@switchborg

I'm a geek, a programmer, a tinkerer. Interested in programming, computer graphics, radio, and miscellaneous miscellany.

switchb.org/kpreid/
Joined March 2011
  • Tweets206
  • Following106
  • Followers189
4Media
Just wonderful! (via @marannelson )
This Post is from a suspended account. Learn more
7
49
2
456
Me: Okay, algorithm. Here are some points. Scatter them randomly in space. If the points are too close together, try again. Algorithm: AAAAAAH the points are always too close, I quit Me: What if you only check each point against OTHER points? A: Ohhhh well you didn't SAY that
2
9
1
99
Multilayer boards are so beautiful before you flood the planes!
4
16
127
Kevin Reid retweeted
eevee 💨@eevee21 Feb 2019
i'm going to make a programming language where - is legal in identifiers, and the subtraction operator is −, as it should be
20
28
8
169
On the list of Things That Are Hilarious When You're Older, I present the following tale of chivalry (mine) and chivalry (his.)
8
56
11
212
Haxing the Wireless World 3.0 #grcon2016 youtube.com/watch?v=Sv_zugoT… Thx+inspiration @IanJohnBuckley @ibelings @jvierine @switchborg @usa_satcom

GRCon16 - Hacking the Wireless World 3.0, Balint Seeber

All GRCon16 slides available here: http://gnuradio.org/grcon-2016/t...

youtube.com
4
15
2
28
Kevin Reid retweeted
IAmSciArt@IAmSciArt31 Oct 2016
My #pumpkin this year is loosely based on Juno's view of Jupiter in the Infrared #sciart @nasajuno #nasa #halloween
37
1,060
171
2,002
Kevin Reid retweeted
Axikor@Axikor228 Oct 2016
I love this way more than I probably should.
52
6,878
405
10,844
Kevin Reid retweeted
Catherine@whitequark23 Oct 2016
US DoD circa 1987: "so you have a recursive acronym? you are like little baby. watch this"
2
45
95
Replying to @UrsulaV
Now, Ursula, she got every key ta everthing in the whole wide world on her keychain...
1
1
1
Had one of those "what are all these keys on my key ring?!" moments. Some were explicable. One was...not.
6
2
13
Kevin Reid retweeted
Catherine@whitequark25 Sep 2016
TIL optical antennas exist (for the IR range they are even somewhat practical). even phased arrays of them! creol.ucf.edu/partnerships/a…
4
14
2
41
QFT: "Until we figure out the whole post-scarcity thing, we're all complicit in something." xitter.cf/jephjacques/status/778…
2
1
i wrote "a multiset of primes", but then i noticed that's just "a number"
1
2
6
Kevin Reid retweeted
Catherine@whitequark11 Jul 2016
me, in a dark room, staring directly at PCB: "wonder why does this 4x4 array of WS2812's w/RGB=0xffffff not work" me: *fudge* me: MY EYES
2
2
14
Pour one out for my favorite bug of 2016
61
2,704
26
5,245
Q: How did the hungry computer scientist go looking for food? A: Bread-first search.
1
5
8
I crashed through the vet door accompanied by a crack of thunder and gusty rain, which is the best dramatic entrance I've ever made.
3
2
49
Replying to @UrsulaV
@UrsulaV
1
1
I'm shocked by how good slither.io/ is. The concept sounds predictable, but it plays like perfect emergent ecology.
1
1
3
Load more