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by amluto 6mo ago
It’s extremely common for the mechanism that only allows the fuel to be turned on if the pilot is lit to work by having a thermocouple in the pilot flame. Some of these also power the controls (thermostat, for example) and some don’t.
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by amluto 6mo ago
A pilot light is tricky: in typical designs, it needs to heat a thermocouple enough to produce enough current to drive a solenoid to allow the rest of the flame to ignite. Thermocouples are outrageously inefficient.
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by amluto 7mo ago
Nice! (Well, nice the first time I loaded the page, but GitHub appears to be rocking maybe 90% uptime today and I can’t see it anymore.) I admit that I haven’t actually used C# in 20 years or so.
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by amluto 7mo ago
I suppose I should maybe not worry about 80 psi so much. An ordinary bottle of soda on a moderately warm day is around 80psi. The energy is 1/2 * pressure * head space (roughly), and head space is minimal. But you can chill it in the f
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by amluto 7mo ago
> The C and Rust union types are extremely sharp blades Sure, but the comparable Rust feature is enum, not union.
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by amluto 7mo ago
I haven’t tried this, and I don’t intend to, because visitors and similar won’t work (how could they?) and I don’t want to have to think about which is choice 2 and which is choice 7.
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by amluto 7mo ago
These services are designed such that security sort of depends on reviewing the programs that are allowed to run. Microsoft, Google and Apple all do this. It adds expense, annoyance, limitations, and really very little security. The contras
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by amluto 7mo ago
Hmm, they seem to have chosen to avoid names to the choices in the union, joining C++ variants and (sort of) TypeScript unions: unions are effectively just defined by a collection of types. Other languages have unions with named choices, wh
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by amluto 7mo ago
Keep in mind that VSCode’s own security story is beyond poor. Even if the container runtime perfectly contains the container, VSCode itself is a hole you could drive a truck through.
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by amluto 7mo ago
> the only ones that really matter much now are missile launchers which are used to disrupt the free transit of oil through the Straight. I’m still not an expert, but the strait is narrow and there are plenty of weapons that don’t need a
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by amluto 7mo ago
Those two pressure vessels are highly engineered and are wrapped with materials with pretty good tensile strength. Also, they’re made out of materials (fabric and rubber) that absorb a decent amount of energy when they tear and that don’t f
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by amluto 7mo ago
I think we don't have different facts or sources so much as different perspectives. There's a Starcraft-like perspective in which you're right. The US has repositioned a bunch of long-range-attack units and has consumed a lo
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by amluto 7mo ago
That’s a crappy pressure vessel holding 350ml of 80psi air, for about 100J of stored energy. I’m not entirely sure I’d be comfortable with that, especially anywhere with my face in the line of fire it it fails.
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by amluto 7mo ago
Article 54 gives some sites that may not be attacked. Maybe a protected person cannot render at least those sites “immune” since they are already immune.
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by amluto 7mo ago
I tried to look it up: https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule97#ti... > The prohibition of using human shields in the Geneva Conventions, Additional Protocol I and the Statute of the Inter
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by amluto 7mo ago
The US won the removal of a regime in Iraq that strongly opposed Iran. </sarcasm>
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by amluto 7mo ago
I’m no expert, but I think this is a matter of international politics. Imagine if Iran had closed the strait last year. I suspect a rather large coalition would have shown up, quite quickly, to do their best to reopen it. But instead almo
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by amluto 7mo ago
> bombs work and settle the issue If you want evidence that bombs do not settle the issue, you can consider the current Iran war. The US and Israel have dropped a rather impressive number of bombs on Iran. As far as I know, most of the
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by amluto 7mo ago
It’s hard to imagine that international law actually intends to consider civilians hanging out as “human shields” at civilian sites to be a war crime.
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by amluto 7mo ago
Sounds right to me.
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by amluto 7mo ago
A lot of TPMs are “fTPM”s, which are implemented in something resembling software. It’s an open question whether the hardware in question has usable roots of trust, but a lot of TPM applications don’t actually require endorsement. And some
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by amluto 7mo ago
Your Yubikey itself is doomed. If you are doing a post-quantum key exchange and only authenticating with the Yubikey, then you are safe from after-the-fact attacks. Well, as long as the PQ key exchange holds up, and I am personally not as o
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by amluto 7mo ago
I was in this field a while back, and I always found it baffling that anyone ever believed in the earlier large estimates for the size of a quantum computer needed to run Shor's algorithm. For a working quantum computer, Shor's a
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by amluto 7mo ago
> a group that is embedded into every branch of government at multiple levels He largely put that group in place in the executive and the judiciary.
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by amluto 7mo ago
You are misunderstanding me, which is perhaps understandable, since I’m talking about the minutiae of x86, not locking in general. When unlocking a futex-backed mutex, one needs to do two things. First, one needs to actually unlock it: thi
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by amluto 7mo ago
If you click the link to the actual paper, you’ll find: > Next, we sought to explore the potential benefit of targeting the age-related increase of FTL1 in the hippocampus of aged mice. We performed targeted stereotaxic injections of a h
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by amluto 7mo ago
> I suspect the problem isn't so much the lock prefix, but that the non-futex spinlock release just is a store, whereas a futex release has to be a RMW operation. > I'm talking out of my ass here, but my guess is that the re
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by amluto 7mo ago
> On x86 a spinlock release doesn't need a memory barrier (unless you do insane things) / lock prefix, but a futex based lock does (because you otherwise may not realize you need to futex wake). Now you've gotten me wonder
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by amluto 7mo ago
It might be easier for DC transmission components to be standardized. Sure, anything with complex controls has a lot more opportunity to fail to interoperate, but DC gear can often be configured for different voltage ratios and can much mor
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by amluto 7mo ago
It would be very strange for the government to sue someone for redistributing videos on the basis that they had been taken from an illegally flown drone.

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