John McCluskey

FPGA Engineer since 1994. Interested in VHDL, DSP, SDR, AI/ML and new algorithms to replace BackProp.

[John McCluskey @FPGA_4_Xilinx]

Just ordered a replacement water heater from Home Depot. In reflection on the experience, I can see that Home Depot is succeeding very well in making the customer experience "frictionless". They deliver, they install, they take away the old unit. My only task now is clearing a path through the garage.

[John McCluskey @FPGA_4_Xilinx]

@pbarr @VaibhavSisinty @grok Where in space is the temperature at 3K?

[John McCluskey @FPGA_4_Xilinx]

@pbarr @VaibhavSisinty The whole universe is at 3 Kelvin. Block the sunshine, and everything eventually settles to 3K. Going lower requires active cooling methods.

[John McCluskey @FPGA_4_Xilinx]

The James Webb telescope is probably the best engineered example today of satellite cooling. The five-layer sunshield produces ambient temps of 50K, but cryocoolers can reduce sensor temps down to 7K for mid-range infrared observation. There don't seem to be any physical limits, so cost effectiveness will be the guiding design rule for an AI satellite.

[John McCluskey @FPGA_4_Xilinx]

@ATaylorFPGA @Mr_Andrew_Fox Sure, high trust is possible if we have 24/7 AI surveillance over all humans. It's coming.

[John McCluskey @FPGA_4_Xilinx]

@JoeRoganRecaps @grok What she claims to describe in this segment, it violates the "no communication theorem" doesn't it?

[John McCluskey @FPGA_4_Xilinx]

I went to Subway tonight, and ordered a Steak & Bacon 12" sandwich, with spicy cheese, and all dressed condiments, salt & pepper, mustard. The girl running the shop late at night looked.. well, pitiful, so I added a 15% tip. My total? $26 Canadian, for ONE sandwich. It's beginning to feel like we use Yen, or Won, or Pesos here. And I know it's only going to get worse.

[John McCluskey @FPGA_4_Xilinx]

@zipcpu Point taken.. I've stolen your AXI-Lite design and will use skid buffers going forward. Thank you!

[John McCluskey @FPGA_4_Xilinx]

@billmaher I think that the aliens are perfectly aware of our primitive tendencies, and have an infinite number of ways to handle us. We may have access to dangerous toys like nuclear weapons, but I rather suspect that these can be pretty easily neutralized by technology far beyond our own.

[John McCluskey @FPGA_4_Xilinx]

https://t.co/AUpWrLDk28

[John McCluskey @FPGA_4_Xilinx]

@InterstellarUAP It seems clear, given millions of years, that the galaxy is traversable via slow moving objects like 3I/Atlas. It's equally obvious that information is the only trade good worth sending between stellar systems. All else follows from those 2 assumptions.

[John McCluskey @FPGA_4_Xilinx]

Bao Hu. Recipe by Grok.

[John McCluskey @FPGA_4_Xilinx]

What we need is a new studio for science fiction in Texas, that uses Starbase and Starship as grist for the mill. I want to see Seal Team 6 loaded into Starship and launched to far away places to snatch drug-dealing dictators in the middle of the night. I want the Seal Team 6 cast to include a tough grizzled old veteran (nickname: Joker) who tells a racist/sexist/off-color joke each episode to break the tension of a tough risky high speed descent into hell. The hot ladies of the show will be seen in the Overwatch command center, guiding and encouraging our buff heros as they overcome impossible odds to overpower evil drug dealers. Anduril hardware should also be showcased.

[John McCluskey @FPGA_4_Xilinx]

@danfaggella At best, we can hope to be ignored. But then I have to ask myself... the E.T. AI aren't really ignoring us, so that hope seems delusional. Maybe benign neglect is a better goal.

[John McCluskey @FPGA_4_Xilinx]

This is an interesting read. I thought that the "Erids" coming to visit Earth was complete BS, until I realized that if the technology existed to transmit a human as information at the speed of light, it would only take 19.7 years to arrive... so... barely plausible. The "hostile aliens" seems dubious, since interstellar travel takes incredible lengths of time.

[John McCluskey @FPGA_4_Xilinx]

@I_D_Official @NTK_UAP There are lots of reasons why "they" aren't communicating with us. But they sure are sampling and observing the hell out of us. It stands to reason that the information they collect has serious value on the galactic market. $$$

[John McCluskey @FPGA_4_Xilinx]

In the late 70's I used to frequent the original "Panda Inn" in Pasadena (long before the owner Andrew started Panda Express). In those days, you could get incredibly authentic dishes, that tasted straight off the boat from Schezuan. My favorite was Bao Hu (hot burned pork). Alas, it's impossible to find any more.

[Miss Mary @DivintyMary]

You heard it here straight from the Portland Police's mouth "we need it the same on both sides man", "we're trying not to have encampments built up" ~ too bad it took Patriots putting a tent up for 2 nights to have them take down the ANTIFA camp that took over a city sidewalk for 100+ days!

PORTLAND ICE PROTEST 10/25/25
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