Brian Powell

My eclipse hunting was a success. bhpowell.com/2023/10/annula…

@TheGoldenRatio4 I’m so sorry, Jen and Ingo and squad. I know that was a hard decision but the right one. We love you Perfect Bestest Hopper T. Dog.

We said goodbye to Hopper last night💔 Nothing helped her worsening pain. Her regular and 🇨🇦vets agreed we were beyond what Librela could fix. We had a great last night - paddled, swam, and Hopps ate a whole XL Hershey bar. She was the heart of the squad & we are lost without her

Super disappointed in @MieleUSA for cancelling an order for a part without telling me. I've been waiting almost a year. I had to reorder it--expected to ship March 2023. *sigh* #BadCustomerService

Tickets on sale TODAY! Be the first to secure your seats for Austin Opera’s Bella Noche de Música at the stunning Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park. Join us in celebrating a concert of Latinx music and opera on April 4, 2023, at 7:00 p.m. 🎫 ⬇️ austinopera.org/opera-atx-bell…

@Dataflow_G @j_medland Except for the compiled object code, they should be the same across all platforms, endianness, and bitness. Data is normalized—e.g., extended floats are stored in a 128-bit format, the widest format supported on any platform (Sun Solaris).

@j_medland Thanks for the links, the first one was really informative. Reason I ask is a customer seemed to think simply editing code originally developed in 64-bit LV using 32-bit LV somehow changed it to be 32-bit only. They should be identical, but got me curious if there was a diff.

Lazy twitter: Is it possible to determine what bitness of #LabVIEW was used when saving a VI?

Learning about the ferocious Blåhaj at three months old. @thegoldenratio4 instagram.com/p/CjqwTT8OHdU/…

@Kimpton Thank you for the update. Good luck getting it sorted out.

@brianhpowell Hi, Brian. As a result of unauthorized activity, our booking channels and other applications have been disrupted. We’re working to restore all systems asap and IHG hotels can take reservations. For help with a current or future reservation, please call the hotel directly.

Hey @Kimpton hotels, I’m getting errors booking on your website, and your phone number is just giving a busy signal. Do you have an ETA for reopening?

@TheRealAdamKemp Sigh. People didn’t learn their lesson when Microsoft did this years ago in their tools? Developers: if you make a library that really needs to change the floating point state, then please save/restore it so that your callers don’t have to. Better yet: don’t change the state.

My Great Pyrenees channeling his inner Voodoo while preparing for the Voodoo Nö Challenge. He's training for the "take a short walk, lay down in the neighbor's yard, and refuse to continue" distance. #VoodooNoChallenge @GoldenRatioFdn sites.google.com/view/thegolden…

YAY for great percussionists!

.@violincase I'm seeing unusual popups when visiting hilaryhahn.com. You might check to see if the site has been hacked.

@TheRealAdamKemp I think it’s worth a try. Grimes is among his early-ish works, while Midsummer is among his late-ish works, so there’s a difference there. Grimes is also one of his most performed operas, so that’s a good indicator, too. And hey, the livestream is free right now.

One of my favorite operas!

@dyerob Man against society, and a little man against nature and man against himself. Spoiler alert: man loses.

@brianhpowell Ah, yes. I remember that you love this piece. I’ve never tried the whole opera, but the Four Sea Interludes are outstanding and one of my favorites.

@thatbrooke I understand. Sincerely, Brain.

I accidentally sign my name as Broke all the time when I'm sending emails in a hurry. Not a good look for an investor and aspiring GP. 😅

@dnatt @j_medland You haven’t spent as much time working on the compiler and execution system as I have. ;)

@brianhpowell @j_medland I've been writing LabVIEW code for 23 years. I would never stop and think, "What nodes could I add to this block diagram to make parallel-looking code actually run in parallel?"

TIL if you want Python Nodes on the same block diagram to execute in parallel, you need to wrap them in single-iteration loops. #LabVIEW

@dnatt @j_medland Most nodes would not start a new clump, so this makes perfect sense to me once I stop and think about it. The problem is that I wouldn’t start by stopping and thinking about it, so it may not behave the way I want it to when I write the code.

@j_medland My thoughts exactly. Apparently there are some nodes in LabVIEW (like the Python Node) that are ambiguous as to whether or not they should start their own clump. But a loop will always start a new clump, so that's how you can force those ambiguous nodes to be clumped separately.

@DanielAHedges I guess the good news is that nobody is teaching it like that.

"‘The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs’ clicks on the human connection." @AustinOpera set to premiere a new production of @masonbates' Grammy-winning opera. sightlinesmag.org/the-revolution…