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Science Fiction Book Haul #9

Phil

My book haul brings all the boys to the yard, so it's time we had another. These have been picked up in dribs and drabs from a variety of exotic locations. I.e. Nottingham and Derby. Digging into the B formats first, it's the doyen of British hard SF, Stephen Baxter. His officially endorsed...

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Lingthusiasm Episode 116: Cross-cultural communication (in space!)

All Things Linguistic

lingthusiasm:Sometimes, you’re talking with someone and you just seem to click. Other times, you just can’t seem to get comfortable: they’re standing too close or too far away for comfort, making too much or too little eye contact, touching or not touching you in a way that just doesn’t quite feel...

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Building A Bare-Bones 3 MB Linux Kernel For A Custom FPGA SoC

Astralvx

Disclaimer: it’s a 3.9 MB Linux kernel ; ) N.b. whilst I will try to explain concepts to those new to this field, this blog assumes a lot of fundamental knowledge on FPGAs, RTL development, Vivado, Petalinux, SOC/CPU architecture, memory managers, memory hardware, SPI NOR flash memory, reset...

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There and Back Again, a San Francisco Tale

M.G. Siegler

Photo by Josh Hild on UnsplashThe below post was originally published on February 21, 2024 on Spyglass.San Francisco is back! In 3 to 5 years it will be over again. And then back again. Anyone who has been around long enough has seen this story go round and round at least two or three or four...

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