2021-01-29

Cool

A closer look at Raspberry Pi RP2040 Programmable IOs (PIO)
- First "how do we use this" that actually shows code. Micro-multi-processing.
Enabling Seamless Ethernet to the Field with 10BASE-T1L Connectivity | Analog Devices

10BASE-T1L core capability is a full duplex, dc balanced, point-to-point communication scheme with PAM 3 modulation at a 7.5 MBd symbol rate with 4B3T coding. It supports two amplitude modes: 2.4 V peak-to-peak up to 1000 m cable and 1.0 V peak-to-peak at a reduced distance. The 1.0 V peak-to-peak amplitude mode means that this new physical layer technology can also be used in the environment of explosion-proof (Ex-proof) systems and meet the strict maximum energy restrictions. It enables long transmission distance on 2-wire technology with both power and data on a single twisted pair cable and it belongs to the family of singlepair Ethernet (SPE) media.

10BASE-T1L enables significantly higher power delivery to field devices; up to 500 mW in Zone 0 (intrinsically safe) applications. This is compared to approximately 36 mW with 4 mA to 20 mA devices. In nonintrinsically safe applications, up to 60 W of power is possible depending on the cable used.
Bison Sculpture in France Are Among the Oldest Prehistoric Statues
Text Only CNN CNN Lite. There's also Text Only NPR, and a bunch of others

Worthy

possibly the best crafted software yet made by humans. Factorio 1.1 stable
Comments mentioned Dyson Sphere Program which is a new, early access similar game but 3d and interplanetary. Which seems worthy of mention for the enormous positive hype its gained in all of like 3 days of public knowledge of it.
Jonathan Corbet, LWN.net Tackling the monopoly problem
GitHub - akarlinsky/world_mortality: World Mortality Dataset: international data on all-cause mortality.
The billionaire takeover of civil society - spiked

etc

Quad Gods: The world-class gamers who play with their mouths
6 Killed After Liquid Nitrogen Leak At Georgia Poultry Plant
US Judge Allows Extradition of Alleged Ghosn Accomplices
Missouri Bill Allows Residents to Use Deadly Force Against Rioters
Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
Part of Hwy 1 in Big Sur completely wiped out
Why prayer is the only way to secure a truly free and open internet
Right Forge | Freedom-First Hosting, Data Centers, and Applications
- Several days ago, I said in a comment that I thought "Trumpist hosting" had a future, but what will you be able to say there?
Airline pilots making in-flight errors say they're 'rusty'

Horseshit

Judge rules Virginia's late election law changes for mail-in ballots were illegal
Army: 11 soldiers injured after ingesting unknown substance
Chicago teachers perform ‘interpretive dance’ to protest reopening of schools | The College Fix
Black Americans receiving Covid vaccines at lower rates than whites
Louisiana cemetery told family of Black deputy he couldn't be buried due to ...
The Fortune 100 & BLM
The WELL: State of the World 2021
- Bruce Sterling and other long term Futurians pontificate about how they've never been wrong. "Early Internet" punditry; they were as smug in the 90s.
Elon Musk blames FAA for holding up the next Starship test (SN-9)
- Elon Musk’s SpaceX violated its FAA launch license, prompting investigation - The Verge
'We tried paying everyone the same salary. It failed'
LA County Says No TVs for Outdoor Diners at Local Restaurants
Arizona bill to give Legislature power to toss out election results
Minnesota town is flummoxed by resident who claims he's above law - StarTribune.com

WTF

Canada Post workers suspended after refusing to deliver Epoch Times
Mystery guest takes over Jasper Park Lodge — the entire hotel — for 9-week booking | CBC News

Officials at the Fairmont hotel, located inside Jasper National Park, confirmed the reservation on Tuesday but declined to say who will be enjoying the property's mountain views and luxury room service for the 65 days between Feb. 23 and April 29. The dates are blacked out on Fairmont's reservation website and a call to the front desk concierge confirmed that no rooms will be made available. Guests who had previously made bookings for that time frame have had their reservations cancelled, stirring speculation online.

Short Squeeze

10p:

Robinhood Caps Maximum Holdings In 36 Stocks To Just One Share | ZeroHedge

In other words, as of this moment, no client is allowed to one more than 1 share in names like GME, AMC, AG, BBBY, BYND, WKHS and many others. Even boring, low vol names like GM and SBUX are limited to just one share.

Panicked clients who are wondering if this means that their current holdings which exceed 1 laughable share will be forcefully liquidated can breathe for now: the company said that "outside of our standard margin-related sellouts or options assignment procedures, your positions will not be sold for the sole reason that you are currently over the limit. However, you will not be able to open more positions of each of these securities unless you sell enough of your holdings such that you are below the respective limit." (we expect that to change on Monday, if the company is still around.)
HN thread on SEC statement Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility | Hacker News
- re Dick fuld of Lehman Brothers:
Yes, Lehman was doing a bunch of stupid stuff, and the management under Dick were behaving like cowboys. But at the end of the day, that was the entire market at that time. What sunk Lehman was, in the end, a decision by all of the other big banks and the regulators that they’d let Lehman die because of something that might be best summarized as “lol idk sorry Dick but we’re just gonna let you go and let the Fed bail the rest of us out sorry bro lol.” Like really. That’s how it went behind those closed doors in the lairs of the lizards that control the universe. Lehman had already suffered near-death in 1994 — the world has now forgotten that Dick was the hero that saved the firm back then — and now it was to be made a sacrificial lamb for everyone else’s benefit.

Why am I telling you this story? What is the point? Well, what I am trying to say is that these supposed “adults in the room” who are so much smarter and better than the the “retail investors” are pretty much the same sort of immature, self-centered children as the other side. The difference is, they’ve got the regulators and the politicians in their pockets. So when they say “lol oops” and literally blow up the global economy to save face, nothing happens to them. But for some reason when it’s the retail guys, a moral panic ensues.
GameStop, other stocks on Robinhood's restricted trading list - Business Insider

Robinhood is capping the number of GameStop shares that users can buy to one.
(PDF) Elizabeth Warren urges SEC to investigate GameStop “market manipulation”

4p:

Robinhood now limiting trading in 50 stocks, incl. GM, Beyond Meat, Starbucks
Charts and details dump Crypto Jumps In January As Hedgies 'Suffer' Greatest Stock Short-Squeeze In History | ZeroHedge
Texas AG Issues CIDs To Robinhood, Citadel, Others Over "Shocking Coordination" Between Hedge Funds, Trading Platforms To Halt Trading | ZeroHedge
- AG Paxton Issues CIDs to Robinhood, Discord, Citadel, and Others That Suspended Stock Trading and Investing | Office of the Attorney General
“Wall Street corporations cannot limit public access to the free market, nor should they censor discussion surrounding it, particularly for their own benefit. This apparent coordination between hedge funds, trading platforms, and web servers to shut down threats to their market dominance is shockingly unprecedented and wrong. It stinks of corruption,” said Attorney General Paxton.

3p: GME bounced off 250, 30min ago, closed at 328. Indexes all finished very slightly down.

1p: GME @ 288, opened at 400, bounced off 300 a couple times in the morning then back to 375, and is bouncing off 275 now.

This morning there was a "This isn't populism / you're being used" push; but think that met resistance and faded and the feeling has reversed on that. This afternoon will be "little guys make good" and then the weekend will fill with somber realization of Nazi Trumpist Subversion or something.
"This Is For You, Dad": Redditor Shares Heartbreaking Reason For Destroying Short-Sellers In WSB Raids | ZeroHedge

This is for you, Dad.

I remember when the housing collapse sent a torpedo through my family. My father's concrete company collapsed almost overnight. My father lost his home. My uncle lost his home. I remember my brother helping my father count pocket change on our kitchen table. That was all the money he had left in the world. While this was happening in my home, I saw hedge funders literally drinking champagne as they looked down on the Occupy Wall Street protestors. I will never forget that.

My Father never recovered from that blow. He fell deeper and deeper into alcoholism and exists now as a shell of his former self, waiting for death.

This is all the money I have and I'd rather lose it all than give them what they need to destroy me. Taking money from me won't hurt me, because i don't value it at all. I'll burn it all down just to spite them.
Robinhood Limits Purchases Of GME To Just 2 Shares | ZeroHedge
Robinhood’s plan to “democratize finance” hit a GameStop-shaped speed bump
No, WallStreetBets isn’t robbing Wall Street to help the little guy
The ‘Roaring Kitty’ Rally: How a Reddit User and His Friends Roiled the Markets
Daring Fireball: Robinhood Needed Emergency $1 Billion Cash Injection, Yet Remains Underfunded