nominatronic

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by nominatronic 6mo ago
That's exactly how Challenger was lost.
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by nominatronic 2y ago
> The researchers analyzed US-flagged ships less than 1,000 gross tonnage, which includes primarily passenger ships and three types of tugboats. This is the buried lede. They are excluding basically all cargo shipping. - Very little of t
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by nominatronic 3y ago
It's only I/Q on the receive side. The TX side is FM only.
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by nominatronic 3y ago
> Fibers and async/await are backed by the same OS APIs async/await doesn't require any OS APIs, or even an OS at all. You can write async rust that runs on a microcontroller and poll a future directly from an interrupt ha
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by nominatronic 3y ago
Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that out of all the accounts included, most of them won't be actively playing games right now.
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by nominatronic 3y ago
A similar fun example is the distribution of Elo ratings on a chess site, e.g. here's the weekly distribution on Lichess for Bullet games (less than 3 minutes): https://lichess.org/stat/rating/distribution&#x2
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by nominatronic 3y ago
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water havi
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by nominatronic 4y ago
The cracked versions will simply disable all these anti-features. All you will do is annoy legitimate users.
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by nominatronic 4y ago
Jamie Zawinski wrote a similar shim layer to port xscreensaver from OpenGL to OpenGL ES, and had quite a rant about it: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/06/i-have-ported-xscreensaver-...
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by nominatronic 5y ago
Giant predatory dragonflies the size of seagulls, if the fossil record is anything to go by. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101029132924.h...
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by nominatronic 5y ago
It's a transformer - I'm guessing it's the magnetics for the 10base2 port. You can see the two pairs of enamel wires coming out on each side the sides. There are two windings, both wound on a core spool with its axis perpendi
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by nominatronic 5y ago
Circa the late 1990s, there used to be not just this shade in the source, but a message that would be printed in the logs if a 3c501 were used. It read something like: "Detected 3Com 3c501 (THROW IT AWAY!!!)"
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by nominatronic 6y ago
Say someone finds a bug in your software. They're running release 4.1.2. They'd just upgraded from 2.6.4, which is three years old, where what they're doing used to work. You put together a test case and sure enough, it fails
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by nominatronic 7y ago
This is basically the idea of io_uring [0], although that mechanism is specific to certain I/O operations rather than being a generic queuing system for syscalls. [0] https://lwn.net/Articles/776703/
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by nominatronic 7y ago
I'm not a materials scientist, so I probably don't really know the right answers to these questions or what the correct terms are. All I can do is try give you an idea of what happens in practice from my limited experience, and my
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by nominatronic 7y ago
The gasket does deform. But that doesn't let the pressure out. I'm not in this field, but I know several experts in it. I've helped out on experiments and have loaded DACs myself up to 20GPa or so. I'll describe how it w
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by nominatronic 7y ago
71: same as above up to 55, then left to 60, up to 65 and right to 71.
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by nominatronic 7y ago
Diagonal moves by alternating directions are helpful. 69: Alternate down/right to 18, up/right to 30, up to 32, right, left to 40, up to 46, left to 49, up to 55, left/up to 65, left to 69.
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by nominatronic 7y ago
63: Down to 5, right to 20, up to 25, right to 30, left to 38, up to 45, left to 48, up to 57, left to 63. I've also got up to 65 on similar strategies, but that's the best one I've got written down.
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by nominatronic 7y ago
"Vendors keep bitstream formats secret, so Verilog is as low in the abstraction hierarchy as you can go. The problem with Verilog as an ISA is that it is too far removed from the hardware." I wonder if the author is aware that the
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by nominatronic 7y ago
Executive summary: Cessna: How fast. Tower: 6 Beechcraft: How fast Tower: 8 Hornet: Yo how fast bro Tower: Eh, 30 Sled: mfw Sled: How fast sir Tower: Like 9000 Sled: More like 9001 amirite. Tower: ayyyyy Sled: ayyyyy
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by nominatronic 7y ago
> Slow as molasses Slow as custard, surely.
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by nominatronic 7y ago
It's a classic, but per rules the title should include "(2003)". I remember this doing the rounds on Livejournal.
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by nominatronic 8y ago
The word you're looking for is "missiles". The idea of dogfighting drones makes very little sense. If you build a lot of expendable tiny planes with a high thrust to weight ratio and high-G maneuvering, there's no point
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by nominatronic 8y ago
There's no problem in principle with using public key cryptography to sign messages sent by ham radio. So authentication is possible although it's not common in practice. It's encrypting the content of messages that's no
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by nominatronic 8y ago
Nope. It takes far more delta-V to get to the Sun than to get to Mars. To get to Mars you need to change your solar orbit from that of Earth to match that of Mars. The difference is a small fraction of Earth's orbital velocity. By comp
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by nominatronic 8y ago
> You do at least get rid of the Lovecraftian clock distribution tree that's getting problematic for current synchronous logic. No, you don't. You make it even bigger and far more complex. You can take any synchronous design, a