billion/G of acceleration/axis. Typical is 0.1ppb/G = ~900ns/day! jackson-labs.com/index.php/prod…

Matchbox size atomic clock accurate to 1ms/year is real. In stock today at Arrow for $4,961.84, with free shipping! arrow.com/en/products/09…

Juries come from a random sample of the general public, so why do we elect and appoint judges? Why not have "judge duty" for all lawyers?

It might! If not then likely becuase they changed the based address of the serial port, so should be an easy fix.

"Once you've been a principal, you technically are not supposed to back to being a stand-in... but everyone has done it" -Pro SAG stand-in

Great! Can you point me to instructions to what you did to help others? Thanks!

Seems like some company or govt agency should offer to buy you a new bike when you overflow your odometer, right? abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline…

1foot is not safe distance for Arduino from big coils/big currents. I bet GE goes though drawers of them just to prototype one MRI machine!

Who needs CGI when we have NYC?! I've been biking this city for decades and never seen this b4 google maps sent me this way 2day.

Under the Triboro Bridge on Randal's Island. My new favorite way to come home from the Bronx! goo.gl/maps/VY2s7Vztc…

Leads you to this magic bridge to the city...

Currently (pun intended) working on capacitive strategy. Want to make >1MHz >100V <1mA sin(). Ideas?

Could use a time machine so I can go get this from my grandma's neighbor's bench in 1975...

Anyone remember when the world was copper and talking on the phone just felt easier? They say 50ms latency imperceptible, but I can feel it.

THE INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION. I also remember a Bell Labs document once apon a time... itu.int/rec/dologin_pu…

#realmagic when you can upload a file to a factory in China on Mon morning and hold the physical object in your hand Thu afternoon. #pcbway

Still lending! seaporttools.org

I think about bitcoin (and value transfer systems in general) often! Why do you ask?

#Beaglebone yard. Ask me why you should not use this board if you expect things to work when you power them up.

ML8511 UV Sensor
sparkfun.com/products/12705

Yikes! Email from dse@docusgn.com (not dse@docusign.com - see the difference?) Not normal phish though - knows my docusign account info!

Eat your heart out Apple-this is the nicest designed object I touched today. Such care in every detail - executed without waste or fuss.

I'll give you a nickel if you can figure out what this elegant and quirky device was designed to do. You'll say OF COURSE when I tell you..!

You read it here first folks!...

"DocuSign confirms customer emails were stolen and used in phishing campaign"

forbes.com/sites/leemathe…

Well that was fast! 19th Cent umbrella lock in the amazing General Society of Mechanic's Library. @alexaitch @goddon00 & @SmallInhaler win!

Ever seen this #PCBFAIL? Hardware equivalent of a compiler bug. Pad on PCB is rotated from gerber file, caused a short. So hard to find!

That #troxes moment when everything finally fits perfectly together. kickstarter.com/projects/10592…

#lightpainting circa 1987 via #oldskool LPT port. 8-bit parallel was more than fast enough. Even had input for end-of-arc sync trigger.

There is something deeply unsatisfying about writing great code that only you will ever use...

Unexpected beauty in a taxi service depot in Queens

This time a tool to configure a one-of-kind hardware device. Lots of people use the device, but only has to be configured once, and by me.

I have a very handy micro-table saw. Set the fence to line up with the welded seam and then rolled the lights over the blade.

Dremel or even hacksaw would probably work too but make a mess.

TAAS circa 1900. A special signal went out over telegraph lines in the minutes leading up to each hour to sync all minutes hands in the USA.

Network Latency SLA circa 1900: Although transmission is practically instant, a 0.1s delay may be added by the relays in use on long lines.

Potentially lethal EMF induced by the iron in the hemoglobin in your blood flowing though _extreme_ magnetic field. engineering.dartmouth.edu/~d76205x/resea…

Seriously #Microsoft , if you want to break up just say so, but you gotta stop with these passive-aggressive attacks out of nowhere.

All the UPS power, RAID drives, and ECC memory on earth can not prevent your OS from *intentionally* loosing your work. #hatefulUX

Make my #FANUC a (Series 0i-)PFANUC, I wanna get FANUCed up. fanuc.co.jp/en/product/cnc… (it's a CNC punchpress controller)

No Wifi router can go more than a month in my closet before failure, yet #FANUC makes a computer that goes 52 years MTBF on a factory floor.

Don't know 4 sure, but pins and specs match up and this chip common on super cheap stuff in China, so likely the culprit.

#cookiedingler OMG, how can this be so damn good!? And it gets better and better every year! Nous t'aimons, Cookie! youtube.com/watch?v=y7Yyrt…

The future of retail today at EWR. All self checkout,no humans,no lines. So nice. Here 1st due to security labor costs, but everywhere soon.

The future of food service is now at EWR. Self order. No wait staff, no waiting. So nice. Humans still cook and serve... but not for long.

The future of retail now at EWR. All self checkout,no humans...no lines. So nice. Here 1st due to security labor costs, but everywhere soon.

US has built 1,152 prisons in the past 32 years...covering 600sq miles, an area about 1/2 the size of RI #veraRss x.com/verainstitute/…

Seen it enough to know every line by heart, but each time I'm convinced that *this* time he is going to actually kiss her, right? #mrdarcy

There are only two RADAR uses nowdays-autonomous cars and army fire control systems.Source:attendees 2017 MIT Small Radar Systems class

Majority of MIT tourists are from China. How many Americans would make a visit to a top foreign technical university part of our vacations?

Best part about MIT? The retail *soldering* department at Micro Center! Open 'till 9PM! If I designed the world, every 7-11 would have this.

City corn.

More corn porn. With Verizon building.

How thew frick do you prototype w/something like this?!? Not a rhetorical question! BTW, amazing 2PPM 1uA oscillator digikey.com/product-detail…

No heat for this little guy - we want to minimize unit-to-unit variation. Looking at the two part stuff, used it? Stable over decades?

Sub micro-amp circuits are hard. Attaching 1Mohm scope probe to output increases current by 7uA. Just breathing nearby increases it by 1uA!

NYC residential $/sf will regress to the mean when #AR turns every blank wall into floor to ceiling windows with park(,river,skyline) views.

#AR sideeffect: power use drops by 279 billion annual kilowatthours when people stop bothering to turn on the lights eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq…

How do you keep far apart clocks in sync over decades on microwatts of power? TXCOs get you to parts-per-million, but to do better gets hard x.com/cwandt/status/…

New Job: Designing acid trips for #AR. Mix of programming generative visual transformations and scripting an open-ended adventure game.

Why would you drop acid when an #AR experience could be more vivid and spectacular - and you can pull the pug at any time? Honest question.

Acid trips in #AR could be shared experiences where everyone sees and hears the same hallucinations together. "Remember when saw the...?!?"

I understand how it works, I wrote the code that makes it work, but I still can't believe this actually does work!!! youtube.com/watch?v=ix66tQ…

Looks like #citibikenyc rolled out a new scheme to try to stop people from sharing an account by making sure they are physically present...

Like most protection schemes, this one does not stop determined cheaters, only frustrates loyal customers (Im standing on top of the kiosk)

Lightning Port licencing fee revenue?

It is possible to ride your bike to LGA from Manhattan and even lock up there. Sometimes faster, always more predictable than cab or bus.

Many reasons why I think you really want the URL to be attached to the file, rather than embedded inside the file... blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jerrydixon/200…

I want a bike bridge right here, don't you? Should we do a Kickstarter? thirteen.org/metrofocus/201…

How to profit from the #AutonomousVehicles revolution: short urban parking lots with market rate leaseholds.

Absolutely no way you could tell that this massive building along Brooklyn's Kickstarter Koriddor is Amazon. #InconspicuousConsumption

The only reveal on Kickstarter's massive and lovely Brooklyn HQ is the subtle buzzer button by the doorway #InconspicuousConsumption

Who eats the 520 basis points when I pay my taxes with a credit card that has 2.5% cashback? Is this the next US Mint Direct Dollar program?

Dear @uber: Where is my UberBOAT for trips like this? Can you pick me up at 79th Street basin? Please? I'm not joking.

beaerospace.com/products/struc… OMG these things are so amazingly strong and light.

$300 on ebay if willing to drive to VA...ebay.com/itm/Honeycomb-…

TFW you find a great 5 year old answer to your current problem on @StackExchange ... and then see that *you* wrote it! :)

Can you find the bug in this simple #Arduino code? When run, the pixel color doesn't change. Cruel answer here... wp.josh.com/arduinobug

Non-Cartesian building washing system

email me a dsn file and I'll give it a go!

Moving most to ALLPCB lately. Great for 2 layer, 0.006. Occasional WTF problem, but worth it. Easy to place orde. Upload gerbers to China Sunday night, have boards in NYC Thursday afternoon. So crazy cheap it changes the game. Now sometimes blindly order PCB and skip breadboard.

Was happy enough with bare PCBs over last month that I just sent them a PCBA run. So shockingly cheap and fast, I won't believe it is true until boards show up! Game changer if it works. :)

Sure! Where are you located? How did you know I've worked on these? :)

100 boards (35mmx40mm, 6 lines, 18 placements, 1 side)
11 calendar days from file upload to boards in NYC (parts pre-staged)
$2.80 per board (fab+PCBA)
1 minor defect (part moved during reflow)

...I'd call it a game-changing success!

If there are multiple suppliers behind ALLPCB then that is hidden from me. I have a single contact with @allpcb.com address and boxes all come from same place and are branded with ALLPCB logo on the sides.

Maybe you started at pcbshopper.com (or similar) and ended up on ALLPCB.com?

I put in my first order to allpcb.com on 4/10/2017 and it was in the current state then, and looks like it was that way since at least 11/19/2016. Maybe slightly different domain? Check your cache! :)
web.archive.org/web/2016111915…

Ah! I see this page, which suggests that they *did* have a comparison system running at some point! Maybe this was a marketing tool to show how cheap they were compared to others rather than a feeder marketplace? Interesting! allpcb.com/compare_pcb_pr…

Sorry, I don't remember. That was a while ago!

USPS don't-put-your-bombs-in-our-boxes device. Ineffective against the perceived threat, but at least simple and cheap and cute!

This is josh from downstairs at 39 W 68th St. I'd love to talk to you about renting your apartment. Get in touch. Thanks!

Is there any way to short bitcoin where the counterparty risk is less than than the actual upside risk? All the existing margin and contract providers seem like they are likely to blow up when this all comes down, so double whammy no bucks!

Anyone want to write me a bitcoin put as an Etherium smart contract? Oh wait... never mind.

So if I do manage to short bitcoin and then I disclose a vulnerability, does the SEC come after me for insider trading (You had material non-public info)? Or fraud (We don't understand what happened, but u made money)? Or DOJ? Maybe I go long instead? :)

How you do nerd monitor graffiti in the 80's.

How you do a screen shot in the mid 80's

Great source of entropy on AVR: Watchdog timer versus main oscillator. Random and different unit to unit and over time.

Sure! Ask questions in the comments section on the project web page!

How hard can you over drive an LED with pulses to get bright flashing? Heat buildup is one limit, but there are others. Interestingly, bond wire fusing is always a *secondary* failure, only after the silicon has short circuited. Great CREE white paper...
cree.com/led-components…

With all the XBT futures chaff in the air, everyone else seems to have missed the arb opportunity of the century.

A different kind of #ICO. No cost to participate, guaranteed $2,500 cash payout on Jan1 2018. Open to anyone with a great idea. ico-irl.com

A String of Ikea Puppies ©2017 josh

RT @hackaday: Seems #Fingerlings were not only sought after by kids... @bigjoshlevine did a hardware teardown to reveal some… https://t.co/…

Agreed, and you don't need a blockchain (or even a computer) to make a four-corners smart contract. josh.com/LawDact.htm

Apparently a misguided moderator on a rampage can unilaterally delete a whole slew of your Stack Exchange answers in a stroke and then they are gone from the world. Wow. I will not waste any more time writing helpful answers there. (BTW, there were no links at all in this answer)

8th Experiment That Could Change The World
Set up your farm of quantum generated nonce bitcoin miners so 50% send TXFEE to orphans, other 50% to puppy killers. Now god has a way to interact without breaking laws of physics. LMK what he says! #RupertSheldrake

"Jack in the Box CEO Leonard Comma told an industry crowd that "it just makes sense" to swap cashiers for inanimate machines in the year 2018...as it's the year that Jack in the Box's home state of California increases the minimum wage to $11."
businessinsider.com/jack-in-the-bo…

I totally dyslexianated this title as “Applications are now open for the Flying Nano Car degree program!” and was ready to sign up!

Datasheet claims these batteries will not only still be physically intact, but will still retain 95% capacity after 20 years. I'd be skeptical, but they've been making them since 1989- and batteries in general since 1896. energizerholdings.com/company/our-le…

It is possible for batteries to function even longer than this! Centuries! Would be fun to power the TSL off a sulfur encased Zamboni dry pile, but I'd imagine there would be shipping issues. :) youtube.com/watch?v=1Dx1-f…

Not said sarcastically! We have learned much about creating clear code since C was invented.

Apple was not always so slick and shiny.

This is from the hardscrabble Apple Certified Developer brochure circa 1983.

"...support will include the use of Electronic Mail to answer questions general information." [sic]

josh.com/jgephemera/App…

I think if there was a rule that horns had to be as loud inside the vehicle as they are outside, then there would be a lot less honking.

Yes. Vague memory of a project in Byte Magazine decades ago where they made a digital camera out of a UV erasable EEPROM by setting all the bits and then focusing an image onto the die and watching which bits got erased. Maybe Steve Circia? So many amazing ideas in those pages!

OOOH! Found it! The Micro D-Cam used RAM, but same idea should work for EEPROM just much much slower and you need a UV transparent lens...

Each bit in UV-EPROM memory is held in a cell made of physical transistors, so as long as the transistors are far enough apart that you can isolate a single one to expose, then you can erase it. Easy to test with an old skool windowed EPROM! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPROM

Wow, Fairway supermarket POS reads my chip card in less than 1 second! I'd always assumed delay everywhere else was part of the hardware or protocol. Why does @WholeFoods make every checkout be 5-10 seconds longer than it needs to be?!

I found a nice Easter Egg in YouTube!

1. Turn on Autoplay
2. Watch 99 Luftballons
3. Click though to the suggestion for Rock Me Amadeus

...now sit back while YouTube systematically plays the best 50 music video ever made!

It really works folks!

youtube.com/watch?v=cVikZ8…

Took 20 years, but today is the day that I finally realized that the riff loop under Dick Almighty is The Man Machine!
Makes me love *both* twice as much!
youtube.com/watch?v=Mkd7Lb…
youtube.com/watch?v=O2MEI5…

Wow, I finally understand gyroscopic procession!
Do you really have an intuitive sense of why this happens?

youtube.com/watch?v=n5bKzB…

Need a battery clip with a 2 micron hard gold plate over a palladium base? Skip Guangdong and head down to ViJays's House Of Plating on 47th Street!... @cwandt #makeithereNYC

Anytime you hear aggressive hawkers hawking, you know there are massive information asymmetries in the air, and sellers collecting excess profits. Examples:
1) Taxi pickup area at LGA.
2) Diamond dealers on 47th street.
3) Italian restaurants on Mulberry st.

Ikea puppy & panda abattoir fail.

Kids today say full stack, but the September 1983 issue of Byte Magazine had articles on designing CMOS integrated circuits, and designing algorithms to schedule operational business processes. That's full stack! archive.org/stream/byte-ma…

If there is no detectable difference between a copy and the original... does it matter?

The 4th autocomplete for "oil crisis 1973" is "in hindi". Insight anyone? Why are Indians searching on this now?

It is a brain bug in legacy code. We have lots of them.
Ethics question: If someone gets real happiness from believing they own the authentic ball pitched in the 1976 world series, the ball real ball was destroyed, the one they have is identical, and only you know about it...

BREAKING NEWS: Potential Vanguard and Fidelity leak!??

Is it possible that both could happen simultaneously? Maybe both use some common 3rd party who has access to account info?

Did you get this spam? Do you have a Vanguard or Fidelity account?
wp.josh.com/2013/03/14/sur…

Hmmm... Would love to TaskRabbit replacing 600 0606 LEDs on some boards, but can't find category for fine pitch PCB rework....

Relativistic geodesy is a thing.
"A clock-based approach to geodesy... requires high clock performance: a fractional frequency accuracy of 1 × 10−17 corresponds to a resolution of about 10 cm in height."
#realmagic
nature.com/articles/s4156…

Unintended consequences. You realize the disruption that would cause to all the good folks currently living in North Carolina (South Carolina)? Oh, the mis-delivered Amazon package apocalypse that would ensue. I think there was a Twilight Zone about this.

Why does everyone on my block leave their AC window units in all winter?
NYC law: "Building owners are legally required to provide heat... the inside temperature is required to be at least 68 degrees Fahrenheit."
www1.nyc.gov/site/hpd/rente…
#CostShiftingHurts

Yea, amazing how this still sucks so bad and no solution as good as Lookout was circa 2000. Today I periodically migrate emails from Outlook to MailStore Home for archive and historical searching. Not perfect, but good enough.
mailstore.com/en/products/ma…

The only thing I saw at the #toyfair this year that I wanted were these Ikea tables!

The machine that breaks a panel of printed circuit boards into individual printed circuit boards is called a "singulator".
fancort.com/Products/PCB-D…

Moving 4 desks 3 times in 2 years taught me 1 thing... I wish all my desks were #IKEA desks.

At 2:57PM today NYC hit a tragic tipping point. The subway is no longer a viable means of transportation. Sucks for the millions who can't switch to Citibike and Uber. :(

The most important spec that you will not find in the datasheet: tʀᴇᴘʟʏ MAX (max time between technical request and response - measured empirically).

#MaximInegrated: 0.5 days
#Microchip: 0.5 years

Based on the length of the lines, I expect jury duty is gonna be even more fun than Space Mountain!

MILLION DOLLAR TIP: If you have Jury Duty at 60 Centre Street, do not bring a bag. There is a secret no-bag line at the top of the stairs (you have to akwardly walk through the normal line, sorry). You just saved 15-30 mins of standing in the snow.

10,062,592 digits for sale on Amazon here...

amzn.to/2tLDrr3

Claim code WX33VOLN gets 10% off until midnight Pi Day.

4 million of them arrive in the USA each year with nothing, demanding that we feed and clothe them. They consume $634 billion/year in social services and then displace experienced and highly paid workers. They destroy our culture with their language and music. #NOMOREKIDS

I am a units freak. Check out the awesome Frink language if you are too. The obsessive and thoughtful attention to the tiniest detail is astounding. Every time I look, I find something like this down deep inside. These definitions are covered in sweat.

frinklang.org

$20 GPS module inside my brick box apartment
=vs=
Fancy Symmetricom+outdoor amplified antenna:
Agree within 1ms! (POC)

WOW! Possible to discipline a DS3231 to make a $30 RTC that uses <20uA and holds +/- 1s forever on 2xAA? @cwandt #realmagic amzn.to/2pl00NC

Anyone seen a GPS chip that does nothing but decode the timestamp from the C/A signal on any single satellite? So much less work than positioning, so should be very cheap and low power, right? More than good enough for RTC replacement that is self setting and correcting.

#nothingatforever21everfitsme

How did I never know about the `?w=1` option on Github? Add to the end of a commit URL to *not* see whitespace changes. Compare these two views to see how useful this!...
github.com/bigjosh/Move38…
github.com/bigjosh/Move38…

I have some gold bond wire in NYC if you are nearby. I also have a draw bar, but with gold you can't practice enough to get good results. :)

Did you find a place to easily buy new heads?! The couple places I found on the internet make you talk to a sales person, and I am allergic to the question "What was the target pricing you were looking for?"

These on my desk. "Dad, are you studding for a big test or something?" True story. #neverheardadialtone

NEW ONE-
B: Why r u honking at me?
C: So you get out of the way!
B: We are stopped at a red light on a 1 lane st, where r u going to go?
C: In front of you!
B: Why?!?!?
C; For your own good!
B: ???
C: ...so I don't run you over if you fall off your bike.
True story
#hatehonking

Memorizing display with of hundreds of pancake fans at Nike SOHO.

The social signaling from a $160 pair of Nikes and a $160K Porsche are so same in so many ways... and so different in so many others. #howIgoPlaces

"Game of the future" created in the MIT Media Lab, now available on Kickstarter (Final week!)
kickstarter.com/projects/jbobr…

RT @ProductHunt: Next Black Mirror episode? 🤔

An open-source board game system with a mind of its own 👀 producthunt.com/posts/blinks https://t.…

Just moved into a 7th floor apartment, and feeling like I should keep one of these in my closet... just in case. Good idea or bad?
amzn.to/2IOY6Oi

I only need to get to the next next roof down, but they make them up to 500' long.

Easy to swap out other light sources and also other targets? By fiddling with different wavelengths and moving a point source around the field maybe get some clues. Maybe try some 35mm film as target, again to see what changes to get some clues?

The Hudson river bike path has been similarly fenced off at 59th street for months...

If you pre-ordered the book Abundance by @PeterDiamandis directly from abundancethebook.com, then you probably got the spam below today. I hate it when people I do business with leak my email to spammers - intentionally or not. #surprisingspam
wp.josh.com/2013/03/14/sur…

Email best for me. Josh-iqq2p@joshreply.com

With the amazing precision of the new cheap GPS chips starting to show up in phones, this is starting to actually matter.
spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/tran…

If you want to get a feel for what programming will feel like in 20 years, play with the sketch solver in Fusion 360 or Onshape. Fully functional, immutable data, visual, no syntax, you specify constraints rather than steps. Just need recursion to be turning complete. #not.js

Old Skool distributed ledger: The classified ads of any well distributed newspaper. Once published, the data in the record can be independently verified by anyone at any library and can not be modified. Proven track record of 100's of years.

I so want Github for legal contracts! Forks, PR's (with discussion), rebase, open issues. Then all we'd need is a better language than English so we could have includes, defines, and scoping blocks...

Too nice of a bike path to keep behind locked fence for months

A bike ride over the 59th Street Bridge: Like smoking a pack of Marlboros, only louder.

I actually thought about jumping the barricades on the south end, but the sadness is that people who put these fences and barricades up don't care about the disruption to thousands of bikes and pedestrians every day. No one ever asked "Could we maybe NOT block this path so long?"

To who ever fixed this: Thank you from all the bikers and walkers... and baby gooses who can now finally use it again!

Nickel to the first person who can tell me why you'd make a toilet bowl rim with these tabs.

#LaThingsThatMakeYouGoHmmmm

Custom Locomotive Air Conditioners #LoveTheNiche
motiveequipment.com/locomotive-pro…

Carrier Trainer. Google "How to build an air conditioner" and all you get are people duct taping fans to ice boxes. Why are there more videos showing how to build an electron microscope than the simple but amazing refrigeration machines we all need?
#RefrigerationTechIsCool

Despite all the silly Wifi and screens bolted onto the front, crack open today's most advanced window AC unit and it looks almost identical to one from 20 years ago. Why is there no real innovation in this space with a market of 5+ million units per year? #RefrigerationTechIsCool

The most recent original DYI vapor phase refrigeration cycle project I can find is the Icy Ball from Scientific American 1927. crosleyautoclub.com/IcyBall/crosle… #RefrigerationTechIsCool

Bondic or similar UV cure plastic is precise and saves the mess and delay of mixing up epoxy. amazon.com/Bondic-SK8024-…

It is broke. AC uses a huge amount of power in the USA. Making window units even a few percent more efficient could have profound impact on the the grid, especially at peak demand times.

To find lots of cheap parts you can use for air conditioner hacking, search for home beer making equipment on Amazon. All it takes is a little brazing to turn a Wort Chiller into a Refrigerant Heat Exchanger. #RefridgerationTechIsCool

1. They are called bedpan lugs. They hold a bedpan while you wash it into the bowl.
2. Who cares, because OMG toilet-spotting is a thing! My new fav youtube celeb is Aidan The Vaughan Toilet Filmer2003!
#LoveTheNiche

youtube.com/watch?v=EQXS7Z…

You are correct, sir! Please DM me with your email address so I can PayPal you your well-earned nickel!

The illiteralization of the intellectual class has begun. It is a good thing.
wp.josh.com/2013/12/20/ill… x.com/zhonggg/status…

It's like the airlock on the space shuttle, but for a Schrader valve. So cool. #refriderationTechIsCool #loveTheNiche amzn.to/2sMNAA3

Legal documents accumulate technical debt just like computer programs do. My 2018 mortgage conveys interest in all chattel, including Coal Stokers and Dynamos,
...not that I would not want such coal stokers and dynamos were they attached to said premises!

Legal equivalent of 'using namespace Note'....
"Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned thereto in the Note."

There is no great industrial stepper motor precision demo stagnation.
#AdvMfgExpo

Those new dead remote control service sector jobs.

Mediocre food with friends tastes better than excellent food alone.

Vancouver's reliable 20 minute SkyTrain from city to check-in completely changes the equation for air travel. Why can't we have this in NYC? Oh yeah.... Taxi, limo, & parking lot lobby.

TFW you need this....

Clever bus only filter in Stockholm. I saw a cab try to sneak though it- he gave up and turned around after getting stuck like 5 times.

Nickle to the first person to correctly guess the function of this public service machine. Occasionally found in parks and housing complexes across Sweden. (Swedes not eligible) #simplemachines

We also thought bike rack at first, but it flips around and has that swinging piece on the side...

We also saw them inland, so not fish! :)

Yes Sir! It is a carpet beating rack! Apparently the fastidious and thrifty Scandinavians beat their floor coverings regularly enough to justify putting these in public places.

DM me next you are in NYC and I'll buy you a cup of coffee!

TFW you need this....

The Nybohov Funicular pulling into/upto the top station.

The pilot's chair in the cockpit of the Nybohov Funicular.

The flight path of the Nybohov Funicular

#dusk.space

Built it, and the fashion models will come. #thisisnewyork #duskspace

I've heard of those, but did not see any on my ride down. Maybe they cleared them out at some point? Fire hazard?

Paper "Time Delay Computer" for calculating the delay in the WWV signal broadcast by the ATS-3 satellite in the early 1970s. Long term accuracy better than 50µs was possible.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Better get this clock working soon or might be too late!

2019 NIST budget maybe kills WWV & WWVH?

"program reductions in FY 2019-including the shutdown of NIST radio stations in Colorado and Hawaii"
nist.gov/director/fy-20…

Only two more weeks to come lay in the grass and look up at the sky... inside a giant dome... in lower Manhattan! If you miss it this time, I can safely say there will never be another chance. #duskspace
dusk.space/info.html

Last chance to experience dusk under the dome in NYC before it is gone forever! #duskspace
dusk.space/info.html

Could Amtrak have the solution for the NYC and SF housing crisis?!
I just spent some time in a 23 square foot (!) Viewliner Roomette cabin and it would make a totally livable (even comfortable) apartment for 1 or 2 people.

Have you seen the grassy dome that landed in the seaport? Site specific public art at its best!

Why set up a data-center full of rack after rack of servers when you can buy a super computer and timeshare it? Those mini split systems are better than even a well designed and maintained whole building system (rare). And so much faster/cheaper/easier to fix when broken.

Device mounts into an open doorway so window washers to have something secure to tie off too.

Anyone know the function of the "condenser loop" in this old refrigerator? It seams to take high pressure liquid into the wall of the fridge, and then back out to the metering device. Why?

Lost key dutch bike version.

RT @TribecaTrib: Catch it while you can. This "remote country field" by @bigjoshlevine turns Peck Slip playful—and green. It closes Sept. 4…

The answer is in! This is a Yoder loop! It runs around the sealing edge of the freezer opening to keep it warm, which keeps ice from building up there! #refriderationTechIsCool

Hat tip to Bob Irelan and Mike Kelly. #thingsyoucantgoogle

quora.com/What-is-the-pu…

My advice to young men who have a special talent for math, computational science, and engineering? Apply to LaGuardia High School. Trust me.

No more bashed liftgate ladder steps! @core77

Pneumatics are so fricken fun!

wp.josh.com/2018/09/13/pne…

Tis' the season of #citibike innovation- we can finally carry home a proper bag of groceries! I wonder if they do synthetic A/B testing on experimental new features by watching which bikes get taken first when multiple phenotypes available. I'd love to see that data! (hint, hint)

Million dollar idea: bring self powered expresso machine on a radio flyer wagon to Maker Faire. Go get in free as a maker, then make the rounds selling $7 expressos to everyone stuck in thier booths.

There are *four* Chase Bank branches within a 2 block radius of my apartment. I have used a retail branch exactly twice in the past decade. Who goes to these branches and how do they generate enough profit justify maintain this density?

#designformanufaturing excellence in unexpected places: Pota-pottys. If you take the time to notice the details you'll see many examples of rare brilliance. Likely the result of the massive feedback-based innovation cycles you get with a high turn over, owner operated product.

It is an excellent question. There are not many tools yet, so hard to imagine what they will be like. For codebases, I programming will become visual (try Fusion 360 sketch solver for a taste). For novels, I think honing the story will involve having a conversation with an AI.

Back side of video wall

One of the coolest places in NYC is not on any tourist maps. Midpoint crossover on the Williamsburg Bridge. #mynyc

You are welcome to one on mine if you want to grab from UWS.

You can probably just put your string *twice*, but then only use the length of a single copy of it. So something like....

#define MYTEXT "I wish this woud scroll forever with no space between."
#define DOUBLE_MYTEXT MYTEXT MYTEXT

...

const char *m = MYTEXT;

...

sendString( m , DOUBLE_MYTEXT , 0x00, 0x00 , 0x40 ); // Nice and not-too-bright blue hue

See why that would work?

Even people very familiar with C syntax have trouble wrapping their heads around it! :)
Give ti a shot and LMK if you have any questions!

Fun fact: after a Nola praline, Coke tastes like seltzer.

Self updating price tags at Whole Foods. Powered and programmed by the metal rails. I was kinda hoping they were battery powered and wirelessly programmed so only infrastructure would be a couple antennas or a single storewide loop.

With an LCD that is static 99% of the time should be able to run for a decade off a CR2032. Should be no labor costs except sticking on with double sided tape... Much less than installing wires on every shelf of every case!

Wow, really nice chip! Reminds me of the original PICs who's design philosophy was to bit bang EVERYTHING, and keep it so cheap and simple that you just buy a 2nd chip if you run out of horsepower. These are also impressively low power.

$4 sticker theft protection device for a $400 bike.
signs.com/design/?id=5b9…

A game show where contestants compete to see who can drill a deeper hole down the center of a pencil lead! Japan wins!
youtube.com/watch?v=pCtWPb…

It always feels obnoxious american to just start talking to a Swede in English and assume they will understand... but they all* do! And PERFECTLY.

*except for the very young, the very old, and recent arrivals

#nerdpoints if you can still recite your Compuserve User ID from memory. (me:70166,644) Double points if you also remember the ID of at least one friend.

#nerdpoints if you still know your Network Solutions handle.
(me:JML31) Double points if the number part is less than 4 digits.

#nerdpoints if you have your own Netware IPX assigned port number.
(me:8575) Double points if you have the matching SPX port as well.

#nerdpoints if you can still write your name in Palm Graffiti.
Double points if you remember the graffiti shortcut to enter debug mode.

#nerdpoints if you remember the address you would PEEK to see which arrow keys were being held down. Double points if you remember which bits go to any of them.
(I seriously remembered this one. Yikes!)

#nerdpoints if you can recite all the powers of two up to 65536 straight from rote memory without doing any calculations.
Double points if you can also recite the sequence minus 1 (ie ...65535) just as easily from rote.

#nerdpoints if you know the 3-digit number you would call on an ESS central office system to find out the number you were calling from.
Double points if you know an 800 number that would ANAC for free.

Wow, GMAIL confidential mode does not even do end-to-end encryption. Note sure what the thinking here was. This is wide open to a man in the middle attack. Also of course GMAIL (and anyone with thier SSL private keys) can still read your email.

The private key could even be a never sent proof-of-knowledge so no hacker could read the email, even if they got access to your SMS (which is now easy to get thanks to integrations iMessage and Message+ and Android Messages).

Which is more valuable for poker - to be good at reading other people, or to be good at keeping other people from reading you?

RE Vegetarians "And even most of them actually eat meat, no matter what they may claim." -@tylercowen
What is the basis of this claim? Intentional (secret late night Big Mac indulgence) or unbeknownst (carnivores sneaking a little meat juice into the veggies)?

If you are great at reading others, rational response is to seek transactions with those who are untrustworthy since you will be able to tell when they are being truthful and when they are not, and neither of you will pay the extra costs of being transparent or auditing it.

Strategy for reducing inequality: discourage income assortative marriage with tax deduction based on difference in spouses' pre-marital income. As long as poor-rich unions do not result in lower combined income than poor-poor unions (very unlikely), then good public policy.

Postmodern/pop-art bricolage.

There should be a mandatory disambiguation "comedian" or "performance artist" prefix before Louie Anderson or Laurie Anderson. Sad someone who shows up for one but thought it was the other. Was almost me. I'll let you guess which way.

Oh the awesome stories you hear when you sit with the space insurance people at the pre-launch dinner! (Half the people there are insurance people.)

There was the time that they forgot to unscrew the bolt that holds the space craft to the staging pedestal before loading it into the transport box so when they lifted it, they ripped the middle out.

It was not clear if the insurance covered the loss because there was not coverage when the craft was in motion, and the craft was solidly bolted to the floor when the damage happened.

Your launch vehicle actually needs *two* completely different sets of policies - one covers everything up to launch and everything after. They switch at the moment of "intentional ignition". A hugely important phase in the space insurance business!

Looks like #bitly had a data breach. How do I know?
wp.josh.com/2013/03/14/sur…

Who needs e-beam lithography when you can use silk screen printing? Micrometer feature sizes. Forget about Scorpions concert tees - print the bible on your thumbnail. #realmagic
kuroda-electric.eu/ultra-fine-pat…

Bike gears are an impedance matching network.

What would an optimal spoken language sound like? One that is a perfect fit for our vocal tracks, auditory systems, and internal semantic representation- without the all the path dependent historical baggage of existing languages?

You are locked in a sealed and magnetically shielded box. Can you figure out which direction is North? Amazingly it is possible! #realmagic
youtube.com/watch?v=2z291H…

Using non-gov't facial recognition based bureau to create alternative to the criminal justice system that prevents crimes rather than punishing them. Stores install cameras, buzzers go off when known shoplifter (or someone with face obscured) tries to enter, store denies entry...

#Amazon Go store is actually a private criminal justice system. You can not shoplift. To gain entry, you essentially pre-pay for anything you take. If you jump the turnstile it is an instant and obvious trespass rather than a messy, leaky, and costly larceny.

Rapey score comes from other users or maybe ML prediction engines or anyplace else you want. If you think the system you use is getting too powerful, switch. If you think they are all getting too powerful, start your own and convince others to switch.

Ill-defined question. Could I liquidate the bitcon 5 minutes after put my life savings into it? How do you define programming? Is, say, designing an object in Fusion360 programming? Writing down the steps to open the lock on my front door?

Oh man you could raise $100 million in one day if you had a drone perimeter making company right now. It wouldn’t have to work- or even be feasible- just would have to have the right name and stock photos.

I never understood how you can charge a Van De Graaf generator to voltages higher than the voltage of the belt. I bet you don't either. Read this to see the surprising way this works...

amasci.com/emotor/icepail…

Wow. Thanks (again), @wbeaty.

LMK if you come across an inner matchbox making machine... I need one BAD!
youtube.com/watch?v=C9fq9s…

Behold the depth and breadth of knowledge available on youtube. 3 completely different kinds of Casimir (Cashmere) Effects in the top 4 results
1. How to create a a force in a vacuum…
2. How to buy scarf that will not pill
3. How to make a wall look like gold leaf (In Italian!)

Rushing to get an order submitted before Chinese New Year and just saw this pop up for the first time ever. I think this is big news. I wonder if DHL will be working during CNY this year?

Cant remember the last time a tweet actually made me laugh, much less a tweet about part rotation.

If you hate Wealth Inequality maybe you should be pro Climate Change? At least in the USA, rich people happen own lots of expensive real estate exactly where the oceans are headed. The destruction of this wealth could be a great equalizer. metrocosm.com/the-housing-va…

Gears! It ran on gears (with a single motor)! All the relays I had squirreled up for months.... for nothing! The guy at Radio Shack tried to warn me when I bought it but I was blinded by visions of my Model 1 stacking my legos for me....
Was still pretty fun in a VertiBird way.

If Daesh pulled in the most extreme and militant and concentrated them, then now with its destruction should we expect the median levels in the region to drop due to selective culling?

What is the principle here? Majority of MTA operating revenue comes from fares. How should we best allocate these costs among riders? Can't we do better than: "People who happen to get on at stations/times when unlimited card holders get off... sometimes get a free ride"?

HAL 9000 Command Console
SRP $999
#NYToyFair2019

Two different dude themed games at two different booths. Trend here?
#ToyFair2019

Would you want to work at a company where management was elected by the employees and each employee got one vote?

Would you want to live in a country where citizenship can be revoked by some democratic process? That is, if a majority (or super-majority, or of the people in the country voted to kick you out (directly or by representation), then you had to go.

What do Chinese real estate investors know about Greece that I don't know?
Source Jiwai.com

So you would expect that in equilibrium only the most marginally valuable would be left in town? Is that path dependent? What if initially there is a majority of not-valuable people and they see the writing on the wall and purposefully vote away the most valuable preemptively?

...and why is this scale variant? Why is a small town different than a country? Or even a big town?

If I am a self-aware and rational net useless person, I have to vote out the useful people before they vote me out. All useless people also know this, so if initially useful people are minority how do you end up with anything but total uselessness endstate?

Every voter need not individually know every other. There are strong incentives build structures, institutions, representatives, and rating systems to guide the voting process. I think there is precedent for this outcome!

If you oppose immigration because newcomers potentially dilute the cultural identity of the nation, wouldn't it be even better to withhold citizenship to domestically born also? Maybe wait until someone is like 20 years old so you can make sure they fit before naturalizing them?

Even in Mexico, "ultra spicy" is not that spicy. Is there a technological upper bound to how hot you can make a prepackaged snack? Or does this reflect an underlying truth that most consumers want to signal they are bold while really being middling tasters?amzn.to/2EgIXDU

If the $5K price tag take was the only thing stopping you from getting a sub-miniature atomic clock... now you have no more excuses! This little rubidium ticker can be yours today for only $2200 (plus shipping)!
digikey.com/product-detail…

You send a required email to someone, but their system erroneously puts the email into the SPAM folder and eventually deletes it without them ever seeing it. Did you fulfill your notification obligations? Legally? Morally? Comparable to postal mail common carrier? #eUCC

I was to start a podcast called "How I won the lottery!" where I interview winners and share stories about how they never gave up even when deep in debt and friends and family lost faith. People need to be inspired to never give up. Everyone is a looser... until the day they win!

Is there any rational justification for anti-price gouging laws? Does anyone benefit from these besides politicians and prosecutors?

No backup necessary with 100000hrs MTBF! :)
But maybe there is some value in using lots of lowly quartz oscillators (<$1 each) to try and statistically cancel out unpredictable aging effects?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_o…

Random drawing at the county fair. You want that pie. You drop your slip into the hat. Just before the drawing, a gust of wind blows a few of the slips out of the hat, but in the interest of expediency they go ahead and pick a winner from the remaining entries. You don't win...

IDEA FOR YOUR NEXT AWARD WINNING DOCUMENTARY:
Record in Hi Tech Electronic Service for a few days. So many stories. The girl who ended up with an 1996 RCA camcorder with broken display from ebay. The guy with a remote with long ago rubbed off buttons that controls a TV that is..

More often than not he counsels his customers/patients to just let go and move on. Some things are just not worth fixing. Sad but true. (Especially for 20 year old VHS-C camcorders apparently.)
goo.gl/maps/2qiATDHcb…

Already-built subways in dense cities are awesome, but capital costs way too high for new ones to make sense- especially with big technological changes soon. How about BRT? Seems to hit a sweet spot when installed in the right places (Like Bogota!)....
youtube.com/watch?v=tCH16C…

Enlightened definition of "Understanding" a problem space:
Having a set of heuristics that you can use to prune a big search space to find answers.

Are coaches, test proctors, or admissions officers "public officials" under 18 U.S. Code § 201? Doesn't seem like it under a plain reading of the statute. If not, then how can you "bribe" them?
law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18…

Justice Department has become another click-bait generating machine. The word "bribe" is used 9 times just in the USAO press release, and many more times in the charging documents, yet I can not find a single public official that allegedly accepted any money. Why?

Woha! @USPS, this website is using your trademark everywhere in a way *designed* to mislead and confuse consumers. It is a private company that tricks people into thinking they are registering for the postal exam and charges them a $39 "deposit". Yikes!
postalexam473.com

Picosecond stop watches are a thing. 8 input channels. Check your cables are all the same length first -1mm of cable will add way more than a picosecond of delay! #realmagic
picoquant.com/applications/c…

Shatnez inspectors are a thing. They check clothes for even microscopic traces of linen+wool in them, lest you violate a very serious biblical prohibition. Great example of a rule with no purported practical purpose and no outward signal value. Why?
theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/1…

Sadly you are the last sientian creature left in the universe and heat death is coming (that is, there is no chance of any more sentient creatures ever again living in this universe). Is it possible for you to do anything immoral under these circumstances? What?

Seriously people, where is my app that will let me always creamate my kids at Rock Paper Scissors?
expunctis.com/2019/03/07/Not…

Silicon Photomultipliers are a thing. They can detect a INDIVIDUAL PHOTONS and cost about $50. How long until I have an imaging array of these in my phone so I can take pictures in the dark? #realmagic

Brief Introduction to
Silicon Photomultipliers:
onsemi.com/pub/Collateral…

Maybe sometimes better to not look at gcc compiler output. Here `r25` is loaded with `0`, then multiplied and compared on each loop pass. Never updated. Even the simplest change mapper should skip this. You can waste your whole life fixing these obvious missed opportunities. :(

Check out this secret compiler option that will instantly make all of your avr-gcc binaries both smaller and faster (even Arduino!)...
electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/4333…

In North Carolina you can get sued for trying to steal someones man (or woman). You don't even have to have sex with them, you just have to make them fall out of love with their spouse to be liable for damages.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alienatio…

RIP Rex. :( timhunkin.com/a229_rex.htm
If you never watched Secret Life of Machines, you should. The one where they built a giant fax machine changed my life.
youtube.com/watch?v=IaCfs5…

Breaking news- Google AdWords has a big problem!
My Aunt Sue just got redirected to a attack site, and it is google's fault!
wp.josh.com/2019/05/06/bre…

A whole book disagreeing with this tweetset....

amzn.to/2H7ZMDX

I just added LENS.COM to my data breach list. If you ever ordered anything from them, I bet you get the spam below in the next couple of days. More info at wp.josh.com/2013/03/14/sur…

He who is without Twitter is cut off from his species. In these days of telegraphs and steam, many important inventions and improvements in every branch of trade are being made, and he who don't keep up on his feed will soon find himself and his business left out in the cold. -PT

Hall effect rotation angle tracking chip with 0.22 degree resolution, <2us delay, at up to 25,000RPM. $12. #realmagic
digikey.com/en/product-hig…

New PIC's have a built-in angle timer that integrates instantaneous angle of rotation from a single "click" input like a hall effect switch. Also can generate a periodic interrupt every n degrees. Perfect for internal combustion engines and zoetropes. microchip.com/design-centers…

"Now I can’t find anything under €250,000. These are Chinese and Russian prices. Not Greek."

marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

Don't braze those refrigerant lines - LOKRING makes a lifetime gas-tight connection without heat. Perfect for R600A systems that like to explode in your face.
vulkan.com/en-us/lokring/…

If your eyes were as sharp as the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope, you could be in Los Angeles and clearly read a street sign in New York City. #realmagic
web.archive.org/web/2012061115…

Have any info from your sources about what happened here and how it was resolved? Weakness in the Adwords URL checker? Thanks!

Minisplits as window units in Dumbo NYC.

Bushwick Court is the Washington Mews of Brooklyn
google.com/maps/place/Bus…

Finger charlieplexing
tapwithus.com

Ikea started adding threadlock to bolts!

If you are doing any kind of construction or renovation, PLEASE PLEASE think about soundproofing. It is so often overlooked, so cheap & easy to do at design build stage, so hard to do later.

....probably just (almost) no one asks for it. Possible solutions...
1. Cron batch file to using something like ofxclient to download direct
2. Use GNU cash once a month to grab, then export
3. Autokey, GreaseMonkey, or Selenium script to scrape

OMG, Mr. Roarke and Tattoo were a couple. Took 40 years, but it is so obvious to me now.

If you can _see_ it, you can _scrape_ it! :)
Transaction download convience is only one metric to judge a bank, and since since you only pay the cost of solving this problem once then it is probably lower ranked than other metrics that have cumulative ongoing impact.

What is biggest box you can get for the least money by buying something on Amazon with free shipping?
All answers must be in inch²/$ (units matter, people!).
#AirShippingAir

-Murell Levine 2019

Those new service sector jobs: Pro D&D dungeon masters in Brooklyn can make more than the programmers they work for.

"These pillows are brand new and prefilled with air
100 pillows weigh approximately 2.4 ounces (see images)."
That's just messed up.
...and they do not even offer overnight shipping.

Why is the via at the center of this PCB motor coil the place where it seems to fail?

The only reliable way to attribute a statement to someone in the future is if it is signed with their private key. Anything non-signed is non-attributable.
thenextweb.com/artificial-int…

Easy new @nyctaxi rule: Each time the horn is honked, the meter is paused for next 5 minutes. Small rule with big impact. Puts all the incentives in the right place, no impact on safety. I'll design the circuit for free. #hatethehorns

Talk about a sleeper c̴e̴l̴l̴ spam! I just got a "I saw you porning..." SPAM on an address that I gave to @DailymotionUSA in 2008 - first email on that address in more than a decade! But Adobe holds the record for longest hack incubation time 13 years!

wp.josh.com/2013/03/14/sur…

Two of these twisted together with offset? Super cheap and easy to drive. I've also seen 3 & 4 channel versions. that cleverly use reverse polarity to save on wires, but must be PWMed. amzn.to/2Fd3mLq

RT @cwandt: 200 days since we started shipping Time Since Launch! 🚀 This unit running at 0.3 parts per million timing accuracy 🎯
#timesin…

Empirical evidence that the Bresenham's Diet works! 50lbs lost!
Invented by David Grayson over at @Pololu, it uses an incremental error algorithm that deterministically corrects when weight strays from target. Cheating automatically gets compensated out.
facebook.com/david.grayson/…

Kinda sad how short the time window was between (1) ubiquitous citizen video recording increased the amount of truth and accountability in the world, and (2) the ability to easily create deepfakes made videos useless in establishing truth and accountability in the world. :/

Agreed - it is not a diet, it is a diet framework! I stand corrected! :)
I assume the dip around "NY&NJ" is because more walking in NYC rather than less food?

Can you guess what this is about?

Looking for leaks in natural gas lines under the street! Cool, right?!

You just discovered a way to generate bitcoin winning blocks 1000x faster than current methods. What would you do and when?
(Hard question! Don't forget about difficulty adjustments, the empty mempool, or the impact of the emergence of a single dominant node on bitcoin value!)

Fun FDA Fact: The net weight shown on the label of a foodstuff that is delivered by pressurized propellant must include the weight of the propellant released while dispensing the edible portion of the product.
ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrie…

#whereIsMy phone with dedicated camera button? Half push turns on viewfinder and autofocuses, full push takes photos, hold down takes video. All with less than 100ms delay. My beloved Sony TX30 had this 10 years ago!

#whereIsMy AI text slurper that constantly reads the CFR firehose and Tells me anytime there is a new law or rule that I need to know about?

Why are there cops on horses in bike lanes in Times Square in 2019? Naively seems like the most expensive and least effective place to put a cop in this city is on top of a giant walking animal. Am I missing some value here?

Yep, that's the inflection point.
x.com/Noahpinion/sta…

Not as sad how short the time window will be between (1) you can easily hire a celebrity to make a happy birthday video, (2) you can use deepfakes to make a more convincing one yourself (featuring the celebrity back when they were in their prime).
cameo.com

Negative testing Amazon GO store against 𝑢𝑛shoplifting invalid input.

Count to ten and then install the "Pick your celebrity...." realtime Snapchat video filter. If they are smart, they will sign up (and 4D scan) the talent and pay out royalties to them each time the model is used.

How would the earth be different if Sun had gotten AWT right? And what if they had also gotten the Microsoft conflict right? There would be no C#, no JS, no node, no HTML, no CSS. :/

I am also loving many fine american snacks when far from home!
wp.josh.com/just-like-home/

OMG I just realized that they have to do a remake of the remake of Into The Woods with Ben Stiller as the baker.

The high price of free parking, Dutch Edition. Incentives matter, modes don't.

Meditation guide:"focus all your attention on your big toe and feel your breath go though it". Me: "oh man I hardly ever noticed before just how itchy and uncomfortable my big toe always is!" Repeat for every other part of my body. I like always distracted better thank you.

Amsterdam does ferries without fuss. There is a countdown clock and the gate goes up exactly when the clock counts to zero, at which time the ferry pulls out. You can walk or ride onto the ferry up until that last second.

Just when you start to think NYC sucks, someone goes and does something awesome like this.
A summer camp on a roof in NYC....
bivouacnyc.com

WOW, LED BULBS THAT GLOW RED WHEN YOU DIM THEM.
Just like an old skool bulb. So easy to implement and so obvious now that they exist, but sure took a while for someone to think of this.
#trueinovation
usa.lighting.philips.com/consumer/light…

Crazy story is that this would be *illegal* in SF. What are the political interests who want to force cash? If you really are worried about poor people not being able to shop, then why not give them free debit cards and stop them from getting robbed too?
courthousenews.com/san-francisco-…

This simple trick finds SPAMMERS targeting your domain:
1. Move your name servers to a different IP
2. Point MX on old server to decoy SMTP server
2. Wait 24 hours

Every DNS query and email on old server is 100% spam. Interesting to watch.

How do you triple ❤️ on twitter?

Same exact thing me. So bad woke me up. Went to DR and they gave me prescription antacid but no help. Eventually figured out that that the old 80's rubberish stuff window shades in my apartment outgassing nasty stuff that was burning my lungs. Ouch. Just saying not always reflux!

There is no great AC motor starter capacitor stagnation.

If anyone ever remembered how stressful moving was, they would never do it again.

High switching costs are the root of much suffering.

True failure is almost never a result a mistake. It usually takes a sequence of multiple, compounding mistakes.

Ok, 𝑘𝑒𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑦 (previous tenant demanding money to turn in their keys so you can move in to your new apartment) is a thing on the Upper West Side. Add that to the 15% yearly rent commison. It's messed up. This is what happens when you twist markets hard enough.

#underrated massive and easy energy savings realized by just thoughtfully locating light switches and thermostats next to room exits. You can't turn a light off if you can't reach (or even find!) the switch. And more light switches just means more lights likely to get left on.

Anyone else feel like it is easier to walk around in the dark if you close your eyes?

Single use coin key, used here to open a gate. There are groves on both sides of the coin that exactly mate with protrusions on the slot. Simple and clever!

Quantized variable security versus convenience lock

This Italian car knows the speed limit, and blinks at you if you go over it. Must be doing optical recognition of signs since it reliably updates even when passing haphazardly placed ones around road construction.

Plus Coffee
Cola Cola
"With Extra Caffeine"
"Without Sugar"
...is as horrible as you think is. Maybe worse.

Markets in everything Instagram tour of Milan. You are taken to each visually optimal location, carefully posed, and then photographed for maximum likes. I dream the guide runs A/B tests ("red scarf or yellow?") on the posts and backfeeds results into future tours. @tylercowen

Market forces and sex changing. 3/3 of my last airbnb hosts turned from adorable 30-something young women online into swarthy dudes IRL. All independently discovered that people are more likely to rent from a sweet girl, and online only communication lets you be her...

We hear about investors who lost big from buying out HIV life insurance policies, but what about the inverse financial winners - investors who bought out HIV patients' fixed lifetime annuities? Did this not happen for some reason?

latimes.com/archives/la-xp…

NYC is glorious when all the people are gone.

If you believe in the #Singularity , then seems like the money-where-your-mouth play is to buy lots and lots of lifetime annuities? Or maybe short companies that underwrite them?

Last night I had to move some heavy boxes. Then I realized that I was in a dream, so I didn't bother. Then I woke up and had to move some heavy boxes, and I did.

Why are these cases different?

Oh man, nothing irks me more than watching my urgently anticipated USPS package turn from "Out for delivery" to "Delivery attempted" while I am sitting next to my door waiting for it. :/

$0.68 light switch. Decent quality, nicely packaged, UL listed, for individual retail sale @HomeDepot in NYC. How is this even possible? The #realmagic of hyper-efficient global mass production and supply chains.

...after I wake up. But I could say also say "no consequence for not moving the boxes when I am awake... after I die." What's the difference? Duration, or more?

If you bought resistors between 2003 and 2015, today could be your lucky day!

(Ok, not really because in these cases almost all the money almost always ends up going to the lawyers).

linearresistorsindirectcase.com

My take on #BlockFi:
They finally found a way to short BitCoin without counterparty risk.

Both their interest bearing account and loan products do the same thing, give BlockFi crypto that they can sell on the open market for fiat.

See how that works?
blockfi.com/?ref=eba8c81a

The volume of the Empire State Building is about...

I don't get it. As borrower, why don't I just loose my half (or make a new, non-matching replacement)? Now when someone shows up looking for the money, I don't have a match so I don't have to pay.

Amazingly handy new bike lane goes *under* midtown! Thanks #Trump!

I think tally sticks only work in one direction - debtor can prove he made a payment when get gets matching stick. So the creditor stick is more of a receipt (with hash sig) than currency. Depends on a trusted party to generate stick pairs and to hold unsatisfied credit sticks.

Whoha, Hacker News is the new SlashDot! Just the collateral clicks fro your link made "Capacitive Coupling Casestudy" the surprise top page on josh.com today!
(We should still do in-the-box-programming so you have more time to write!)
wp.josh.com/2017/03/18/cap…

I am pretty sure that Jason Griggs is a refrigeration expert bot answering questions on Quora. Motivation for making this is to get Partner Program money? What happens when a bot gets good enough to give better answers than humans? Ever seen this happen?
quora.com/profile/Jason-…

Have you seen any other examples of machine generated knowledge being used to generate direct income (as opposed to link farming)?

Any useful?

From @MicrochipMakes: "✊...✋...✌️... RPS-RNN is a small gizmo that can beat you in rock-paper-scissors using a neural network running on an ATtiny1614:" bit.ly/2XZTP5j

What does it mean when you do not feel imposter syndrome even though you are definitely and absolutely an imposter?

At a place where everyone thinks I am someone who I am definitely not... but instead of feeling like a fraud, I'm feeling like "This is AWESOME that I ended up here! I'm going to enjoy this as much as I can before they eventually kick me out!" New name for this? Impostor Delight?

My read is that these BlockFi interest bearing accounts are really about borrowing coin to lend to people who want to short it. Equivalent to margin/stock loan for stocks. If so, then is it still staking?
thebalancecareers.com/stock-loan-and…

I just saw the first evidence from the Shein.com hack from last year show up in the wild!
wp.josh.com/2013/03/14/sur…

GMAIL's internal DKIM domain is 1e100.net. Get it?
rdap.verisign.com/net/v1/domain/…

All conspiracists know that increased ID requirements for air travel were put in place by airlines to keep people from trading tickets, but did you know that the liquid bans are thanks to hotels trying to discourage people from grabbing the extra mini-bottles on the way out?

Campaign finance reform proposition: Make all contributions "blind" -that is the candidates/PACs can not see where the money came from. Ends quid-pro-quo and pay-for-access. There are technological ways to make this auditable, and mirrors current system where votes are anonymous.

Wouldn't non-artificial restrictions eventually come into play to prevent housing from being *cheap everywhere*? I'm thinking specifically of places where horizontal expansion is *naturally restricted* by geography (which happens to be SF and NYC).

Wow, wow, wow, just found this amazing paper where they INTENTIONALLY PARALYZED themselves to learn more about eye moment and visual perception.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Yikes - 80% confidence I just saw a 23andme.com data breach.

wp.josh.com/2013/03/14/sur…

Does everyone get these silly Lime receipts, or just me? #NullPointersEverywhere @limebike

#urbanoutfitters is hot for retro-tech, but they are missing the most beautifully designed and revolutionary device in history!....

What happens when you run 100+ years of NYC air through a grid? These beautifully organic looking #dustdunes!

Of course! Comes with full API and #IFTTT integration! Someone will also have to build the link so you beep every time you get a #samsaramarket order. #partylikeits1999.

BlueBeep:UU :: TPR:MoMA Store

There is a new ASHRE standard that covers farting, burping, and breathing in occupied indoor spaces.

"Humans emit many different volatile organic compounds, which are called human bioeffluents"

ashrae.org/File%20Library…

"I never once thought a man would beat me for getting a job or might get paid more than me. The message was always that we were all equal. " -A woman who grew up under the Soviet system in the 50's and 60's.

What gone NYC foods where so good that you feel bad for people who missed them?

Mine:
Fresh mozzarella at Joe's in SOHO
Hot popovers at Popover Cafe UWS
Black coconut rice soup at InDesert C-Town
Olive/Raisin rolls at/on Sullivan Street
*Real* Patzy's under the bridge

#peakNYC

#nanophotobomb
@peterstern too! x.com/CUSEAS/status/…

Pullups for what/where?

Before there was teflon tape, there was lamp wick.

MILLION $ IDEA: Make a box that you can leave in a home you are considering. It logs noise and air quality over several days so you can find out things you'd never know from a 15 min walkthrough at 1PM on a sat afternoon.

"In cocaine abusers, magnesium reduced the craving for this substance (Margolin et al., 1992). Cocaine craving scores were 78% lower in those taking magnesium than in patients taking placebo."
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK50726…

Old skool three phase high current power distribution busbars at @pencerw's place. It is a bit scary standing next to them even knowing they have been disconnected for decades.
electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/4676…

Perhaps @TheJakeSchmidt is really thinking about price elasticity- so something like "You could add 1MM market rate apartments to NYC and the price level would drop less than 10%". Interestingly, this is being empirically tested right now on the UWS because a large number of...

Can you guess where in NYC this is?
#whereinnyc

Can you guess where in NYC this is?
#whereinnyc

Why does it feel so scummy to get personal attention and then find out it is generic?

"We are currently representing two more clients who would like to purchase a home/investment property in your building. Your property at PO Box 362 is of great interest, and may work for them."

Correct! Do you know *where* in central park?

Can you guess where in NYC this is?
#whereinnyc

Can you guess where in NYC this is?
#whereinnyc
HINT: I am standing in a publicly accessible place - 1,000's of people walk past here every day.
HINT: Yes, Guastavino tile. No, City Hall Station.

#adafuit last-mile hacking. There should be a better way to get a same-day adafix that doesn't require a helpful falafel shoppe!
google.com/maps/place/NYC…

Precisely! I happened past it on my way home from the Heights. Amazingly special place! Do you live uptown or just an NYC maven?

Today the law of the land in USA is a stream of ugly diff outputs. Thanks to Linus, we the programmers of the world now know this is the wrong way to do version control. Can you imagine if this legacy mess was migrated to @github? ...

Correct, sir! But I call material inside information. :)

Can you guess where in NYC this is?
#whereinnyc

#funfact NYC horse drawn carriage drivers are Teamsters. Vestige of the Teamsters that used to deliver coal via horse drawn carriage.

Can you guess where in NYC this is?
#whereinnyc
(publicly accessible)

Close!

Can you be more specific?

Exactly! I thought the 59th street bridge int he background would be an easy give-away, but I also think very few people know about this place. I'm a native new yorker and I never knew about this country resort on 61th st before this week!
mvhm.org

A flyback power supply and hydraulic ram pump are exactly the same thing.
electronicdesign.com/power-manageme…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic…

You can tell a lot about a person if they recognize this spot. :)

Same two land masses, same river, but oh man two more different bridges where never built. The EK footpath is one of the most bleak and unpleasant places in NYC, while WB footpath is one of the most beautiful and uplifting! Bridge footpath designers take note!

Judges say... Answer accepted! This is the old luggage room from the original Penn station. It had been sealed off for decades but thanks to recent construction you can now see it again from the stairs to the uptown 1 train here....

Can you guess where in NYC this is?
#whereinnyc
(publicly accessible)

#whatif general anesthesia worked by paralyzing you and preventing you from recording new long-term memories. You'll experience unimaginable silent suffering during your operation, but by the time you opened your eyes wouldn't remember it. Is this not OK? Current way is? Why?

"you should start writing right when you have an epiphany because the moment right after an epiphany is the only moment in the creative process where the rush of enthusiasm trumps the fear of judgment."

So, so true.

perell.com/blog/my-writin…

Correct! A place known very very well by very very few!

Operator's panel on the Roosevelt Island Tram

#whatif all people truly had equal income earning opportunities? Society should... #takethelimit

NYC pickup done right! Thanks @shapeways !

Advice for people who live in glass houses: keep a fresh 9V battery in your pocket. Lick a finger and touch the negative terminal every few minutes and you'll be fine.

a #citibike will countersteer if you go are going fast enough. Try it!

Who remembers the first cloud-based smartphone? If you lost it, the new one would automatically sync back the the exact state as the old. The UI was damn new perfect considering when it happened. Underrated tech back then, and maybe even still.

NYC mayor wants a "vacancy tax" on empty storefronts. What are economics of this? Better solutions? @tylercowen @devonzuegel
bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2…

"SHIFT REGISTER sales comprised the MAJORITY of the reported MOS IC business for 1969."

Anyone know what they were using all these shift registers for? Why is MOS first toehold against TTL here?

@TubeTimeUS @gregorycharvat @kenshirriff @fmims @hackaday

bitsavers.org/components/mot…

Ah, so by feeding the output back to the input constantly clocking it, a dynamic shift register effectively becomes a self-refreshing serial DRAM!

Wow, what a great article. And the linked Don Lancaster(!) article as well.

Thank you!!!

Ah, so looks like they were using the intrinsic MOS gate capacitance effectively as a DRAM memory cell?

"Uber and Lyft drivers now spend 41 percent of their time without passengers south of 96th Street"

Cruising costs gas and car miles, so why don't drivers pick optimal spots to sit and wait for next fair?

Why doesn't Uber use their data to tell each the optimal place to wait?

Met a stenographer today who can almost mindlessly steno-type what she hears as she hears it, but has to work hard to read back what she typed. Interesting asymmetrical brain function!

As long as carry costs are lower than expected appreciation, rational to wait for higher prices. Low interest rates make for low carry costs. #NPV

I love StackExchange, but it can fail horribly. Once a correct answer gets pushed down a slot or two, it is effectively gone - and a top answer gets very sticky even when wrong.
Scroll way down for my answer-tell me if you disagree!
physics.stackexchange.com/questions/1414…

Slogging my way up the W80's hill in Central Park on a Citibike when an electric skateboard pulls up next to me and offers push service. #thosenewservicesectorjobs

Any pick-a-bagel (there are a few). Squishy fresh cookie, hard almost stale feeling frosting. That's what u want. Vhanilla side is better, so eat that first and give the rest to a friend who doesn't know any better.

I was already 2/3 way up the hill and he caught me by surprise, so no. But maybe next time- especially if he catches me at the start of the hill... and it is raining! :)

...and if you ask her a question, she struggles to answer via stenotyping. She basically has to answer and then hear her own voice and send that into her stenotype brain subsystem. No direct connection from inner voice to fingers- so different from the way I non-stenotype!

Do you know anyone who has ever actually bought a negative interest bond besides people required to by some regulation or law?

The IRS tax system will crash when it starts processing 1099-INT's with negative values that generate negative tax bills. Banks will similarly have problems when the checks for negative amounts start clearing.

In my experience, at about age 32 the sexy triad turns into good job, nice smile, and ability to repair a broken dishwashing machine.