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Here's the bottom line of what happened today in the White House Oval Office: President Trump has displayed an inordinate amount of servility to Russia to the point where he starts bullying an actual hero. This behavior projects cowardice, i.e. weakness, to the rest of the world. The other […]

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When Trump was a child, he spake as an idiot, he understood as an idiot, he thought as an idiot: but when he became a man, he remained an idiot.

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I think it's about time that I contract with Magrathea to construct me a new.planet. This one used to be OK, but lately the leadership is exactly the wrong shade of orange.

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Journalist: “Mr. President, do you still think that Mr. Zelenskyy is a dictator?” Trump: “Uuhhmm… Did I say that? I can’t believe I said that. Next question.” — There you have it folks. As soon as Zelenskyy agreed to pretend there is a mineral deal which […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Do yourself a favor and go see the movie _Companion_. Don't watch the trailer or read reviews, as they all give spoilers!

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IMO, even a 500A contactor seems questionable. The problem is that contactors typically don't have a specified surge current rating. Maybe a 250A contactor could actually be adequate? Anyhow, with a contactor, I could set it up for control from my phone, rather than having to pop the hood.

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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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I bought two car battery side terminal bolts from O'Reilly, and one of them is threaded improperly. Murphy was an optimist. Even things that can't go wrong, do. It's said that "You get what you pay for." That's not in general true in. It's the upper bound.

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I'm taking apart a Commodore SuperPET SP9000 and an 8050 fdual floppy drive, to reform the electrolytic filter capacitors in the linear power supplies. I'm hoping the system works, as I'd like to sell it.

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Nvidia CEO Huang says AI has to waste 100 times more energy now than when ChatGPT was released https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/02/26/nvidia-ceo-huang-says-next-generation-ai-will-need-more-compute.html

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"AI coding assistants are on a downward spiral" https://www.infoworld.com/article/3830735/ai-coding-assistants-are-on-a-downward-spiral.html/amp/ They started at the bottom. They can't go downward very far.

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Europa was wrong. It was not, in fact, the _final_ countdown

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I just started printing physicist Jan Brajer's 1:100 model of the CERN ATLAS detector: https://makerworld.com/en/models/962537#profileId-932720 I've printing the toroid 1 plate, which will take a little under six hours. The entire model requires nearly a solid week of printing. It will take […]

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A friend gave me their old Kindle, so last night I was able to bulk download all my Kindle library just before Amazon removes that capability.

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I'm looking for a good textbook (or other resource) on asynchronous sequential logic design, analysis, and synthesis, e.g. using flow tables. This seems to be poorly represented in modern digital design textbooks, which is perhaps not surprising given the prevalence of synchronous design.

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This apparently just happened. "The United States voted with Russia, North Korea, Belarus and 14 other Moscow-friendly countries Monday on a resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine and calling for its occupied territory to be returned that passed overwhelmingly in the U.N. General […]

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The US Department of Defense now has a CISO appointed who had their security clearance suspended in 2021 by the NSA. The person responsible for coordinating national cybersecurity policy in the US also has no prior cybersecurity (or technology) experience […]

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Thousands sign petition asking government to remove Elon Musk's Canadian citizenship | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/elon-musk-citizenship-petition-1.7466278

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Embarrassing that Germany is now better at defeating Nazis than America is. We used to own them on that.

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Some folks find it confusing that there's a survival game called Rust and a programming language called Rust, but there's an easy way to remember. If you get into Rust and there's a bunch of naked people running around killing each other with rocks, that's the programming language.

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If you’re not alarmed yet you’re not paying attention

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"Elon Musk has engaged in activities that go against the national interest of Canada;" "He has now become a member of a foreign government that is attempting to erase Canadian sovereignty" "We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the Prime Minister to revoke Elon Musk's dual […]

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“Hitler's Enabling Act (1933) let his cabinet bypass parliament while claiming to ‘save democracy.’ Yesterday's Executive Order lets White House control all independent agencies while claiming to ‘restore democracy.’ They're not even changing the playbook […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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The internet is full of claims that the _War Games_ computer named WOPR is a play on a real NORAD computer named BRGR. This claim may have originated with people involved in the film production. However, it's a deeper (or shallower?) joke than that, because there doesn't seem to be any evidence […]

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Wubna lubba dub dub!

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Just received a cortisone injection to my right shoulder joint. Hope it helps. Today the doc said that my problem probably is my rotator cuff. Three weeks ago a different dic said it wasn't, based on x-rays.

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Zarf was both treasurer and effective tech lead of @IFTF for nearly ten years! May I lead an aptly text-based clap-out as he hands these roles off to new IFTF leadership. 👏👏👏 (emojis are text, dang it) https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@zarfeblong/114050427046998463

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90 cases and 16 hospitalizations due to measles in Texas. Apparently MMR vaccines haven't made it to that third world country yet. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/what-to-know-about-the-measles-outbreak-in-west-texas-as-cases-rise-to-90

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Putting together a new 1U box for my server rack: https://www.printables.com/model/1167457-1u-rack-mount-wopr-leds-enclosure

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My arguments in this essay are as follows: First, the crisis of American democracy is now squarely upon us. Multiple illegal and unconstitutional acts are happening, and the guardrails that check and restrain authoritarian abuse are rapidly falling away. Second, it is going to get a lot worse […]

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