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by ckozlowski 3y ago
I think the analogy might not fit here too well. While Germany hasn't had a current node fab in country for a while, they have in the recent past (AMD/Global Foundries Dresden comes to mind). I don't think it's at all li
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by ckozlowski 3y ago
There was an arstechnica article a while back with a password cracker (person) who had an answer for this: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/how-c... "The specific type of hybrid att
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by ckozlowski 3y ago
In addition to the other excellent recommendations here, I'll shamelessly plug my local museums, the Smithsonian. They're a world-class collection of over a dozen major museums in D.C., and all free for the benefit of the public.
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by ckozlowski 3y ago
Very much so. The concern is that such devices can be hacked and used to exfil information from inside the classified space. While that might sound far fetched, we're talking nation-state actors who are trying to penetrate the most cri
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by ckozlowski 3y ago
It is. We can't be sure the exact circumstances, but reading this leads me to believe that there's some important facts that are missing. "“Before doing so, he made sure there were no classified materials or anything else per
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by ckozlowski 3y ago
Humbly submitting Chris Titus' Debloat tool as well for comparison. I've enjoyed using Chris' tool, as the GUI design makes it easy to a-la-carte select which you want removed and not, along with recommendations. Makes it ver
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by ckozlowski 3y ago
I agree. Not to discount the work the Chinese academies are doing, but I don't regard twitter activity as indicative of what U.S. labs are doing, and I'd strongly urge others not to do so either. As you noted, there's labs wo
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by ckozlowski 3y ago
The Lagunitas Brewing Company features this on their sign for their Petaluma brewery in fact. Though, it stops at "Virgo Supercluster".
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by ckozlowski 3y ago
This. I suppose it can't be helped given the link was posted without context. But yours is the only post here that seems to get it. For everyone else: This project exists for the joy of the retro-computing community. No one in their ri
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by ckozlowski 3y ago
This was a good read. But the question that I kept waiting to be asked was "What do I need to monitor?" In my opinion, the way to avoid many of the problems and complexities that author lists is to start with the goals. What are t
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by ckozlowski 3y ago
With regards to Starlink, there's a backlog. The link there shows Starlink launches in 2023. If you look at the register ( https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/spaceobjectregister/index.htm... ), there's a
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by ckozlowski 3y ago
Giving notice to the International Maritime Organization is good practice. The reason being is that there's a danger that pieces (or the booster itself) could or will fall into the sea, posing a danger to shipping. For example, in Flor
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by ckozlowski 3y ago
Yup! Those aspects are covered in the Outer Space treaty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty Most satellites are registered and their orbital data published. This includes reconnaissance satellites. htt
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by ckozlowski 3y ago
I recently re-read The Hunt For Red October, and what struck me was that there actually wasn't and mention of Magneto-hydrodynamic drive. As I recalled, the book describes a series of propellers in a duct. Certainly interesting for iso
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by ckozlowski 4y ago
On the Blackbird site, there's a really good factual story delivered after someone asked about the slowest they'd ever flown the plane. That tale is a good read: https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Sto
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by ckozlowski 4y ago
"Skunk Works" by Ben Rich is a first hand account by the (eventual) lead of that Lockheed division, and he describes this in his book. https://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/...
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by ckozlowski 4y ago
> Jeff Bezos identified the website as the source of truth in the digital camera field and sought to own that source and have it direct customers to his website. I wonder if that's the key point. It was Jeff's project, and like
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by ckozlowski 4y ago
There's a major element missing from these discussions, and I'm stunned I don't see it in the comments either. And that is, ...what happens when things go wrong? One of the major advantages of cloud, be it AWS, Azure, GCP, et
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by ckozlowski 4y ago
Your commentary here and in your post above has been incredibly insightful. I was reminded of the 1967 USS Forrestal fire, when I had recalled reading that the ships captain and ordinance handlers were extremely worried about loading old bo
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by ckozlowski 4y ago
I've talked to these people before on HN here. They're a great group.
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by ckozlowski 4y ago
I'll second this, and add some more for OP. While most of my experience is in the defense space, there is a lot of public sector work. I've met people who work on projects for United States Geological Survey (HQed in Reston), Nati
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by ckozlowski 4y ago
I'm not going to downvote this. (I'm paying partictular attention to the "how I want to live my life" part) But there's a number of presumptions made that I think are worth calling out that should not be assumed:
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by ckozlowski 4y ago
> Any company can get scammed on crap parts, either because they took a gamble trying to save a few cents or because those parts were all they could get their hands on It's true, though in the latter case, it can't be helped. I
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by ckozlowski 4y ago
My gosh, I forgot about this one! Thanks for reminding me/us!
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by ckozlowski 4y ago
Incidentally, I was given a copy of Peltzold's "Code", second edition (2022), for Christmas. I'd read the first many, many years ago. I'm looking forward to reading it again.
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by ckozlowski 4y ago
Spot on. RDS is a solution for people who look in the mirror and say "I'd rather be working on other things than running a database." (Disclaimer: I'm a TAM for AWS.)
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by ckozlowski 4y ago
I just finished reading "Where Wizards Stay Up Late - The Origins of the Internet", and the story of the IMP features heavily in that book. And it describes some of the resiliency features too, including the auto restart, and even
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by ckozlowski 4y ago
The key is stored in KMS, not on the drive firmware. You can read more about how this is done here, in the section at the bottom about "Isolation of Physical Hosts" https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kms/latest/
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by ckozlowski 4y ago
Some good links for further reading. https://www.coldwarcomms.org/ https://coldwar-c4i.net/
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by ckozlowski 4y ago
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