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What sickens me is that he always gets what he wants.
He wanted a big wasteful parade and got one.
He wanted to pave over the Rose Garden: done.
Build tent cities to detain immigrants; done in a week.
Add a couple trillion to the debt; done.
We are being bulldozed flatter than that rose garden.
-- Donna Hook

"The process of coding with an “agentic” LLM appears to be the process of carefully distilling all the worst parts of code review, and removing and discarding all of its benefits."
Very insightful post on #GenAI by Glyph
(Original title: I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now)

Mailbag: Have Cowboys done enough at 1-Tech? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-have-cowboys-done-enough-at-1-tech

> The most distressing thing is that maybe it does work; if not well enough to actually do the work, at least ambiguously enough to fool the executives long-term.
-- @… via @…

LATENTRED main board layout progress: got most of the GTYs and FPGA-MCU paths done, as well as the RGMII PHY.
Still lots more to do but I'm liking the floorplan, at least the parts that I've done.
I'm debating moving the RGMII PHY to the west a bit and adding a fan cutout directly behind the FPGA so that I can have it suck exhaust air right past the FPGA (possibly with a 3d printed air dam or something in the future). Will need to spend some time thinking about therma…

Mailbag: Have Cowboys done enough at 1-Tech? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-have-cowboys-done-enough-at-1-tech

There have been many instances documented, do a damn web search.
But forget that for a moment: What I’m doing is the same as what Netanyahu is doing? My opposing genocide is the same as a fucker perpetrating genocide?
Fuck you, Alfred.
Get some fucking perspective. https://mastodon.social/@amsz…

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Kid2 has asked for a drum set for her birthday. We have clearly done something right.

This is so well done!
@… COSMIC DE is just beautiful and slick. 🥳🧡
https://youtu.be/fBcfjlFX-xM

My hob here is done. Und nächstes mal denk ich auch ans QWERTY :D

'Fahrrad' #FotoVorschlag "Bicycle"
Ahh that motto immediately reminded me of our bike&hike to the Schachen above #GarmischPartenkirchen in 2021.
We were pretty done when we reached our destination but it was a great ride. It would be so cool if I…

I think I'm done and will step off the soapbox now. I'll answer any other questions that pop up and maybe add to this thread any updates on the install (July 14th) or initial impressions on operating if I think it would be interesting to other HVAC nerds.

I can’t help it, I somehow feel gaslighted by the whole #GenAI debate. People who are critical of GenAI are often told “but when done right, you’re just so much more productive, so obviously you just didn’t to it right.” So I’m trying. Not because I feel I need to, but because I just want to get a realistic impression of the capabilities, and be able to discuss these with my students.
Then fancy…

pizza #sourdough #pretzel batch is done - and the pretzel dog is _definitely_ going on future bake nights

Okay, this is the coolest (and most unproductive) thing I've ever done on my server: right now I'm playing one of the games of my Steam library from my laptop connected to the server through the browser thanks to Docker Steam Headless.
This is great as my laptops are not intended for gaming but this is no longer a problem 😎
Now I have to tinker a bit the configs to avoid the annoying video lag, but from what I read on github, there are ways others have used to avoid it.…

Having the roof of our Family Room/Office replaced today. It’s a ~55yo addition with a flat roof that we did not have re-roofed when we had the rest of the house done a dozen years ago. It desperately needed replacement. We had no interior leaks, but our latest vermin genocider pointed out that our refractory raccoon problem was enhanced by rotting roof wood that they can smell out and scratch holes through.
It’s very distracting to have all this noise above my head.

july 4, 2026.
in a stunning reach across the aisle moment, donald trump deploys newly appointed democrat senator, chuck schumer replacement UNION BUSTA RHYMES, to shutdown the covert joint United Steelworkers-Hip Hop Alliance meeting hosted in Zohran Mundami's bathroom. he pulls up, "busts" in the crib, and effortlessly murks them all with his look at me now verse and the bitch slap he usually only uses on his trans escorts at nightclubs. satisfied with a job well done, …

Been there, done that: NATÜRLICH habe ich in #København auch #Pølser gegessen. Soll ja keiner merken, dass ich Tourist bin.
#food

Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
VILA: Any very talented person could have done it.
BLAKE: Come on. [Blake enters. Vila starts to follow with his tool box but hears a beeping from the gate controls so pauses to close the panel he'd opened. They run inside, slipping safely behind a patrol group. They see two guards at a door. Blake whispers to Vila who nods, then approaches the guards.]

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A project we kicked off in March, have worked on pretty much non-stop and have done loads of interesting new work on, all started to come together today.
Learnt loads; fully containerised dev & prod environment, brand new #rails 8 app, Avo dashboards, headless CMS, AstroJS website, new analytics platform, “novel” Google Docs to CMS ETL process, 3-stage production/staging/trunk AWS acco…

Happy Pride! Everyone deserves dignity and respect at every stage of their life - including end of life. Help your loved ones and community celebrate you properly and appropriately by doing all your advance planning now -just think of how hard you'll party when it's done 🎉🌈
Got questions? I'm here to help and I am an ally and safe space for everyone in the LGBTIQA community and the kink community.

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Inverse Q-Learning Done Right: Offline Imitation Learning in $Q^π$-Realizable MDPs
We study the problem of offline imitation learning in Markov decision processes (MDPs), where the goal is to learn a well-performing policy given a dataset of state-action pairs generated by an expert policy. Complementing a recent line of work on this topic that assumes the expert belongs to a tractable class of known policies, we approach this problem from a new angle and leverage a different type of structural assumption about the environment. Specifically, for the class of linear $Q^π$-rea…

"When this beer is done, you're next."
What other threatening ad copy could have accompanied this image?

Free-agent CB Stephon Gilmore hopes to play in 'right situation' this year: 'I still can contribute' https://www.nfl.com/news/free-agent-cb-stephon-gilmore-hopes-to-play-in-right-situation-this-year…

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Free ribbon lemma for surface-link
A free surface-link is a surface-link whose fundamental group is a free group not necessarily meridian-based. Free ribbon lemma says that every free sphere-link in the 4-sphere is a ribbon sphere-link. Four different proofs of Free ribbon lemma are explained. The first proof is done in an earlier paper. The second proof is done by showing that there is an O2-handle basis of a ribbon surface-link. The third proof is done by removing the commuter relations from a Wirtinger presentation of a free …

This chainsaw might be older than me. Today, it decided it just didn't want to work. Even a little starter fluid wouldn't do anything. No sputter, no start and stall, just nothing. I ended up using a little electric one with difficulty when this guy would have been done in seconds.

It’s gotten to the point where if I see a really well done illustration I’m convinced it’s AI and say “No thanks” and if I see a crappy drawing that looks like it was done by a blindfolded child I’m like “Hell Yeah! More of this please.”
#noAI #art

Raiders Need to Gain Respect Next Season https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/pete-carroll-geno-smith-las-vegas-mark-davis-john-spytek

Some cool footage and discussion of full-scale EV fire testing by UL/FSRI. This should have been done a long time ago, given how many EVs are on the roads now, but better late than never I guess.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6j3GtcAfE0
Project website:

I'm preparing for that FreeBSD Mate install. The poll is already pointing to that 🥳
Thnx all for input; the polling station is still open.
I'll start out with 14.2, and have GhostBSD already lined up as a fallback.
Of course I've done a number of installs of FreeBSD before, but that was just scratching the surface.
Looking forward to the deep dive! Jails, ports, bhyves and podmans beware 👻

"Good process improvement practices include:
- standardized improvement process (pdsa, or whatever)

- Going to the gemba – improvement is done where the work is done. You must go to the where the action is. Sitting in meeting rooms, or offices, reading reports and making decisions is not the way to improve effectively.
- evidence based decision making..."

Looks like #PyConUS dropped a new batch of videos in case you were planning on getting any work done: https://www.youtube.com/@PyConUS/videos

And above all of this, even unrelated to the current march of technological whatever it is
Learn to be horrified by war.
Not at it being done badly, or asymmetrically, or with automation, or with "AI targeting" whatever that is, but all of it.

To Embody or Not: The Effect Of Embodiment On User Perception Of LLM-based Conversational Agents
Kyra Wang, Boon-Kiat Quek, Jessica Goh, Dorien Herremans
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02514

To Embody or Not: The Effect Of Embodiment On User Perception Of LLM-based Conversational Agents
Embodiment in conversational agents (CAs) refers to the physical or visual representation of these agents, which can significantly influence user perception and interaction. Limited work has been done examining the effect of embodiment on the perception of CAs utilizing modern large language models (LLMs) in non-hierarchical cooperative tasks, a common use case of CAs as more powerful models become widely available for general use. To bridge this research gap, we conducted a mixed-methods withi…

Musk happens to be right:
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act
— its actual name!
— is indeed a disgusting abomination.
But this is one of those cases where it takes one to know one.
Few men have done as much damage out of sheer arrogance, ignorance and pettiness as Elon Musk.
He has thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of deaths on his hands.
And even his parting blast is destructive,
demonstrating that he has learned nothing from his abject f…

Elon Musk is a Disgusting Abomination
So is the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. But still

The algebraic structures of social organizations: the operad of cooperative games
Dylan Laplace Mermoud, Victor Roca i Lucio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01969

The algebraic structures of social organizations: the operad of cooperative games
The main goal of this paper is to settle a conceptual framework for cooperative game theory in which the notion of composition/aggregation of games is the defining structure. This is done via the mathematical theory of algebraic operads: we start by endowing the collection of all cooperative games with any number of players with an operad structure, and we show that it generalises all the previous notions of sums, products and compositions of games considered by Owen, Shapley, von Neumann and M…

CEOs predicting AI taking half of white collar jobs (or predicting ANYTHING) doesn't mean shit, both because most CEOs have never done an actual day of real work in their life, and also because companies trying to replace human workers with AI are already reporting failures at massive scale

I noticed this yesterday on the steps going down to the shed. With the amount of large seeds clumped in a dark medium it's done fruit eating animal; perhaps a fox, not a badger as they tend to use scrapes and latrines, marginally a Pine Martin but I've never heard of them here.
I guess it's a fox, we have both foxes and badgers close by and they've been seen in the early hours.
There's muntjac as well but it won't be that.
Other ideas or confirmati…

A democracy is – how Pratchett puts it in Small Gods – a system where everyone distrusts the government, so everyone is somehow (un-)happy about it. And this is how it is meant to be and where checks and balances comes in.
And now there is a Trump administration where a alarming number of people just trust everything done by them regardless of what it is.¹ If we needed another sign² of Trumpism being far from being democratic: here it is.
I really hope people in Germany continue …

Some people are wildly off base and completely missing the point of what I’m doing. I downloaded Chrome only to install a mobile OS that protects my security. Once the web installation was done, Chrome was deleted immediately. This was a clear, intentional step.
The fact that some folks are threatening me not to use Chrome for this is beyond absurd. It’s like telling me not to withdraw cash from my own bank because the bank might somehow control what I do with that money. That kind of …

GPU-Parallelizable Randomized Sketch-and-Precondition for Linear Regression using Sparse Sign Sketches
Tyler Chen, Pradeep Niroula, Archan Ray, Pragna Subrahmanya, Marco Pistoia, Niraj Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03070

GPU-Parallelizable Randomized Sketch-and-Precondition for Linear Regression using Sparse Sign Sketches
A litany of theoretical and numerical results have established the sketch-and-precondition paradigm as a powerful approach to solving large linear regression problems in standard computing environments. Perhaps surprisingly, much less work has been done on understanding how sketch-and-precondition performs on graphics processing unit (GPU) systems. We address this gap by benchmarking an implementation of sketch-and-precondition based on sparse sign-sketches on single and multi-GPU systems. In d…

Useful.
I’ve always disliked the fact that SOHO NAT routers all seem to be configured with one of a handful of 192.168.*/24 subnets. Beyond the risk of collision, I’ve had the experience of being told vehemently by benighted customer “IT guys” that I’ve done something horribly wrong by setting their inside up on 10.175.202.0/23 or some similarly uncommon RFC1918 block, because they “knew” that it was supposed to be in the Class C range of RFC 1918.

Picking uncontested private IP subnets with usage data

I've had this bass line running through my head for two weeks. Fun to play, definitely not original, and was a slight challenge for me to notate. There really isn't a standard for bass tab, but I think it gets the job done.
#music #bassguitar

Palmer’s Bar in #Minneapolis will close in September #Minnesota
Many good memories of Palmer's
“there are dives and dives in this world. There’s the type Guy Fieri calls out, old joints that might not feel like they need to get their hair done before seeing company but are nonetheless f…

Palmer’s, legendary 119-year-old Minneapolis dive bar, will close in September
The owners cited declining alcohol sales at the watering hole once hailed by Esquire as one of the best bars in America.

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 09 - Countdown
CAUDER: But it's four thousand miles away. It can't be done.
AVON: It can if we use the teleport.
BLAKE: We can teleport right down to the location.
AVON: We'll need special equipment, thermal clothing.

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1/ I'm feeling real pain at the cuts to Indiana public universities, especially IU, especially cogsci. These are some of the biggest brains in cogsci and edupsych in the world, but why do *I* care? I'll tell you what they've done *for me, personally*. ↵
https://www.i…

Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.

So Builder . ai Mechanical Turked things and Microsoft (and others) were none the wiser.
Due diligence: boring stuff that when you skip it with catch up with you fast.
“Builder . ai’s platform relied on around 700 engineers based in India who manually wrote code based on customer requests. Despite the company marketing it as AI-generated, most of the work was done by humans behind the scenes.”

London AI startup Builder.ai collapses after 'human-powered' tech revelation
London AI startup Builder.ai collapses after 'human-powered' tech revelation

America’s democratic collapse has been coming for years, always just over the horizon.
But when everything that happened during Trump’s first three months in office happened and
(here’s the important part)
shockingly little was done by the few groups
(Congress, the Supreme Court, the Democratic Party, American corporations & other large institutions, media companies)
who had the power to counter it,
I knew it was over.
And over in a way that is…

#ScribesAndMakers for July 3: When (and if) you procrastinate, what do you do? If you don't, what do you do to avoid it?
I'll swap right out of programming to read a book, play a video game, or watch some anime. Often got things open in other windows so it's as simple as alt-tab.
I've noticed recently I tend to do this more often when I have a hard problem to solve that I'm not 100% sure about. I definitely have cycles of better & worse motivation and I've gotten to a place where I'm pretty relaxed about it instead of feeling guilty. I work how I work, and that includes cycles of rest, and that's enough (at least, for me it has been so far, and I'm in a comfortable career, married with 2 kids).
Some projects ultimately lose steam and get abandoned, and I've learned to accept that too. I learn a lot and grow from each project, so nothing is a true waste of time, and there remains plenty of future ahead of me to achieve cool things.
The procrastination does sometimes impact my wife & kids, and that's something I do sometimes feel bad about, but I think I keep that in check well enough, and for things my wife worries about, I usually don't procrastinate those too much (used to be worse about this).
Right now I'm procrastinating a big work project by working on a hobby project instead. The work project probably won't get done by the start of the semester as a result. But as I remind myself, my work doesn't actually pay me to work during the summer, and things will be okay without the work project being finished until later.
When I want to force myself into a more productive cycle, talking to people about project details sometimes helps, as does finding some new tech I can learn about by shoehorning it into a project. Have been thinking about talking to a rubber duck, but haven't motivated myself to try that yet, and I'm not really in doldrums right now.

FPGA people: how cursed is it if I scramble TX/RX lanes of my transceivers so that e.g. TX lane 0 and RX lane 1 go to a single SFP28?
They're separate clock domains anyway, separate PLL taps. I'm not using the CPLL so that's no factor.
It feels wrong, but I can't think of any reason why it would be? (I've done this before and it worked fine but that was with hacky breakout to SMA setups, not by design on a PCB)

Dual realizations of Bergman spaces on strongly convex domains
Agniva Chatterjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02913 https://arxiv.org/p…

Dual realizations of Bergman spaces on strongly convex domains
The Fantappiè and Laplace transforms realize isomorphisms between analytic functionals supported on a convex compact set $K\subset{\mathbb C}^n$ and certain spaces of holomorphic functions associated with $K$. Viewing the Bergman space of a bounded domain in ${\mathbb C}^n$ as a subspace of the space of analytic functionals supported on its closure, the images of the restrictions of these transforms have been studied in the planar setting. For the Fantappiè transform, this was done for simply…

Post workshop refreshment 🍸 out on the roof terrace...
The SemDH 2025 received lots of positive feedback from all of the people I spoke with. Very well done and kudos to the organising team: @… @… Arianna Graciotti and Bruno Sartini! …

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Improved Uncertainty Quantification in Physics-Informed Neural Networks Using Error Bounds and Solution Bundles
Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have been widely used to obtain solutions to various physical phenomena modeled as Differential Equations. As PINNs are not naturally equipped with mechanisms for Uncertainty Quantification, some work has been done to quantify the different uncertainties that arise when dealing with PINNs. In this paper, we use a two-step procedure to train Bayesian Neural Networks that provide uncertainties over the solutions to differential equation systems provided by…

Last night I dreamed that the great computer scientist, Niklaus Wirth, had died by suicide because he was convinced his intellect was failing, because a simple financial calculation was failing, because he'd caught an exception and just returned zero instead of handling it, because he'd written sketch code and meant to come back and deal with it later but had not done so.
Which is almost certainly all arrant nonsense, but what a BIZARRE thing to dream about.

"Despite its promise of no-code, Al-powered app creation, much of the work was reportedly done manually by engineers in India."
Reminds me of how Amazon's automated unstaffed stores were actually staffed by people in India watching video feeds and verifying what people bought.
Finnish context: Wonder if R-Kioski's unmanned kiosks use the same idea? And Starship's (Alepa) grocery delivery robots?

#Wordle 1,444 2/6*
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨 <1% of 216,498 (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 37% of 740
WordleBot
Skill 96/99
Luck 86/99
I was desperately trying to find ANY word besides the answer, but finally had to go with it.
Now that bot tells me there was another word and what it is, I'm surprised it didn't occur to me. Bot says it would have picked the other word. Not sure what I'd have done if I thought of it.

Localized frames without inequalities
Peter Balazs, Lukas K\"ohldorfer, Michael Speckbacher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02862 https://

Localized frames without inequalities
We consider countable families of vectors in a separable Hilbert space, which are mutually localized with respect to a fixed localized Riesz basis. We prove the equivalence of the frame property and nine conditions that do not involve any inequalities. This is done by studying the properties of their frame-related operators on the co-orbit spaces generated by the reference Riesz basis. We apply our main result to the setting of shift-invariant spaces and obtain new conditions for stable sets of…

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INTERLEAVE: A Faster Symbolic Algorithm for Maximal End Component Decomposition
This paper presents a novel symbolic algorithm for the Maximal End Component (MEC) decomposition of a Markov Decision Process (MDP). The key idea behind our algorithm INTERLEAVE is to interleave the computation of Strongly Connected Components (SCCs) with eager elimination of redundant state-action pairs, rather than performing these computations sequentially as done by existing state-of-the-art algorithms. Even though our approach has the same complexity as prior works, an empirical evaluation…

Today's #wtf computing moment; There seems to be no way to let a downloaded, LaunchDaemon started, app on #macos have access to my LAN unless the developer does some magic to it (e.g. an interactive mechanism to trigger a LAN access permission dialog).
This means the shared cache I have on my LAN for…

MacOS instances unable to access cache on another machine on a LAN
Apple being Apple have done their own "clever" thing (for some definition of "clever); They block applications accessing other machines on a users LAN without an explicit interaction from the user. This means that if there are two machines A (a Linux host), and B (a macos host), both on the sa…

Things like this are not just a symbolic expression of discontent.
Fascism depends to a •very• large extent on anticipatory compliance. It needs people to feel like things are going that way, it’s already a done deal, better to just go along with it.
Every time dissent is visible, every way dissent feels ubiquitous, every time somebody feels like they’re not alone in opposition, every time somebody who’s tempted to comply fears there might be hell to pay if they do — that directly, concretely damages the fascists’ power.

Well, fuck. Silver had a manic minute and knocked my laptop out of my hand and then stood on its open screen, breaking it!
Most expensive dog sitting I've ever done.
Struggling along with the external 1080p display I brought with me.
Ah well, in theory an easy fix since this ia a Framework 13, and also gives me the excuse I needed to go up to the 2.8k model.

Managed to do a fine-scale repair for the first time in years, always a pleasure when it goes well. One of my backup earbuds split along the stem, with half the polycarbonate case and a contact plate falling out. A speck of medical skin adhesive (polyacrylate “superglue“) on each end of the case seam appears to have done the trick w/o losing the pinch functions. WOOT!

Is there any kind of symbol/articulation/whatever, by any rare chance, to indicate that a specific arpeggio played with a piano over a chord must be done as fast as possible?
#Piano #Scores #MusicTheory

This is pretty awesome, well done #Pembrokeshire CC!
Small electrical items now accepted in kerbside #recycling collections
https://newsroom.pembrokeshire.gov.uk/news/small-electrical-items-now-accepted-in-kerbside-recycling-collections

Dimension theory for the asymptotic couple of the field of logarithmic transseries
Allen Gehret, Elliot Kaplan, Nigel Pynn-Coates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01760

Dimension theory for the asymptotic couple of the field of logarithmic transseries
In this paper we completely characterize all dimension functions on all models of the theory $T_{\log}$ of the asymptotic couple of the field of logarithmic transseries (Dimension Theorem). This is done by characterizing the "small" $1$-variable definable sets (Small Sets Theorem). As a byproduct, we show that $T_{\log}$ is d-minimal and does not eliminate imaginaries. Separately, we provide an abstract criterion for d-minimality, which we use to observe some new examples of d-minimal expansion…

Forcrat: Automatic I/O API Translation from C to Rust via Origin and Capability Analysis
Jaemin Hong, Sukyoung Ryu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01427 https:/…

Forcrat: Automatic I/O API Translation from C to Rust via Origin and Capability Analysis
Translating C to Rust is a promising way to enhance the reliability of legacy system programs. Although the industry has developed an automatic C-to-Rust translator, C2Rust, its translation remains unsatisfactory. One major reason is that C2Rust retains C standard library (libc) function calls instead of replacing them with functions from the Rust standard library (Rust std). However, little work has been done on replacing library functions in C2Rust-generated code. In this work, we focus on re…

QGIS User Conf 2025 videos have landed!
The #QGISUC2025 team has done an awesome job recording and editing the conference presentations ...
http://anitagraser.com/2025/06/25/qgi

QGIS User Conf 2025 videos have landed!
The QGISUC2025 team has done an awesome job recording and editing the conference presentations. All “presentation” type talks where the presenter has accepted to be published are now av…

Raiders center Jackson Powers-Johnson has gotten a burger named after him in Las Vegas https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/06/04/raiders-c-jackson-power…

Well, I got the grass cut. That is one of my goals for the day done?

'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft
Frankfurt (Germany) (AFP) – At a time of growing concern over the power of the world's mighty tech companies, one German state is turning its back on US giant Microsoft.
https://www.

'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft
At a time of growing concern over the power of the world's mighty tech companies, one German state is turning its back on US giant Microsoft.

It's been 7 months since the D-party lost the easiest-to-win election the US has ever had. And it's been 4 months since FFOTUS took office and became a modern Caligula.
And what has the D-party done?
Nada. Nada. Nada. The old faction is spinning in useless circles defending Biden's inexcusable decision to continue to run until too late. The younger element still shows no sign of engaging in the voting part of politics. Our middle-age element still looks first at t…

Are there any like 3rd party UIs for Heroic Launcher that can be used with game controllers? I know I can add stuff as non-steam games to Steam, but that process still has to be done with a mouse

On the average-case bit complexity of the Word Problem for groups of matrices over $\mathbb{Z}$
Fr\'ed\'erique Bassino, Cyril Nicaud, Pascal Weil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00948

On the average-case bit complexity of the Word Problem for groups of matrices over $\mathbb{Z}$
We show that the Word Problem in finitely generated subgroups of $\textsf{GL}_d(\mathbb{Z})$ can be solved in linear average-case complexity. This is done under the bit-complexity model, which accounts for the fact that large integers are handled, and under the assumption that the input words are chosen uniformly at random among the words of a given length.

I've already done the taxes, I don't think I can procrastinate the thing I *really* should be doing any longer /o\

Eeek! 34C (93F) outside at home now, at least in my porch, whatever the forecast said/says! 'Only' 30C at my desk, but as soon as my backup is done I shall be back downstairs for a chilled 28C!

Folks, when you think about a legit hacker who has testified in front of Congress a lot who is also respected, who do you think has done it the most? Like, in front of the US House or Senate at least several times?

One of the goals I've set for further development of #Python eclasses in #Gentoo was to avoid needless complexity. Unfortunately, the subject matter sometimes requires them. However, many of the functions added lately were already manually done in ebuilds for years.
We've started disabling plugin autoloading years ago. First we just did that for individual packages that caused issues. Then, for these where tests ended up being really slow. Finally, pretty much anywhere `python_test()` was declared. Doing it all manually was particularly cumbersome — all I needed for `EPYTEST_PLUGINS` is a good idea how to generalize it.
Similarly, `EPYTEST_XDIST` was added after we have been adding manually `epytest -p xdist -n "$(makeopts_jobs)" --dist=worksteal` — and while at it, I've added `EPYTEST_JOBS` to override the job count.
Perhaps `EPYTEST_TIMEOUT` wasn't that common. However, it was meant to help CI systems that could otherwise get stuck on hanging test.
Similarly, "standard library" version (like `3.9`) matching to `python_gen_cond_dep` was added after a long period of explicitly stating `python3_9 pypy3`. As an extra benefit, this also resolved the problem that at the time `pypy3` could mean different Python versions.

Finally getting around to updating all the servers in the #homelab to fix the `sudo` vulnerability. Kinda of a pain, but almost done. It really helps hosting the repos locally...lol

Got lots of chores done yesterday, spent this morning processing some video backlog, came across what has to be the cleanest "prepared reaction time" measurement I've got. Lest anyone driving wonder, those people on bikes that do it every day and know their traffic and know their route, they have good reaction time, 0.6 seconds from semi-surprise signal to actually decelerating the bicycle.

Welp. Was going to take advantage of the rare vacation day on a work day between the weekend and Canada Day to go buy rocks for the #poolpond but turns out the local rock/cement place is taking the day off too. Fair. 🤷‍♂️
I took the trailer for a bath at the car wash instead and got the watering done before the heat sets in today.
Maybe later I will go get some lengths of pipe. But I sense a swim in the lake. 🏊‍♂️ #today #canadaday
What are you up to today? Day off, or slaving for The Man?

Offensive centerpiece named Cowboys 'most promising building block' in 2025 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/offensive-centerpiece-dallas-cowboys-most-promising-building-block

Pride progress? As gay pro athletes consider coming out, each announcement makes a mark https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6396179/2025/06/03/pride-month-gay-pro-athletes-evolution/

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
-Tim Curry
#acting

In "holy-crap-that-was-too-difficult", reworked the Jekyll build script to work using the `ruby:alpine` container. I just want the site to build without having to go through the hoops of installing `ruby` and getting `bundle` to do what I want it to. A nice Docker Compose file gets it done nice and quickly without fuss. Also I don't have random gems installed around my system.
#ruby

Who got RX DQS calibration done with success? 👀

yeah my worst character trait is being too risk averse, over the last year ive been constantly doing things i should have done like 6 years ago

Substructural Abstract Syntax with Variable Binding and Single-Variable Substitution
Marcelo Fiore, Sanjiv Ranchod
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24812 https:/…

Substructural Abstract Syntax with Variable Binding and Single-Variable Substitution
We develop a unified categorical theory of substructural abstract syntax with variable binding and single-variable (capture-avoiding) substitution. This is done for the gamut of context structural rules given by exchange (linear theory) with weakening (affine theory) or with contraction (relevant theory) and with both (cartesian theory). Specifically, in all four scenarios, we uniformly: define abstract syntax with variable binding as free algebras for binding-signature endofunctors over variab…

Red flags for NFL's top contenders, plus Buccaneers extend Todd Bowles, GM and Beckham Jr. not done yet?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/red-fl…

#today I already attended the TTK Energy Group meeting and stayed on for a while in the uni's nice cool library to get some work done after, ordered some photoreactive prescription shades on the way home, now just waiting for EOU's EOM data snapshot to land so that I can do a few doc tweaks.
STILL TOO HOT TODAY ~32C, rising to 33C, but cooler and rainy tomorrow, hurrah...

I'm a fucking Anarchist, and I’m not shutting the hell up! Stop trying to convince me otherwise. If you don’t like my path and my knowledge, then I have a damn good option for you!
Move the fuck on with your life. Find new friends, meet new people, connect with those who share your interests. Stop wasting your time trying to change me.
Fuck off telling me to vote in some bullshit election. Stop trying to talk me out of anarchism and revolutionary syndicalism. I’m done with th…

Despised Raiders Nemesis Will Soon Pack His Bags https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-travis-kelce-pete-carroll-kansas-city-chiefs

Think I'm done for today. Got to level 4, only killed a couple of passengers, and now I can go for my CPL. I'm going to wait for the new sim gear to come in because my space sim setup doesn't translate well to flight sim duties. However, MSFS has great so far.
#linux #gaming …

Because essentially no one who has done conscientious online moderation before ever wants to do it again.
It’s been 24 years since I did any of it and I never miss it. https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/114608973862859551

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
-Tim Curry
#acting

Cowboys may use $136 million asset less, gain more from 4x Pro Bowler in 2025 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/03/dallas-cowboys-player-profile-wr-ceedee-lamb/84005562007/

So i just threw together a first iteration of the switch engine PCB schematic in one crazed allnighter (thanks non 24 hour sleep schedules lol, its 0900 and I'm almost ready for bed).
It's missing some details like mounting holes and such, plus a few odds and ends like a 2.5V LDO and level shifter on the rs232 console, but I think it's 80% or so done. Lots of copy paste from kup-lulz and lcbringup which was of course the intent, those projects were intended to de-risk the s…

Cowboys Predicted to Add Young Star Edge Amid Micah Parsons Drama https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/predicted-add-edge-parsons-drama/?adt_ei=[email]

Finished the SFP28 carrier board. Still waiting on final design review before I send it out to OSHPark, but it's done-enough that I could export a STEP and pull into the enclosure model.
Placement of all the front panel stuff is pretty definite at this point, the power supply and PDU are likely to move.
Logic board hasn't even started schematic capture yet.
There will probably be at least a couple of fans but I haven't figured out where or how many yet.