Polizeiposaune

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by Polizeiposaune 11mo ago
Ever heard of a loop that needed to keep more than 7 variables live? Register renaming helps with pipelining and out-of-order execution, but instructions in the program can only reference the architectural registers - go beyond that and y
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by Polizeiposaune 11mo ago
We need consumer protection laws that protect against functional regressions like this -- if a widget could do X when I bought it, it should keep doing X for the life of the product and I shouldn't have to "agree" to an updat
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by Polizeiposaune 11mo ago
Pictures of the aftermath here: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/11/booster-18-anomaly-p... Official SpaceX statement: "Booster 18 suffered an anomaly during gas system pressure testing that we were condu
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by Polizeiposaune 11mo ago
The WAGO connectors typically used in home wiring have a transparent plastic shell which lets you see whether the wire made it all the way through the spring clip. The ones shown in the NTSB video had an opaque shell around the spring cli
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by Polizeiposaune 11mo ago
And the loose connection was caused by a misapplied wire label that made the wire too fat to properly fit the connection...
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by Polizeiposaune 11mo ago
(title shortened to fit) The NTSB has identified a misplaced wire label, resulting in a loose connection, as the cause of the power blackout that caused the containership Dali to collide with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.
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by Polizeiposaune 11mo ago
It's at least better value than the once-proposed ~$400 million Gravina Island bridge in Alaska -- to serve 50 residents and an airport
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by Polizeiposaune 11mo ago
LLM's generating text referencing nonexistent up API's or machine instructions seems to me to be exactly like LLMs generating text referencing nonexistent legal cases or generating fictional text referencing nonexistent people. Th
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by Polizeiposaune 11mo ago
The flare is delaying a rocket launch due to concerns about the potential impact on the payload (two spacecraft bound for Mars): "NG-2 Update: New Glenn is ready to launch. However, due to highly elevated solar activity and its potenti
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by Polizeiposaune 1y ago
The big dish antenna at Stanford University (visible from I-280) was, among many other things, used to monitor Soviet radar signals from Sary Shagan in Kazakhstan, that bounced off the moon some of the time. The wikipedia article: https:&#
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by Polizeiposaune 1y ago
Another recent name collision story: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/british-newspaper-spoke-... (Note the slightly different spelling; the former mayor is "de Blasio", while the wine importer is &qu
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by Polizeiposaune 1y ago
The big hyperscalers have been measuring aggregate compute power in watts for many years; it's a parameter that drives the size of both power and cooling in the infrastructure required to house the gear.
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by Polizeiposaune 1y ago
And David Sacks immediately responded with "there will be no government bailout": https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/trump-ai-sacks-federal-bailo...
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by Polizeiposaune 1y ago
error: invalid digit "8" in octal constant
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by Polizeiposaune 1y ago
Both worked to start a boot from the disk controller in that slot.
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by Polizeiposaune 1y ago
Operation Flagship in 1985 was one of the clever ones -- US marshalls nabbed 101 wanted fugitives on a single day at a stadium, where they were expecting to receive two free tickets to an NFL game... https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by Polizeiposaune 1y ago
The US military also uses IOC = "Initial Operational Capability" (as distinguished from FOC: Full Operational Capability): https://samm.dsca.mil/glossary/initial-operational-capabilit...
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by Polizeiposaune 1y ago
No. It would need to be larger, probably by a factor of 3 or 4, for a couple reasons. 1) The atmosphere attenuates sunlight (even when it's not cloudy) 2) The solar array in orbit can pivot to face the sun all the time. 3) While most
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by Polizeiposaune 1y ago
Really depends on how big the space debris was and whether it had slowed to terminal velocity (the speed where the force of gravity equals the force of drag). I'd rather be in a plane hit by 1 gram piece of space debris than in one tha
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by Polizeiposaune 1y ago
Hopefully the giblets at your Thanksgiving dinner didn't come from the engine-sliced turkeys...
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by Polizeiposaune 1y ago
oddly, the one "sus" thing flagged -- a " (C) 2026 " late in 2025 -- is consistent with practices of established book publishers. I recall purchasing a textbook in September of year X and being surprised that it was &quo
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by Polizeiposaune 1y ago
The second paragraph of the article attributes the hot spots to abandoned buildings and parking lots; vacant lots with vegetation are not the problem.
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by Polizeiposaune 1y ago
ZFS puts checksums in the block pointer, so, unless you disable checksums, it always knows the expected checksum of a block it is about to read. When the actual checksum of what was read from storage doesn't match the expected value, i
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by Polizeiposaune 1y ago
A more generic term is drywall or gypsum board. It generally is covered by a skim coat of plaster and is then painted. "Sheetrock" is a particular brand of drywall. For instance, see https://www.lowes.com/pl&#x2
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by Polizeiposaune 1y ago
The boostback burn of the booster was short 1 engine (12 of 13 were running), though the one middle-ring engine that didn't light during the boostback burn did light during the first phase of the landing burn.
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by Polizeiposaune 1y ago
Yes. https://recovery.lacounty.gov/rebuilding/permitting-progress... 2162 permit applications received; 1916 applications have full plans submitted. 534 permits issued so far.
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by Polizeiposaune 1y ago
The website of the Arkansas Secretary of State says "Arkansaw" and includes this gem: "During the early days of statehood, Arkansas’ two U.S. Senators were divided on the spelling and pronunciation. One was always introduced
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by Polizeiposaune 1y ago
Unlike typical raid-5/6 parity, zfs / raidz doesn't require a format/parity initialization that writes all blocks of the disk before the pool can be used. You just need to write labels (at start & end of each disk) w
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by Polizeiposaune 1y ago
Complicating matters, cesium's melting point is 28.5C/83.3F - given the Indonesian climate it's going to be liquid a lot of the time.
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by Polizeiposaune 1y ago
In the very beginning of ethernet there were no switches - you just had a bunch of transceivers connected to a length of coax cable. Every NIC on the wire saw every packet; the destination mac address indicated whether the packet was intere

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