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@jonahedwards.com

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Formalist, Lacanthrope, anti-architect. He/him. Ambient infrastructure / infrastructure ambiance at archive.org

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 16h

this reminded me of an old illustration of a mesquite tree and also that I made this account to post old illustrations of trees and promptly completely forgot about it bsky.app/profile/tree...

Trees To Know @treestoknow.bsky.social · 16h

Guest post! From Reg Manning's classic "What Kinda Cactus Izzat?"

Mesquite

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 20h

I run a logging github.com/Atoptool/atop everywhere so I can step back through time and see what happened when, highly recommended

jonah @jonahedwards.com · 1d

I'm not a fan of the Unreliable Escalator

jonah @jonahedwards.com · 1d

I too dislike Dallas-Fort Worth

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 1d

it’s extremely obvious where Frank Herbert was going with Dune if you read the books and think about it (but I will only reveal my thoughts on the subject in person for Secret Reasons)

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

jonah @jonahedwards.com · 3d

I have an old one of these I keep handy in a box in case my electric one decides to betray me

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 6d

ok I get it geez

screenshot of text reading:
The idea of ACK is to indicate when the data has been received correctly. ACK does not indicate data incorrectly received. ACK simply fails to indicate when data is correctly received. Clearly, this is of limited usefulness and even less so with these modules. They are not capable of failing to acknowledge an incorrectly received byte in response to that bytes transition. They are only capable of failing to acknowledge the bytes following the byte, which was not received. To fully understand the reasons for this one needs to understand something about how a the module processes data. Basically the reason why a module might fail to receive a byte correctly is that it was unable to process the byte previous before the failed byte was transmitted. Because the module cannot possibly know that it would be unable to store the byte before the next byte was received it cannot know to not ACK. The reason for this situation in deference to situations you might be familiar with (i.e. memory chips, etc…) is that the module employs a microprocessor to perform these data storage functions. A memory chip takes care of these things entirely with in hardware subsystems that operate at the same speed as the transmission themselves.

jonah @jonahedwards.com · 7d

* stares in Nagilum *

jonah @jonahedwards.com · 10d

spooky season is upon us

(and thank you @joshmillard.bsky.social for the amazing print!)

photograph of a framed print of a jack-o-lantern with lꙮts of eyes and the caption "BE NOT AFRAID"

jonah @jonahedwards.com · 12d

buying my fall candles got me like

screenshot of a dril tweet reading:
Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Candles $3,600
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

jonah @jonahedwards.com · 14d

I couldn't bear to sand it down, it's too good

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 14d

want him to make a ham radio-themed movie so bad. So many flat space camera moves focused on knobs and dials

jonah @jonahedwards.com · 14d

I had to wait until my kid stopped crashing into things to build the “pokey coffee table” but it was worth it.

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 16d

photograph of an embroidered sign on a power pole reading:
WHAT LIES AHEAD
REIMAGINING THE WORLD
ONLY THAT
- ARUNDHATI ROY

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 24d

Action Shot

jonah @jonahedwards.com · 25d

unparalleled aesthetics

photograph of various ham radio RC controllers and receivers

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · 26d

I got a template in the mail! Clever marketing from the direct mail company there? But NCOA makes me think that the National Council On Aging, the Non-Commissioned Officer's Association, the National Change Of Address program, or the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia is trying to get in touch.

jonah @jonahedwards.com · 28d

just in case you wanted to play the MS-DOS-based hacking game that came on a floppy disk in the Sneakers press kit, we've got it emulated in-browser over at @archive.org: archive.org/details/Snea...

jonah @jonahedwards.com · Sep 15

it can be used for that but I would not recommend it

jonah @jonahedwards.com · Sep 15

Getting The Gang Back Together

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · Sep 12

yes they do (or at least did -- source: bought brie there a couple months ago)

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · Sep 12

we are once again having the conversation about what is and is not a sandwich

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following the arrows and assuming 100% soup season occurs on the winter solstice (we hold this truth to be self-evident), thus the equinoxes coincide with ~75% salad season and ~25% soup season (debatable) it would seem that sandwich season runs from late April through mid-August

I think that's oversimplified though. One might wish to hypothesize that sandwich season lies both before and after soup season, between soup and salad season, much as the paraelemental planes lie at the boundaries of the primary elemental planes, but this would be erroneous because a sandwich is not a combination of soup and salad. Perhaps the quasielemental planes are a more robust analogy, or perhaps we must extend this analogy in further, more preposterous directions, in order to obtain clarity on the nature of soup/salad/sandwich seasonality.

Personally I think that soup season and salad season form the cyclic transition precessing around the solar calendar, and sandwich season is an omnipresent factor throughout the year. In this way it is a closer analog to the Ethereal or even Astral plane in our degustatory cosmology.

image of a ternary diagram purporting to classify foods based on their relative percentages of soup, salad, and sandwich

jonah @jonahedwards.com · Sep 11

personally I've always liked Knuth's 1999-era proposal to call them e.g. a "large megabyte" because it is funny (don't tell him I said this, he's already mad at me for stopping him from turning on a pipe organ one time)

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · Sep 11

we've been arguing about it since before I was born (also as a person who orders storage in, uh, pebibyte quantities, the difference is a lot more than 5% now) books.google.com/books?id=YjA...

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jonah @jonahedwards.com · Sep 10

Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Garage of Paradise”