Polizeiposaune

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by Polizeiposaune 6mo ago
The actual switch (in humans and I believe most mammals) is a gene called SRY. The Y chromosome is just the (usual) container for the switch.
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by Polizeiposaune 6mo ago
Fast track to loss of respect: I visit a site/launch the app I always use with the intent of getting something done quickly, and I find that since the last time I used it someone's rearranged the deck chairs and hidden or removed
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by Polizeiposaune 6mo ago
Depending on implementation details of your CPU and OS, the syscall path may need to flush various auxillary caches (like one or more TLBs) to prevent speculation attacks, which may put additional "drag" on your program after sysc
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by Polizeiposaune 6mo ago
IPv6 addresses in the propagation display are inconsistently displayed - sometimes using '::' compression, sometimes not. For instance, with https://mrdns.com/propagation?name=wikipedia.org&type=AAAA the same
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by Polizeiposaune 6mo ago
Meanwhile, the US Army has delegated authority to 3d-print replacement parts to commanders in the field: https://breakingdefense.com/2025/09/army-allowing-commanders... “We’re basically saying, ‘Hey colonel, hey g
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by Polizeiposaune 6mo ago
I read it as "Redundant Array of Very Expensive Disks".
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by Polizeiposaune 7mo ago
The closest they get to the moon is about 8000km/5000 miles above the surface over the far side The trajectory depicted has them hitting the moon; it should instead show them passing 2+ lunar diameters behind the moon.
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by Polizeiposaune 7mo ago
What happened to Challenger -- burn-through of a joint in the SRB motor casing -- happened well before scheduled SRB separation.
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by Polizeiposaune 7mo ago
I've been on a flight that was late leaving the gate because the coffeemaker wasn't working.
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by Polizeiposaune 7mo ago
The key sizing seems very odd - 4 bytes for DES? Even in the bad old days of 40-bit export crypto you'd get at least 5 bytes. For full-strength single-DES I'd expect either 7 or 8 bytes (56 bits of key used by the algorithm, bu
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by Polizeiposaune 7mo ago
The second requirement of the California law is that there be an API available to all apps that returns the age band a user is in -- one of: age < 13 age >= 13 && age < 16 age >= 16 && age < 18 age >= 18 A
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by Polizeiposaune 7mo ago
Asking the device owner for the user's birth date is precisely what the (California) law requires. Biometrics are not required. The concept appears to be that a parent or guardian could enter the birth date before turning the device ov
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by Polizeiposaune 7mo ago
It's a good example of a migration that mostly didn't happen.
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by Polizeiposaune 7mo ago
A couple years ago the WSJ had a feature article on the phenomenon of married couples who shared the same given name: https://www.wsj.com/articles/taylor-lautner-taylor-dome-wife...
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by Polizeiposaune 7mo ago
Elevation -- the angle above the horizon -- is usually what's paired with azimuth.
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by Polizeiposaune 7mo ago
People have sued over this sort of thing. Apple's Power Macintosh 7100 was originally codenamed "Carl Sagan": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_7100 Sagan sued. Engineers at Apple changed
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by Polizeiposaune 7mo ago
I fully expect in such a regime, people would be complaining about how the leap second insertion caused their recurring meeting to shift from 9am to 8:59:59
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by Polizeiposaune 8mo ago
Arrests being a matter of public record are a check on the government's ability to make people just disappear. But the Internet's memory means that something being public at time t1 means it will also be public at all times after
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by Polizeiposaune 9mo ago
Orbital mechanics can be somewhat counterintuitive. If you want to change the altitude of your orbit at a certain place, the most efficient place for that is generally when you're on the other side of the planet from that place. In low
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by Polizeiposaune 9mo ago
Using the API with discipline goes a long way. Always send "pragma foreign_keys=on" first thing after opening the db. Some of the types sloppiness can be worked around by declaring tables to be STRICT. You can also add CHECK con
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by Polizeiposaune 9mo ago
Don't forget: 0K..................100K Dead Still Dead
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by Polizeiposaune 9mo ago
Cray-1 or Cray-2? IIRC Fluorinert was new with the Cray-2, while wikipedia suggests that the Cray-1 used a freon as coolant.
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by Polizeiposaune 9mo ago
IP UDP we all P for TCP
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by Polizeiposaune 9mo ago
Long Island is even more of a long hallway than the peninsula. The LIRR manages to have multiple trunks and something like 10 different branch lines. One thing that made it possible is LI is much flatter terrain than the peninsula.
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by Polizeiposaune 10mo ago
Someone else suggested "Microslop Coslopit with Slopfice 365"
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by Polizeiposaune 10mo ago
Yes, using ZFS's snapshot and clone mechanisms. A snapshot is a low-cost read-only view of a filesystem at a point in time; a clone is a writeable filesystem with initial contents shared from a snapshot. It's an amazing safety net
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by Polizeiposaune 10mo ago
There were significant power shutdowns in California in 2019 (affecting millions of customers in aggregate); the reason for the shutdowns was different from 2001 (preemptive shutdowns when the risk of downed power lines starting wildfires w
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by Polizeiposaune 11mo ago
Eyjafjallajökull
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by Polizeiposaune 11mo ago
From 2002: "Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches For Grandkids": https://theonion.com/frank-gehry-no-longer-allowed-to-make-s... (just a picture, no story).
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by Polizeiposaune 11mo ago
wrong link?

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