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by imglorp 1y ago
This is closely related to why Sussman and Abelson stopped teaching SICP: it is not possible to engineer software any more because systems are too complicated to completely understand and abstractions hide too many behaviors. So now we do &
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by imglorp 1y ago
> C has many advantages that have led to its longevity (60 years as perhaps the most important language). 53 years by my count. Did something relevant happen in 1960? Maybe author is alluding to B?
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by imglorp 1y ago
The speedometer and odometer at least could be fully mechanical: they used to be gear reduced from a cable to the wheels or transmission.
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by imglorp 1y ago
Repeating a warning from github about the old URL - dillo.org is not controlled by the devs and could become a malware route, is that right?
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by imglorp 1y ago
The post's title was editorialized: the archived page makes no mention of analog. The neutral title would be "The 100% electric Carice TC2: a real retro head-turner". I think OP meant there were no screens in the sparse cockp
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by imglorp 1y ago
An accident on takeoff means full tanks - some 38000 gallons(?) spread along the site like a napalm strike.
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by imglorp 1y ago
There's a lag time between such cost saving measures and piles of dead people. See also how FAA allowed Boeing to oversee its own certification for MAX.
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by imglorp 1y ago
Yes please, immediately. It's been so terribly bad since it came out. You know it's bad when there's even an xkcd about it: this one is from 5 years ago, joking about 10 years before that. https://xkcd.com/205
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by imglorp 1y ago
Isn't this kind of thing a trinket at Defcon these days like the pineapple thing, or even a Flipper plugin? Ie not super hard to get and not so much mustache.
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by imglorp 1y ago
kernel.org was hugged for a minute. Just in case: https://web.archive.org/web/20251101204818/https://lore.kern...
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by imglorp 1y ago
That's about how long it took to bubble up three levels of management and then go past the PR and legal teams for approvals.
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by imglorp 1y ago
Maybe, but this one has all the comments.
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by imglorp 1y ago
> ... continued to function ~fine during the AWS outage this week. Isn't any given mainframe stuff one backhoe or flood away from its own outage? What's their redundancy and DR plan look like? It's not like they have AZ&#x
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by imglorp 1y ago
It's back to this modern business problem: shareholders demand multiple revenue streams now. You can't just sell food, now you also have to surveil your customers and sell their data, show them ads, and get them into a subscriptio
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by imglorp 1y ago
Some reptiles too. Painted turtles can survive under winter ice for months with cloacal respiration to extend their hibernation. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/the-secret-to-turtle-hi...
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by imglorp 1y ago
Possibly eXtended System Control Facility.
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by imglorp 1y ago
NOTAM system is archaic and basically useless for this kind of thing. It's a blob of text which will not be specific, memorable, and actionable for an airline pilot, who is on their jetway at FL036 -- an altitude and speed where "
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by imglorp 1y ago
Off limits? What's the reason? Why not ADS-B everything in the air and let the computers sort it out?
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by imglorp 1y ago
IPMI - standard DRAC - Dell iLOM - Sun/Oracle iLO - HP IMM - IBM
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by imglorp 1y ago
Yale possibly. https://paulgraham.com/thist.html And of course MIT. https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/archival_object...
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by imglorp 1y ago
I was excited to see some evidence, but if you actually read the article they're talking about flakes of silicon with less than one joule of energy reaching the surface. To break an airliner windscreen, you need an energy more like a b
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by imglorp 1y ago
The starlink satellites are designed to burn up in the atmosphere. They do this pretty often. But there's plenty of other space junk that's not designed to burn up and should have shown up on radar.
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by imglorp 1y ago
I agree with all your points and my only suggestion is there is such a thing as "more trustworthy" and we should try to maximize that where we can, as tech people. Absolutely we can distance blockchain from cryptocurrency to reduc
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by imglorp 1y ago
PKI by itself is not enough because of key distribution. In the old days, we had "signing parties" where your friends in meatspace would sign your key and that was robust. At least you know by N degrees of separation, if your frie
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by imglorp 1y ago
I like their observation that you don't need the currency part of blockchain to solve (or help) this. The scam-laden coin/wallet/currency part of blockchain could be dropped if you just want a global, distributed ledger with
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by imglorp 1y ago
My takeaway from the thread: shell companies in third countries are used to circumvent gpu export controls, in bulk, with impunity.
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by imglorp 1y ago
I think there is, definitely, and that will be a solid route out of this supply chain debacle we find ourselves in. It will have to involve identity (public key), reputation (white list?), and signing their commits and releases (private key
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by imglorp 1y ago
Yes and we have the NHTSA (unless it's already been neutered by the chaos) who can accumulate statistics and issue recalls.
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by imglorp 1y ago
Sort of related, I'm curious why SCTP did not take off more in this space? It might have had more telecom origins maybe but seemed to fill some of the same needs back in the day. https://docs.kernel.org/networking/
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by imglorp 1y ago
It doesn't sound like the assassin had any affiliation. https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/charlie-kirk-assas...

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