STOP OCCUPATION 🍉 S. Costa
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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:
@markwyner@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

This is bound to bring some joy to your day. Everything about it is delightful.

(And the engineering is amazing.)

#Joy#Happy#Laughter#Play#Engineering#DIY#RollerCoaster

Two women wearing hijabs in a backyard with bright green grass. It is well-lit in the blackness of night. One is riding an exercise bike that is moving a chain connected to a mini pink roller coaster, where the second woman is sitting in a coaster cart. They are laughing while the rider is hoisted up to the top of the hill, before dropping into the small round of the full coaster. Behind them, many children are playing on some swinging toys in a unique, seemingly-homemade, and well-lit playground structure of some sort.
Two women wearing hijabs in a backyard with bright green grass. It is well-lit in the blackness of night. One is riding an exercise bike that is moving a chain connected to a mini pink roller coaster, where the second woman is sitting in a coaster cart. They are laughing while the rider is hoisted up to the top of the hill, before dropping into the small round of the full coaster. Behind them, many children are playing on some swinging toys in a unique, seemingly-homemade, and well-lit playground structure of some sort.
Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:
@markwyner@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

This is bound to bring some joy to your day. Everything about it is delightful.

(And the engineering is amazing.)

#Joy#Happy#Laughter#Play#Engineering#DIY#RollerCoaster

Two women wearing hijabs in a backyard with bright green grass. It is well-lit in the blackness of night. One is riding an exercise bike that is moving a chain connected to a mini pink roller coaster, where the second woman is sitting in a coaster cart. They are laughing while the rider is hoisted up to the top of the hill, before dropping into the small round of the full coaster. Behind them, many children are playing on some swinging toys in a unique, seemingly-homemade, and well-lit playground structure of some sort.
Two women wearing hijabs in a backyard with bright green grass. It is well-lit in the blackness of night. One is riding an exercise bike that is moving a chain connected to a mini pink roller coaster, where the second woman is sitting in a coaster cart. They are laughing while the rider is hoisted up to the top of the hill, before dropping into the small round of the full coaster. Behind them, many children are playing on some swinging toys in a unique, seemingly-homemade, and well-lit playground structure of some sort.
Eva Winterschön
@winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

🪷 The Zen of Forgetting 🪷

today is one of those where you solve long-standing intellectually challenging problems, with intricate requirements and nested dependent stages with a matrices of ways in which everything could go immediately back to being broken, but everything was smooth..

and afterwards you can't quite remember how the entire thing was resolved, because it's been going on for so long with full cognitive flow, those perfect meditative hours in the terminal..

and the internal voice says, "hmm, well, revision control will know the before and after, so the middle part isn't important." 🤷

and then you move on 😌

#programming #engineering #meditation #work
Eva Winterschön
@winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

🪷 The Zen of Forgetting 🪷

today is one of those where you solve long-standing intellectually challenging problems, with intricate requirements and nested dependent stages with a matrices of ways in which everything could go immediately back to being broken, but everything was smooth..

and afterwards you can't quite remember how the entire thing was resolved, because it's been going on for so long with full cognitive flow, those perfect meditative hours in the terminal..

and the internal voice says, "hmm, well, revision control will know the before and after, so the middle part isn't important." 🤷

and then you move on 😌

#programming #engineering #meditation #work
Jonathan Schofield
@urlyman@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

“the Romans built cranes with a mechanical advantage of up to 70 to one, meaning that one man exerting a force of only 25 kg could raise a weight of 1.75 tonnes.

However, the hydraulic version of the lever has one outstanding advantage over earlier mechanisms … the possible multiplication ratio is almost infintely greater and both pistons may be a considerable distance apart — up to about 25 km”
https://mstdn.social/@markhburton/114856001920894810
Susi Arnott
@SusiArnott@mastodon.green replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
@urlyman - thanks for marvellous link, had only thought of #waterpower in re gravity (and cf Malm's 'Fossil Capital')
#engineering and ping @CrispinHughes
priryo@linernotes.club
OliverUv
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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:
@markwyner@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp last month

In my journey to continue to find the good things in a world that’s breaking my heart on the daily, I found some beautifully-serene art.

Kinetic artist, Reuben Margolin uses skills in design, engineering, physics, electronics, and more. He creates motorized pieces that seem impossible. The one is called “Interlaced.”

More:
https://www.reubenmargolin.com/

#Art#Engineering#Physics#Math#KineticArt#Sculpture#Artist#ReubenMargolin#Mechanical

A horizontal set of tall polished wooden planks that are arranged tightly together. Vertical wires pull them up and down in a pattern that makes them look like two sets of waves, gracefully dancing together. Then the shot zooms out to show the complicated array of gears and pulleys above them.
A horizontal set of tall polished wooden planks that are arranged tightly together. Vertical wires pull them up and down in a pattern that makes them look like two sets of waves, gracefully dancing together. Then the shot zooms out to show the complicated array of gears and pulleys above them.
Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:
@markwyner@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp last month

In my journey to continue to find the good things in a world that’s breaking my heart on the daily, I found some beautifully-serene art.

Kinetic artist, Reuben Margolin uses skills in design, engineering, physics, electronics, and more. He creates motorized pieces that seem impossible. The one is called “Interlaced.”

More:
https://www.reubenmargolin.com/

#Art#Engineering#Physics#Math#KineticArt#Sculpture#Artist#ReubenMargolin#Mechanical

A horizontal set of tall polished wooden planks that are arranged tightly together. Vertical wires pull them up and down in a pattern that makes them look like two sets of waves, gracefully dancing together. Then the shot zooms out to show the complicated array of gears and pulleys above them.
A horizontal set of tall polished wooden planks that are arranged tightly together. Vertical wires pull them up and down in a pattern that makes them look like two sets of waves, gracefully dancing together. Then the shot zooms out to show the complicated array of gears and pulleys above them.