104093 people laid off from big tech companies so far in 02026 in 254 #layoffs, from #Meta, #Microsoft, #Amazon, and #Oracle. Author uses "existential threat" in a way that makes it clear she does not know what it means.
Tech #Layoffs Tracker: “So far in 2026, there have been 254 layoffs at tech companies with 104,093 people impacted (913 people per day). In 2025, there were 783 layoffs at tech companies w/ 245,953 people impacted (674 people per day).”
brass, solder-plated turret pins to solder to or clip your test clips to: “In this picture four electrolytic capacitors use the pins as mounting posts. The leads will be wrapped around the posts and then soldered. This provides a superior mounting for the capacitors with minimal bending of the leads coming from the caps. The alternate method used these days is to bend the leads and stick them thru the PCB, #soldering to the copper tracks. This method is a source of problems as solder has no strength in itself and the caps are heavy, meaning that vibration from use or moving the equipment often creates hairline cracks in the solder joint resulting in electrical faults. (...) Once upon a time this method was very common in electronics equipment and will still be found in high end gear designed to last.” #electronics #hardware
#gambling allegedly won Master Sgt. #Gannon Ken Van Dyke US$400k for leaking the raid on #Venezuela to kidnap Nicolas #Maduro, but he's been arrested and an indictment was unsealed today. “The Commodity Futures Trading Commission [#CFTC] filed a related complaint against Van Dyke on Thursday, seeking restitution, disgorgement and civil monetary penalties.” #Polymarket’s stance has changed from “super cool (...) creates this financial incentive for people to go and divulge the information to the market” in November to “When we identified a user trading on classified government information, we referred the matter to the DOJ & cooperated with their investigation. Insider trading has no place on Polymarket. Today’s arrest is proof the system works.” #prediction-markets #news #USA #politics
#CFTC civil and criminal complaint about #Gannon #gambling on #Polymarket on #Maduro. #USA #prediction-markets #politics
#CFTC civil and criminal complaint about #Gannon #gambling on #Polymarket on #Maduro. #PDF. #USA #prediction-markets #politics
“Press Release: U.S. Soldier Charged With Using Classified Information To Profit From Prediction Market Bets” #DOJ #Gannon #USA #prediction-markets #politics
#image of #dead-bug technique with an STM32L053 BGA stuck to some perfboard. #soldering #electronics #hardware
2N3055 npn power transistor datasheet. Saturation voltage of over a volt, but that's at 4 amps.
“A high-performance toolkit for atomistic simulations in JAX.” Differentiable molecular simulation: “kUPS provides composable, differentiable primitives — samplers, potentials, and propagators — with hardware acceleration on CPU, GPU, and TPU.”
a myth of nonviolent resistance to genocide from Exodus. #civil-resistance
Chenoweth’s 3.5% rule for #civil-resistance
some old #audio #synth #electronics design #toread
another #electronics #synth site, this one belonging to a dead guy
a vacuum tube headphone amp design popular with hobbyists by Rogers Gomez, using a power MOSFET source follower and an LM317 current source as a second-stage power amplifier, kind of wanky. Nice page though. #electronics
#humor #video from inside #Google: “I just want to serve five terabytes!” With Broccoli Man.
#PDF from Texas A&M saying #agriculture water #pricing is US$6 to US$98 per acre foot.
