Peter Bowen

@ReclaimTheRecs Governor veto'd :(

@pzb We're still waiting for her to sign it! Will have more details about it soon...

OUR BILL PASSED the New York State Assembly yesterday -- UNANIMOUSLY! 🤩 It's still not a done deal yet. It has to go to the governor, and be signed, and not have last-minute line-item edits or a veto. But we are now SO much closer to reforming New York's vital records access!

@ReclaimTheRecs Thankfully FoxPro has open source software to parse its formats. It was based on dBase file formats; even Visual FoxPro used the same formats.

A HINT for our long-time fans: Did you know that some states keep the ONLY copy of their official data in FoxPro, a database system that has been defunct for DECADES? And when the clerk who knew how to use it retired, the state pretended no more data could be exported from it? 🙃

We just got notice that a Freedom of Information request we made for a certain state's vital records index in August 2020, heard as a contested case in August 2021, was finally decided in our favor... That's nearly five years. FIVE YEARS! 😤 But we won. New data coming soon. 😊

@ReclaimTheRecs I found more recent status. It looks like the NY Senate has to vote again because Assembly amended it. They don’t come back until Jan :(

Hey @PilotPenUSA, your friends at Pilot Europe have G2 colors not in your list. Are black blue, light blue, sky blue different names for US colors or does Europe get different colors?

@rmondello You should meet @konklone and team

this is Super random, but I am login.gov fangirl. like, it’s really, really well done.

@SCHIZO_FREQ Three options: product.skhynix.com/products/dram/… micron.com/products/dram-… semiconductor.samsung.com/us/dram/module… All use JEDEC timings, which means the plain boring stable RAM you expect, not some overclocked unstable BS.

Whole post was bait, not for engagement but a cry for help If there exists a single stick of DDR5 without a weird name or blinking lights or cooling fins, I know you'll link it to prove me wrong But each passing minute with no such link sends me further into depression

Buying the podcast team editing machines and while reading up about computers again I've become more blackpilled on gamers than I thought possible Some things I've encountered: - No DDR5 RAM has ever been manufactured without flashing rainbow lights - The freaks overclock their RAM now. It apparently takes multiple weeks to get stable and offers a .2% benefit in like 1 application. If I search "what ram do I buy?" they reply "buy x. It's a mediocre value stock because it's got a low stock clock but you can overclock the shit out of it." What ram do you buy if you have no intention of overclocking? Nobody knows, the last 1937 people who tried were all told to kill themselves - There isn't a single motherboard in existence that you could buy while retaining your dad's respect. MSI MAG TITANIUM RGB TRIAX HUNTERKILLER with wifi 7 and rainbow backplate - 98% of all monitors in existence prioritize 50000hz refresh rate over having colors that actually look real, because gamers can't see color or anything else beautiful in the world - Companies sell FAKE RAM. Like, there are plastic replicas of all their ram models, because gamers will sometimes buy a motherboard with 4 ram slots and only fill two but the community decided this looks unacceptable, so then they install FAKE AESTHETIC RAM instead of REAL RAM to fill the extra slots - Everyone uses watercoolers now even if they don't overclock and aren't cooling components that need it because they like the way watercolors look more. Back in my day, nobody knew what their cooler looked like. Now that the blinking ram lights it up though, the market had to adapt. Unfortunately it seems they can break and leak water all over your comouter, destroying everything. But there's no alternative, unless you want ram without lights. And nobody wanted that apparently, which is why the market completely stopped offering it - Gaming graphics cards are still better for video editing than all current commercial offerings, so even if you never intend to play a single game you have to do the Walk of Shame through Amazon checkout with a triple-fanned blinking rainbow lightup gamer card. After installing it, the RGB lights do the gamer equivalent of sissy hypno - even though you never *initially* intended to game on it, just do responsible productivity-related tasks, you start wondering what it would be like. "I have all the stuff for it, maybe I could give it a shot. Let's just reinstall steam and look around." You wake up five years later totally unwashed at the peak of a 30m high pyramid of piss jars

@aselipsky @amazon @lauragrit was one of the first people I met working at Amazon and is one of my favorite people I worked with at Amazon. She is so much more than this brief profile covers!

I’ve been fortunate to work with some amazing people during my time at @amazon. One thing most of them have in common is that they excel at several of our company’s Leadership Principles—Invent and Simplify, Dive Deep, Customer Obsession, and Ownership, to name a few. @lauragrit started as my technical advisor over the summer, and she embodies the Leadership Principles listed above. For those who may not know, a technical advisor is a unique role at our company. TAs shadow the CEO and provide technical advice and support, helping to push the business forward while removing roadblocks. Laura has had an impressive career here at Amazon, and by her own account embracing ambiguity and taking ownership has helped her thrive. One of the quotes that really stands out from Laura’s journey is this: “When you’re delivering the right things for your customers, you’ll find that as you build the right products and programs, you’ll also develop your career in exciting new ways.” I think you’ll find the story of her career journey, and her advice, a valuable read. aws.amazon.com/careers/life-a…

@ClassicII_MrMac @khronokernel Thunderbolt 4(tm) requires support for two external 4K monitors. Thunderbolt 3(tm) only requires one external 4K monitor. thunderbolttechnology.net/sites/default/…

Here is an interesting one... @khronokernel just pointed this out. To get the base 14" M3 cost down ($400 less), the right side 3rd USB-C / Thunderbolt port is gone. The base M3 14" is also Thunderbolt 3??? The 14" Pro and Max retain 3 USB-C Thunderbolt 4 ports. #AppleEvent

@rchrdbyd @QuinnyPig @awscloud Nope. See the link - all were AWS

@pzb @QuinnyPig @awscloud Those are Amazon retail offerings, not AWS

My count of "deprecated @awscloud services" has now risen to 12. Lumberyard, RDS on VMware, Sumerian, Worklink, Import/Export, Data Pipeline, DeepLens, Elastic Inference, Opsworks Puppet, Opsworks Chef, the Golang Lambda runtime, and CodeStar. Any I'm missing?

@IanCutress @VirtuallyNathan @dylan522p Not Broadcom. $MCHP. See youtu.be/XEcfCMKFjOc

@pzb @VirtuallyNathan @dylan522p The PEX88096 is the highest capacity single PCIe switch that Broadcom makes. So either there is two, or it's a custom design.

@dylan522p PEX98000 Gen 5? I wonder which model

@IanCutress @VirtuallyNathan @dylan522p Now that it has shipped, go check again. 100 lanes :)

@VirtuallyNathan @dylan522p 64 downstream, 16 upstream, so 80 total. That means it'll be the PEX88080 (82-lane) or PEX88096 (98-lane).

@jonmasters Every square millimeter of Si is precious

Make it *two* more please! 1. M3 Mac Pro with ludicrously ridiculous number of P cores for absolutely no reason other to rub it in. And insanely stupid amounts of DDR plus on package 2. That other thing we are all gonna buy

@IanColdwater @TC_Johnson Cash (as in paper money) and Cache (as in computer memory cache) are both pronounced the same. Cachet is pronounced cash-a.

@0xdabbad00 @dadicool That is the partition name - aws, aws-cn, aws-us-gov, aws-iso, aws-isob, and apparently aws-isoe. Each partition can have many regions.

@dadicool There are a lot of things wrong with the naming. They now have aws-iso, aws-iso-b, and aws-iso-e. What happens when another classified partition in Europe is needed? What happens if they make a couple more US classified partitions and use c, d, and then what?

Europe is getting a classified AWS region. #diff-759600187d680e2a8004bdd109a32299d4fbde8ca3c458887a7c57c0f8e4e828R24092" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go…

@jonmasters Don’t confuse HID badges for the access control system. Weigand protocol is ancient and simply feeds an integer to the PACS

I’ve also been pondering this. As things stand I’m likely to roll out a commercial HID proximity office like solution for the house. All the consumer stuff kinda is not doing it for me and I don’t want a remote not on prem service involved

@IanColdwater 🎵

@jjirsa @charmalloc Sure: ibm.com/support/pages/…

@jjirsa But should you?