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Taking a break from my usual journalism rants for a bit of energy geekery. As the US has gotten better at building solar, we're going to see the typical solar plant performing worse. The following thread explains why, and why that will matter.

When coding boot camps were radio:

Printing horizontal overhangs without the need for supports using Conical Slicing 👌

Reviving some of the earliest samples of digitized speech meant breaking out the vinyl... spectrum.ieee.org/history-of-dig…

At last! My newest book Programming Games for Atari 2600 is now available at the Lulu bookstore, and as ebook at my store. Soon in Amazon #retro #Atari Cc Kevin Edwards ( Retro Videogame development ) Retro & Homebrew Computing 0xC0DE Nox Archaist Travis Goodspeed Jim Leonard Dennis Debro Ste Pickford Robin @ 8-Bit Show And Tell

The 8086 microprocessor is almost 45 years old, but the x86 architecture still rules computing. I'm reverse engineering the 8086 by studying its silicon die under a microscope. This thread looks at one of its unusual circuits: the bootstrap driver.🧵

My first Brocken Spectre. Creepy to see it out the corner of my eye and think it was someone else moving

Re: Twitter stability—if one of the folks who literally wrote the book on modern site reliability engineering says something is worth a read, you should

(Cont.) or for those of you familier with The Expanse, remember when Prax started worrying on Ganymede about some plants that weren’t doing well and explained about simple complex systems and cascade failures? Just swap in Twitter for Ganymede and you get what Hector is saying

welcome droids to the picket line 🤘

"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."

Anyone out there with an ML/DS/SWE background? We'd love to talk. #ml #sre #hiring

Let’s talk about the legal problems Elon just created for himself with this cruel new staff email. You’re fired if you don’t commit to long hours at high intensity within 24 hours? Let’s start with disabled workers.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but The Peripheral’s Dr. Nuland is the best British sci-fi screen villain since Servalan, and her spiritual successor to boot.

Fascinating thread, the TLDR being "World Cup is coming."

Prodigy88.com Release: Re-live the anxiety of Prodigy Classic members as they face its shutdown on 10/1/99 flickr.com/photos/1493323…