April 30, 2018 10:51 pm Update

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Well that wasn’t fun. To fix a loose connection on the buried I2C line on the board I’m building ended up desoldering a bunch of SPI lines and power lines. But hopefully when this is back together things will work better. Plus I’m getting better at soldering.

It’s amazing how quickly electronics can get really complicated messes of wire, even when primarily using “simple” interfaces and integrated chips instead of discrete components.

Plus I got to get better at thinking out board layout and stop adding extra components after the fact.

How Slack Got Ahead in Diversity

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How Slack Got Ahead in Diversity

"Slack has been outperforming other Silicon Valley companies, and its current numbers show that the trend has continued. At Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, women hold between 19 percent and 28 percent of leadership positions and between 19 percent and 20 percent of technical roles, according to those companies’ most recent figures. At Slack, women make up 31 percent of leaders and hold 34 percent of technical roles. Also, in Slack’s U.S. workforce, percentages of underrepresented minorities (including black or African-American, Hispanic or Latino, or American Indian or Alaskan employees), are, in some cases, triple that of peer companies. At Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, underrepresented minorities hold between 4 and almost 8 percent of technical roles and make up less than 11 percent of all employees. At Slack, by contrast, underrepresented minorities make up almost 13 percent of technical roles and roughly 13 percent of all employees; they also make up 6 percent of leadership. The number of Hispanic women at the company has more than doubled since last year. The number of Hispanic men more than quadrupled."

April 30, 2018 6:36 pm Update

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I be thinking I follow all these television metrologists on Facebook and Twitter but I would have no idea what they look like on television because I don’t own a television. 🙊

Anthropocene – Wikipedia

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Anthropocene – Wikipedia

"The Anthropocene is a proposed epoch dating from the commencement of significant human impact on the Earth's geology and ecosystems, including, but not limited to, anthropogenic climate change. As of August 2016, neither the International Commission on Stratigraphy nor the International Union of Geological Sciences has yet officially approved the term as a recognized subdivision of geological time, although the Working Group on the Anthropocene (WGA) voted to formally designate the epoch Anthropocene and presented the recommendation to the International Geological Congress on 29 August 2016."

"Various different start dates for the Anthropocene have been proposed, ranging from the beginning of the Agricultural Revolution 12-15,000 years ago, to as recent as the Trinity test in 1945. As of February 2018, the ratification process continues and thus a date remains to be decided definitively, but the latter date has been more favored than others. The most recent period of the Anthropocene has been referred to by several authors as the Great Acceleration during which the socioeconomic and earth system trends are increasing dramatically, especially after the Second World War."