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I think one of the best things I've learned since getting into fiber arts is that something can be absolutely not my taste and I can still be impressed and delighted for the person who made it and people who love it. Almost every time I look through patterns or projects, I have a thought like, "I hate that and it's magnificent" or, "I wouldn't wear that, but HOLY CRAP it's amazing that you made it."

We need more of that.

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The problem with studying computer sciences or any math related field is that you start calling everything "trivial" "oh that's obvious" -> "it's trivial", "I don't want to explain" -> "that's trivial", "I'm not gonna waste my time with this" -> "it's trivial", "don't feel like doing it" -> "it's trivial", My vocabulary used to be more diverse yet I feel like I have more authority now.

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deep breath check! see how many deep breaths you can do in the span of 10 seconds Good luck

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Damn they invented dweebs that are cool. we are living in the future

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Today they sent somebody out to the webcam to collect the actual video footage. It bc an be found on the USGS Volcanoes Facebook or Instagram

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Black Diamond Pool just erupted (05/30)

For anybody who was following the news last summer, you may remember this unexpected event on July 23rd. In the aftermath, the park service shut down the boardwalk area (which was completely destroyed). Park Service, USGS, and University of Utah geologists set up monitoring instruments immediately after.

In the time since the event, there hasn't been much news (at least that i've heard). Until today.

Last week, USGS went public with a webcam for monitoring Black Diamond Pool. It takes a snapshot every 15 minutes - you can see the most recent snapshot here (links to previous snapshots can be found on the USGS AshCam API).

Today (05/30/2025), we noticed the first signs of activity. A disturbance in the left side of the pool (relative to the webcam) starting at 13:45 (local time):

Followed by periods of increased convection, and finally...

at 20:45 we see the water level drop daramtically, indicating the end of an "eruption." (At the time of posting, it is not clear whether this activity meets the definition of an actual eruption. Will update). The event had enough force to move those rocks all the way on the right. Heres a before and after:

Safe to say they probably aren't opening this thing up anytime soon. But, for anybody interested in this kind of stuff, this is a landmark event, signalling continued (and possibly regular) activity at Black Diamond. This is a long-awaited continuation of what is probably the biggest national-park related news in recent history.

Happy pride month.

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Black Diamond Pool just erupted (05/30)

For anybody who was following the news last summer, you may remember this unexpected event on July 23rd. In the aftermath, the park service shut down the boardwalk area (which was completely destroyed). Park Service, USGS, and University of Utah geologists set up monitoring instruments immediately after.

In the time since the event, there hasn't been much news (at least that i've heard). Until today.

Last week, USGS went public with a webcam for monitoring Black Diamond Pool. It takes a snapshot every 15 minutes - you can see the most recent snapshot here (links to previous snapshots can be found on the USGS AshCam API).

Today (05/30/2025), we noticed the first signs of activity. A disturbance in the left side of the pool (relative to the webcam) starting at 13:45 (local time):

Followed by periods of increased convection, and finally...

at 20:45 we see the water level drop daramtically, indicating the end of an "eruption." (At the time of posting, it is not clear whether this activity meets the definition of an actual eruption. Will update). The event had enough force to move those rocks all the way on the right. Heres a before and after:

Safe to say they probably aren't opening this thing up anytime soon. But, for anybody interested in this kind of stuff, this is a landmark event, signalling continued (and possibly regular) activity at Black Diamond. This is a long-awaited continuation of what is probably the biggest national-park related news in recent history.

Happy pride month.

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'respectively' is such a good sentence modifier. it allows you to define lists in parallel and zip them

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Foil fencers when they’re both left handed??? Or something???

they should have leftist infighting as an event at the next olympics

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I really like that she says she consumed cocaine like that technically makes sense but usually with that word I assume they are eating it. I think it is consistent with her character to gobble fistfuls of cocaine and then incinerate some guy

redeeming moment for crazy white women everywhere

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Incredible things happening on tumblr

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hell yeah dude u rly nailed that conversation over there

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go my isopods!!

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Is there actually an adafruit tumblr no fucking way

The SC16IS74x is an I2C to UART converter

If you know us, you know we luuuuuv I2C as a near-universal interface for sensors, GPIO expanders, OLEDs, and other various devices under our Stemma QT family: https://www.adafruit.com/search?q=stemma+qt 🌱. But we still bump into some UART devices: https://www.adafruit.com/search?q=uart here and there—GNSS/GPS units, MP3 playback chips, fingerprint sensors, LIDARs, and more.

These can be annoying if you only have one UART port-or none at all! So we put together this SC16IS74x breakout. It can use either the SC16IS740: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/nxp-usa-inc/SC16IS740IPW-128/1301043 or SC16IS741: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/nxp-usa-inc/SC16IS741AIPWJ/4486521 chips-both essentially the same for our purpose: providing a bidirectional UART with flow control. Address jumpers on the back allow you to select up to four devices on one I2C bus—and there's even native Linux kernel drivers: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/nxp%2Csc16is7xx.txt 🧠.

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(to the tune of mary had a little lamb): mary had a little lamb