Drew McGowen
quantumdude836.bsky.social
Drew McGowen
@quantumdude836.bsky.social
Programmer, FIJI brother, brony, dialup modem enthusiast, SHSU grad, hockey fan/player, furry-adjacent (for now). I like taking apart/breaking stuff. he/him
Holy shit - NY Rangers with their 5th home shutout loss of the season already!
November 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Nothing says "Texas" like a fire weather watch in November
November 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I can't believe Python is WOKE
November 2, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Reposted by Drew McGowen
The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.
October 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Reposted by Drew McGowen
this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
October 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Reposted by Drew McGowen
October 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Very Cool that ESPN says I have access to the Stars game via YoutubeTV, but the stream does absolutely nothing
October 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Well despite their best efforts, the Stars didn't completely squander a 5-1 lead
October 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Huh, turns out I have O- blood...
October 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Reposted by Drew McGowen
October 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Less than 5 hours until NHL preseason!
September 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Whelp - the company is now enforcing a browser extension whitelist that does not (currently) include any sort of adblocker...
September 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Ship of Theseus, but applied to sports teams
September 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
TFW it's so humid out you risk drowning just by breathing...
September 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Reposted by Drew McGowen
September 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Gender binary defines the two genders "man" and "woman". We can thus define the prefix "wo-" as equivalent to the logical NOT operator (so "woman" means "not man").
August 31, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Ok, who's bright idea was it to name the Linux atomic APIs "atomic_read" and "atomic_set"???
August 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I sure do love multiple daily Internet outages...

I also love that Comcast seems to think that no Internet access means I can't possibly use LAN either
August 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Reposted by Drew McGowen
August 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
BRB gonna go get myself put on a federal watchlist by buying a sandwich
August 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
So I guess a 90MHz RISC-V processor can't quite run fast enough to keep a nearly-1Mbaud UART's RX FIFO from overflowing
August 8, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The great thing about lacking self discipline is that I lack the self discipline needed to fix my lack of self discipline
August 4, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Huh, so no matter how I setup the Vitis launch config, it always puts my code on the first RISC-V processor. The only way to run something on a second processor is via manual XSDB commands.

That's not annoying at all...
July 31, 2025 at 5:14 AM
lol what if I just made my own TEMAC
July 31, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Huh, so things like scrambling and differential encoding are defined such that the corresponding receiver logic is non-recursive, so input errors only have a finite effect on output.
July 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM