Chris Blume

TIL a neat thing about America.

Despite being a relatively young country, it has the oldest still-in-use constitution in the world.

(It is the 2nd oldest constitution, behind San Marino's.)

So funny when an embargo lifts.

Suddenly aaaallll these reviews for the 9000-series Threadripper.

Yeah. I would prefer to be lazy. And find some magic "override" in the software.

But so far, no luck on the lazy path. So now I get to choose between continued laziness (abandoning runs today) or actively fixing it.

I guess I have other tasks to work on, anyway :'(

My AC isn't turning on today, which is ruining my GPU benchmark runs.

You can see indoor temp is 79 and it should have kicked on at 71.
You can also see yesterday was fine.

Is this the Google Nest & power company agreement to remotely hijack? I can't find an override.

*sigh* This one radiator cannot dissipate as much heat as the 5090 can generate if I max it out.

You can see the fans ramp up to 100% (bottom) but the water temp (blue) keeps rising.

Plus I still need to add the CPU to the loop.
Time to cut up the case.

Good news.
I didn't kill the expensive GPU.

YouTube video by PC USER 486 Windows 95 💾 PC is faster than today's PCs - #asmr #90s #nostalgia

I saw this old computer boot up fast.
And sure, it was responsive. But did it actually boot fast?

Even with the whir of a slow, spinning hard drive, it does seem to have booted faster.
And then I see IT IS A 486!!
www.youtube.com/shorts/p6RdB...

Wait.
Hold up.

Python gained over 10% since last year?
It nearly doubled. What happened??
Where is all this Python energy coming from?

I hate with a burning passion interlaced videos that are not played back as interlaced.

I received mail at my house addressed to a woman. It wasn't the previous owner. The mail person wrote on it "X?"

I've been thinking about that.
1.) I'm old enough to have been married and divorced, yet haven't even been married, and
2.) I present as a man going through the throes of a divorce.

lolol this developer:
"We did it properly,
by kicking the can down the road."

YouTube video by C++ Weekly With Jason Turner C++ Weekly - Ep 490 - std::ignore vs _ vs [[maybe_unused]]

Yooooo C++26 introduces _ for unused variables??
Lovely!
Thank you, @lefticus.bsky.social for letting me know
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUcS...

YouTube video by TEDx Talks Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland

Love this line from @scott.hanselman.com:
"...we wanted instant answers, and got infinite scrolling."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVG8...

Uh oh.
I'm feeling an all-night coding session coming on.
Time to be anti-social again!

YouTube video by Nine Inch Nails Nine Inch Nails - As Alive As You Need Me To Be (Official Lyric Video)

New NIN single (almost certainly from the upcoming Tron: Ares)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sj-...

The top right of my new keyboard has an "Any" key.

What should I assign to it?

I have things I need to do.
But I'm struggling to motivate myself because the US is in an insane place right now.

Yeah. What I want is for someone who doesn't (want to) know about home automation to be blissfully unaware. I want a visitor to flip a switch on/off without realizing there was a third state (middle?).

Tech peeps,

Is there a handy relay sort of thing to override smart home stuff?

I feel like a light switch could be tri-state (on/off/smart).

Also, I'm curious about that powerline networking rather than wireless.

Does a switch like this exist?

Not yet free though. We're trying to reference only free specs.
Time to put some pressure on ISO to make it free :D

In the speedrunning community, we have tools to find spliced video.

For example, we listen to the noise floor and find the 60 Hz background hum of the power lines (US). When footage is spliced, that 60Hz will suddenly jump phase.

How did I not know...

The JGE (jump if greater or equal) instruction does a signed comparison (carry flag == 0).

There is also the JAE (jump if above or equal) which does unsigned (sign flag == carry flag).

This research paper has the best abstract I've ever seen.
arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/pa...

I'm reading the docs to this old assembler (MACASM) and it is wild.

Identifiers can contain ? and .
Identifiers can also match mnemonics, like JMP
; is not required to start a comment if an operation already completed on that line

Spicy hot take, I'm sure:
I think the Rosetta Stone is kinda a pathetic discovery.

It isn't like "We just don't have enough data to find common words like 'the', 'a', or 'and'." (simplifying here)

Rather, the stone has text in two languages so they could start mapping.

Wait. What?
The title is "dkc2: diddy'S kong quest"?!?!?

Oh man.
I had said "I'm not opposed to the idea, but..."
Except I was opposed to it.
I guess I meant to say "I'm open to consideration..."

The thing ended up happening. Words are hard.

Programmers, I need your opinions.
My blunder earlier has been weighing on me.

Generally, a return code of 0 means success and any other value is an error code, right?

This API returns a bool for succeeded or not. Which means 0 is error, with no code.

That API was a trap?

Update: I'm dumb.
I had flipped a bool (true is false, false is true) which threw me off. Their change allowed my bool flip into code that it previously couldn't get to.

Subnautica studio leadership gutted by Krafton, which outright says that Subnautica 2 needs 'renewed energy and momentum' Something stirs beneath the waves.

Oof. That's sad to hear.
I love Subnautica.
I would prefer a late, great game to a quick, okay game.
Subnautica: Below Zero wasn't as loved by the fans. Not even close. I imagine the leadership wanted to be careful, which takes time. share.google/NAS5PylaEmgR...