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So you rotate infinity 90 degrees and get 8? Rotating a non-vector is a thing? Or, that's the joke?

I was out behind the house tonight looking up into the live oaks behind my house. Full of spanish moss. That stuff hangs off all the old trees down here. It drops long tentacles that release spores that float up into the trees, gets stuck in the bark, and a new bunch is born. Believe it or...

I do pressure fermentation. However, for IPAs, I do open the fermentor and drop the hops in. Thus, I'd like to somehow purge the introduced O2. I know there's all sorts of methods and apparatus for this, but I have just been adding sugar and letting nature (yeast) do it for me. The question...

Amazing imagery. I see they used some fancy instrument to take a picture of the inside of the sun, sort of like a MRI slice. Dare I say, looks a bit like fruit inside the sun.

Not sure if you guys saw, but after the booster landed in the ocean, it floated for hours, flames occasionally shooting out of it. Eventually, boats and helicopters approached it. I never learned what happened to that booster. Anyone?

I do like them. Maybe not for everyone. Some of them have "happy" endings. Some (The Road) do not.

So... the realtek optical hardware only spits out a bitrate capable of two channels. DD compresses 6 channels into the same bitrate as 2. Something has to decode DD, and that requires a license. Look at the following picture from my desk. Wouldn't you just assume this gadget does that...

I use MSFS. I am waiting to upgrade, looking for reviews. It's a major change to the sim.

Surround audio from my PC: OMG, you'd think I asked for something special. My mobo has an optical output. Realtek audio hardware. I have a Logitech Z906 5.1 speaker system plugged into the optical output. That system has DTS and Dolby Digital decoders. After a couple of weeks, I gave up...

Read the wiki article on MiFare classic, which is used on tons of fare cards and other apps in europe. Hack devices now can clone one in 40ms, remotely lol. I'm no expert on this, don't want to be, but it's one of my jobs right now to bone up on it.

what a coincidence. I'm designing something right now for a client. We literally had a convo about it an hour ago. He insists on AES-128, and I told him a lesser authentication was fine and AES wouldn't stand forever.

I have a similar story of hand-coding a 64-bit multiply routine in assembly on some arm processor. It was some embedded video application I was working on (as a consultant) in the 90's. I don't recall exactly why I did it, but either the compiler wouldn't do it at all, or did it wrong, or did...

This one was a page-turner. Fast read. Def not the same quality of story as some of his others, but if you're yearnin for an end of the world book, this will do for a couple of days.

shrug? You are hard to impress.

These tests are so great. They really display the engineering process that all designers would LOVE to go through, but rarely given a chance. To restate, to design almost anything, even non-complex things, it's ideal to have the time and budget to go through a bunch of test designs that...

exaflop lol. That's a quintillion floating point operations. well, I didn't know what that was either, so of course I looked it up. My first PC ran at 4.77MHz. 4770000 clocks per second. Not sure if it had a fpu, but I doubt it. See image below. Apparently this predated surface mount...

I still see the booster floating out there. At least it's not still burning. Coasties giving it closer and closer looks. The FTS flight termination system appears to be non-functional. It's definitely drifting... somewhere.

I found this mesmerizing. The intersection of Isaac newton, Vegas card-counting, the stock market, and the Galton Board (I need one of those).

This, on the 13th. My drive landed just short of the bunkers, placed to catch golfers a bit better than I am.