#news from 02024: “Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, #Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo produced more than 99.7 per cent of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro, #solar or #wind power.” In 02022 I think. #solar-energy #energy
People seem to be switching from #Anthropic #Claude to #OpenAI #Codex. And derwiki recommends Pi.dev. #AI #neural-networks. Cautionary tale from “zazibar”: “A month ago the company I work at with over 400 engineers decided to cancel all IDE subscriptions (Visual Studio, JetBrains, Windsurf, etc.) and move everyone over to Claude Code as a “cost-saving measure” (along with firing a bunch of test engineers). There was no migration plan - the EVP of Technology just gave a demo showing 2 greenfield projects he’d built with Claude Opus over a weekend and told everyone to copy how he worked. A week later the EVP had to send out an email telling people to stop using Opus because they were burning through too many tokens.”
Now #Trump instead of #Iran is blockading the Strait of Hormuz. #news
there's a new retail category called a "bin store" that sells Amazon returns and the like, with names like Bin Busters, California Bin Store, Last Chance Store, Hot Dealz Bin Store. Typically they restock once a week, and prices decay from a maximum such as US$9 to a minimum such as US$0.50.
#bin-store explains: Saturdays $6 per item, Sundays $5, Mondays $3, Tuesdays $1. “[The products] are primarily overstock and returned items. By avoiding additional costs such as sorting, merchandising, pricing each item individually, and so on, we can offer these items at prices that our customers truly appreciate. (...) Customers have the opportunity to browse through bins containing tens of thousands of items”
#news on restoration of #Saudi east-west oil pipeline following attacks from #Iran
#news in #Iraq: the Iraqi presidential runoff was between two candidates from Kurdish parties?
#video of pick-and-place #electronics #manufacturing machine depositing solder paste #toread
#politics #news, #Orban concedes to Magyar in Hungary: “Even in the smallest township,” he said, “people have seen that this cruel, inhumane power is finished and Hungary will once again become a free country.”
football league censors #Docker hub in #Spain. #censorship
talking-head #video on #weaponry #drones. Says #Ukraine front-line military units buy directly from manufacturers on an Amazon-like platform called “Brave One”. “The side that masters drones at scale, in doctrine, in training, and in organization will shape how wars are fought in the coming decades.” #slaughterbots
comprehensive #news overview #video of the whole #Iran war and ceasefire so far, including #Trump blockading the strait. #politics
#video on #Frankenberg Mark 1 #weaponry against Russian #drones, a baguette-sized model rocket with an explosive warhead. From Estonia’s Frankenburg Technologies, headed by Kusti Salm, at a cost of US$50k a shot, first used by #Ukraine. Seems to be mostly stock photos and stock footage of Vladimir Putin walking around and flags flying outside the UN headquarters. From anti-Russia propaganda channel “The Military Show”.
#NetBSD supports all the #Raspberry-Pi boards except the Zero, RP2350, and RP2040: “Initial Raspberry Pi support was introduced in NetBSD 6.0. NetBSD 7.0 added complete support for the board, along with introducing support for the quad-core Raspberry Pi 2 board. Raspberry Pi 3 support was added for NetBSD 8. NetBSD 9 supports aarch64, meaning using the newer processors in 64-bit mode. NetBSD 10 supports the RPI 4 and RPI 5.”
#Mecrisp Stellaris #Forth apparently has pretty good support for #STM32 #microcontrollers #electronics #hardware
#Mecrisp puppeting #MSP430 #microcontrollers over #JTAG to test your #Forth with access to peripherals without installing Forth on them, then cross-compiling and installing firmware on it that doesn't include the interactive Forth REPL. #hardware #electronics
#Smoothieboard #hardware had showstopper supply-chain problems in late 02020 because of the #COVID shortages of #microcontrollers, which is how they ended up switching from LPCxxxx to #STM32. #history
#news #video by Sal Mercogliano about #shipping today in the wake of #Trump’s announced blockade of #Iran. The daily report of the Joint Maritime Information Center (“part of the Combined Maritime Forces under the Fifth Fleet”) says 4 tankers have gone through the Strait of Hormuz in the last 24 hours, 3 on April 11 (perhaps before the Trump blockade). There’s still 800 to 1000 ships in the Persian Gulf. Mercogliano says that right about now is when the tankers from the first of March would have reached Europe, Australia, and America, so this is when the economy starts to feel the #oil shortages outside of Asia; in Asia, the replacement crude from America will arrive at half the flow rate because it takes the finite number of tankers twice as long. Russia and China block the UN Security Council resolution to open the Strait, as Russia’s export revenues surge. The #Saudi Red Sea port of Yanbu can only load 4.5 million barrels per day, even though the pipeline the Saudis just repaired can transfer 7, but even that is much less than the 20 that normally comes through the Persian Gulf.
Redditors report #Twitter is hair-trigger banning people