Charles Stanhope @cstanhope@social.coop

Out of nowhere the warnings flashed red on his screen. David cursed as he ripped his oxygen mask from his sweat drenched face. He couldn't get timing closure on the design.

He was barely hitting 1.1GHz, and his goal was 1.5GHz. It was likely going to take weeks to untangle the longest paths causing the delays. They might even need to re-architecture some pieces.

1/n

The alien noisily screeched as it broke into TV broadcasts and video streaming the world over. "TZAG!" the alien continued, baffling the stunned audiences as it waved appendages in a friendly, but slightly unsettling, manner.

#introduction

Hello, fediverse. I'm Charles from the USA in the #Portland, OR area. I'm excited to be on #SocialCoop as I'm hoping it will prove a viable alternative to the "free" social sites.

I make #hardware and #software for a living, and I dabble in #art for hobbies. Other interests not limited to: #freesoftware, #plt, #diy, #science, #indieweb, and #justice.

I had no idea that the early motivation for modems was to enable TTY communication over the acoustic phone network for use by deaf people. I knew the acoustic coupler was a hack to get around the AT&T monopoly that prevented connecting to the network directly, but I had no idea how this monopoly was preventing accessibility. But Mr. Weitbrecht found a way!

https://tedium.co/2019/03/14/teletype-computer-evolution-history/

While reading this, even though it happened long go, I couldn't help but cheer him on. Go! Go! GO!

Life as a series of events revealing how naive we've been.

TFW you really have to stop yourself from geeking about something. There's a difference between contributing to a conversation and steamrolling everybody with your nonsense. 😆

I shouldn't have looked at the world news just before bed... *sigh* TZAF, everybody. Be well. Hug your friends and families. Love them the best you can. See you back here sometime soon.

Bah! Stupid typos...

Why would distract the public from what you are doing if you are indeed doing the work "on behalf of the American people"? Just shy?

"“One of the things that I have found absolutely thrilling in working for this administration,” said Balash,“is the president has a knack for keeping the attention of the media and the public focused somewhere else while we do all the work that needs to be done on behalf of the American people.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/14/offshore-drilling-trump-official-reveals-plan-and-distractions-delight

"BubbleOS: the only OS with a built-in death clock!" That's.... That's certainly one way to differentiate yourself from the field.

https://gitlab.com/kragen/bubbleos

From now on, I will only use operating systems with built-in memento mori.