Breadboard Updated 2025-07-16
This is how electronic circuits are normally prototyped!
Once you validate them like this, the next step is usually to move on to printed circuit boards for more reliable production setups.
Breadboards are a thing of beauty and wonder.
Point-to-point constructions on woden boards
. Source. Predecessors to breadboards from where the name came. A thing of beauty, so vintage. You could actually write stuff on those with a pencil!Breadboards - Trash or Treasure? by Keysight (2020)
Source. Breakout board Updated 2025-07-16
Break the meta Updated 2025-07-16
To break the meta means to find a new strategy that offers a significant advantage over the existing meta.
Due to Ciro Santilli's self perceived creative personality, Ciro Santilli is very attracted to meta breaks.
How One Man Changed the High Jump Forever by Olympics (2018)
Source. Dick Fosbury created and implemented the Fosbury Flop jump style in 1968. Breakthrough Prize Updated 2025-07-16
By Zuckerberg. The selection seems decent. And natural sciences only, which is good. A bit more application oriented than the Nobel Prize it seems, e.g. 2022 separates physics and fundamental physics.
Appears to explain award reasoning even worse than the Nobel Foundation.
Brewster's angle Updated 2025-07-16
Brexit Updated 2025-07-16
Brideshead Revisited (1981) Updated 2025-07-16
It's just too charming, and has some deep themes.
Brightest natural objects in the sky Updated 2025-07-16
Brighton Updated 2025-07-16
British humour Updated 2025-07-16
British newspaper Updated 2025-07-16
British physics research institute Updated 2025-07-16
Busy beaver function Updated 2025-07-16
Cancer is natural selection gone wrong Updated 2025-07-16
A cool thought about cancer expressed at Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane (2006) is that cancer it is the direct product of natural selection gone wrong!
Cancer cells are obviously selected against anti-cancer mechanism, which when they manage to evade, they reproduce uncontrollably, gaining more and more momentum.
British pragmatism Updated 2026-03-05
For example, a good effect is that many things work pretty well, such as the government. This also helped industry develop.
A bad effect is that they sometimes settle on local minima forever. Examples:If it ain't totally broken, just let it continue forever! See also: Section "History of the University of Oxford".
- written Constitution? Who needs a written constitution!
- as of 2020, they are still using imperial units in everyday life, rather than International System of Units, which was setup by the French, who are much more idealistic, and can therefore can break from such insanity more often.
- the persistence of the insane system of colleges of the University of Oxford
- the incredibly late date of the decimal day in 1971, and that was partly due to the advent of the computer. That one was too much, even for the Brits, or maybe it helped that the greedy financiers were involved
- the British train system as of the 2010's, which is completely not unified, each part operated by a different company with different standards. Private and public unification efforts are ongoing, Trainline being one of the best/only private buy from any line unification approaches.
- Church of England priests can marry, which reduces the proportion of pedophiles. Also women were accepted starting in the 1970's in certain dioceses (non uniform rules as usual, typical of English pragmatism), including for bishop
British university Updated 2025-07-16
Broadcom Updated 2025-07-16
Brodmann area Updated 2025-07-16
External 3D view of the Brodmann areas
. Source. Bromide Updated 2025-07-16
Bromine Updated 2025-07-16
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