🇺🇦 Nonstandard Nerd

Microcontroller firmware, FPGAs, SW Defined Radio, Retrocomputing
Damned dirty ape
Call sign N2ES
he/him
cis male
Not a tame programmer

[🇺🇦 Nonstandard Nerd @brouhaha]

"I am NaN, I am a free man!"
- The IEEE 754 Prisoner

[🇺🇦 Nonstandard Nerd @brouhaha]

@ShyFerrari @WhiteHouse The Supreme Court struck down the IEEPA Tariffs, which included the "reciprocal tariffs". The section 232 and 301 tariffs were not struck down, so he's saying that those ones are still in place, along with a new Section 122 tariff of 10%.

[🇺🇦 Nonstandard Nerd @brouhaha]

@ggarchar She chose distance vision. I think I would too. I'd rather need glasses for reading and other close-in work, even though I do a lot of that.

[🇺🇦 Nonstandard Nerd @brouhaha]

A friend has had successful cataract surgery on both eyes this week, and now she can see much better!

[Dorsa @dorsa_rohani]

New fastest shortest-path algorithm in 41 years!
Tsinghua researchers broke Dijkstra’s 1984 “sorting barrier,” achieving O(m log^(2/3) n) time. This means faster route planning, less traffic, cheaper deliveries, and more efficient networks - and a CS curriculum revamp =)

[Brian Blues @BrianBlues]

@brouhaha I worked at Apparat as well .. I was the last support technician for NEWDOS/80.
Good times while it lasted!

[🇺🇦 Nonstandard Nerd @brouhaha]

@jangray I'm over on Mastodon these days. I only very rarely look here.

[🇺🇦 Nonstandard Nerd @brouhaha]

@langstron76 https://t.co/JdmWGUZDEL

[Rich Alderson @Alderson_at_LCM]

@MIT_CSAIL ENIAC did not have a concept of “byte”. What is this really called?

[Ken Shirriff @kenshirriff]

@MIT_CSAIL Not a byte, not RAM, but it is from ENIAC in 1946.
That tube module holds one decimal digit. It's from an "accumulator", which counts and stores numbers. It uses 10 tubes in a ring counter to hold the values 0 through 9. Bytes didn't exist at the time.
https://t.co/mtHoLuSfTl

[Oscar Vermeulen @Oscar_CEDS]

So now there are three PiDP replicas, each to tell its own story of computer history - or the DEC part of it.

The 10, though, has been a long time project - since 2018. But the injection molded case is in production, so it won't be long now.

#PDP11 #PDP8 #PDP10

[Chuck McManis 🇺🇦 solidarity 🇺🇦 @ChuckMcManis]

@Oscar_CEDS @systems_glitch And we need a special edition PiDP 11/40 to be a front end 😀

[Oscar Vermeulen @Oscar_CEDS]

OK... they tell me I should go on Twitter to tell a bit about the coming PiDP-10. And tell the story of the past year. Scary. social? media? Not really me.

But: in a month or two, you can have a PDP-10 in your living room. https://t.co/T47Z3gPzh7
#PiDP10

[SDF @sdf_pubnix]

An archive of the Incompatible Timesharing System Boot Camp orientation live stream can be found here

https://t.co/FCfhuvPjnW

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #ai #lab

[Mark Eichin @eichin]

I did have to pause and check that this wasn't a @NanoRaptor project :-)

[🇺🇦 Nonstandard Nerd @brouhaha]

@BruceHoult @eevblog I had one used on my feet as a young child. It must have been pretty close to when they were pulled out of service.

[arturo182 is on Bluesky now @arturo182]

TIL "breadboard" comes from people using literal bread cutting boards as the base for their electronics back in the day

[Pepijn @pepijndevos]

You'd almost think speculative execution is a fundamentally flawed idea

[Mats Engstrom @matseng]

I love the @wavedrom plugin for VisualCode. It's so nice to be able to do timing diagrams right there and not have to use a standalone app or online service.

[Hal 10000 @Hal_RTFLC]

I have a dream. It's not a big dream, it's just a little dream. My dream - and I hope you don't find this too crazy - is that I will one day be rich enough that I can solve my printer problems by throwing it out the window.

[🇺🇦 Nonstandard Nerd @brouhaha]

@hasheddan @hackaday @golioth_iot @Raspberry_Pi @thepine64 You can't do that! It's a SOLDERLESS breadboard!