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by mshook 6y ago
The issue I have with pure electronic voting machines are numerous: it's hard to audit them and it's been shown many times in the past how easy it is to compromise them. But if you put aside the security or the bug free status of
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by mshook 6y ago
CLOUD Act makes that completely moot... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act Primarily the CLOUD Act amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) of 1986 to allow federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based technolog
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by mshook 6y ago
Typical case of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
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by mshook 6y ago
I call that the Microsoft Office Syndrome. Tools such as Excel or PowerPoint are almost "too good" as in they allowed users to come up with usage which aren't what the software was made for. As others have said regarding Exce
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by mshook 6y ago
Don't compile as root, there's no need for that. You should only elevate your privileges when needed. The only thing you need root for are modules_install and your install_kernel script.
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by mshook 6y ago
Well different sources: https://www.heritageconcorde.com/concorde-pressurization-sys... Airliner cabins are usually pressurised to 6-8,000 ft (1,800-2,400 m) elevation while the aircraft flies much higher. Concorde’s pressu
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by mshook 6y ago
Concorde cabine altitude was set to 1,700 metres or 5,500ft...
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by mshook 6y ago
To put that in perspective: the hourly fuel consumption of Concorde at Mach 2 or at Mach 0.9 are pretty similar... So you want to fly supersonic if you want to go far...
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by mshook 6y ago
It never really flew supersonic over land. Sure some people would get to hear the sonic boom based on weather or poor planning but all the routes were designed so she'd go supersonic over water. There were few countries were you could
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by mshook 6y ago
These are true but with Air France what made it profitable were all the special and charter flights... And realistically it also failed because while flying west makes sense as you could land "before" you took off, going east didn
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by mshook 6y ago
It was also because Intel was like this giant steamroller you couldn't compete with because it was also selling desktop CPUs. Sure they have lower margins on desktop but these brings sh!t tons of cash, cash you will then use for resear
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by mshook 6y ago
As far as I know this magical number comes from Japan as in 1965 they released a pedometer labeled Manpo-kei which supposedly means "10,000 steps meter"... From the last link: “It turns out the original basis for this 10,000-step
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by mshook 6y ago
That's why at the end of the 2010's, C+ decided to reintroduce this "encryption" scheme because people changing channels would end up on a black or blank screen saying "subscribe". That wasn't really appea
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by mshook 6y ago
There are some answers here: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/9243/what-computer... IIRC it was the same thing they said during the launch of the Dragon capsule so yeah they don't use crazy RAD stuff
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by mshook 6y ago
Someone explained it best here a long time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16239612 Namely, this user wrote: To add even more detail, as there still appears to be a lot of confusion: The radar systems in these veh
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by mshook 6y ago
That's V90, V92 could do 56k/48k. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem#Evolution_of_dial-up_spe... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V.92
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by mshook 6y ago
We killed your DBMS: Error establishing a database connection
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by mshook 6y ago
Well technically you can often ssh to the BMC and connect to the OS through an emulated serial link... Serial port is awesome to me just because you can copy/paste...
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by mshook 6y ago
I hear you but in their case they have more than 130 LOC to parse ARGV. Doing all that manually hurts both code readability and maintainability.
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by mshook 6y ago
Just argument parsing makes my eyes bleed... https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/blob/master/src/CovidSi... That stuff is priceless: else if (argv[i][1] == 'C' && argv[i][2] == &#
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by mshook 6y ago
Flu most likely? https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/summary-infl...
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by mshook 6y ago
I kinda agree, corporate email clients made it worse. Lotus Notes wasn't better in my memory and it was THE corporate email platform back then in the 90's before Microsoft Exchange was a thing then Outlook at the end of the that
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by mshook 6y ago
It's threading and the info is there: that's what Message-ID, References, In-Reply-To are for... But not only top posting won but software made it worse by not displaying threading properly (I'm looking at you corporate outlo
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by mshook 6y ago
To make it worst, "outstanding" software such as outlook or gmail (and others, they're just examples) still don't know how to present threads properly (as in who replied to whom), a problem that has been solved for at le
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by mshook 7y ago
Exactly, as https://www.flattenthecurve.com/ puts it, it's all about reducing the load on the healthcare infrastructure: "Far and away, the most important thing to do is flatten the curve of the epidemic so that o
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by mshook 7y ago
It's X-Window (System), no S.
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by mshook 7y ago
That's another thing you're right about: decades a go, working remotely wasn't really a thing... So all the business value of being able to get somewhere quickly makes a lot less sense now as you can video chat with people an
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by mshook 7y ago
Regarding Concorde and from a customer's business perspective, going west (from Paris or London to NYC) made sense as you'd pretty much land before you took off (in local time). So you'd gain time. For instance you'd lea
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by mshook 7y ago
To give some perspective, the hourly fuel consumption for Concorde is almost identical at Mach 2 than at max subsonic speed... And Concorde powerplant had at some point the highest overall thermal efficiency at max speed: https:/&#x2F
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by mshook 7y ago
Because you need to vent the pipes. Otherwise the sewer system would just be a giant vacuum pump. It's even described in the article you mention. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drain-waste-vent_system

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