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  RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116939881649743243 Seconded! Good read, sober writing. https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/

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  I am fuckin' PSYCH'D out of my MIND for this https://sfba.social/@dnalounge/116580228319400501 🤘

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@unlofl/116605462224712153 LOL I cannot unhear this...

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  RE: https://macaw.social/@jay/116612647997219423 On the boos being heard at graduation speeches mentioning A.I.

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  I added `defer` to crescent (lang) last night. Seems like a straight-forward win in languages that support it. It was also a suprisingly easy feature to add. Args are evaluated at deferral time, calls are made LIFO when the enclosing scope closes. Very suspicious of how simple it is actually. The only things I could think of were compiler warnings on non-unit return types and errors on `@must_check` and `@allocates` (will probably rename these annotations)

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  After spending a grip of time surveying all of the mutable and immutable string type situations (and trainwrecks) in other languages back in 2024, I have found myself just revisiting it all again. I was planning on `str` being a special-cased type that treated as a value but this essentially leads to built-in accessor functions like `len()` and `bytes()` that have special visibility access into the internal struct...which is _ok_ but...

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  Maxime Heckel's entire blog is gold https://blog.maximeheckel.com/

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  Talking about AI is complicated but this particular talking point always gets me... > At Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others, leadership says that AI generates a growing share of the overall code, which makes it cheaper and faster to produce. The total disconnect...just going back to judging planes by weight. How many kLOC did you write this quarter? Like the problem space is simply that "more code needs to exist"

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  @grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place It's Friday... "Various code, docs, tests, fixes. WIP"

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  https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/116538879554037679 That is a career plan that is a lot like a lot of other working/middle-class traps (many versions of "retirement") that boil down to "life is what happens when you are busy making other plans". Also, it's quite a gamble given [gestures vaguely towards the world outside].

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  That there is no :rubber_duck: is further proof that the unicode consortium is not serving the people.

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  Good riddance! "What if a principle water fountain along the water front looked like a post-apocalytic toxic waste dump designed by M.C. Escher?" -- Vaillaincourt, a bad artist who hopefully felt bed https://mastodon.social/@jef/116534718671686861

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  GOOOOooooooooo!!!!

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  @jripley Is this bait? hahah. Other considerations would be if you are dealing with sig. ripple currents or frequencie, MLCCs are fragile and can either crack _or_ cause failed joints if there's a lot thermal cycling (they won't last decades) or otherwise high dT. 20 of anything in parallel to gnd means 20 times the leakage current. Frequency of currents also relevant, MLCCs will couple acoustic frequencies into the board which might be bad...and is of course reciprocal (e.g. sin...

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  The AC is cranking in my lab and it's still 85 (30) degrees in here. It's March. This is fine.

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  hello this is the temperature sensor I have in the shady cool part of the back yard and it is March and I do not like it

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  Re https://hollo.social/@hongminhee/019d0fbb-444f-7fdb-bd9f-0d398cb41731 A society detached from the act of knowledge generation and object creation...that also freely leverages advanced weapon systems...feel like I saw a show about this once...

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  I'm working on some bits and pieces related to over-the-air updates to the lunar surface. But OTA doesn't quite capture the scale here. So, I think I am going to rename this TLU for trans-lunar update.

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  I don't like the time changes, but I'm glad we are going back to California Correct Time.

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  @jripley@mastodon.social Regarding ripple current, it's naturally problematic re electrolytics, but the opposite can be true with a grip of parallel low ESL MLCCs (some things need ripple current, obvs ckt dependent)...just throwin it out there. I think generally I only ever put a chonker electrolytic down these days: if it does save precious board space, building down to cost and there's a relevant assembly cost diff, actually need some outrageous voltage rating. Whatever it is, don&#...

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  @jripley@mastodon.social "that answer is inextricably contingent upon the type of life being led... and, of course, the quality of the pancakes."

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  @neauoire KIBA

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@GeePawHill/116129976624712032 Very entertaining thread about designing software for an icebreaker from @GeePawHill

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  https://rsaksida.com/blog/ape-coding/

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  Rummaging through some older photos. Came across this from 10 years ago. #throwbackthursday (well, Thursday in the time zone this was taken in)

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  @mcbridejc@mstdn.social to clarify, with pulses it's easiest to see the relative loads on each by the order in which the pulses stop. a lot of blinking might be stressful. also, pulses look cool IMO.

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  "The AI revolution needs to be done with us, not to us." -- Dr. Hannah Fry

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  @igb@mastodon.hccp.org dang well next we go I'll holler. The kiddo's schedule is crazy so it's hit and miss for us on how many times we get up there.

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  @igb@mastodon.hccp.org Yeah! kinda outrageous solid color jacket right? I almost said hi but I was kinda behind you and wasn't fully sure. We came back Sunday evening though before the real snow fun started heheh.

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  @igb@mastodon.hccp.org Were you on the slopes at Sugar Bowl this weekend by chance?