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Blast from the past!
Writing firmware on my first laptop, for the PIC12F683 (the first microcontroller I ever used), on my first embedded project ever (robotic rubber band gun turret) freshman year of college, bodged together on perf board.
The UART and servo PWM were both bitbanged because the PIC12F683 didn't have any UARTs and I hadn't learned how to use the timer block yet.

Integrating and Characterizing HPC Task Runtime Systems for hybrid AI-HPC workloads
Andre Merzky, Mikhail Titov, Matteo Turilli, Shantenu Jha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20819 ht…

Integrating and Characterizing HPC Task Runtime Systems for hybrid AI-HPC workloads
Scientific workflows increasingly involve both HPC and machine-learning tasks, combining MPI-based simulations, training, and inference in a single execution. Launchers such as Slurm's srun constrain concurrency and throughput, making them unsuitable for dynamic and heterogeneous workloads. We present a performance study of RADICAL-Pilot (RP) integrated with Flux and Dragon, two complementary runtime systems that enable hierarchical resource management and high-throughput function execution. Us…

S-400 launchers and radars hit by SBU drones in Russia's Novorossiysk, source says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/15/s-launchers-and-radars-hit.html

#jukeboxfridaynight
#takeittothestreets
Some Canadian content from Bruce Cockburn, his political protest song about Guatemalan refugee camps in Mexico.
If I Had a Rocket Launcher by Bruce Cockburn.
https://youtu.be/fmQJ82NIR4w?si=IPd7KJv5OR26pF9C4

Asteroid Launcher — a asteroid simulator
☄️ #astroid #simulator

Nach #Jahresurlaub jetzt auch noch der #NovaLauncher, der nicht mehr weiterentwickelt wird. Und die Firma hält sich auch nicht an seine Abmachung mit dem Hauptentwickler, die App #OpenSource

New launcher for Tomahawks – announcement ahead of Zelenskyy's visit #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/14/new-launcher-for-tomahawks-announcement.html

I was experiencing unusually high VRAM usage on the RX 7800 XT (GPU choking and cr@pping itself) in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (and in a couple of other games). So I decided to use the AMD Cleanup Utility and reinstall the current 25.12.1 drivers. When I started the game again, the ray tracing settings in it were grayed out, and there's NO fixing it, no matter what I tried 😆 And the VRAM issue wasn't fixed 😄
(Grayed out RT settings aslo seem to be a problem on the 9000 s…

I have discovered that the Amazon Fire Stick with Fire OS 5 if I disable the launcher and install custom launcher I loose access to the settings. I don't think there are many things i can do in the settings anyway but I can at least see my storage information.
It just stupid that its tied to the stock ad launcher.
Amazon devices might be the worst android

US defense manufacturer reveals new Tomahawk launcher — just what Ukraine would need to hit Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/14/us-defense-manufacturer-reveals-new.html