It's messed up how much more nervous I get interviewing a candidate for a job than being interviewed

(non-IEEE paywalled summary: when you use an SV assign in an always block it has the same semantics as a force that gets evaluated when the block executes. This is close to---but not exactly the same as---what you would naively expect. People do this a lot and I have no idea why)

I need a keyboard macro that expands to the entire text of the SV LRM annex C.4.2

Moving to LA* has unlocked all sorts of cultural references for me, but I have never felt like more of a local than the feeling of familiarity I got just now reading "Inherent Vice" where Pynchon describes someone in LA "hook[ing] a U-turn without signaling"

*greater metro area

Biff Poggi is the Yevgeny Prigozhin of Michigan football

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees

🧵

Miter saw sitting on a stand in front of a garage

To quote Julius Caesar's famous letter to the Roman senate after winning the war against Pharnases II of Pontus, "[...], I saw, [...]"

One day you wake up and realize that you do 100% of your shell scripting with chains of sed calls

Photo of a living room TV playing silksong, with a smaller TV to the right showing a doorbell camera

This is a great innovation for keeping an eye out for trick-or-treaters

Willow (our cat) sitting on top of a 42U server rack in the living room

Turns out the cat foot dispenser has a dependency on us-east-1. My network admin is on top of things

California when it rains

A nightmare tangle of wires spilling out the side of a server rack

I should probably clean this up at some point

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is worse than the original LEGO star wars in the same way that Monster Hunter Wilds is worse than Monster Hunter World

"never skim coat your wall" to the tune of "never kill yourself"

I had not thought about pages per second throughput as a printer feature when I bought mine, but as I queue up a 300 page print job and watch how long it's taking to spool, maybe I should have

Bracing to watch someone else have their "I'll never fly you bastards again" moment in the spirit airlines boarding line and know that someday that will be me too and I'll be free

Chromecast popup that reads "Show news headlines in your screensaver. Enable them in settings"

There is nothing I want less than this

uh, yes? That's kind of how taxes work

I'm editing some documentation right now and I definitely did not just describe the recording of the training session as "the meeting VOD"

booo

also "high dynamic range" lol

gregtech: new horizons voltage tiers and infiniband data rates have got to be named by the same person

Watching the first harry potter and the traps seem so silly. "Let's play chess!" "here's a plant from first year herbology?" why do they not simply protect the sorcerer's stone with public key cryptography?

I've found myself using "twitter" as a generic name for this kind of social media site since the rebrand

- X is a twitter
- Bluesky is a twitter
- Threads is a twitter
- etc.

The guy sitting next to me on this flight paid $8 for in-flight wifi to watch a live candlestick graph of $QUBT the entire hour and fifteen minutes we were airborn

Duo (duolingo) looking embarrassed that I only did 28 xp of lessons in math

ballin' 😎

Yukon the canadian territory and UConn the university (students+staff) are almost the same population lmao

It's fascinating to read an analysis of "will the internet be a big deal" from someone living through its early days

Book heading that reads "The Internet: Signal or Noise? Threat or Promise?"

It's possible that the book I'm reading is a little older than I thought it was