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by Someone 7mo ago
Yes. https://www.satellitetoday.com/imagery-and-sensing/2025/05/1... : “BlackSky CEO Brian O’Toole echoed “strong momentum” from international government customers, saying these governments want to move faste
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by Someone 7mo ago
It’s a fairly common issue with C code, so you should be scared about more than OpenBSD. As an example: a_long = an_int * another_int; will do the multiplication in integers, then convert the result to long. That can produce surprisi
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by Someone 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNSS_jamming : “GNSS jamming, including GPS jamming, is an act of overwhelming global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) receivers with powerful radio signals that drown out the signals f
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by Someone 7mo ago
Commercial image providers can delay their images. See for example https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260310-us-satellite-... : “American firm Planet Labs PBC on Tuesday said it now imposes a two-week delay f
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by Someone 7mo ago
FTA: “Elements of the Trump administration recognize this logic: The State Department’s Pax Silica initiative is an early attempt to draw countries in the semiconductor supply chain into AI-for-resources agreements. Middle powers should ta
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by Someone 7mo ago
The article is about allowing bandwidth restrictions in bytes/second that are larger than 2³²-1, not about how fast pf can filter packets. I guess few people with faster ports felt the need to limit bandwidth for a service to somethi
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by Someone 7mo ago
What’s old comes around again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas : “The first vehicle powered by wood gas was built by T.H. Parker in 1901. Around 1900, many cities delivered fuel gases (centrally produced, typica
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by Someone 7mo ago
Reading https://www.si.edu/sites/default/files/oa/smithsonian-2024-w... , they’re spending $1.7b a year. Interesting financial report, by the way. Lots of info about what they do with photos, lists of who
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by Someone 7mo ago
> “The app uses Accessibility features to insert transcribed text. Correct. > Accessibility features are intended to help users with different capabilities interact with their devices and app. OK. > Apps may not use features design
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by Someone 7mo ago
> That is not true, and the proof is that LLMs _can_ reliably generate (relatively small amounts of) working code from relatively terse descriptions. LLMs can generate (relatively small amounts of) working code from relatively terse desc
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by Someone 7mo ago
> From his 1974 paper, "Structured Programming with go to Statements": > He was talking about using GOTO statements in C. I don’t think he was talking about C. That paper is from December 1974, and (early) C is from 1972, an
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by Someone 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon_tomography : “Muon tomography or muography is a technique that uses cosmic ray muons to generate two or three-dimensional images of volumes using information contained in the Coulomb
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by Someone 7mo ago
“Emulate a ternary CPU”, I would say. You can’t (AFAIK) buy ternary FPGAs, so the underlying hardware still is binary. From the paper: “On the current FPGA implementation, each trit is encoded as 2 binary bits”
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by Someone 7mo ago
> What's nuts is that the language doesn't guarantee that successive references to the same member value within the same function body are stable. The language supports multiple threads and doesn’t have private fields ( https:&
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by Someone 7mo ago
That page doesn’t say “10× faster” in its title, or, AFAICT, anywhere. Title is “Introducing Apache Fory™ C++: Blazing-Fast, Type-Safe Serialization for Modern C++” Also, the data in https://fory.apache.org/blog/fory_
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by Someone 7mo ago
> If you drive enough then you get real-world training But likely not frequently enough. There’s a reason airline pilots have flight simulator sessions that involve various conditions that each are unlikely to occur to them, ever: they m
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by Someone 7mo ago
If you want to drink your own wine in a restaurant, you have to pay for that, too. This isn’t much different; there still are plenty of non-Google options for creating presentations to choose from that do allow using your own font.
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by Someone 7mo ago
> Interesting to see that the objective was a plausible count rather than an accurate one. I don’t think the objective was to get a plausible count, but the result was that this method didn’t even get a plausible count, let alone an accu
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by Someone 7mo ago
They call it flying because foils are flying through a medium, generating lift, just as the wings of airplanes do. A big difference is that these wings lift the main body out of that medium (water) into a much less dense one (air), hugely d
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by Someone 7mo ago
Why? If they release a new hardware architecture twice a year, there’s been about 30 of them in 14 years, so if repairability is uncorrelated with time, there still is a 1:30 chance this would be the most repairable. Also, there’s pressure
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by Someone 7mo ago
For Simplify, I expect its a black, or at least gray box to Mathematica maintainers, too. It will have simple rules such as constant folding, “replace x - x by zero”, “replace zero times something with the conditions under which ‘something’
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by Someone 7mo ago
> Reading and writing constantly with the neck craned far lower than even a keyboard would be placed I think desks in the pre-typewriter era were higher than keyboard desks. Professional desks may also have been standing desks. Also, con
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by Someone 7mo ago
> I can't even see inside my CPU, why would I care if there's an empty slot? Then, you’re not the target audience. > Why would I pay for a piece of plastic to fill that slot that doesn't do anything? It doesn’t do nothi
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by Someone 7mo ago
> We are not talking about say the brain or the central nervous systems. That would be like going to multi-master from single node - lot more fundamental complex rebuild and rethink of the core architecture. The central nervous system al
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by Someone 7mo ago
How do you know a Neo cannot survive a fall onto a concrete floor? I think it would take at least ten tests each with a new machine to get some confidence of the impossibility of that.
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by Someone 7mo ago
FTA: void boundingBox(Circle c) { if (c instanceof Circle(Point(int x, int y), double radius)) { That looks weird. An if whose condition always is right looks superfluous. It also makes it look as if one could write things su
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by Someone 7mo ago
> a goroutine’s state is surprisingly small. The mcall() assembly function only saves 3 values — the stack pointer, the program counter, and the base pointer — into a tiny gobuf struct. That’s it. Why so few? Because goroutine switches h
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by Someone 7mo ago
For “fixing things” there are well-defined mechanisms such as state of emergency declaration of war. Those give the leader extra powers, but do not give them carte blanche to do as they wish. Those extra powers are limited to handle specifi
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by Someone 7mo ago
> Creating SKUs to avoid price matching is still just having one product coming out of the factory. It's just extra space in a database somewhere, so it costs nothing. They also have to label the products. But yes, it costs almost n
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by Someone 7mo ago
> That means you can charge and use the fast usb port at the same time. For some use cases, you can do that with a single USB port, too. For example, a single USB cable connected to a monitor can both send video and charge the laptop.

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