Notices by see shy jo (joeyh)

bought a floor lamp, which has a touch plate

I measured the lamp wasting 2.2 watts when OFF

That's half the power my laptop uses.

> If you care about the future of free software, this is the most important time to get involved in the last 25 years.

https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/1173791191428517889

@dthompson like a USB cable, you just try -L and -R until it works. Typically on the 3rd try.

Guy is implementing a computer on a FPGA using #Haskell.

So far he's done VGA http://gergo.erdi.hu/blog/2018-09-02-c_ash_video__vga_signal_generator

And PS/2 keyboard: http://gergo.erdi.hu/blog/2018-09-08-ps_2_keyboard_interface_in_c_ash

the single most important criteria when replacing Github
https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/the_single_most_important_criteria_when_replacing_Github/

Consider all the data that's used to provide the value-added features on top of git. Issue tracking, wikis, notes in commits, lists of forks, pull requests, access controls, hooks, other configuration, etc.

Is that data stored in a git repository?

#github

On the plus side, if we're all in a simulation, looks increasingly likely we can break out.

Seems appropriate today to remember that we're building things out of sand here.