Rick Altherr

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Pronounced like mischief.

BMC Bandit. Secure boot afficionado. FPGA historian. Quantum computer designer. 🏎️, 🔧, 🚜, Corgis.

TAI is time, all else is presentation

They/them
Monroe, WA

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Rick Altherr1d ago

Staffing the Interim Computer Museum tables at NW Pinball Show tonight and tomorrow night

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@icm/116698777862017397

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Attached: 4 images We’re at the #nwpinball show in #tacoma this Friday through Sunday! https://nwpinballshow.com #pinball #vintagetech

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Rick Altherr4d ago
Show threadReginald5d ago

@gvwilson I recently worked for a company that spoke about MVPs, but to my frustration, what they actually meant were MAFs:

"Minimally Abandonable Features." What can we ship that gets us the press release and blog post and a slide in our sales deck and demo?

But once there... They moved on to the next MAF, ignoring feedback about how these things did or didn't meet customer expectations and needs.

There was no feedback loop.

Rick Altherr4d ago
I hate CLAs. I understand why they exist. I find them obnoxious barriers to getting trivial bugfixes accepted.
Rick Altherr6d ago
Gwen the Trans BalrogMay 31

Oh honey, no one is telling children they're trans. Trust me. Everyone is telling children that they're cis, repeatedly, hard, insistently, like a chorus of total negation. If a kid manages to figure out that they're trans in spite of every fucking thing in the world telling them they aren't trans, it wasn't because someone told them they were trans. The most they likely ever heard, and it's not all that likely, is that it's okay to be trans.

But you know that already. You don't want anyone to stop telling children they're trans, because no one does that. What you want is for it not to be okay to be trans.

Rick Altherr6d ago
Mowed two lawns and cut down three trees today. Gonna pay for this
Rick Altherr6d ago
I wonder if the recent rsync changes are simply things the maintainer always wanted to do but it was never a high priority. Telling Claude to do it takes a lot less time commitment. What seems to be missing is tests. rsync is complicated enough that I would expect any change, regardless of human or AI author, to have a high chance of breaking things without an extensive test suite.
Rick AltherrMay 25
OSS carve-out in the age check bills isn't a win. It's a ploy.
Rick AltherrMay 25
Looking at SDRs for my home lab. HackRF Pro looks great for general use but seems to be backordered everywhere. KiwiSDR2 would be nice if it had wider receive range. What else is out there? I have a project in the AM broadcast band and often wish to look at 2.4GHz.
Rick AltherrMay 25
I'm on a flight with free wifi provided via Starlink. Not quite the "Internet for everyone" goal we started with. Sadly, what we expected to happen. Environment be damned, upper class gotta have their free wifi everywhere while unconnected areas can afford it.
Rick AltherrMay 17
Ol' Sawdust FlowersMay 17

Anybody want a folding engine hoist? For a bag of good coffee beans I will deliver in the greater Seattle area.

Edit: the hoist has a new home