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@ianjohnbuckley

Moral purpose. Comp Arch. DSP. Comms. Protocols. FPGA/ASIC. Space. Snark. Dumpster fires.

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I’m never going to be able to unsee this am I? I finally found the thing that moves me to unicode

10.03.2026 00:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The payback for success! Don’t worry, Blue is on a good trajectory now, and there will be endless interesting new problems to solve progressively farther than Earth

07.03.2026 18:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The single post powerful argument for Tesla (despite the Nazi dick) is the no dealership model. It was delivered to my home, received a couple of minor fixes at my house, and finally got to visit an actual Tesla service center last week at 52000 miles having been rear ended hard.

07.03.2026 14:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The moment when US bombs struck a school in Iran.

Horrific. They're kids for fucks sake.

06.03.2026 19:06 πŸ‘ 134 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 5

+1000

07.03.2026 01:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean we are adding high density mixed residential/commercial right in the heart of the city at a rate that possibly exceeds demand (at the market price anyhow). Sure we are also adding suburbs, but they are master planned at a city scale, with local schools, retail, some employment potential.

01.03.2026 05:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Random question: Anyone aware of a service I could query with (ideally) a lat/long and it would return (ideally) airfield QNH for the nearest airfield?. Stepping stones to this (nearest airfield code) also welcomed

27.02.2026 20:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
National Weather Service

Not what NOAA is showing πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php...

26.02.2026 23:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Don’t fret, this is how it looks out my front window this exact second. Forecast for town != the mountain, there will be some snow and maybe a little afternoon rain at the base this weekend.

26.02.2026 18:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Not at the low end for sure but compared to my billable hours for a weeks work, a $1000 for my virtual coworker is very modest cost. Not yet convinced any of us really know what the cost of β€œtokens” should be though for a profitable AI provider though, could be off by orders of magnitude here

26.02.2026 18:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And be people clearly you mean Californians (AKA people who cant prove 3+ generations of residence in Bend)

25.02.2026 22:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ha! Brain fart! I mention radionuclides because when people ask about fission thats generally their concern. Glacial regulatory constraints and capital costs are its most pragmatic problem at this point. Its an answer, but its not THE answer to climate change.

22.02.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Indeed civil nuclear fusion can trivially quantifiably be proven to have emitted a fraction of the radionuclides that burning coal has, historically. But in the PNW we don’t need to build any further fission plants, we have abundant diverse renewables tapped and still untapped.

22.02.2026 16:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

No kidding!. I like that they are proposing this as a fee for new build with gas. I think it's a better approach then just forcing electric only.....The carrot rather than stick

22.02.2026 03:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Now you are making me wonder what ratio the lines on the pan correspond to. Time for an experiment

22.02.2026 00:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Mission patch of the year!

21.02.2026 16:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My first thought is how do you efficiently buy 35 pounds of butter in the UK (especially in 1970’s with typical small shops)!

20.02.2026 00:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Resistive atmospheric heating….

18.02.2026 19:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster β€˜a real risk’, says leading expert Prof Michael Wooldridge says scenario such as deadly self-driving car update or AI hack could destroy global interest

I mean the Hindenburg was pretty much the death knell of airships so maybe I should sit quietly and smugly for a while? www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

17.02.2026 19:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How can a speaker cable be uni-directional? The audio scam market lives with different laws of physics than the rest of us

17.02.2026 16:56 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Did the same recently. Wow its weird to leave the silo.
Bonus fright: turn on screentime on a mac, block all websites then start white listing what you think you are visiting. (Preview: chrome cant function at all)

14.02.2026 16:43 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Why has Julie already not upped and relocated to the emptiness she craves in South Dakota? Its wonderful right?

12.02.2026 20:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

05.02.2026 00:25 πŸ‘ 6053 πŸ” 2183 πŸ’¬ 177 πŸ“Œ 196

Me surprised when I hear about engineers still using windows.

30.01.2026 23:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Go take a long hard look at how we piss away the majority of the water we abstract from the Deschutes river basin before you start shooting from the hip, because its egregious and unjustifiable.

29.01.2026 15:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is not an informed opinion, without data centers Deschutes county would cease to function. We live in a fairly ideal location for data center operation. Go case study Apple in Prineville. Write rules that enforce sustainability and quid pro quo to the community.

29.01.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

How long before international travelers departing the USA are subject to health related travel restrictions?

29.01.2026 14:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him.

β€œWhen they say, β€˜Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. β€œMy nation is under attack."

27.01.2026 17:30 πŸ‘ 23693 πŸ” 9514 πŸ’¬ 658 πŸ“Œ 705

Big boat woke klaxon

27.01.2026 08:13 πŸ‘ 130 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey PrettiπŸ™πŸΎ The VA ICU Nurses send him off right πŸ’”

26.01.2026 05:04 πŸ‘ 17717 πŸ” 6830 πŸ’¬ 317 πŸ“Œ 1131