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<p>Homebrew radio enthusiast who cannot seem to learn Morse Code to save their life. He/any.</p><p>I probably would&#39;ve been an insufferable physicist if I hadn&#39;t become an insufferable linguist/mathematician/software person instead. Amateur radio lets me scratch that itch.</p>

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  • Post #3304476

    I always found Ryan Hall Y&amp;#39;All to be gratingly sensationalist, but he was mostly harmless. But now he has an AI slopbot livestream, where the bot is riffing on weather alerts &amp;quot;as they happen&amp;quot;, but I&amp;#39;m pretty sure those alerts came out almost 12 hours ago. It&amp;#39;s effectively AI Slop Fox News for weather, and there are over a thousand people watching right now on YT. This feels wildly irresponsible to me, especially since there wasn&amp;#39;t a single dis...

  • Post #3304475

    As someone who was into protocols in the 1900s, it&amp;#39;s delightful to find https://sequencediagram.org/ exists, for quick noodling on designs. I don&amp;#39;t trust it to always exist as a tool, but the text export of the file is easy enough to work with later if I need to. And the images paste nicely into my Joplin notebooks.

  • Post #3304474

    You know you&amp;#39;re gonna have a good time when: C THIS FUNCTION COMPUTES THE CUMULATIVE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION C FOR POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE VALUES OF X. SEE &amp;quot;THE HANDBOOK OF C MATHEMATICAL FUNCTIONS&amp;quot;, AMS 55. NOTE THAT THIS METHOD WILL WORK C ON 16 BIT MACHINES (32 BIT FLOATING POINT WORD)

  • Post #3304473

    My first Linux box was an AMD 486 DX4-100, running Slackware in 1997. Thank you, dink, for teaching me so many things and getting me started on a wild ride that&amp;#39;s taken me everywhere from a server in a puddle of dairy farm filth to Linux boxes in space, and many many places in between. 🫡 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/linux-kernel-maintainers-are-following-through-on-removing-intel-486-support/