A clock with two hour hands indicating daylight savings time and standard time for your timezone. You’d never have to adjust it, just remember to read the right hour hand for the season. And a constant reminder of pernicious sticky standards.

TCM may fall to Ellison Skywatch but in the meantime they’re doing their bit programming films like this amazing doc. See also Errol Morris’ The Unknown Known on so smug Donald Rumsfeld. Another infuriating one was the 2007 doc No End in Sight. Grrr.

It underscores how far behing FPGAs are falling on memory bandwidth, with end-of-lifed Virtex UltraScale+ HBM2 devices last year (0.4 TB/s), and perhaps the same fate looming for Versal Premium HBM2e devices (0.8 TB/s). Will there be AMD Versal HBM3s? Will there be Versals w/ beaucoup LPDDR5X?

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

BTW this blockbuster will use at least 4+16*17 = 276 known good dice, in one package, for a max DRAM bandwidth of perhaps 16*4=64 TB/s. At ~4 pJ/bit (??), that's 2000 W (??) just for the DRAM interface.

The sand remembers warm beaches and bright sunshine this Rubin's damned hot!

(From 2017) The Art of FPGA Design

Happy Squirrel Appreciation Day from this leucistic Douglas Squirrel to you all.

The institutional buildings of 1960s Canada were extraordinarily well-built. Throwing them away would be madness. The 1969 Science Centre is an incredible piece of architecture. It needs some work. The new building complex is a kludge that will be inferior by any measure.

A reminder of what we are losing to get this cheap shit metal and glass thing open.substack.com/pub/lloydalt...

Doug Ford, Kinga Surma

Building an empty museum is easy and maybe that can be done in three years if you bend law and throw money at it. Giving it life with profound exhibits that inspire and help Canadians confront the onrushing future and engage kids with a day of experiential learning is the hard work of many years.

Anthropic announces it will challenge the Pentagon in court www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

“A maze of spin and broken promises.”

It’s the latest vague sketchy fiscally irresponsible pitch by the prevaricating science scoffer / ex drug dealer to move Canada’s great science museum — now with half the floor space, slow to reach on a field trip, and many times more expensive. Meanwhile OSC the institution and its mission decays.

Important to call lies out when there are lies. These are lies from a liar.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

#FPGA #RISCV FYI AMD Webinar this Thursday: Getting Started with Zephyr® RTOS on the AMD MicroBlaze™ V Processor webinar.amd.com/Getting-Star...

I’m disappointed almost all of the powerful & connected pols & business leaders & cultural icons in Ontario couldn’t be bothered to defend @onsciencecentre.bsky.social from its malign government. (Shrugs & silence except for that one great hit from Strombo and DOA offers of $$$ from tech folks.)

See also IBM and the Holocaust P*l*nt*r Cloud tenants!? They can’t do their evil without our techs. We can question and confront what specific applications our work will be used and if necessary speak up / effect change / leave / pass on it. Don’t look back on your career with regret or horror.

Initial conditions: m1=126.1 m2=50.2 m3=136.8 (solar masses) v1x=-3.755 v1y=3.935 v2x=2.81 v2y=1.222 v3x=0.442 v3y=1.087 (km/s) x1=26.0 y1=33.0 x2=-24.0 y2=30.0 x3=-21.0 y3=-14.0 (AU from center) Music: Prelude in G Minor – Rachmaninoff

Hi from FPGA2026. isfpga.org. Great conference. Wonderful industry session, Microsoft on their hyperscale FPGA engineering practices. Conf proceedings are open access on ACM DL: dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10..... Sunday I gave another Composable Custom Extensions pitch. sites.google.com/view/domain-...

Le sigh

A reminder of something that should be obvious - at least to anyone with active brain cells.

@portofseattle.bsky.social maybe don’t lease SeaTac space to such vendors — “we’re happy to see you” indeed — happy to force you to let us close up video your face while you authenticate yourself to us in order to purchase your item.

GORSUCH: “.. permanent accretion of power in the hands of one man. That is no recipe for a republic.” 👀

Synopsys’ Scott Knowlton: LPDDR6 vs. LPDDR5 and LPDDR5X: What’s the Difference? www.synopsys.com/blogs/chip-d...

There is no reason to believe Trump's foreign policy is designed to benefit America or Americans www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Windows 11 ClearType gone bad (app: Xilinx Vitis/Vivado installer). Whatever ClearType is trying to do, it is a disaster on this Lenovo OLED display.

How’s P4 doing? p4.org/2025-at-a-gl...

Could have been a stunning special exhibit summer — Star Trek: The Dreams our Stuff is Made Of — and Science Lates in the grand Great Hall at @onsciencecentre.bsky.social but oops visionary Kinga Surma and team shabbily closed, fenced off, and denuded Ontario’s Science Centre. @saveosc.bsky.social

I’ve visited the Amsterdam National Holocaust Names Memorial, to witness for two dozen relations arrested, later killed. Of the thousands of persons’ names and ages inscribed in the bricks, it was worst to read those of infants and elderly. “Age: one year”! WTAF! Who’d arrest little kids?

HHS canceled $500M in novel mRNA research, narrowed criteria on who should get the mRNA COVID vaccine, refused to review a completed study of a mRNA flu vaccine. “We reject the claim that our approach to vaccines is anti-science or hostile to innovation.” 🧪 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...

I thoroughly enjoyed exploring all the settings, experiences, and puzzles in Metroid Prime 4 Beyond, esp. the beautiful environments in Fury Green and Ice Belt (brrr)! Awestruck and proud. (Did not enjoy Omega Griever — would you hold still, damnit!)

Exploring .NET 11 Preview 1 Runtime Async: A dive into the Future of Async in .NET | by Laurent Kempé buff.ly/6p27k3g #dotnet #async #csharp #programming

Set up a PC with a clean install of Windows 11. PS script disables most telemetry etc. Uninstalled Recall bits. Filed a Windows 11 complaint about MS not asking CONSENT for Recall. Enjoying my shiny Intel(R) Innovation Platform Framework Extensible Framework featuring so many Generic Participants!

Gain cell RAM and variants. Really interesting, promising work. Would industry introduce “oxide semiconductor” materials and processing and novel 3D cell architectures and manage pseudo-SRAM issues for a potential *tripling* or more of density vs. SRAM cells (now slow to scale)? Sure would.

Marcello will speak @ World #RISC-VDays in Turin on Feb 26. He'll present The PPU Technology of Flow Computing, covering how #FlowPPU enables scalable parallel performance while remaining instruction-set independent, working alongside modern #CPU architectures including #RISCV.

Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier — unforgettable ❤️🇨🇦

RIP Robert Tinney (November 22, 1947 – February 1, 2026), the artist famous for his playful covers for Byte magazine, a hobbist magazine that ushered in the microcomputing age from the mid-70s through the 90s. I'm honored to have included his work in my own art collection.

Champagne for Caesar! (Thank you dear Elwy Yost. RIP.)

Sadly OUT: all day experiential field trips and snow days’ free range fun at Moriyama’s bespoke masterpiece OSC. Laughter and wonder. IN (?): a fenced off, hastily emptied, silent (but evidently quite snow proof) science centre + Kinga Surma’s “experiences”

Folks outside SF/F don't know that Asimov was a sexual harasser because while he was alive fandom thought it was cute (up to and including Asimov being invited to give a lecture on "The Power of Positive Posterior Pinching" at Worldcon, which he, wisely, declined). daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empi...

The 68NC040 was a version of Motorola's 68040 that lacked an FPU, MMU, and CPU - and came in a convenient weight-saving package that also used almost 15% less power.

Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip (with thanks to @juliarez.placid.horse)

Finished up Tornus this weekend! Pushed myself super hard on this one with nmm and lighting. I really wanted to try to do my best to hit display quality for the first time, and I'm really proud of how he turned out. 💙 #warhammer #warhammercommunity #minipainting #ageofsigmar #stormcasteternals

Strong turnout for "silent manifestation march" today in Copenhagen. Veterans walking from War Memorial to the US embassy. To remember and respect the fallen Danes, fallen in wars fought with the US #Denmark #GoodAllies #NoWords #veterans Source: dr.dk

Andrea Fasoli, Monodeep Kar, Chi-Chun Liu, Swagath Venkataramani, Viji Srinivasan, Leland Chang, Naigang Wang: Is Finer Better? The Limits of Microscaling Formats in Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19026 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.19026 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.19026

Microsoft Maia 200 is deployed for Azure - 3 nm TSMC - 140 billion transistors - 750 W TDP - 216 GB HBM3e at 7 TB/s - 272 MB SRAM - 10 PFLOPS FP4 - 5 PLOPS FP8