Raspberry Pi 4

Raspberry Pi 4

At first glance, the Raspberry Pi 4 board looks very similar to our previous $35 products, all the way back to 2014’s Raspberry Pi 1B+. If you’d like to re-use a Raspberry Pi 3 Official Power Supply, our resellers are offering a $1 adapter which converts from USB micro-B to USB-C. This time round, particular credit is due to James Adams, who designed the board itself (you’ll find his signature under the USB 3.0 socket); to Mike Buffham, who ran the commercial operation, working with suppliers, licensees, and resellers to bring our most complicated product yet to market; and to all those at Raspberry Pi and Broadcom who have worked tirelessly to make this product a reality over the last few years.

Source: www.raspberrypi.org

How to live forever: meet the extreme life-extensionists

How to live forever: meet the extreme life-extensionists

In 2016, an American real-estate investor named James Strole established the Coalition for Radical Life Extension, a nonprofit based in Arizona which aims to galvanise mainstream support for science that might one day significantly prolong human life. In the early 1970s, when he was in his 20s, he began touring the US as a public speaker, sharing what was then limited gerontological research, but nevertheless extolling its possibilities and advocating the anti-ageing benefits of a positive mindset: “Isn’t life great? On some days, Strole takes 70 supplements, including a tablet that “energises the mitochondria” (mitochondria produce energy) and whose effects resemble “a shot of coffee, minus the jitters”, as well as vitamins, multi-nutrients and metformin, a diabetes drug that has become so popular among life extensionists that one referred to it as “the aspirin of anti-ageing”.

Source: www.theguardian.com

Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now from $35

Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now from $35

At first glance, the Raspberry Pi 4 board looks very similar to our previous $35 products, all the way back to 2014’s Raspberry Pi 1B+. If you’d like to re-use a Raspberry Pi 3 Official Power Supply, our resellers are offering a $1 adapter which converts from USB micro-B to USB-C. This time round, particular credit is due to James Adams, who designed the board itself (you’ll find his signature under the USB 3.0 socket); to Mike Buffham, who ran the commercial operation, working with suppliers, licensees, and resellers to bring our most complicated product yet to market; and to all those at Raspberry Pi and Broadcom who have worked tirelessly to make this product a reality over the last few years.

Source: www.raspberrypi.org

A retiree who became America’s worst counterfeiter

A retiree who became America’s worst counterfeiter

The day after Juentter began his operation, the Secret Service, which handled counterfeiting cases at the time, received a curious $1 bill that had been passed off at a cigar shop on Broadway and 102nd Street. On September 3, 1948, Juettner’s case came before judge John W. Clancy in US District Court in New York City. Years before his death, a reporter at the New York Daily News asked Juettner if he’d ever considered returning to a life of counterfeiting, the craft to which he’d so unskillfully devoted more than a decade.

Source: thehustle.co

Is the Immediate Playback of Events Changing Children’s Memories?

Is the Immediate Playback of Events Changing Children’s Memories?

What would have happened if I let my daughter watch the video right after her experience? “A half-hour after the show, instead of being able to languish and enjoy the rich bodily sensations and emotions that accompany autobiographical experience and memory and narrative, she’s now being thrust into the observer autobiographical experience because she’s watching herself on the screen,” he said. Showing our children the photos and video we’ve taken instantly after they’ve lived an experience is doing something very similar — making it a memory before it’s had time to settle into their consciousness, and in essence, “stepping on their story.”

Source: www.nytimes.com

Why are large companies so difficult to rescue (regarding internal technology)

Why are large companies so difficult to rescue (regarding internal technology)

As part of this new focus on unification, SuperRentalCorp would like to create a single unified API, so the outside world thinks the company has an internally unified tech architecture. SuperRentalCorp has 20 major databases, run by 20 different teams, in at least 10 different countries, many with a history of operating as an independent company, each team guarding their data, partly out of security fears, partly out of concerns about local laws regarding user privacy and the regulation of international transfers of user data, and partly out of sheer stubbornness. However, SuperRentalCorp has retail outlets with POS (point of sale) systems which talk directly to specific databases, and the path of that write (straight from the POS to the database) is hardcoded in ways that will be difficult to change, so it will be a few years before the company can have a single write-point.

Source: www.smashcompany.com

What does debugging a program look like?

What does debugging a program look like?

To get closer to the dream of “every single time there’s an error, the program reports to you exactly what happened in an easy to understand way” you also need to be disciplined about immediately returning an error message instead of silently writing incorrect data / passing a nonsense value to another function which will do WHO KNOWS WHAT with it and cause you a gigantic headache. One sub debugging skill that I take for granted a lot of the time is understanding what error messages mean! And a lot of the time error messages are caused by a problem very different from the text of the message, like how “upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers” might mean “julia, your server crashed!

Source: jvns.ca