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by msl 8y ago
It appears that the eventual objective is to be able to use any GNSS. The page on telemetry decoder blocks[1] seems to indicate that GPS, GLONASS and Galileo signals are currently supported. [1] https://gnss-sdr.org/docs&#x2
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by msl 8y ago
> The alternative is that they keep XUL I do not believe that was the only alternative. I have spent a lot of time reading bug reports / feature requests relating to this functionality, and it certainly seems that much of it could b
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by msl 8y ago
> With utf-16 you can get O(1) string operations at a cost of doing them on code points rather than graphemes. No you cannot. UTF-16 is a variable-length encoding (up to two 16-bit code units per code point). > I think a lot of people
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by msl 8y ago
You might also like Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine [1] written in 1989 by Daniel Hillis. [1] http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...
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by msl 8y ago
> Pretty incredible that such world changing code fits on one page. What code are you looking at? I see "Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Original Source Code" which runs for 6955 lines. By my reasoning that is more than a hundred pag
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by msl 8y ago
The F-117 was retrofitted with the ability to fly a computer generated flight plan, which would not avoid radar sites but also adjust the plane's attitude in order to minimize the radar cross section. [1] [1] Skunk Works: A Personal M
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by msl 9y ago
Have you read what the directive actually says? It exempts pretty much all reasonable cookies: you don't need to inform your users about login cookies, session cookies or user settings cookies [1]. There are other types on the list too
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by msl 9y ago
One JPL-related source [1] indicates that the second copy can generally be obtained for 15% of the price of the first one. The primary source is "Interview with Gentry Lee, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, June 1, 1984." I doubt things
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by msl 9y ago
The SpaceX's FCC application[1] for their broadband satellite constellation came up in a recent discussion here. Page 65 has tables describing the parts of the satellites that are expected to survive all the way to the surface. These a
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by msl 9y ago
Submarine cables have actually been tapped in the past, so cutting them should not be much of a challenge. Blind Man's Bluff [1] is a book about this kind of thing (and all sorts of weird things that involve intelligence operations per
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by msl 9y ago
It seems to me that people are actually more likely to take unreasonable risks when they have to make these calls on the spot. We often overestimate our ability to handle difficult situations and are prone to valuing "getting there in
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by msl 9y ago
KDE5 really was terrible for a long time. I tried it multiple times after it was launched, but always quickly downgraded until my distro dropped support for KDE4. At first it did not even handle multiple displays properly. In fact, some are
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by msl 9y ago
That is not particulary far-fetched either: the ISS already reorients its solar panels when not illuminated by the sun. They call it the "night glider mode" [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Glider_
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by msl 9y ago
The officials "represent" different different parties. They keep eye on one another, so anyone keeping a personal list of voters would probably be caught quite easily. Besides, the last time I voted, the ballots were handed out at
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by msl 9y ago
That is certainly true. I considered mentioning it, but decided to sort of include it in the "not bothering" category, as I think it might be better to cast an empty (or otherwise invalid) vote to make sure your message is interpr
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by msl 9y ago
So take the picture, dispose of the ballot and get a new one from the election officials. Fill the new one with your own choice, get it stamped and put it into the ballot box. A bit of a hassle to be sure, but it does not exactly derail dem
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by msl 9y ago
In Finland there is a period of time, before the election day, during which you can vote at all sorts of locations that have been set up in libraries, supermarkets and other locations people often visit. Pretty much the only reason not to v
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by msl 9y ago
We are, and there is even some supporting evidence [1]. The evidence is not quite conclusive, however. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reports_of_Streptococcus_mitis...
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by msl 9y ago
> We could have replicated the time spent on the ISS with a series of Apollo programs I doubt an Apollo CSM [1] could support astronauts for a full year (although Mir could [2]). It has proven very handy to have a space station within re
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by msl 9y ago
> In this case, copy cats of Jack the Ripper were trying to emulate his (her?) ideolect. So one expects the entire exercise to be hopeless and the conclusion holds no predictive value. The letters in question were sent before the first l
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by msl 9y ago
I am fairly sure that "US 6116545 A" [1] is the patent in question. [1] https://www.google.com/patents/US6116545
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by msl 9y ago
You used to be able (maybe still are?) to "rm" the files on a mounted efivarfs. See the relevant systemd issue ([1]). [1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402
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by msl 9y ago
One problem here would probably be turbopumps [1] running dry. These things run very close to their limits when fully stressed and would presumably run higher still if they no longer needed to pressurize anything. The fuel is also used as a
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by msl 9y ago
The Apollo Guidance Computer used core rope memory [1] as ROM and magnetic-core memory as RAM. Both are non-volatile. The command module did not have a redundant computer or memory, but the lunar module came with a second computer [2] of a
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by msl 9y ago
You might want to consider trying another manufacturer's disks next. None of the SSDs tested by The Tech Report failed anywhere near that early [1]. [1] http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-exp
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by msl 9y ago
According to Wikipedia [1], it's more like 8 glasses (2,5 dl/ 1 cup per glass) of orange juice. That's 2 liters. The apple/grape juice carton I have handy gives a very similiar number. What kind of juice (or portion size
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by msl 9y ago
I feel the article is not quite fair in its coverage of Hackers . Sure, the movie gets many things absurdly wrong, but it also depicts social engineering (calling a security guard and tricking him into telling the hacker a modem's pho
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by msl 9y ago
I suppose there is no point in trying to find rich ore deposits either? After all, the ore has to be refined anyway. Sure, the processor will want to seperate, say, aluminum from iron, and remove any glass from either stream, but I am fairl
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by msl 9y ago
> Centralized trash sorting seems like a much more efficient solution How is this supposed to work? Sorting trash into many containers takes me a little more time and effort and pretty much exactly as much energy as putting it all in one
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by msl 9y ago
> Uploading/flashing code is annoying [...] A nice thing about MicroPython is that you only need to flash the chip once - at least if it has enough flash storage to support a file system. Once flashed, you can work on a REPL (over e

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