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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid

"A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin."

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hardware iceberg, near the top:
- nobody can implement I2C in hardware (except for Philips)
- SPI doesn't exist as a coherent entity
- UART has a CDR loop but you don't think of it that way
- MSP430 "JTAG" 🦋
December 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
going to put "hardware omelas kid" in my bio https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/115647894763194939
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December 2, 2025 at 3:42 AM
i made an update to a glasgow applet where by far the easiest way to test it is to run something and then see if a magic wand vibrator turns on
December 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
chaos.social
December 2, 2025 at 2:13 AM
my solution to the nightmare that is "SPI modes"
December 2, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Reposted by ✧✦Catherine✦✧
@va2lam their response to our rebuttal is "this paper is a description of an existing system, not a research contribution" because our research has become a fairly large open source project and we took a while to write the papers because asplos keeps assigning us shit reviewers every year. So […]
Original post on discuss.systems
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December 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
every time i see a photo of sam altman he looks like a guilty cat who has just shit on your bed again and knows that this was wrong to do but also has no choice but to face you
December 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
thinking about how much of bad cat behavior is just "the cat probably grew up alone _and_ nobody had the knowledge and wisdom to tell it off in a way it can understand"

housecats are fully capable of understanding that their claws hurt you, and equally […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
December 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
making a thinkpiece titled "are journalists conscious?"
December 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
💭 making a CDN called slowlybutsure.ly
December 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
"a page on grebedoc got featured on hn" (i think it's @issotm's recent blog post)
December 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
happy mailing list membership reminder day
December 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
this is an incredibly funny sentence

"the thin films are fairly thin"

well what else would they be, robert? thick? if they were thick they'd be called thick films!!
November 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
owo what's this *punctures your convolutional code*
November 30, 2025 at 4:29 AM
one of these days they'll invent optimizing compilers
November 30, 2025 at 4:07 AM
@rcombs yo do you think you could fix a discord bug where if your connection changes, discord pretends that your screenshare is up but it's actually down? this is legit destroying my relationships
November 30, 2025 at 2:43 AM
chat, have you ever used a SOIC clip and not regretted it?
November 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
i installed tailscale on my oscilloscope
November 30, 2025 at 1:22 AM
every time i read something about fsync() i end up feeling more and more that postgres just opening the NVMe device via virtio in userspace is the way to go if you want your data to reliably reach the drive
November 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
that's over half a kilowatt of charger holy shit
November 29, 2025 at 10:19 PM
@niconiconi any idea what "sm4qm2 2318-s2" is? (CN import ASIC)
November 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
maybe we need a "thank the open source developer whose tools work flawlessly for you day"
November 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
abc has commands &if, &if2, &iff, &iiff, &jf, &kf, &lf, &mf, &mfs, &nf, and &of. i think it should also have &yiff. In this essay I will
November 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM