David Starling

@BowTiedBroke I’m in for an adventure, hoping I at least get on the board

Husqvarna sent me a stack of chainsaws to give away because a bear stole mine & Internet went wild. I’m adding a 4 day/3 nt stay to my Smoky Mtn cabin. (Side by side tours, meet Jimmy & me, see old moonshine stills, crazy views). To enter (100% free, no purchase necessary): 1) Follow @BowTiedBroke 2) Comment on THIS post with literally anything (tag friends = extra luck with the dartboard later 👀) Contest runs exactly 24 hours —-> closes tomorrow at 10:00 AM EST At close, @grok will instantly pick 20 random commenters with accounts older than 3 months. Then, I put those 20 names on a dartboard, film one throw, and THAT person wins everything. No bots, no BS, fully transparent. Grok posts the 20 here, the dart decides destiny 🎯 Sorry international followers (not that I have that many) U.S. followers only for this one. Cabin is in Tennessee, chainsaws are heavy, and bears don’t do passports. Let’s go! Drop a reply and let’s see who the Chainsaw stealing bear chooses.

@RueNahcMohr US

@da_starling What country are you in?

I have a lot of these, My anticipated consumption of them over the next 5 years is: 0 pcs. I'm going to guess I have 3 followers and 1 person I'm following but isn't following back (its ok) who would be interested in one....

@StefanyAllaire Brings back memories of writing assembly on 68000 long ago

Finally starting shipping the A2560K. The 68040 based new retro computer. If you want one, make your move fast, price will increase next week. #c256foenix #RetroGaming #retrocomputing

@RancidBacon @GeekMomProjects @szczys This one is bigger than 0201, but I thought I could solder it until it actually arrived

@GeekMomProjects @szczys How does one even tell that they *have* 0201 components? 😄

@th_stath @TheFarmgineer Interesting, I have used lots of UML modeling packages in the past, but had not seen this one before.

@TheFarmgineer Enterprise Architect does this and more

@TheFarmgineer For Agile, there are several other options depending on your needs. But most of those handle tasks/stories/epics as the requirements instead of traditional requirements (waterfall)

@TheFarmgineer Another option including testing is testrail. But it is also not free. But the last time I used it, you could relate your requirements to actual tests.

@TheFarmgineer Long ago I Doors was a decent requirements tracker, but IBM has it now, so likely $$$. Recently using TDD has been a great way to make sure code meets the requirements via tests, but you must follow the philosophy to get the most benefit that way.

@Trinhnomics I’m confused by this analysis, since I’m a genX and my kids are millennials and my parents were boomers, but this only compares boomers and millennials. Why can’t we have an appropriate analysis including genX? Without this the data seems faulty and the conclusions will be wrong.

Oldest millennial is now 39 years old & did u know that our group owns only 3% of the totally wealth vs the boomers during the same age owned 21% of total. This crisis has not destroyed to create just like 2008. When will the millennials gain wealth? 39 is close to middle age.

@joseph_d_d_ @ScottPresler scottpresler.org

I’m going to keep saying this until people listen: Pennsylvania wins the White House. Reach out to your Republican Party chairman & let’s plan an event. I will spend my free time & gas to come. I’m here to win.

@logicalelegance @stoneymonster I use it for some really simple diagrams, but at some point of complexity the output becomes unreadable, but it makes simple state charts easily, sometimes I leave out details to keep the diagrams as high level overview

@jwgrenning @EshlemanMatthew @paul_grenning Upgrading the SSD to 2T this week, so I can try to use it to replace an older PC and reduce the number of physical machines in my office while I have some time between clients, otherwise it’s idling consuming Watts

@da_starling @EshlemanMatthew @paul_grenning Mine is a weakling slow poke by comparison :-) Only 8 cores here, but look like two are sitting idle on my most intense load.

Thanks @paul_grenning for the help building a my graphics powerhouse. I needed better performance for OBS + green screen + Zoom + extra cpu to do other stuff. MBP was not up to the job. This machine is: ubuntu ryzen7 16G 2T SSD GTX1660

@jwgrenning @EshlemanMatthew @paul_grenning I built a build machine from parts a year or so ago to do high parallel embedded kernel builds from scratch using a liquid cooled Ryzen threadripper 32 core, 32GB RAM with NVMe drive, and it doesn’t disappoint for build speed.

@EshlemanMatthew @paul_grenning I bought parts from newegg.

@alison_chaiken @logicalelegance That would be difficult to try since the closest Ranch 99 is several hundred miles away

@logicalelegance @alison_chaiken That’s where freeze dried backpack meals come in handy, try them out hiking to see which ones you like, then stock them in your emergency kit. Of course they also taste better on the trail than at home when other options are available

Farewell SETI@Home It was about 21 years ago that Berkley started one of the first projects that would allow you to donate idle computing time to scientific research. In particular, your computer could help crunch data from radio telescopes looking for … hackaday.com/2020/03/06/far…

We Ruined Status LEDs; Here’s Why That Needs to Change Ah, the humble status LED. Just about every piece of home electronics, every circuit module, and anything else that draws current seems to have one. In the days of yore, a humble indicator gave a su… hackaday.com/2020/02/20/we-…

@JudyCorso @TB_Times Obviously you didn’t read the article

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