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So I'm thinking about what to use as the guts of the gen2 reworkctf board.
I want a BGA of relatively large (0.8 or 1 mm) pitch to allow practicing of BGA site rework without being 11/10 difficulty level right out of the gate.
The STM32H750XBH6 is $12.39 at digikey in single units, sub $10 in higher volume, although currently sold out until April (I have enough on the shelf to prototype with), 0.8mm depopulated 265-BGA.
The cheapest Xilinx part in a 1mm FTGB196 is the X…

I’m looking forward to going camping soon!
​My Skoda Fabia setup is dialed in and works great. It’s a full micro-camper:
Almost a full bed-sized platform, ​underneath storage for everything (cookware, chairs, table) and a folding solar panel.
​It’s amazing how much you can fit in a small car with the right layout. Now I’m just thinking about adding a roof rack to expand it even further!

I think Mike Moradian is 100% right & he's echoing what I've been thinking:
Stephen A. Smith's ego & mouth is poisonous & outta to be cancelled, if for just a year.
▶️ Stephen A. Smith Has Completely Lost It - FlightMike
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wjpcy8UeRO

MAGA Republicans: If this happens, you will be tried and convicted at The Hague right alongside him and Hegseth. WTF are you thinking?

Why the Seahawks' defense knew it would overwhelm the Patriots: 'We have too much for them' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7032486/2026/02/09/seahawks-super-bowl-defense-patriots/

1/ Lofty innovation and development pace was slow. You could tell right away by looking at how the product worked that business/customer experience is disconnected from how the developers were thinking about the product. Both of these factors were huge in creating an opportunity for LoftyAssist.
I learned about their ecosystem and became one of the users and felt all of their user pains and shortcomings. I fixed all of them and some more based on feedback and got my first paying custom…

Thinking "tomorrow's the day I finally lock in" is the sign to ignore your pain and lock in right now right now

Ok fedi, you're full of game devs and weird microarchitecture experts and generally the right kind of people to ask...
I'm thinking about a generic data representation for multi-bit vectors in ngscopeclient.
Right now we support single-bit digital signals (one byte aka C bool per sample), analog signals (one float32 per sample), and arbitrary struct/class types (for protocol decoder output).
Notably missing is multi-bit digital vectors. There is some legacy code i…

So if I'm another country (not even one necessarily hostile to the US), I'm seeing how the US tricked a country into monitoring/stopping their nuclear programs, then a decade later pulled out. And then killed their leader. What do you think I'm thinking right now?

such a fun label & will pretty much check out anything they put out, but as a non-londoner i had no idea about their main activity as promoters. https://social.lol/@thetonearm/116217980473411117

RE: https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/115980598322775231
I’m thinking of a weekend trip to see State of the Browser. On a mountain with crap reception right now, so lazy-webbing to see if anyone can suggest a hotel by The Barbican Centre before I drop coin on airfare…

I caught the commercial for the "new" Muppet Show" last night during The Rookie and was thrilled, thinking they were bringing it back for real. Maybe we can talk them into it.
https://time.com/7362191/the-muppet-show-2026-review-abc/

The Muppet Show Is Exactly What We Need Right Now. Give Us More of It!
ABC's half-hour special commemorating the original series' 50th anniversary stars Sabrina Carpenter—and leaves us wanting more.

Been playing Roots Devour (#Steam via CrossOver on #macOS
BE THE ELDRITCH HORROR YOU ALWAYS KNEW YOU WERE
It's pretty great, put in 8 hours so far.
The general gist of the game is strategic, puzzle-like reveal of map levels - capturing cards of creatures and humans, wrapping them in your blood sucking vines, and generally conquering all.
When you get stuck, spend some of the blood to open a card pack and get random helper tools, effects, and critters.
Sounds are superb and visuals are very 𝒜𝐸𝒮𝒯𝐻𝐸𝒯𝐼𝒞 - if you dig Cult of the Lamb or Darkest Dungeon, you'll probably enjoy it.
Only downside is that there's an occasional indicator that English is not the primary language of the game developers. Very rarely you can see untranslated Chinese text on-screen, one or two oddities (uncapitalized, punctuation slightly off). This is unfortunately probably why they're getting a little beat up in the Steam reviews.
Honestly, in my 8 hours so far, I've noticed it like 3? 4? times tops so far. The game is so very much my jam, it really hasn't bothered me.
Some people are also reviewing it as "too linear" - they definitely gave up way too early. There are SECRETS, side areas, choices you can make, intentionally difficult areas that will take some thinking to unlock, etc.
Currently 10% off right now, give it a shot!

Thinking about a potential performance improvement for overlapping compute and transfer operations in ngscopeclient.
Right now, if you use a ThunderScope (ignoring unified memory platforms where the issue is moot) when a new waveform shows up we write it into CPU side pinned memory.
Then we vkCopyBuffer it into local memory, barrier on that transfer, and run the ConvertNBitSamples shader to convert the raw adc codes to float32.
The problem is, this burns scratch buffer spac…

OK last of the parts for the VM server upgrade are installed.
Thinking more about PCIe lanes and what's where.
It's a Supermicro X12SPA-TF mainboard. There are 4x PCIe gen4 x16 slots and 3x PCIe gen4 x8 wired /x16 physical slots.
It also has four M.2 slots, one of which is currently in use for the boot volume.
Right now:
* Slot 7: AMD single slot GPU
* Slot 6: 10G NIC
* Slot 5/4: NVIDIA dual slot GPU
* Slot 3/2: NVIDIA dual slot GPU
* …

Я правильно розумію, що це те саме "пофіксив тобі малюнок, не дякуй" від ШІ-бро, але на рівні корпорації?
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Am I right thinking that's the same "fixed your art, you're welcome" from an AI bro except on a corporate level?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzF-bV9Sigc…

Thinking about decoding some of the more complicated protocols in ngscopeclient more fully on the GPU.
Let's take I2C. for example. I have a 2x 10M point capture coming off my STM32MP2 / Kintex-7 testbed that takes about 188 ms to decode on the Xeon 4310 on my lab workstation (lots of idle time with just a few packets).
The decode can accept either sparse or uniformly sampled data; right now it's getting uniform data at 100 Msps which is overkill but the ThunderScope does…