Eric Eide

Eric Eide

@ericeide.bsky.social

Research Associate Professor, University of Utah Kahlert School of Computing • Personal account • Opinions my own, not employer's • RTs not endorsements

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POWDER Wireless
@powderwireless.net

🔜 A quick reminder that the POWDER team will hold online office hours on Friday, October 23. 🎃 Sign up for an appointment—

POWDER Wireless@powderwireless.net

🤔 Do you have questions about your experiments on POWDER? Sign up for office hours on Friday, October 23. 🎃 calendly.com/powderwireless

calendly.comPOWDER Office HoursWelcome to the POWDER Office Hours scheduling page! Please follow the instructions to schedule an appointment with members of the POWDER team.

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Scott Horton
@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

The backstory: Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex supercomputer facility in Vladimir, taking it out. Suddenly, bot activity in US social media fell by 49%, confirming suspicions that this was the site of a massive Russian influence operation targeting US social media—mostly targeting MAGA.

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Kiran
@kirancodes.me

to know where you are going, you have to know where you have been: pldb.kirancodes.me Titles and abstracts of 22,324 programming languages papers, from the first POPL in 1973 to this year's proceedings.

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a ton of crates
@tonofcrates.bsky.social

> This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

eva (^_^)/@eva.computer

DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT

Eric Eide
@ericeide.bsky.social

I was on a Delta flight recently, and the boarding music was a slow piano version of "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses. Where do we go now, indeed.

Eric Eide
@ericeide.bsky.social

Users of GNU Emacs 31.1 on macOS, note this bit of NEWS: > *** New user option 'ns-click-through' on Nextstep (GNUstep/Mac OS). [...] When t (the default), the click will both activate the frame and be interpreted as a command. This was driving me nuts! You can set (customize) this to nil. #emacs

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McSweeney's
@mcsweeneys.net

"I didn't think a full, 6-day-per-week, 14-hour-per-day, in-office schedule was necessary to discharge my duties clicking the 'generate' button, followed by the 'approve' button, thousands of times a day on SlurryHose. But experience has shown me that I was wrong." buff.ly/RbEQoJg

mcsweeneys.netWhy We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person“I didn’t think a full, six-day-per-week, fourteen-hour-per-day, in-office schedule was necessary to discharge my duties clicking the ‘generate’ button, foll...
Eric Eide
@ericeide.bsky.social

A classic, for sure.

Papers We Love@paperswelove.org

The Scalable Commutativity Rule: Designing Scalable Software for Multicore Processors [2013] By: M. Frans Kaashoek, Eddie Kohler, Austin T. Clements, et al. https://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/clements-sc.pdf #paperswelove #research #compsci

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POWDER Wireless
@powderwireless.net

Demonstrating the Future of Remotely Operated Vehicles. In July, the DRIVE-SAFE team demonstrated their work in a real-world setting using Minnesota's custom CAV (connected and automated vehicle) on Utah's POWDER mobile and wireless testbed. www.price.utah.edu/2026/09/03/d...

price.utah.eduDemonstrating the Future of Remotely Operated Vehicles - The John and Marcia Price College of Engineering at the University of UtahSelf-driving cars and “robotaxis” need detailed mappings of the real-world environments they operate in and require massive data for extensive […]

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POWDER Wireless
@powderwireless.net

🔜 A quick reminder that the POWDER team will hold online office hours on Friday, August 28. Sign up for an appointment—

POWDER Wireless@powderwireless.net

🤔 Do you have questions about your experiments on POWDER? Sign up for office hours on Friday, August 28. calendly.com/powderwireless

calendly.comPOWDER Office HoursWelcome to the POWDER Office Hours scheduling page! Please follow the instructions to schedule an appointment with members of the POWDER team.

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Rob Ricci
@ricci.io

I learned some things about atproto and Bluesky that I didn't know before. Maybe you did know them. I write them down, just in case you didn't.

blog.ricci.ioWhat I Wish Someone Had Told Me About AT Protocol and Bluesky - Stuff Rob WroteI've been interested in atproto (the protocol that Bluesky, Blacksky, and many other applications - including pckt, where this blog is hosted! - run on) for about a year now. I'm by no means an expert, but I've read a lot of documentation and discussion, looked at various version…

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Dan Garisto
@dangaristo.bsky.social

Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.

nature.comExclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decadesThe US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

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Tessa Duvall
@tessaduvall.bsky.social

🚨 Kentucky has announced the finalists in its "I Voted" sticker contest. 🚨 Per the Secretary of State: Kentuckians can vote for their favorite sticker at the SOS's booth at the State Fair from August 20-30.

Eric Eide
@ericeide.bsky.social

Orchestra rehearsals for the West Valley Symphony of Utah 2026–27 season start tonight. I'm looking forward to "getting reacquainted" with my instrument!