Notices by ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social), page 11

@mcc every Gigabit Ethernet device can swap RX/TX pairs, this is mandated by the spec

if at least one of them is GigE you do not need to care

@mntmn i wish ci wasnt like that

@foone but what do you do if you need a custom cable for an actual reason? like, I dunno, "I need four microfluidic channels in it aside from USB"

@foone that will result in SO MUCH more misuse of USB and HDMI; I am opposed for that reason I think

video by @esden

#GlasgowInterfaceExplorer

@mcc also, the government remark is not true--Shimano and Bosch e-bikes are atrociously bad, with cryptographically locked motors and stuff, _because_ of government regulation (on power and speed)

joined a tf2 casual server and it was ALL sniper bots. every single player except me, afaict

i think i'd like to recruit a co-operator for https://irclog.whitequark.org (which will get its own domain, not under whitequark.org); would anyone like to volunteer?

this will involve an imminent transition to NixOS and a different data center, adding support for redacting messages to be GDPR- (and also common decency-) compliant, and probably at a later point a rewrite of the aging software powering it

@mntmn tried solvespace?

junior developer: uses pair programming to learn new technologies & best practices

senior developer: uses pair programming to exchange knowledge and get her code reviewed earlier

principal engineer: uses pair programming because after working on that codebase for 5 years she's too traumatized to venture into it alone without getting a severe hit to wellbeing & needs a companion to be productive

400 Gbps Ethernet (no longer the latest spec; it's up to 1.6 Tbps) physical layer span, e.g., at least 10 km over single-mode fiber (400GBASE-LR8) using 8 parallel wavelengths (CWDM) each at 50 Gbit/s

the bit time there is 2.5 ps (20 ps per octet, transmitted on 8 lanes in parallel). really putting "physical" into "physical layer" there

i wonder, at what point can you build an ion trap by picking the right laser and screaming Ethernet frames at an ion?

civil war 2! civil war 2!

@foone or become sufficiently feared that you having a problem with Y and Z gives people pause

@foone rainbow tables are pretty good (but i bet you know about these already)

QNX is now developed by Blackberry??

@foone multiplayer factorio: existss

@foolishowl @foone why would i do that instead of actual engineering

@bhtooefr @foone if you always use steel cores wouldn't you end up regularly burning off anything that can burn

@foone (if you're not familiar: lead contamination of ranges, especially indoor ranges, is a serious problem)

"Minuteman III second stage with a "zero ODP" label (they removed the Halon and replaced it with an environmentally-friendly perfluorocarbon)" https://twitter.com/softminus/status/1689003267785887746