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simland.bsky.social
Programmer, sysadmin. Sometimes make things. Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 UK.
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Does he want Greenland because it's huge (on the mercator projection)?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Only news I watched today. youtu.be/CrGpAIBc754?... @larryandpaul.bsky.social

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

RIP David Lynch 😢

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Learning how to use the Raspberry Pi Pico. There are a few different languages that can be used. Python and C/C++ are the common and well supported ones... but I'm not that keen on either! Now looking at TinyGo.

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

From HN: 2025: - is a square: 45² - is the product of two squares: 9² x 5² - is the sum of 3-squares: 40² + 20² + 5² - is the sum of cubes of all the single digits: 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ - sum of the single digits squared: (1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9)² Deal with it.

submitted 52 days ago • 9 comments

Looking Back at 2024 open.substack.com/pub/asianome... One of my favourite YouTube channels.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone's saying Jeju Flight 2216 hit the Muan Airport fence, but no. The plane got reduced to fragments because it slammed into an Instrument Landing System array with a massive concrete base atop an even bigger embankment. It barely even reached the fence.

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Intel launched the Pentium processor in 1993. Unfortunately, dividing sometimes gave a slightly wrong answer, the famous FDIV bug. Replacing the faulty chips cost Intel $475 million. I reverse-engineered the circuitry and can explain the bug. 1/9

submitted 78 days ago • 17 comments