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@coelliptic.bsky.social
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haunted queerdo doing mad science. working on space stuff (not for that guy). into electronics, amateur radio, airplanes, and other assorted nerd things. bad at german and icelandic. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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coelliptic.bsky.social
These weren't meant to be related,
Some posts by some dipshit about falling prey to practical jokes, followed by one about using cmake and the spiritually bankrupt nature of software build systems
November 1, 2025 at 5:39 AM
coelliptic.bsky.social
sounding very straightforward, sir
Kafka's semantics are straightforward. When publishing a message we have a notion of the message being "committed" to the log. A message is considered committed only when all replicas in the in-sync replicas (ISR) for that partition have applied it to their log. Once a published message is committed, it will not be lost as long as one broker that replicates the partition to which this message was written remains "alive". The definition of committed message and alive partition as well as a description of which types of failures we attempt to handle will be described in more detail in the next section. For now let's assume a perfect, lossless broker and try to understand the guarantees to the producer and consumer. If a producer attempts to publish a message and experiences a network error, it cannot be sure if this error happened before or after the message was committed. This is similar to the semantics of inserting into a database table with an autogenerated key.
October 30, 2025 at 12:33 AM
coelliptic.bsky.social
I think this is because of the way scoreboards are laid out
Baseball scoreboard with two rows, one for the tops of the innings and the other for the bottoms
October 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
coelliptic.bsky.social
I thought y'all were joking 💀
Blue Jays vs Dodgers is in the 17th fucking inning
October 28, 2025 at 6:31 AM
coelliptic.bsky.social
Me when the reviewer says to use a templated function instead of a macro
Girl on the floor with a messy pile of legos
October 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
coelliptic.bsky.social
Found it
October 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
coelliptic.bsky.social
lol
A frame from The Day After (a made-for-TV movie from 1983 depicting nuclear war in the US and its aftermath) with subtitle "this is awesome we're gonna do an alcohol enable thanks". The actual line is "this is Oscar, we're gonna do an all-call enable"
October 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
coelliptic.bsky.social
Speech bubble meme and it's Sappho
October 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
coelliptic.bsky.social
Here you go
October 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
coelliptic.bsky.social
This sentence is my cellar door
I remember we had about a 6-month setback where our finite element analysis showed that the weld material that was proposed by Apollo Forge, the people that were actually doing the forging and construction, would have been in yield at our service depth.
October 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
coelliptic.bsky.social
I need the hot dog resistors
Two through-hole resistors. They are the shape and color of bun-length hot dogs
October 15, 2025 at 5:11 AM
coelliptic.bsky.social
When the post is good
Screenshot of the post I'm replying to with my clicked heart and the timestamp - now - circled
October 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
coelliptic.bsky.social
cool. 500 what
maxSegmentSize (integer) The ParameterArchive stores data in segments, each segment storing multiple samples of the same parameter. This option configures the maximum segment size. The parameter archive accumulates data in memory to fill the segments, in parallel for all parameters. This option affects thus the memory consumed when the parameter archive is being filled. The segment size is limited by the duration of an interval, a segment cannot be larger than \(2^{23}\) milliseconds (approximately 139 minutes). Starting with Yamcs 5.10 the segments from an interval are merged together inside RocksDB such that when retrieving there is only one segment for each interval. In order to reduce the memory consumption during parameter archive buildup, the default value of this setting has been changed from 5000 to 500. Default: 500
October 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
coelliptic.bsky.social
I was curious so I looked it up and sure enough:
Etymology 1 From Middle English laste, latst, syncopated variant of latest.
October 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
coelliptic.bsky.social
Aww, I go here to have a sit and look out at Nólsoy
Screenshot from the video above with an arrow drawn on it pointing to my sittin' spot
October 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
coelliptic.bsky.social
oh this dude was laying it on *thick*
In June 1993, he presented his proof to the public for the first time at a conference in Cambridge. Gina Kolata of The New York Times summed up the presentation as follows: He gave a lecture a day on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday with the title "Modular Forms, Elliptic Curves and Galois Representations". There was no hint in the title that Fermat's last theorem would be discussed, Dr. Ribet said. ... Finally, at the end of his third lecture, Dr. Wiles concluded that he had proved a general case of the Taniyama conjecture. Then, seemingly as an afterthought, he noted that that meant that Fermat's last theorem was true. Q.E.D.[18]
October 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
coelliptic.bsky.social
feels good
ms paint drawing of an XY plot with stress on the X axis and performance on the Y axis. the curve is a bell, with multiple arrows pointing to the peak. less stress results in boredom; more results in overwhelm.
October 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
coelliptic.bsky.social
well that's a new one
Ubuntu Catastrophic failure Error code: Wsl/Service/E_UNEXPECTED
October 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
coelliptic.bsky.social
Touched some grass yesterday and this dude/tte was VERY interested in stealing our sandwiches
Two Canada geese, one locked in on my meatball sub (not pictured) and creeping toward me like I can't see an entire goose two feet in front of me
October 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
coelliptic.bsky.social
This classic has become weirdly topical this week
COOLEE BRAVO🥑 @BravoCoolee Twitter the only place where well articulated sentences still get misinterpreted. You can say “I like pancakes” and somebody will say “So you hate waffles?” No bitch. Dats a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about. 6:04 PM • Oct 23, 2017
October 4, 2025 at 5:30 AM
coelliptic.bsky.social
Actual image of driving a rover on the moon with no redundancy and questionable radiation tolerance
Blues Brothers car collapse
October 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
coelliptic.bsky.social
...is your question, "are they supposed to flammable?"
Question regarding ferrite beads And then a picture of a circuit board with a completely burn out component, next to a piece of metal with what appear to be scorch marks
September 24, 2025 at 5:43 AM
coelliptic.bsky.social
Why, and more importantly, who

I just want to talk
Screenshot of a browser before and after. Before, the right two buttons at the bottom are tabs and hamburger, in that order. Now it's ellipsis and tabs, in that order.
September 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
coelliptic.bsky.social
yesssss you're living it
When you find a lit series that already has 4-5 seasons, 20 espisodes per season & 45 minutes per episode 😩 There's a picture of a guy lying on his side in bed with a laptop and an enormous bag - I'm talking full size garbage bag - of what looks like the reddest, spiciest off-brand Flamin' Hot Cheetos you've ever seen
September 21, 2025 at 3:55 AM
coelliptic.bsky.social
feel like pure shit just want her back
A hooded crow in flight
September 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM