Évariste Galois died exactly 193 years ago at age 20 from wounds suffered in a duel.
At 17, Galois was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem standing for 350 years.
Firmware 1.0 released! 🔥
What’s new: Apps catalog, JavaScript support, New NFC subsystem, 2X faster Bluetooth, External radio module support and more! 🤩
Read the blog post: blog.flipper.net/released-fi…
Ok, this is amazing:
1/ Canadian and Brazilian players are having a heated chat at the net during the women’s beach volleyball gold medal match
2/ DJ plays John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’
3/ Players look at one another and smile
4/ Crowd starts singing along
12-hour timelapse of American Airlines, Delta, and United plane traffic after what was likely the biggest IT outage in history forced a nationwide ground stop of the three airlines.
I wrote a tool called PySkyWiFi that gives you completely free, unbelievably stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights.
It tunnels data through the "first name" field in your airmiles account, and can reach speeds of up to several bytes per second.
robertheaton.com/pyskywifi
Intel's Pentium processor (1993) was a big jump in processor performance, starting a brand that lasted until 2023. But what's inside the Pentium chip? How did Intel organize its 3.3 million transistors? Let's take a look inside and see the chip's "standard cells". 1/21
ALT A photo of the Pentium processor in its ceramic package. The package has many golden pins sticking out of it. The silicon chip itself is exposed in the middle. The patterns on the chip are visible in shimmering colors.