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My kids are in the middle of their finals week. What a mess. Universities know nothing, Canvas claims to be in a "scheduled maintenance", and one Prof claims to "not have any copie…

“Snow Leopard”, the original OSX release that focused under the hood, returns. I’m glad to hear it.

They’re CTH : County Trunk Highway. Posting from CTH T between the intersections at TT and TTT.

My father is in his 80’s, has poor hearing aids, but still goes out daily with his dSLR and Merlin to see what’s around him and he still gets great shots. I’m really happy Merlin e…

If you use LLMs in lieu of searching Stack Overflow, you're going to go faster and be neither smarter nor dumber. If you're prompting for entire functions, I suspect it'll be a cru…

It’s not just the orders of magnitude difference in number of rounds fired; it’s the size and power of the rounds. SEALs don’t shoot soda cans with .22 rifles.

And yet several places do. “Menu reflects cash prices” and “tuition payment via credit card will be subject to a 3.5% fee” are 2 I got this week.

The FAA has their hands full investigating problems _after_ they become problems. Are airplanes in a race to the bottom or is there an opportunity to inject quality and reliability…

Would this have been written in C, asm, or something else? I suppose with Atari & Mac II both being Motorola processors the assembly would have been a direct lift except for any Ap…

MG&E built one on the Madison isthmus[0], but they’re already a utility company. [0]: https://www.mge.com/lovev/charging/charge-go#/find/nearest?c...

Dune 2 is almost 3 hours long. Why shouldn’t it cost more than a 90 minute romcom?

https://www.craft.do on macOS is a great text+media notes app, but I still use Obsidian for pure-test use cases for some reason.

I like listening to The Great Courses on Audible. They’re long and interesting, but they’re nothing I’d take notes on, they’re not anything that would change my life. I have used c…

Disney is diversifying. This comes on the heels of their subsidiary ESPN creating a new sports streaming service with Fox and Warner/Discovery ( https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/es…

It's the output of Bazel's py_binary rule that includes a py_runtime to create a single hermetic executable file that can be deployed anywhere.

Timely read; we’re in the process of replacing our $12k Thermador refrigerator 4 years after we bought it, and 6 months and a dozen trips by the repair guy.

I’ve used the blood oxygen sensor during bouts with Covid, while sleeping, and while sitting at a computer (“email apnea”). It’s an important part of the reason I own it. If Apple …

I wish I could get a decent mesh system. One router isn't enough to cover my house with some of the building materials used.

Good news, everyone: The United 737 Max 9 I’m supposed to board tomorrow has “already been checked out and returned to service.”

I verified verilog using the Vera language back in the day. The largest test benches would take 5s to compile to interpreted bytecode. Verification engineers rarely change the desi…

I worked at a startup company that created a DSL to generate verilog. We had the designers do unit testing in the DSL but “sign-off” verification was still UVM w/generated verilog.…

Awesome! When I was an undergraduate all I could tape out was a small wafer of capacitors and correlate theoretical vs silicon. Chisel is no doubt a developer velocity booster. And…

These languages are fun. "Look ma, no verilog!" But the underlying problem with all of these DSLs is the fact that the EDA[0] industry interoperates on verilog. Period. Worse, at s…

Looks like there’s one of 2 URLs to visit to take your subscription to YouTube or elsewhere. > If you want to move from Google Podcasts to YouTube Podcasts, Google makes that prett…

Growing up, I knew several people who worked HS jobs at Phoneco. Classic.