Charles Libby

Ph.D. student #WaldenUniversity
Trainer for Nokia.

[Charles Libby @cslibby]

@Caroline_649 Absolutely

[Ryan Hall, Y’all @ryanhallyall]

This is as bad as tornado warnings get, a large and extremely dangerous tornado on the ground near Sistersville, WV, crossing into Washington and Tyler Counties, Ohio and West Virginia. PDS warning, complete destruction possible, get below ground now. Live: https://t.co/K0HdrIb8v1

[Susan McLaughlin @SusanMcLaughli2]

In September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a History teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock, did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks in her classroom. When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks.

'Ms. Cothren, where are our desks?'

She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right to sit at a desk.'

They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.' 'No,' she said.

'Maybe it's our behavior.' She told them, 'No, it's not even your behavior.'

And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom. Kids called their parents to tell them what was happening and by early afternoon television news crews had started gathering at the school to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room.

The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the desk-less classroom. Martha Cothren said, 'Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he or she has done to earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I am going to tell you.'

At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it. Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in uniform, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the wall. By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned.

Martha said, 'You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. They went halfway around the world, giving up their education and interrupting their careers and families so you could have the freedom you have. Now, it's up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education. Don't ever forget it.'

[Ryan Hall, Y’all @ryanhallyall]

Get to higher ground right now if you're in Uvalde or Knippa, Texas, this is a Flash Flood Emergency and it's PDS level bad. Up to 8 inches of rain fell in just the last 2 hours on top of 10 to 20 inches over the past two days, and there are already numerous water rescues underway. Do not drive, do not wait, go up now.

[Charles Libby @cslibby]

@Matt_Pinner Two, my own

[Charles Libby @cslibby]

@ohhanxiety Cricket, Rugby

[Charles Libby @cslibby]

@RightScopee No

[Charles Libby @cslibby]

@SqSehrish 10

[Charles Libby @cslibby]

@Beno10_MFC Three differences
Mouth
Right hand thumb on bag
Left hand Thumb extended vs un extended

[Charles Libby @cslibby]

@WorkElizab Read a book

[Charles Libby @cslibby]

@lagz152507 @grok Frequency response, resistance, capacitance, reactance and all the things related to those functions in electronics

[Charles Libby @cslibby]

@Knightley_22 Too many to count because knitting or crochet are all methods which leave large gaps between the threads (holes). But, the number of holes in this sweater is 18.
Neck hole
Body hole
Left arm hole
Right arm hole
front and back holes for the 7
14+4=18

[Charles Libby @cslibby]

@Murk441 Doge patas or Taxi number 11. I walked.

[Charles Libby @cslibby]

@_Aria_2210 80 / (1/2) = 160 (Invert and multiply) then add the 40 to equal 200

[Charles Libby @cslibby]

@_Aria_2210 200

[Philosophy Of Physics @PhilosophyOfPhy]

In 1937, a 21-year-old MIT student sat in a quiet library, mapping abstract philosophical logic onto electrical circuits to pass the time.

By the time he finished his thesis, the young man had mathematically proven that mechanical telephone switches could perform complex calculations. Instead of just routing phone calls, they were destined to become thinking machines.

He had just discovered the mathematical trigger for digital computing.

But when he published his work, the leading engineers of the industrial world paid little attention, viewing his mathematics as a mere academic parlor trick.

His name was Claude Shannon.

It would take years for the industrial establishment to fully realize he was right and adopt the binary logic that now powers every computer, smartphone, and network on Earth.

His breakthrough against traditional engineering is the ultimate lesson in what happens when rigid practices clash with unexpected philosophical reality.
In the early 20th century, engineers believed they understood circuit design. They knew that as telephone networks grew, they needed more physical wires and relays. But traditional engineering offered no universal science; it was a manual process of brute-force trial and error.

The systems would grow into a chaotic, tangled mess of blueprints and copper lines.
The entire industrial establishment agreed: every circuit, no matter how complex, had to be wired by manual experimentation. It was a tedious, costly formula.

But in that library, Shannon realized the establishment had left a massive variable out of their equations: 19th-century symbolic philosophy.

Shannon recalculated the engineering, factoring in what happens when you treat an electrical switch using the laws of Boolean algebra.

What he found shattered the industrial consensus.

He proved that an electrical switch has only two possible states: it is either closed and letting power through, or open and blocking the current. This was mathematically identical to True (1) and False (0).

The circuit could evaluate logical statements. There was no limit to what it could compute. It could automate human thought, transforming physical electricity into digital logic.

When Shannon presented this concept, mainstream electrical engineers were skeptical. They couldn't accept that an abstract philosophical concept could solve real-world hardware bottlenecks.
Shannon was initially ignored. The establishment stuck to their traditional wiring methods.

Instead of fighting a rigid, closed system, Shannon quietly expanded his work into Information Theory, proving that all data could be compressed into a universal currency called the "bit." Decades later, when the global tech revolution exploded, the world realized the 21-year-old student had been right all along.

The philosophical blueprint Shannon left behind is a vital truth for navigating complex problems and institutional pushback:

Comforting traditions will always be more popular than disruptive innovations. Trust the system's underlying logic anyway.

Most of us approach our careers and projects seeking the validation of current experts or established guidelines. When we propose a radical new idea or try to change a broken system, and the authorities tell us we are wrong, our instinct is to assume our logic is flawed. We abandon our data to fit the consensus.

But Shannon’s legacy proves that traditional industry consensus is not the same thing as truth.
Gatekeepers are human; they protect their own methods, their own training, and their own comfort.

What is a bottleneck, a project, or a direction you’ve abandoned just because an expert or a boss told you it wouldn't work? What happens if you stop looking for their permission and trust the structural logic of your own work?

[Jeff Geerling @geerlingguy]

Apple *finally* added 'power on after power restore' in all cases (before it was just after hard shutdown), so it's easier to deploy Macs in headless / remote-first / homelab deployments.

Here's my video covering this feature, and the bug I found testing it: https://t.co/NPd9bSRA59

[Charles Libby @cslibby]

@megbasham @heaveniscallin1 God speaks the language of the heart. You learn that language as a child. Let people worship God from the heart!

[Charles Libby @cslibby]

@JAAnderson24 @megbasham My name is James Anderson & I’m a Christian.

This June I’ll be celebrating & affirming marriage as it was designed to be by God; between one man and one woman (Matthew 19:4-6; Genesis 2:27-28). We are celebrating 34 years.

[Charles Libby @cslibby]

@shairnn 11
8 / 2 =4
4*3=12
6-7=-1
12 -1=11