poleguy looking for lost tools

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Nick Dietz, b. 1977, m. 2008, kids. 2010, 2016
#OakPark #Illinois

Hobby: looking for lost tools

Senior Staff Electrical Engineer at #Shure Incorporated designing digital wireless systems, #microphones, #pcb, #fpga, etc.

2025: designing telemetry capture system for next generation fpga based wireless microphone systems.

#catholic #electricalengineering #ppprs #ev #solar #icehockey #zamboni #wfh #diy #foss #linux

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It is World Backup Day today,

Here is your assignment!

https://www.worldbackupday.com/en

Test if you can restore a file today.

Remember: don't use any passwords, keys, or credentials stored on the system.

Report in a reply on your results.

World Backup Day

Be prepared against data loss and data theft. March 31st is the day to backup and better protect your data.

World Backup Day
mysterious MNT Pocket Reform mainboard 2.0 is real, as evidenced by this JLCPCB confirmation photo :0 hope i didn't make too many mistakes and the bringup will go smoothly once it arrives...

Still as cis as ever, but I thought I'd show my support by posting an interesting transition metal compound from my lab inventory.

Here's a solution of tantalum chloride in ethanol/methanol, intended for sol-gel deposition of tantalum pentoxide thin films. You spin coat it on a substrate then heat in air; the chlorine swaps with an oxygen in atmospheric water vapor and you get HCl gas evaporating and Ta2O5 on the surface.

@poleguy Last time I used Ubuntu (more than 10 years ago?) I was getting segmentation faults all over the place. Changed for Debian, all sigfaults gone.
And that was before they introduced Snaps
i find it very interesting that llama.cpp, a project presumably maintained and contributed to primarily by people who generally have a decent understanding of LLMs, has a strict policy against predominantly LLM-generated contributions, bans accounts who violate it, uses an AGENTS.md that tries to rope the agent into enforcing this and warning the user, and they have also discussed adding canaries to catch people lying about AI use and not sufficiently reviewing its output
I CAST, CURSE OF NaN PROPAGATION 🪄
Wow! A 1000-mile wall of Saharan dust is currently sweeping across northwest Africa 💨 See here: https://zoom.earth/maps/satellite/#view=25.287,-9.342,6z/date=2026-03-30,17:20
Christine go to bed