The Internet of Pipes
The "cloud" is really just a bunch of computers in someone else's closet, connected by literal pipes and wires.
Roman Kudryashov
006 - Maintenance Needed
Not quite broken. A cola machine sits around, waiting to be maintained. Spotted at a movie theater. Someone must have opened it, started to work,
Roundup 001, February 2020
Tesla tricked into speeding by researchers using electrical tape
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-tricked-into-speeding-by-researchers-using-electrical-tape/
Eisenhower and his ambitious interstate highway system transformed the US
Distributed & Weathered Hardware at Scale (LinkNYC Edition)
Public monuments and infrastructure often gain a lovely patina from people touching them over the course of decades and centuries. Digital public infrastructure gets warped hardware, malfunctioning screens, and internal fogging in months.
Adam Savage Tests Boston Dynamic's Spot
Adam Savage made a rickshaw for his Boston Dynamics Spot, and had Spot tow him around while wearing a top hat. Aside from the obvious
A popular self-driving car dataset is missing labels for hundreds of pedestrians
As we train more and more AI models on "big" data, that bigness starts to become a curse. If a dataset is big
Owners of Haas Machining Centers Are Revolting
This is slightly old news by now, but owners of older Haas machining centers are revolting over lack of product support on older tools (like,
Tesla tricked into speeding by researchers using electrical tape
Eisenhower and his ambitious interstate highway system transformed the US into a nation with infrastructure primarily designed around cars and large machinery. As we roll
SAP project costs cited in jeweler’s bankruptcy filing
This one is back from 2009 and not entirelty a bug, but still relevant and came in up conversation recently (I’m working with a
004 - User Experience Has Stopped
I went out to a Chinese restaurant with a friend and their back-of-house online order processing setup was in the middle of the hallway, right
002 - Bad Gym Decision
Wifi Problem? Or did the Smart TV go into screensaver mode and accidently unlock a bunch of back-end options? Either way, looks like Gym Decision
003 - Elevator Out of Service
Sometimes there isn’t much to say in the way of explanation.