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Tiny386: an i386 PC emulator written in C99 that boots Windows 95 on ESP32 
https://t.co/c3SbJIsjKg https://t.co/u2JW2Rh4Xm

windows 95 on ESP32

https://x.com/adafruit/status/1987924088904413408

Ceres-1 exploded for a 2nd time over the past 4 years, with 20 successful missions. The two explosions are 2 year apart, the first in 2023 and the second in this late 2025. That is 9% failure rate. Is that high in engineering in general, and in rocker launching business?

How does the practice of "chaos engineering" look like in non-software projects?

I wonder if there are typical chaos-like tests done across engineering disciplines? Like "what happens if I remove this screw, or cut this rope", etc.

Incredible video by Alex as usual. Really puts the scope of required for a lot of the things we do today to shame. Ends on an important note.

Incredible video by Alex as usual. Really puts the scope of required for a lot of the things we do today to shame. Ends on an important note. https://youtu.be/AazmxNs5kmE?si=MbLhq9ZrewYgT55j

How the cost of solar and leasing is energising Africa

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How the cost of solar and leasing is energising Africa

Cc @kaufman 

https://climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarpunk-is-already-happening

How Saudi Arabia attempts to deal with the loss of water beds and fossil water

How Saudi Arabia attempts to deal with the loss of water beds and fossil water

https://youtu.be/OUZXLCBmixg?si=ScOJsOsuhwIJNUm4

Extropic is getting its probabilistic computer out.

"We have three announcements to make:
* We designed the world's first scalable probabilistic computer.
* We fabricated probabilistic circuits that perform sampling tasks using orders of magnitude less energy than the current state of the art.
* We have developed a ne

Extropic's new probabilistic computer has a nice casing. Wondering if the sci-fiesque glyphs on the side have thermal properties.

Extropic's new probabilistic computer has a nice casing. Wondering if the sci-fiesque glyphs on the side have thermal properties. https://farcaster.xyz/ic/0xba95c0ba

Is this an appropriate place to post stormwater engineering/modeling factoids? Every once in a while I want to nerd out and knowledge dump but there seems to be a very limited audience for this 😅

One of the reasons I love aerospace is that you can’t fake building an aircraft. You can’t growth-hack orbital mechanics. You can’t make safety critical systems without really thinking things through and engineering them

Does anybody know a good documentary or book about the history and technical evolution of bridges?

I got a hankering for an esoteric deep dive for specifically this.

We still don't know how the perfect design of a wave generator looks like.

Fun fact, wave energy is up to 4 times higher in winters.

We still don't know how the perfect design of a wave generator looks like.

Fun fact, wave energy is up to 4 times higher in winters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1pxV7Nro34

The bridge is getting so close! Also the new pump track is coming in nicely wowowowow