• A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden - https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history
  • A bit wordy but has some nice content.

• Voyager 1 is back online! NASA's most distant spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments - https://www.space.com/voyager-1-fully-operational

• The following article is a fascinating read. It explains why it is so expensive to build a fab and the incredible amount of engineering that goes into it.
  • https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-build-a-20-billion-semiconductor - How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fab
  • For comparison, the cost to build WTC is $2 billion.

• Stocks will be on a T+1 settlement cycle starting from Tue 2024-05-28.
  • https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2024-62

• https://tactiq.io/ - It can produce a summary, highlights, transcript of meeting held on Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams. The summary was pretty impressive (blown away would be the correct phrase… but I do not want to exaggerate). Try it out if you get a chance.

• https://ciechanow.ski/airfoil/ - airfoil
  • Very well written; easy to follow along; interactive; high information density; lot of information.

• $1 Billion Donation Will Provide Free Tuition at a Bronx Medical School
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/nyregion/albert-einstein-college-medicine-bronx-donation.html

• https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/144755/why-qualified-dividends-are-taxed-differently-from-current-income - Why [qualified] dividends are taxed differently from current income?

The Check 21 Act

• is a US federal law
• It allows the recipient of a paper check to create a digital version of the original, a process known as check truncation, into an electronic format called a “substitute check”, thereby eliminating the need for further handling of the physical document.
• It was enacted on October 28, 2003.
• went into effect on October 28, 2004.

from | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_21_Act

• Fidelity has a cool feature called “Full View” wherein you can add all your other accounts (brokerage, 401k, bank accounts etc.,) and track your net worth for free.
  • https://www.fidelity.com/go/monitoring-your-financial-portfolio

• https://thefinancebuff.com/rent-by-choice-beyond-numbers.html - Beyond the Numbers: a Closer Look at Renting By Choice

• The 2023 U.S. economy, in a dozen charts - https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/07/the-2023-us-economy-in-charts.html

• Close to 40% of all homes in the U.S. don’t have a mortgage.
  • https://www.axios.com/2023/12/12/mortgage-free-homes

• Classical Johny Johny yes papa
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RCUsYxY6OE - full version
  • https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2fYqNpvCzW

• https://freedium.cfd/ - Freedium: Paywall Breakthrough for Medium
  • Use case: https://betterprogramming.pub/numpy-illustrated-the-visual-guide-to-numpy-3b1d4976de1d has a paywall. But https://freedium.cfd/https://betterprogramming.pub/numpy-illustrated-the-visual-guide-to-numpy-3b1d4976de1d does not.
  • Recommended by bypass-paywalls-clean extension.

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