Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I feel like the two paragraphs immediately after your screenshot pretty directly address your complaint here? (as well as the next section, which gets into the implications of this) 100
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 09/07/2026NEW: a look at how surging power demands from data centers are helping to drive a shortage of electrical transformers ig.ft.com/transformers/ 44522
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 30/06/2026need to learn more about how/why we spent 40 years canning things before we invented the can opener 492
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 01/03/2026here's a random account whose only bet is (incorrectly) buying 167k shares that the US would strike Iran two weeks ago at 1.2¢ that's the exact kind of thing that would look like an obvious signal in retrospect if they were right, but they weren't. how could you know the difference beforehand? 110
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 22/02/2026then finally designed/printed this stand to allow the frame to sit upright and the power cord to run up the side frame to power the lights 110
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 22/02/2026printed these little corner spacers to keep the aluminum sheet in place on the back of the. they have "wings" on two sides that slide into the groove of the frame and a glued-in bolt that threads through the aluminum sheet. worked out in a pretty nifty way that didn't require gluing the spacers 110
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 22/02/2026I glued the models onto a picture frame and replaced the back with an aluminum sheet that I stuck these LED strips onto. after a bunch of soldering, I had the lights set up and wired to a little switch on the side of the frame 110
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 22/02/2026I 3D printed the models in a matte white PLA, which made the elevations show up in this pretty cool way when backlit 110
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 22/02/2026after that, I brought the files into Blender, where I added some labels, and a sea-level border on the models and then into BambuStudio to prep them for printing 110
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 22/02/2026first thing I did was grab topobathymetric tiles from the USGS, stitch them together, crop them to the state boundaries for Rhode Island, and then export an .stl file that I could edit for a print 220
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 22/02/2026wanted to share a little about a 3D printing/electronics project that I finished recently as a gift: this light-up relief map of Rhode Island and its Salt Ponds 3151
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 19/02/2026also to be clear, I am kind of subtweeting this anecdote I don't care at all about monday.com, but it seems very silly that their stock would tank over this "vibe coding", but not tank when I clone any of the 1000+ public repos here: github.com/topics/kanba... what's the difference, practically? 260
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 20/01/2026maybe I'm in the minority here, but I've never watched a video podcast on purpose and never really intend to? I was under the impression that the point of producing video podcasts was just to cut clips/take advantage of more passive video platforms, but this and the netflix thing are throwing me off 2160
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 09/01/2026not saying it's nothing, but if you zoom out a little to the past month, that movement doesn't seem particularly large 190
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 25/11/2025broke: 20.1% is about a fifth woke: 20.1% is about half bespoke: it's both 030
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 24/11/2025can't even take in whatever this poll is supposed to be saying because I'm getting so angry at whatever is going on with the sizes of the bars + the blue/red color scheme that is *not* mapped to party ID... 270
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 04/11/2025in the span of three sentences, I am told that: - Chicago uses 82.7 billion kWh per day* - Chicago uses 30.2 billion kWh per year *21 kWh for each of the 4 billion people that live there, I guess 030
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 31/10/2025making all of my friend's parents extremely jealous 040
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 06/10/2025first morning in London, thought I'd grab myself a traditional full english breakfast! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 771
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 01/10/2025the red teamers who have been doing "adversarial testing" on this thing for 18 months seem to have overlooked "framing someone for a crime". alas! 0141
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Trading on Kalshi has picked up significantly since they began listing sports markets for US bettors nationwide Their opponents say this is illicit sports betting, in conflict with CFTC rules that the agency is choosing not to enforce, and that the agency is not equipped to regulate gaming 020
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 26/06/2025I could've sworn that our current mayor was indicted on corruption charges and that four deputy mayors resigned in protest just a few months ago? no mention of any of that in this piece about the dangers of New York being mismanaged though, I must be imagining it! 4292
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 21/06/2025NEW: Why Wall Street fears a 33-year-old political outsider on.ft.com/4ncZcGJ 2219
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 16/06/2025asked Google why there are an odd number of teams in the WNBA and it explained that an even number creates "competitive imbalances", which doesn't make much sense so I followed the citation link and its an 11 year old Reddit comment about imbalanced schedules from an *odd* number of NBA teams 150
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 09/06/2025NEW on the Wall Street backers supporting Andrew Cuomo's campaign for mayor and how his fundraising contrasts with Zohran Mamdani and other opponents in the race on.ft.com/4mUmKQF 161
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 16/05/2025honestly find it pretty charming that the Star Wars wiki page about "humans" just refuses to break character 130
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 05/05/2025April data from the FDNY is out and fire department response times during peak hours remained down since the start of congestion pricing. Response times are still at their fastest since August 2022 (-6.4% year-over-year for April) on.ft.com/4jLBhw4 020
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 01/05/2025data from the MTA shows faster average bus speeds within the congestion zone, while speeds elsewhere in the city are flat this is evidence, from vehicles on the ground, that congestion is down, but also highlights a benefit of clearer streets for commuters STORY: on.ft.com/4lXFIFo 121
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 01/05/2025NYC congestion pricing is working on.ft.com/3EIT7Rc (gift link) 14217
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 28/04/2025NEW from the team: another look at the supply chain behind the iPhone and why it would be impractical to manufacture in the US: ig.ft.com/us-iphone/ 03310
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 25/04/2025love asking the "wrong facts only" machine to give me some wrong facts this fact doesn't matter too much, but surely it nails all of the facts that do matter! good thing no one really depends on this thing to give them real facts! 240
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Americans should probably just assume at this point that any personal information the US government has collected about us could potentially be in the hands of any entity, private or public, domestic or foreign 3187
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 29/03/2025[inventing the sewing machine]: "great, now no one needs to learn how to make clothes anymore!" 4382
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 24/03/2025I agree that it would be very uncharitable to say that she moved *to* run, not my intention to imply that the thing people need to understand about the district shape, though, is that most of the people in the district live in the red circle here, and that has all been the same district for a while 0100
Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 24/03/2025I'm sorry, but regardless of views or messaging, I'm always going to be really uncomfortable with somebody running to represent a district that they don't live in/haven't spent time in (IL-09 also covers the part of Chicago that I grew up in, so I'm particularly sensitive here) 3450