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How to simulate a nuclear reactor on an analog computer (from Principles of Nuclear Reactor Engineering, Samuel Glasstone, 1955). #retrocomputing #electronics

Added a SHT31 humidity/temp sensor, and tweaked some more. CO2 experiments soon...

[S1] CO2: 414ppm, TVOC: 2ppb, baseLine: 0xADC1 (0xA8C0), lErr: 0b0
[S2] Pressure: 100629.10Pa, Temp: 32.71C
[S3] External temp: 31.69C
[S4] Humidity: 55.96%, Temp: 32.76C
Uptime: 1966s

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Think I found some next to the road on my bike trip today...

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This may be the best chance we get for years to ban federal use of face surveillance and withhold some federal tax dollars from paying for this invasive and dangerous technology. eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/now-

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Brilliant explanation:

"Central Banks and National Currencies I | Wild West Banking | N J Wildberger"
youtube.com/watch?v=u19k7881w-

I can recommend 'Mastering Bitcoin' for developers out there, first chapters also great for anyone who wants deeper understanding. Here's a copy on the Tor network...
gd6is466quuhsgzbztyv4sjswdhgfi

...or if you want to read it on GitHub:
github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoin

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Casually mentioning "I showed my friend Woz how to produce NTSC color with digital signals when he was designing the Apple II and he ran with it" is an astounding nerd flex.

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About ~70-90% of what I do in a day is a sidetrack of what I intended to do.

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4 утра, ложимся спать.

это был длинный день, завтра подъём в 8:30

#photography

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Giraffes spend most of their lives standing up. They even sleep and give birth standing up.

#WorldGiraffeDay

Finally nailed the baseline drift handling in code for the CCS811 chip, datasheet is wrong or incomplete. CO2 experiments next.

[S1] CO2: 409ppm, TVOC: 1ppb, baseLine: 0x16BF (0x16BF), lErr: 0b0
[S2] Pressure: 100914.39Pa, Temp: 32.46C
[S3] External temp: 31.37C
Uptime: 46536s

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In a quick look back over 30 years of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), its creator, Phil Zimmermann, says "the need for protecting our right to a private conversation has never been stronger. " We agree. twitter.com/Snowden/status/140

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