Things to Look for in a Church
A thing to look for in a church: one that emails announcements BCC instead of CC, so the older members can't reply-all just to say "okay". The alternative is teaching email etiquette to the whole congregation.
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tech
A collection of 180 posts
Mapping
Rendering a map always starts out fun and easy, and then suddenly I'm reading about the Visvalingam-Whyatt simplification algorithm. The rub: simplify each state's polygon for a better frame rate and the borders stop lining up with their neighbors.
Elderly Programmer
A research project wants programmers over 35 to come forward. The premise lands a little too close to home. Ha ha ha ugh.
One Monitor to Rule Them All
I've loved my Dell UltraSharp 40 curved 5k2k, the pinnacle for a programmer, until Dell announced the 52-inch U5226KW. A FOOT bigger, 6144x2560, less curve but larger pixels for easier edges. Will this $3k beast ever sit on my desk? Would my wife even notice?
A Science Project with the Kids: Learn, Design, Construct & Test an Antenna
I need an antenna tuned to 1090MHz. I could just buy one, but with patience I can turn it into a project for a couple of my kids: learn the electromagnetics, design a quarter-wave ground plane, construct it, then test whether our reception improves. More to come.
Meta Quest 3
My employer's surprise gift store had me pick a Meta Quest 3, mostly for the virtual desktop feature. Setup was seamless, but the 1920x1080 limit keeps it firmly at toy-level usefulness. So I handed it off to the kids, where toy-level is exactly perfect.
Microwave to Nowhere
Mt. Oglethorpe is an underwhelming summit (too many trees, unthinned around the decks), but it's convenient, which counts for a lot. What caught my eye up top: a small bunker with two microwave antennas aimed at each other across the roof. Redundant, isolated systems, I imagine.
Progress Manifests as Boringness
What was once spectacular is now mundane. A reusable rocket lofts laser-linked broadband satellites, then lands the booster like a pencil very much does not, and nobody watches. SpaceX took all that magic and made it boring through perfect execution. Good for us.
Siri & Google Gemini
Apple confirms Google Gemini will power the next-generation Siri. That has to be a slap in the face to the half dozen AI engineers still left at Apple.
Product Review: TP-Link TL-SX1008 (10Gbps, 8-port network switch)
A review of the TP-Link TL-SX1008 10Gbps switch, covering its Black Friday 'sale' pricing, the variable-speed fan that's far quieter than my old Netgear, why most gear is still stuck at 1Gbps, and a pointless PC-to-PC transfer that hit a sustained 1.1GB/sec.
