🩷 Good Morning Stormy Spring Weather 🩷
#chicago #morning #photos #stormy #sleepy
- Ongoing sprints in “The EPYC Epic, Desktop Cooling Round III, Software Settings”
- An Enterprise Engineering Desktop w/ FreeBSD: hardware, software, …
- SED/Opal TCG spec’d drives are doing just fine. I trust it more than LUKS2 by a long shot.
- “diminution of force or effects”, c. 1600.
- “abatement of penalty or punishment”, c. 1736
Neurology
🤯 "Hyper-Focal Pre-Optimization" 🤯
Coders from all over likely already know of this quote, or would certainly would benefit from perma-copying this quote to the front of their brain-stem/visual-cortex knowledge queue:
“Premature optimization is the root of all evil.” ― Donald Ervin Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms
So then, what’s this about Hyper-Focal in relation? It’s when one builds a “maladapted neurological reward-center structured pattern of behavior”.
IOW, it’s a learned behavior from which one has associated a perceived positive emotional …
Musings
😴 Dreaming of Aliyah 😴
Ongoing day-dreaming and pre-nap thoughts on the too-many relocation events from the past two decades… every time another move transpires I get a bit closer to just saying,
“Fine, I get the message. it’s finally time for Aliyah (עֲלִיָּה).”
Like many aspects of my internal life and its intrinsic amalgam of disparate identity qualifiers, I’ve only very recently shared anything publicly about being a Jew. Mostly due to that side of my reality being forcefully kept a secret by strict Catholic bullshit (no point in using nicer terms).
Long story short, via genetic …
Industry
FreeBSD Articles 2025 Q1 [projektierung]
These are the topics that I’ve been spending time with, on no specific schedule, with no intended intention, often for debugging or optimization, sometimes purely for curiosity, and often in-between other tasks throughout the day and night, so they might as well get some blog posts for discussion. All of the topics have already been written via configs, scripts, list-docs, and automation tooling, but no formal blog posts just yet.
Musings
Emotive
💖 Siren Song of the UltraSparc 💖
02:42, awoken to first-morning, 4hrs sleep
02:55, at home office standing desk
02:58, navigate to eBay once more
02:59, search Sparc M7 T7-2 chassis
03:08, begin writing silly poem
03:12, resume eBay search
03:16, distracted by dtrace for tcshrc
03:20, distracted by view of Lake Michigan
03:22, return to Mastodon post-form
03:28, distracted by tcsh config options
03:32, review work emails, updates too
03:44, move poem to 'nb' program
03:50, resume timeline planning for work
04:30, paste to micro-blog, click 'post'
nocturn lucid state of mind, nor-aware
to this living within, this living dream …Musings
Before Death, The Experiences Adventure
Fulfilling one’s “Promises of Adventure” from 1999, one place I’d like to visit and to attend involves seeing an ‘Astral Projection’ dj set performed in the existential-perceptual-wilderness of the Negev desert, southern Israel.
As a former long-term resident of the often bleak Nevada desert landscapes, it was a perpetual joy to explore the ancient remnants of the Great Inland Sea, the expansive sky-islands of the Great Basin Montane Forests, the ultra-hardened remote Salt Flats, as well as the more commonly experienced playa comprised of Alkali Flats in the …
Industry
A Minor Commentary on SED/Opal Encryption
Data-At-Rest Encryption is a common topic, but one which is often misunderstood. Having led engineering and architectural efforts involved with hardware standards for encryption compliance, including detailed analysis of performance impacts while operating in accordance to service level agreements, here are some bits of discussion on the SED/Opal implementation.
TL;DR
Detailed Read
I have no issues trusting NAND and SAS firmware for the drive controllers that I’ve personally validated as …
Peculiar Perceptions of Privacy for Public Personas
Please pause this persistent predilection pertaining to periodically passionate patterns of pretentious perceptual processing.
Sometimes thought processes get stuck, disconnected, trailing sinew and silken tissue in tragic agony, alone in the vastness, discarded, forgotten. Language has always felt to these sensibilities as a game; a tangled tale of otherwise tired terms and pithy patterns of phrase, of accents and admonitions, just another mode of expressions to become lost within, an entertainment of the mind otherwise disengaged.
Silly games of phrase aside, what is this about personas? …
Ageless Anthropomorphisms of the Eighties Era
When I was much younger and learning about hardware engineering there was a fun game called, “Anthropomorphization and Personifications”. This was a name which I could barely say, but otherwise which most children would engage in while playing with toys or dolls, except I was playing it with the innards of a IBM 5150 while holding a screwdriver and attempting not o lose any screws.
In this game the graphics board, the massive hard drive, floppies, serial and parallel devices, etc.. they had people names and people jobs and they operated the machine when the power was turned on. In …
Performance & Regressions -- How Orgs Ship Code to Production
See that image? Right around the mid-section we see a common problem with the manner in which code is shipped to production. That one little section, displayed as a subsection of “build & packaging”, happily named “regression + performance testing”. Whether the product is a user-facing site, or middle-ware component, or baremetal systems which provide cloud resources that we all know and (sometimes) love… the success of the product is gated by an org’s ability to prioritize testing and automations for “Performance XOR Regression” (some orgs …
Remission Requires More Than Medication
Remission is an interesting term in its lexical use.
In the context of those implications and meanings, yes absolutely that’s the impression from the past two months, a surprisingly rapid two months since a second front was opened during the “Hypophysis-Infundibular War”. Well, guess what? The tumour is in remission now.
Why, or how? This is the result of a new medication regimen, a recent geographic relocation, and many iterative improvements within …