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I resurrected an ancient UIUC x86 ASM game, built with some friends in the summer of 2002 for ECE291. Claude Code drove most of the work. The first attempt was a full on x86asm->we…

Nostalgia and Claude Code makes some interesting hard things possible. Five of us wrote this as our ECE291 final project at UIUC in the summer of 2002. It's a Middle Earth space sh…

This started as a two-week final project for ECE 291 at UIUC in 2002. A space (or sky) shooter written entirely in x86 assembly. Hand tuned SSE memory ops, Mersenne Twister RNG, to…

Ah this is sad news. I came to know of him by way of UIUC's Engineering Open House. Back in 03' or 04' a rag tag group of us put together an "asymmetric capacitor" exhibit -- a sor…

Here is a personal anecdote that I cannot help but extrapolate on this sad day: Back in 2016 I made an impossible to get replacement part [0] for the Breville BCG800XL SmartGrinder…

Every idea seems obvious to add to the OS in hindsight, yet we all lose. For a small shop these apps are their lifeblood and so they get constantly nourished. For a large corporati…

Radioactive Polonium-210 is the most potent carcinogen within tobacco, and it is not intrinsic to the plant. It is a result of past use of phosphate fertilizer [0]. [0] https://www…

I have occasionally wondered if they were fingerprinting users based on that mouse jitter. Most likely certain aspects of the mouse motion and timing would be unique.

I really wish there was a feature to lock the phone upon rapid movement, such as when a thief snatches the device while it is in use. It seems like an obvious mitigation to a commo…

Before it was called "local first" it was known as "subsidiarity". Seeing the principle applied to food, politics, software is exciting to me. "Subsidiarity is an organizing princi…

Does the FDA not randomly sample and test for this sort of thing? Why does it take a university study to discover it?

Well, I do not. It is one of the most popular grinders on Amazon though. Many of us are already stuck with it!

Breville coffee grinders. The company does not sell parts, and so 3D printing was necessary to bridge the gap when mine broke a few years back. It ended up being one of the small v…

Breville coffee grinders fall into this category, and were impossible to get OEM internal parts for. When mine failed a few years back, I designed a 3D printed upgrade for the main…

At the international level, it is debate-able. It depends on the goodwill nations have towards one another. At the individual and family level though, atomization is incredibly des…

We need a better way to reward the contributing artists making the diffusion models possible. Might we be able to come up with a royalty model, where the artist that made the origi…

Incredible. Like a reverse Turing test: "Can the human tell if the virtual console the AI created is a real computer?"

When all elections are split 50%/50%, even the slightest bias in censorship could swing it to one side or the other.

The automotive firmware industry has had a strong preference historically for stable, old dependencies. With the advent of connected firmware, arises a strong force pushing in the …

It is so realistic too. I know a Prior (similar to an Abbot) who speaks exactly like this at times.

“Defiant”…Interesting editorial choice for a woman insisting that her marriage was quite valid. Henry’s actions merely showed himself a serial adulterer. Defiant might describe him…

After my grandfather got Parkinson’s disease circa 2005, I developed hand tremor cancelling software for the mouse [1]. It has gone through a lot of development since then; it is m…

G.K. Chesterton boiled this down pretty well: “The Special mark of the modern world is not that it is skeptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it. It says, in mockery of …