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by gizmo686 1y ago
Linux capabilities have a hook in the Linux Security Module (LSM) system, so you can write an LSM module to do whatever centralized management system you want. The only LSM I have much experience is SELinux, which capabilities directly as S
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> as will you if you let go of the space elevator at that altitude) Doesn't the teather have a constant (24 hour) rotational period at every elevation? That is significantly slower than the ISS
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It's more of the strength-to-weight ratio than just weight. But yes, there is no known material that would work as a cable for a space elevator.
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Isn't the entire point of the space elevator to be the ascent/descent mechanism? Once you have the cable up, you can grab onto it and pull yourself up.
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The solution I've seen employed is to prevent the build environment from reaching outside. Setup a mirror of all the repositories you care about; then configure the network so your build system can reach the mirrors; but not the genera
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Rust's memory safety guarantees do not insure the absence of leaks. However, Rust's design does offer significant protection against leaks (relative to languages like C where all heap allocations must be explicitly freed). The fac
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by gizmo686 1y ago
Testing on my machine, Hello World in java (openjdk 21) takes about 30ms. In contrast, "time" reports that rust takes 1ms, which is the limit of it's precision. Python does Hello World in just 8ms, despite not having a separa
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Also, the proposed garbage collector is still opt in. Only pointers that are specifically marked as GC are garbage collected. This means that most references are still cleaned up automatically when the owner goes out of scope. This greatly
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What you are testing for is fundamentally different than character level text manipulation. A major optimization in modern LLMs is tokenization. This optimization is based on the assumption that we do not care about character level details,
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Breaking up Google will not help in this particular case. The problem is entirely within the Android unit; and would still be present even if Android were to be split off into it's own company. It certainly seems like there is problema
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We've had AI booms before. In terms of capabilities, this one is following exactly the same trajectory. Human researchers come up with some sort of breakthrough improvement to AI methods, that results in exponential like growth of capa
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That's the world we are in. Operating systems in modern computers are pretty much just sandboxed apps being run by the firmware. On lower end phones, it is already common to have the OS that the firmware runs be a realtime hypervisor t
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by gizmo686 1y ago
> The MAC address is meaningful only for a single link This isn't entirely true. In ye-olden days, Ethernet was a proper bus architecture, where you would have many devices talking on a single line. As networks got larger, we wanted
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I don't see how to solve the problem while keeping it as a plug-and-play product. For obvious reasons, we need it to not backpower the grid during an outage. In theory, we could have the owner shut off their main breaker, then override
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by gizmo686 1y ago
Setting aside first amendment implications; this is a brazen violation of the Hatch act on the part of whoever set the partisan reply.
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A lot of banks/credit unions offer 0% loans to federal employees during government shutdowns. Some of them even offer this to customers who join after the shutdown began. Granted, it is weird to think about living in a country where th
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by gizmo686 1y ago
Writing an OS doesn't really do that though. At the end of the day, an OS is still just software that is run by the magic machine elves living in the hardware. Setting aside the fact that modern CPUs essentially JIT your machine code a
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by gizmo686 1y ago
I'd go a step farther and suggest that people start with an existing microkernel instead. Sure, it is not technically your own "OS" but microkernels really are micro, so you don't miss much.
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Yeah. When your timing results are a single digit multiple of your timing precision, that is a good indication you either need a longer test, or a more precise clock. At a 5ms baseline with millisecond precision, the smallest improvement yo
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That's what I asked after downloading it.
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Valgrind can generate suppression files directly.
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> at the cost of, like, not letting applications know their own window coordinates which seems pretty bad I'm pretty sure Wayland applications already don't know their coordinates.
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Even there, "open up this wall" is not a unit of work. You need to: * Evaluate what, if any, structural implications removing the wall has * Tear down the existing wall * Redo any plumbing, ductwork, wiring, etc that was hiding in
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by gizmo686 1y ago
It's not quite that bad. There are about 100 known stars within 20 light years; with the nearest only about 5 away. https://www.stellarcatalog.com/stars.php?offset=100 Actually getting a spacecraft to them in a reasona
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by gizmo686 1y ago
And our ability to detect exoplanets is both highly limited, and biased to large planets orbiting close to their sun. Using our current technology to look at our solar system, we probably wouldn't see a habitable planet either. Looking
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YouTube has a BrandConnect program where they facilitate sponsored videos. I'm not sure how many sponsorships are done through that as opposed to third party agents though.
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It is common to use Õ as a variant of O which ignores logorithmic factors. Another reason to do this is that O(1) is typically a lie. Basic operations like addition are assumed to be constant time, but in practice, even writing down a numbe
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In my personal life, it has had a rather significant effect; although still trivial compared to those in the region. I'm Jewish, and opinions in my extended family about Israel have always been in tension; but this war has brought it t
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Screws don't really support the weight of the object they are holding. They pull that object into the wall. The resulting friction is what holds most of the weight. To see this, try loosening the screw, and notice how it quickly looses
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At least HVAC systems have a mostly standard control system and thermostats are easy to swap out. If a thermostat goes out of support and looses functionality, you do not need to replace the entire HVAC system; only the relatively cheap the

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