The Award includes a cash gift of $1,024 and a laser-cut wooden plaque made with free software and free hardware by SFC’s Operations Manager Tracy Homer. Award winners are listed on the awards page.

Ha! Noice.

They also taste delicious and practically throw themselves onto the bbq in joy (they can’t quite reach the hot plate so they rub against our ankles when they’re ready to be eaten).

Zen 5, Wikipedia:

Zen 5 (“Nirvana”)[1] is the name for a CPU microarchitecture by AMD, shown on their roadmap in May 2022,[2] launched for mobile in July 2024 and for desktop in August 2024.[3] It is the successor to Zen 4 and is currently fabricated on TSMC’s N4P process.[4] Zen 5 is also planned to be fabricated on the N3E process in the future.[5]

The Zen 5 microarchitecture powers Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors (codenamed “Granite Ridge”), Epyc 9005 server processors (codenamed “Turin”),[6] and Ryzen AI 300 thin and light mobile processors (codenamed “Strix Point”).

I had the longest dream this morning about shaving my dick and balls. Now I know where all the pubes went. It’s like Nightmare on Elm Street but instead of Freddy attacking you with knife fingers it’s my pubes growing on your face.

That plonk sound. Just as satisfying as when you hear it on the loo.

Thank you 🙏

What does ‘handwritten assembly code’ mean? I assume they’re not writing it in cursive. Apparently some code is compiler created so it sounds like this is a synonym for code written by a person? There must be a better term for describing this than ‘handwritten’.

Timeline: A History Of Grizzly Bear Recovery In The Lower 48 States

Return of the Yellowstone Grizzly Bear

About Us - Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee

Talk about cherry picking in order to create a clickbait headline:

That’s the question put to Newell by Saliev: should younger folk looking at this field be learning the technical side, or focusing purely on the best way to use the tools?

“I think it’s both,” says Newell. “I think the more you understand what underlies these current tools the more effective you are at taking advantage of them, but I think we’ll be in this funny situation where people who don’t know how to program who use AI to scaffold their programming abilities will become more effective developers of value than people who’ve been programming, y’know, for a decade.”

Newell goes on to emphasise that this isn’t either/or, and any user should be able to get something helpful from AI. It’s just that, if you really want to get the best out of this technology, you’ll need some understanding of what underlies them.

Where did they brag about overworking thier employees so they could hire less?

Classic.

They can get pretty big so I think one would be enough to cause an injury. I assume this is the same for pelicans all over the world.

From the AerynOS About page:

AerynOS is a modern Linux distribution using atomic updates, cutting-edge tooling and rock-solid reliability. Built by industry veterans with decades of experience, it represents the next evolution in Linux distributions - delivering a safe and efficient system.

Our fully atomic system leverages the LLVM toolchain and libc++ by default, delivering superior diagnostics and package diversity. We’re not afraid to challenge convention - thoughtfully replacing traditional components with modern alternatives that prioritize safety and reliability.

We closely follow the work of organizations dedicated to making software safer, including the Prossimo project and their Memory Safety initiative, the Tweede Golf team, and the Trifecta Tech Foundation. By monitoring and adopting innovations from these pioneers, we can integrate proven solutions like memory-safe replacements for critical system components.

As we continuously evaluate and adopt the best solutions, our architectural decisions enable powerful features like atomic updates that can safely transform your entire system, complete with built-in deduplication and instant rollbacks.

This is the future of Linux distribution design, built on a foundation of experience and innovation.

You saw the comment and verified it. We’ll done.

I don’t think whoever made the trailer gets Edgar Wright. It’s all over the shop tonally. Folks who see this are gonna be so confused.

… As access to space has increased, thanks largely to the commercial space industry, so too have the types of payloads we are sending. Consider the Nyx capsule created by German aerospace startup The Exploration Company, which launched on June 23rd from the Vandenberg Space Force Base atop a Falcon-9 rocket as part of a rideshare mission (Transporter-14). The payload for this flight (dubbed “Mission Possible”) included the ashes and DNA of more than 166 deceased people provided by Celestis, a Texas-based memorial spaceflight company.

While the mission achieved orbit and a controlled reentry, the capsule’s landing parachutes failed to deploy before landing. This caused the Nyx capsule to crash in the Pacific Ocean on June 24th, causing all of its cargo to be lost at sea. …

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This is also the second time Celestis has lost a payload, the previous having taken place in 2023 when a rocket containing the cremated remains of the late NASA astronaut Philip K. Chapman exploded over New Mexico. …

I found a reference in Wikipedia (edit 3) so afaic my work here is done.

Edit 1: Oh fuck, it’s a circular reference. Dammit.

Trying to verify this. So far I found this but have not confirmed it’s legit in any way:

Edit 1: Laundry, Shooting At Venus, and Surviving Two Back-To-Back Ship Sinkings Part 1 | archive.org

Edit 2: Laundry, Shooting At Venus, and Surviving Two Back-To-Back Ship Sinkings Part 1 | Vuink - Repost of article found in Edit 1.

Edit 3: USS Langley (CV-1) | World War II

On the entry of the US into World War II, Langley was anchored off Cavite, Philippines.[5][19] On 8 December, following the invasion of the Philippines by Japan, she departed Cavite for Balikpapan in the Dutch East Indies. In the natural state of alarm (the attack on Pearl Harbor had happened the day before) 300 rounds were shot at an object in the sky before it was realized that it was the planet Venus.[20]

Edit 4: This detailed history of the ship does not mention anything about firing at Venus:

Langley I (CV-1) | Naval History and Heritage Command

Double, triple, quadruple the spiciness.

Where is this discussion and planning?