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Meanwhile in Washington, an unknown number of people where killed today in a paper mill “white liquor” explosion today…: https://www.opb.org/article/2026/05/26/longview-chemical-exp...

I vote the Vista wallpapers personally; feels just right.

As much (fairly well deserved) hate as Tahoe gets, the video wallpapers and transparency are such a fun Windows Vista vibe I get nostalgia. Time to set this up with the Vista waterfall wallpaper and reallllyyy feel like it’s 2007!

Maple Valley in Washington was allegedly 118 too - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Western_North_America_hea...

Super fun considering relatively few homes in western Washington have AC…

Snap, for like 15 years at this point: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/snap-maintains-up...

I think that post quantum encryption methods might be in this category but I am not knowledgeable enough to say either way.

One issue though with making a one time pad trivial to copy - how do you authenticate that you are allowed to read? How do you know the client isn’t copying?

As neither (despite my username) this makes me sad

Would have been interesting if not very AI generated :(

There’s a video on the first link of a landing in Belgrade that’s deeply funny. “We departed late and arrived early, A Boeing 737 would never be able to do that”

“Why are you reading out numbers to me like I am an old man”

Titanium-Boron nano thermite is easily the most SciFi thing I have read today, and apparently Aluminum-Teflon nano thermite is also a thing.

It would be nice if they extended their external services the same behavior…

Honestly an AI model might be fairly okay at this?

Same, just had two fail, in a qnap 100gb switch with a reasonable level of cooling… Meanwhile the 100g optics are actually doing just fine!

How common is this? In scouts we often did this, jumping into alpine lakes where you could see a glacier melting across the water.

We were also told that to treat heatstroke tossing someone in the lake and then treating for shock was somewhat preferable…

Only a little bit of touching for the really expensive one. The Credo 50 was less than 1K though.

Also Phase One Support/Repair is absolutely phenomenal and unless you toast the sensor; repairs are “fairly” economical.

Dicks in Seattle is currently only 5.75 for the deluxe; everything else is less! And IMO, very good for the money.

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This 1000% - I’ve used AI to enable SSH in one Phase One digital back I own, and to reverse engineer and patch the firmware on another to make the back think it’s a different back - Credo 50 to IQ250! The internals are literally the Sam.

Anyone also seeing Active Directory/Entra issues?

Also prevents you from messing with it too much, as any substantial change requires draining and refilling your loop.

Not really the case in any of the high cost of living cities - when I graduated undergrad in the mid 2010s, my peers where getting offers from Microsoft for 100-120K for their standard out of school dev positions, Amazon was better as was Apple from what I recall. Plenty of 23 year olds making that much?

Verilog is not the best and that’s not even the worst part - tools like ISE/Vivado and Quartus are even worse!

It’s really amazing that at least there are some fully open flows for FPGAs these days, unfortunately they don’t support system Verilog. (I think this is still the case?)

Sensors this large do exist! https://www.servethehome.com/stmicroelectronics-makes-a-18k-...

There’s also (maybe) http://largesense.com

Hopefully not with Morning Light Mountain as well.

SDF inspired me to start setting up my own retro computing lab for fun; to experiment with actual working history is very entertaining! Since SDF mostly has older systems (https://wiki.sdf.org/doku.php?id=vintage_systems:start) I tried to get the later ones - Sparc M10, M7 & Ultrasparc, HP-C9000, etc.

Very cool how they tried to move and preserve many of the living computer museum’s computers before Paul Allens sister could sell them all off. https://wiki.sdf.org/doku.php?id=vintage_systems:lcml_collec...

I remember seeing the TOAD systems when I visited in 2016 long before they closed, it’s very sad that people no longer get to experience computer history in person the same way.

TIL there’s such a thing in Seattle! That’s very good to know!

Cat’s will also literally try to clean you as well!

Blog post for people who prefer reading: https://hackaday.com/2026/04/11/implementing-pcie-over-fiber...

While at a higher level, thunderbolt and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExpEther can both of course work over fiber too!

(Q|O)SFP are basically just raw high speed serial interfaces to whatever - you see this a lot in FPGAs, you can use the QSFP interfaces for anything high speed - PCIe, SATA, HDMI…

It's been shockingly bad for me - for another example when asked to make a new python script building off an existing one; for some cursed reason the model choose to .read() the py files, use 100 of lines of regex to try to patch the changes in, and exec'd everything at the end...

Too late, personally after how bad 4.6 was the past week I was pushed to codex, which seems to mostly work at the same level from day to day. Just last night I was trying to get 4.6 to lookup how to do some simple tensor parallel work, and the agent used 0 web fetches and just hallucinated 17K very wrong tokens. Then the main agent decided to pretend to implement tp, and just copied the entire model to each node...

It just makes logical sense really; the human using the tool is in the end responsible.

Whether the tool is too powerful or ethical to use is an orthogonal discussion, in my opinion. Taken to the extreme, nuclear weapons still need someone fire or drop them. (We should still have discussions on safety and ethics always!)