Polizeiposaune

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by Polizeiposaune 4mo ago
Sounds like "Respect for the Aged Day" doubles as "Audit the Pensioners Day".
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by Polizeiposaune 4mo ago
Smart bomb targeting is more of a subset of the tech required for precision landing. Smart bombs just need to get to the target coordinates. A reusable rocket needs to get there with zero velocity, while pointed straight up, with minimal p
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by Polizeiposaune 4mo ago
They haven't stopped but they don't happen immediately. Detailed census records are published 72 years after they were collected; the last release (of 1950 census data) came out in 2022; the next one should be published in 2032. S
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by Polizeiposaune 4mo ago
The scope of who is allowed to continue using it sounds like it is aligned with other US export controls (like ITAR and EAR).
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by Polizeiposaune 4mo ago
When such systems are hooked up to a web page they often will ask which contact should receive the reset code (Pick one: "send text to number ending in -1234" "send text to number ending in -5678" "send email to jo.
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by Polizeiposaune 4mo ago
Was hoping it was a new font.
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by Polizeiposaune 4mo ago
There is spare capacity on the Crew Dragon for an extra astronaut or maybe two on return. They'd rather not have to use it but NASA took steps to enable it when Soyuz MS-22 suffered a coolant leak in 2022 and had to be returned empty
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by Polizeiposaune 4mo ago
There are normally-open air-tight hatches between modules. Various utility connections and air ducts are normally run through the open hatches so it would take a bit of work to disconnect these connections before they could be closed. Not
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by Polizeiposaune 4mo ago
"The air leaks escalated on Friday from a pound of air per day to two pounds, according to a senior NASA official who asked not to be named. Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev were using a saw to break into an a
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by Polizeiposaune 4mo ago
It's complicated. The US Orbital Segment of the ISS consists of modules funded by and built in the US, ESA/Europe, and Japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Orbital_Segment Several of the US modules were b
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by Polizeiposaune 4mo ago
Yep. A basic trumpet has more slides than a basic trombone.
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by Polizeiposaune 4mo ago
Their terminology is odd. The thing you move while playing is generally called the hand slide. There's nearly always a separate tuning slide located in the crook of the bell section. (Some relatively rare instruments like the Shires
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by Polizeiposaune 4mo ago
And having your content rendered inaccessible to humans by a DDoS attack from overly aggressive webcrawlers that ignore robots.txt is yet another.
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by Polizeiposaune 5mo ago
Where would you put the other ballast? You've got two large tanks making up the bulk of the stage's structure - one for oxidizer, one for fuel. They have large diameter pipes that feed propellant to the engines. You can't
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by Polizeiposaune 5mo ago
Wasn't a bad weld; it was a bad interaction between liquid or solid oxygen and what were previously thought to be inconsequential defects in the composite-overwrapped pressure vessel the helium was loaded into. Quoting from one of the
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by Polizeiposaune 5mo ago
The weight of the propellant helps hold the rocket on the pad during the test fire, reducing how much force the hold-downs need to exert to keep the rocket on the pad, and stressing the rocket's structure in the same way it will be str
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by Polizeiposaune 5mo ago
> Does Blue Origin not have another pad? (Did they blow up a pad or a test stand?) The explosion happened at their only completed pad. They reportedly have a second pad under construction (for the larger "9x4" variant of New Gl
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by Polizeiposaune 5mo ago
Yep. The "high" registers as an alias for bits 8-15 of certain registers are one of many warts in the architecture; they should have been purged from 32-bit and 64-bit code, and left to rot in 16-bit mode only. Intel blew it when
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by Polizeiposaune 5mo ago
Use of the "h" register slices (bits 8..15) by compilers is thankfully pretty rare -- otherwise this would have been noticed much sooner! Agner Fog's optimization guide says "Any use of the high 8-bit registers AH, BH, C
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by Polizeiposaune 5mo ago
Details of the errata from a comment in the diff: "Write both dist bytes as a single 2-byte store. This avoids the `movb %ch, [mem]` instruction pattern (store from high-byte register alias) that LLVM otherwise emits when dist arrives
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by Polizeiposaune 5mo ago
An elevated railroad once ran through one end of what is now a Google-owned building (Chelsea Market in Manhattan). It's now part of the High Line elevated pedestrian park.
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by Polizeiposaune 5mo ago
I definitely heard it semi-frequently from SRE types well before the rise of LLMs. LLMs are just parroting relevant documents they've assimilated.
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by Polizeiposaune 5mo ago
Depends on the processor architecture and its nomenclature. Traps typically also result from exceptional conditions (like divide by zero or page fault). An architecture may or may not provide non-trap paths for less-privileged code to invok
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by Polizeiposaune 5mo ago
I wrote "thermos" in quotes because that's how Burke referred to the propellant tanks. That said, on the Titan IIIE at launch, there was an second outer surface around the Centaur -- the payload fairing -- which was discarded
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by Polizeiposaune 5mo ago
It would appear that this was the Titan IIIE which launched Voyager 2. They would have had another chance to get the shot about two weeks later when Voyager 1 launched. (Due to quirks of interplanetary orbital mechanics, Voyager 1 got to
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by Polizeiposaune 5mo ago
As the saying goes, "Macroeconomists have successfully predicted nine of the last five recessions."
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by Polizeiposaune 6mo ago
The later Apollo missions (13-17) deliberately crashed their 3rd stages into the moon, in part to provide a signal for the seismometer packages left at each of the landing sites. They hit the moon a little faster than the Falcon 9 2nd stag
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by Polizeiposaune 6mo ago
Read the post - not all architectures behave the same! Itanic had variable-sized register windows, plus extra tag bits for NaT ("not a thing") placeholder values. If you didn't set one of the argument registers the callee m
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by Polizeiposaune 6mo ago
The version I've heard a bunch of times had him as a bus driver..
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by Polizeiposaune 6mo ago
If the analogy is to diet, Paleo seems like a better fit than vegetarian.

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