Chargers WR Quentin Johnston ready to prove himself with breakout year following retirement of Mike Williams
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/charger
Is this feeling I'm getting of watching them argue online the same feeling lonely housewives get when watching drama on TV?
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
Chern junctions in Moir\'e-Patterned Graphene/PbI2
Sun Yan, M. Monteverde, V. Derkach, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, F. Chiodi, H. Bouchiat, A. D. Chepelianskii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04935
Trade-Offs in EuBa2Cu3Oy Films containing Artificial Pinning Centers: Higher Critical Currents yet Faster Vortex Creep
Jiangteng Liu, Masashi Miura, Daisaku Yokoe, Takeharu Kato, Akira Ibi, Teruo Izumi, Serena Eley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01119
Distinct element-specific nanoscale magnetization dynamics following ultrafast laser excitation
Emma Bernard, Rahul Jangid, Nanna Zhou Hagstr\"om, Meera Madhavi, Jeffrey A. Brock, Matteo Pancaldi, Dario De Angelis, Flavio Capotondi, Emanuele Pedersoli, Kyle Rockwell, Mark W. Keller, Stefano Bonetti, Eric E. Fullerton, Ezio Iacocca, Thomas J. Silva, Roopali Kukreja
FingerTip 20K: A Benchmark for Proactive and Personalized Mobile LLM Agents
Qinglong Yang, Haoming Li, Haotian Zhao, Xiaokai Yan, Jingtao Ding, Fengli Xu, Yong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21071
Ah, current plans for today: find some way to get Microsoft Flight Sim 2024 running on my computer. So far I've managed to select my starting airport/airfield and then the game hangs. It's progress, but I have a feeling this fight is going to go on for awhile considering the game hangs immediately afterwards.
#linux
I love the fact that switching out a failing SSD just involved formatting the new SSD, copying the files over via `rsync`, powering off the computer, and swapping the new SSD in for the old one. I did have to make a minor tweak to the `fstab` because I decided to go with XFS, but the down time for the computer was only for as long as it took me to get the SSD swapped in.
#linux