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Painful lesson of the day: the desoldering gun does not care about your feelings or your hands when clearing a clog and not being careful. However, got the CPU, PPU, WRAM, and VRAM unsoldered (including sockets) from the NES mainboard. I'll solder the VRAM and WRAM back in later. Desoldering guns make things so much easier even if I'm an idiot on occasion.
#electronics

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announces that it is shutting down following the loss of federal funding (CPB)
https://cpb.org/pressroom/Corporation-Public-Broadcasting-Addresses-Operations-Following-Loss-Federal-Funding…

Point3R: Streaming 3D Reconstruction with Explicit Spatial Pointer Memory
Yuqi Wu, Wenzhao Zheng, Jie Zhou, Jiwen Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02863 https…

Point3R: Streaming 3D Reconstruction with Explicit Spatial Pointer Memory
Dense 3D scene reconstruction from an ordered sequence or unordered image collections is a critical step when bringing research in computer vision into practical scenarios. Following the paradigm introduced by DUSt3R, which unifies an image pair densely into a shared coordinate system, subsequent methods maintain an implicit memory to achieve dense 3D reconstruction from more images. However, such implicit memory is limited in capacity and may suffer from information loss of earlier frames. We …

The impact of the following vehicles behaviors on the car following behaviors of the ego-vehicle
Yang Liu, Jiahao Zhang, Yuxuan Ouyang, Huan Yu, Dengbo He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00452

The impact of the following vehicles behaviors on the car following behaviors of the ego-vehicle
Among all types of crashes, rear-end crashes dominate, which are closely related to the car-following (CF) behaviors. Traditional CF behavior models focused on the influence of the vehicle in front, but usually ignored the peer pressure from the surrounding road users, including the following vehicle (FV). Based on an open dataset, the highD dataset, we investigated whether the FV's states can affect the CF behavior of the ego-vehicle in CF events. Two types of CF events were extracted from hig…

I have taken to looking for Copilot AI in GitHub responses before filing issues. If it’s there, I don’t file. Feeling a bit validated here:
https://hails.org/@hailey/114752144098708214
(limited alt to come, but if you want more ask OP…)

Hailey (@hailey@hails.org)
Attached: 2 images Sent a pull request to Audacity fixing a crash bug I'd been running into frequently. The cause was an out-of-bounds memmove. Classic C++ areas. Anyway I got a fucking copilot review on my PR which left two comments, both completely wrong, one of which suggesting I reintroduce the out of bounds memory access. I'm furious!

Filing: Klarna and some shareholders are selling 34.3M shares for $35 to $37 each, aiming to raise up to $1.27B and giving it an up to ~$14B market cap (Matthew Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09…

Plasma visually bugged following an upgrade on FreeBSD
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1lne10b/plasma_visually_bugged_following_an_upgrade_on/

Whenever I find myself falling out of love with New York, or with life (virtually the same thing), I slip a copy of Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems into my back pocket.
Today, I invite you see the world through Frank O’Hara’s New York eyes.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/way

Ways of Seeing: New York
An exercise in seeing inspired by poet Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems and the city of New York.

Repeated warnings of AI-driven layoffs is fueling anxiety among workers, who report feeling pressured to accept pay cuts or worse conditions to keep their jobs (Anne Lutz Fernandez/Nobody Wants This)
https://nobody-wants-this.ghost.io/ai-is-already-disemp…

AI is Already Disempowering Workers Through Hype
Workers and students are being prepped for less power in the workplace

Kind of hard to feel empathy for Russian soldiers being scammed by Russian cops when this is how they transfer blame.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5rm41g34qo
Punching down is the Russian, and now American, theme.