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Thinking about Vulkan queue allocation in ngscopeclient.
We currently use the following queues:
* Libscopehal wide: one for host/device transfers
* Drivers: one compute queue for each ThunderScope, demo, Tek, Pico, Haasoscope, or TinySA instrument active in the session
* Filter graph: one compute queue per executor thread (default 8)
* Scope deskew wizard: one compute queue
* GUI: one render/compute queue
In order to manage contention when hardware has le…

new tiki bar downtown looks popular

The British #queuegene
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jan/31/publicans-bemused-single-file-queue-tren…

‘It’s ridiculous’: publicans bemused by rise of single-file queues to get served
Bar owners say they struggle to dissuade people from forming a line as behavioural experts point to post-pandemic ‘new norms’

The Sisyphus client rewrite continues after a bit of a break. The `ffmpeg` module is mostly finished and should serve as a good template for `handbrake`, `av1an`, `mkvmerge`, and `cleanup` modules. Logging is progressing pretty well. The config has been expanded slightly and can now pull from TOML files on top of the standard environment variables.
#sisyphus

Microscope food! Pair of fried FPGAs sent to me for decap.
Gonna sit in the queue for a while until I figure out the best way to handle advanced packaging without too much risk of damage.
I know the Virtex is multiple SLRs on an interposer. Zynq might be monolithic.

#Tampere two weeks ago. Bikes on the frozen lake. And a queue.
#pyöräily

Faced with the reduced supply of urea, the capitalist market has a solution.
The pun Oro - Orina Is lost in translation: Gold - Urine.
The cartoon is of a pawnbroker's that previously bought gold items, with a queue of people waiting to sell their piss.
Not so far fetched!
From @…

So it looks like AMD GPUs have a lot less Vulkan queues than NVIDIA ones do and that is breaking some things in the filter graph scheduler.
This new GPU is already paying off and I've only had it installed for a couple of hours.
It has one graphics/compute/transfer queue, four compute/transfer queues, and one sparse binding queue (not sure what this is, I don't use them).
We run six threads in the filter graph scheduler so there are more threads than queues. We do h…

The rewrite of the Sisyphus server continues, I've got all of the GET endpoints and about 60% of all the endpoints finished overall. Some initial testing on the `/workers` and `/queue` endpoints show some worrying results from the old version and some great results from the new version. The `/workers` endpoint started throwing errors at about 800 RPS on the Python/Flask version (the old one), the rewrite is showing around 4800 RPS (Golang/Gin). The `/queue` endpoint doesn't show a…

Trying to geocode some of my old holiday pictures with #immich
Pages and pages of log messages like this:
"LOG [Microservices:MapRepository] Empty response from database for city reverse geocoding lat: 64.978553, lon: -21.063319. Likely cause: no nearby large populated place (500 within 25km). Falling back to country boundaries."
Clearly, the queue has reached my picture…

LLMs are more trigger-happy than humans when it comes to launching a few nukes: #AIResearch

Hidden pleasures. Kubuntu 26.04 beta is available. And I like it. Why?
Do a minimal install, not normal or full. You get Plasma 6.6.4, Wayland only, Linux 7.0. Open Discover: snap is not enabled ootb and the checkbox to enable flatpak is available from the get-go. The overall system clocks in around 1.2Gb. Kudos to the team, in one go Kubuntu has been pushed to the front of the KDE queue. Clearly the Linux Mint or Zorin of KDE, and that is meant as a compliment.

"Kristi Noem tried to upstage the President. And Trump would never stand for that.
You can run an agency into the ground, and trample all over Americans’ constitutional rights, and use government funding like it’s your own personal slush fund. But you absolutely cannot steal Trump’s spotlight."
Kristi Noem Ran DHS Into the Ground. That’s Not Why She Got Fired.
https://plus.briantylercohen.com/p/kristi-noem-ran-dhs-into-the-ground?source=queue

One of my VR Lighthouses died last month. These things are gyroscopically spinning 24 hours a day for, what, a decade now? Nearly.
No wonder. Mostly the industry seems to be settling on using head-mounted cameras rather than sweeping infra-red beams and receptors on the head anyway.
It is true that lighthouses give accurate positioning, but means I can't easily take the headset next door, say. Or to a party.
So inside-out, as they call it, is fine for the headset now and mostly okay for the hand-controllers.
But it offers no solution at all for the foot-trackers and hip-tracker that I need for puppetting the characters in the #vr #slimeVR #trackers

@… seems like the queue isn’t going to the priority podcasts like it used to. Anything I can do to help you debug?

In the AWS Console, under EventBridge, when selecting a Bus, you can choose to display a CloudFormation template to rebuild this Bus.
I wish all AWS entities had this feature.
Click through to an IAM policy? Configure an ECS cluster? Set up an SQS queue? View a VPC subnet? Access a Security Group?
Export as CloudFormation!

Chinese people don't like or don't want to queue. They just flock randomly in front of the counter. But the shops solved the problem by offering to order via WeChat MiniApps. You scan a QR code and place your order (incl. paypment) in the app. Then you just need to pick up. #China #Chongqing

Now the pain in the ass part: documenting all of the routes. I think I'm gonna use Scalar because it's easy and I'm pretty lazy. Carved off the `/doc` directory to host the `openapi.yaml` and `index.html` files. So far, got one single endpoint documented...lol
#openapi #sisyphus

Pulled something in my back so walked with shopping trolley to the wholefood co-op (usually cycle).
Allowed me to reflect on the queue of cars waiting, and those in the carpark.
Huge Mercs, Beamers and Audis. Large Vauxhalls and others.
A real mismatch between the store's philosophy and that of many (most?) of its customers.
Still, it allows me to scowl and curse.

SERIES IN MY QUEUE TO WATCH:
▶️ Strange New Worlds S3- Paramount [IN PROGRESS]
▶️ Starfleet Academy - Paramount [IN PROGRESS]
▶️ Fallout S2 - Prime [IN PROGRESS]
✅ Landman - Paramount
✅ NCIS: Tony & Ziva - Paramount
✅ The Diplomat - Netflix
✅ Suits - Netflix
✅ The Night Agent - Netflix
(1/3)

Just kicked off what should be a build of every supported platform other than MacOS. Here goes...

Documentation continues. Done with the `queue` and `worker` endpoints, probably about 50% of the way done with this. I still need a good way to package all of this up with the binary which means putting the `openapi.yaml` file somewhere on the net so it can be pulled if need be. I'll deal with that later...lol
#openapi

And we in the queue!

So, decided to get them rookie `/queue` numbers up so did a quick bit of caching. For a 12-job queue, I went from 240 RPS (Python/Flask) to 680 (Golang/Gin) then to 3400 RPS with some proper caching. The `/workers` endpoint would benefit as well, but I think its performant enough though I may end up adding a bit of caching later.
#golang

OK so now I have a hundred-odd lines of Bash and a 25-line slurm.conf that is able to queue up a build job (https://github.com/ngscopeclient/scopehal-ci-scripts), wait for the node to be free, spawn the VM, wait for it to boot, launch the actual test script on the VM, shut it down,…

GitHub - ngscopeclient/scopehal-ci-scripts: Test scripts for continuous integration builds on our internal cluster
Test scripts for continuous integration builds on our internal cluster - ngscopeclient/scopehal-ci-scripts

Dear PM Carney,
Canada has a GDP of $2.24T compared to $2.17T for Russia, ranking 9/197 and 11/197 by economy size, respectively, and we have a tiny fraction of their debt.
Why don't we simply out-bid Putin and BUY the United States? We could teach them how to queue for busses.
Economy of Canada vs Russia: GDP, Debt & 72 stats
https://georank.org/economy/canada/russia