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by fche 12y ago
Use of broadcast signals like GPS for safety-critical purposes makes them a target for adverse interference - like a jammer hoping to mess with / trap people on the train.
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by fche 12y ago
Bleedin' passive voice... "seen as official" - seen by whom? - suitable for what office?
243.
by fche 12y ago
Try "non-participating" by not paying taxes....
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by fche 12y ago
(It's likely there are many -other- hazards to power line working, beyond presence or absence of transfer switches at on-site generators.)
245.
by fche 12y ago
"You're giving power back to the utility company at a fraction of what you purchase electricity for." Not if your region was forced to subscribe to a feed-in-tarriff subsidy scheme for solar. Around here, there was a time wh
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by fche 12y ago
(One must still be cautious - even with 0% interest rates - since the principal is still repayable. If your part of the economy goes bad, a default on a 0% loan is just as bad/likely as a default on a 5% loan.)
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by fche 12y ago
A properly wired transfer switch fully cures that risk.
248.
by fche 12y ago
... or, on the residential scale, a black rubber membrane sandwich known as a solar pool heater.
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by fche 12y ago
The author's multithreaded random_r version has the benefit of performance, but has the problem of, well, brokenness. Without locking the internal state of random_r(), it will be corrupted, and the results won't be meaningful.
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by fche 12y ago
two wrongs don't make a right
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by fche 12y ago
A comparison to perf (specifically its use of tracepoints, ring-buffers, user-side scripted postprocessing) would be apropos.
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by fche 13y ago
A 1 gigabyte no-IO dd is an unusual microbenchmark: it stresses only syscall rates while wasting time with memcpy. (A loop on getpid() or equivalent would have worked just as well.) On my workstation the plain dd runs in 40 ms, with system
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by fche 13y ago
"NSA is only looking at your information" That's an overly narrow construing of the word "information". As you well know, metadata and location bits are considered "information" by anyone except the pen &
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by fche 13y ago
... because this has happened how many times?