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Merlin Woods, Galway, seen from space. Sentinel-2 images from 13 July and 21 September 2026 show conifer felling under way in the northern part of the wood. 🛰️ #MerlinWoods #Sentinel2
September 24, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Merlin Woods, Galway, seen from space. Sentinel-2 images from 13 July and 21 September 2026 show conifer felling under way in the northern part of the wood. 🛰️ #MerlinWoods #Sentinel2
Irish solar PV generation seems to have come on a long way! It's servicing a good fraction of the national electricity demand right now.
May 26, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Irish solar PV generation seems to have come on a long way! It's servicing a good fraction of the national electricity demand right now.
Looking at purchases from last year. 96GB DDR5 "only" €272 😭
April 13, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Looking at purchases from last year. 96GB DDR5 "only" €272 😭
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10 countries possess nuclear weapons.
3 are either threatening to, or actually are, carrying out genocides.
A 4th runs a mass concentration camp system.
A 5th has engineered a man made famine against its own people & jails people for 3 generations.
2 others often threaten war on each other
3 are either threatening to, or actually are, carrying out genocides.
A 4th runs a mass concentration camp system.
A 5th has engineered a man made famine against its own people & jails people for 3 generations.
2 others often threaten war on each other
April 9, 2026 at 2:04 PM
10 countries possess nuclear weapons.
3 are either threatening to, or actually are, carrying out genocides.
A 4th runs a mass concentration camp system.
A 5th has engineered a man made famine against its own people & jails people for 3 generations.
2 others often threaten war on each other
3 are either threatening to, or actually are, carrying out genocides.
A 4th runs a mass concentration camp system.
A 5th has engineered a man made famine against its own people & jails people for 3 generations.
2 others often threaten war on each other
I think I reached a new level in Aliexpress packing recursion today: an item in a bubble wrap bag, in a cardboard box, in a bubble envelope, in a packing plastic bag (with address labels etc), in a outer plastic bag (with address labels etc). I might be missing a level.
March 27, 2026 at 2:24 PM
I think I reached a new level in Aliexpress packing recursion today: an item in a bubble wrap bag, in a cardboard box, in a bubble envelope, in a packing plastic bag (with address labels etc), in a outer plastic bag (with address labels etc). I might be missing a level.
A take on scrip.
Jensen Huang floats giving engineers tokens worth half their annual salary as a recruiting strategy
Jensen Huang said engineers will soon be asking "how many tokens comes along with my job?" and is willing to pay them tokens worth half their salary.
share.google
March 17, 2026 at 5:28 PM
A take on scrip.
Parkside/Lidl 20V battery to USB-C PD adapter from Aliexpress lasted half a second before a capacitor exploded. Bad luck or poor design? Don't know. In the queue for repair and we'll see how it fares with new caps. I wish Parkside would make an official USB-PD adapter for their battery packs :/
February 10, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Parkside/Lidl 20V battery to USB-C PD adapter from Aliexpress lasted half a second before a capacitor exploded. Bad luck or poor design? Don't know. In the queue for repair and we'll see how it fares with new caps. I wish Parkside would make an official USB-PD adapter for their battery packs :/
My little vibe code project for today. Efficient EO product download where your AOI runs along a network of LineStrings and the provider allows only 'simple' polygons w/o holes. Solution: auto cut little channels so that the AOI polygon becomes technically simply connected.
January 29, 2026 at 1:53 PM
My little vibe code project for today. Efficient EO product download where your AOI runs along a network of LineStrings and the provider allows only 'simple' polygons w/o holes. Solution: auto cut little channels so that the AOI polygon becomes technically simply connected.
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Bare metal programming with RISC-V guide (2023) popovicu.com/posts/bare-m... from Lobsters via #[email protected] / gcu.info/gruik/
Bare metal programming with RISC-V guide
Guide on coding a bare metal program with UART output for RISC-V and running the emulation with QEMU. Brief overview of the RISC-V boot process.
popovicu.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Bare metal programming with RISC-V guide (2023) popovicu.com/posts/bare-m... from Lobsters via #[email protected] / gcu.info/gruik/
I bought myself a silicon wafer on a whim. No idea what these ICs do. Looks like each has one rather large pad, maybe for a RFID antenna?
January 13, 2026 at 2:29 PM
I bought myself a silicon wafer on a whim. No idea what these ICs do. Looks like each has one rather large pad, maybe for a RFID antenna?
This is cool. Some of the more famous vector graphics arcade games 1977 - 1985. I remember playing some of these. Vector graphics (where the cathode ray beam traces polygons and characters) was quickly replaced by the now ubiquitous raster graphics from mid 1980s on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=swry...
The Complete Vector Arcade Journey
YouTube video by Bitvint Arcade
www.youtube.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:24 AM
This is cool. Some of the more famous vector graphics arcade games 1977 - 1985. I remember playing some of these. Vector graphics (where the cathode ray beam traces polygons and characters) was quickly replaced by the now ubiquitous raster graphics from mid 1980s on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=swry...
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I need a SpaceX/Starlink expert to fact-check me.
Starlink loses a 1-2 satellites of the 8,800+ currently in orbit on a regular day. Once they hit their target of 42,000 they'll be losing 5-10 a day or ~2000-3600 a year?
www.businessinsider.com/starlink-tra....
Starlink loses a 1-2 satellites of the 8,800+ currently in orbit on a regular day. Once they hit their target of 42,000 they'll be losing 5-10 a day or ~2000-3600 a year?
www.businessinsider.com/starlink-tra....
Starlink traffic doubles as Elon Musk's SpaceX eyes $1.5 trillion public listing
Global web traffic from SpaceX's satellite-based internet service more than doubled in 2025, according to Cloudflare's annual year in review report.
www.businessinsider.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I need a SpaceX/Starlink expert to fact-check me.
Starlink loses a 1-2 satellites of the 8,800+ currently in orbit on a regular day. Once they hit their target of 42,000 they'll be losing 5-10 a day or ~2000-3600 a year?
www.businessinsider.com/starlink-tra....
Starlink loses a 1-2 satellites of the 8,800+ currently in orbit on a regular day. Once they hit their target of 42,000 they'll be losing 5-10 a day or ~2000-3600 a year?
www.businessinsider.com/starlink-tra....
A drone image I acquired earlier today (2025-11-06) while trying out some experimental survey equipment near Menlo just north of #Galway city. In foreground is Menlo Castle (in ruins) and the Corrib River. University of Galway campus and Galway city is in the back ground.
November 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
A drone image I acquired earlier today (2025-11-06) while trying out some experimental survey equipment near Menlo just north of #Galway city. In foreground is Menlo Castle (in ruins) and the Corrib River. University of Galway campus and Galway city is in the back ground.
Why is every question I ask ChatGPT a "really good question"? I mean if I get much more of this I might start having notions about myself.
October 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Why is every question I ask ChatGPT a "really good question"? I mean if I get much more of this I might start having notions about myself.
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Dublin! I'll be meeting folks and hand-signing books this Saturday, 11:30 at Dubray Books on Grafton St!
@dubraybooks.bsky.social
@dubraybooks.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Dublin! I'll be meeting folks and hand-signing books this Saturday, 11:30 at Dubray Books on Grafton St!
@dubraybooks.bsky.social
@dubraybooks.bsky.social
I was looking through some night time photos from the International Space Station (ISS) recently. This image from 2022 caught my eye: what (I think) you can see here is the phased transition from the old sodium vapor street lamps (orange) to LEDs (white). Image ISS066-E-122202
2022-01-19T21:16:26Z
2022-01-19T21:16:26Z
October 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I was looking through some night time photos from the International Space Station (ISS) recently. This image from 2022 caught my eye: what (I think) you can see here is the phased transition from the old sodium vapor street lamps (orange) to LEDs (white). Image ISS066-E-122202
2022-01-19T21:16:26Z
2022-01-19T21:16:26Z
The chances of a credit card transaction succeeding first time seems inversely proportional to how excited I am about the purchase :/
September 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The chances of a credit card transaction succeeding first time seems inversely proportional to how excited I am about the purchase :/
Always nice to see transport companies use sensible date formats!
September 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Always nice to see transport companies use sensible date formats!
I recall as an student at UoG (then UCG) in the 1990s there were two research turbines at the engineering building at Nuns Island using the canal waters as a power source. Seems we have come full circle.
€3.3m for Galway canal turbines to supply free city electricity - Connacht Tribune - Galway City Tribune
€3.3m for Galway canal turbines to supply free city electricity
connachttribune.ie
September 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I recall as an student at UoG (then UCG) in the 1990s there were two research turbines at the engineering building at Nuns Island using the canal waters as a power source. Seems we have come full circle.
nothing more annoying than "add another €8 to your shopping cart to qualify for free shipping". Off now to spend another 30 minutes trying to find something I probably don't need :/
August 31, 2025 at 7:59 PM
nothing more annoying than "add another €8 to your shopping cart to qualify for free shipping". Off now to spend another 30 minutes trying to find something I probably don't need :/
"wget is not a crime" ('Jason Bourne' 2016 movie). I didn't spot that on my first viewing.
August 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
"wget is not a crime" ('Jason Bourne' 2016 movie). I didn't spot that on my first viewing.
The 'Manchurian Candidate' movie comes to mind here.
USSR sweatshirt and chicken kyiv: Russia dials up trolling before Alaska summit
Foreign minister’s attire and inflight menu for Russian media are latest in series of provocations towards Ukraine
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The 'Manchurian Candidate' movie comes to mind here.