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by p_l 10mo ago
Essentially the story of DoD mandates goes down to everyone getting waivers all the time and nuking the mandate.
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by p_l 10mo ago
TL;DR Ada programmers were more expensive
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by p_l 11mo ago
A cubicle had more space than I got in most jobs. In one I even ended up switching headphones because the sound leakage from my headphones was too loud for others
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by p_l 11mo ago
Sometimes the "quiet layoff" [1] aspect of RTO leaks publicly though. [1] If they get to call shit on workers with "quiet quitting" etc. they get the same back
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by p_l 11mo ago
Maybe if the office was not a hellscape? Not just the commute, the offices themselves. I didn't work in a properly colocated team since 2017, and that was mostly by accident. The norm is zoom/teams calls, often taken from the desk
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by p_l 11mo ago
The nature of modern offices pretty much prevents deep work. You're not going to get deep work when you pack people like sardines into neat rows of desks, where pretty much at any time someone within one row away is going to be in a me
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by p_l 11mo ago
In early 1990s, when possibility of radiation caused upsets came to airliners, tests were conducted with various kinds of radiation including firing heavy ions from particle accelerators
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by p_l 11mo ago
It was Honeywell parts that failed in previous two events (2006 and 2008) EDIT: properly credited, it was Thales Honeywell I guess :)
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by p_l 11mo ago
Updates are distributed online, but applied by technician with a portable data loader device (a computer with special - partially standardized - interface cable). The actual update in this case is about 15 minute work, the often seen "
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by p_l 11mo ago
There was more than one case where pilots would accidentally fight and break the linkage, or one would overpower the other. One glider instructor talked about taking a stick with him in case of panicking student, so they could hit them hard
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by p_l 11mo ago
For the same reasons that Honeywell is building new devices with AMD 29050 CPUs today[1] - by sticking with the same CPU ISA, they can avoid recertifying portion of the software stack. [1] Honeywell actually bought full license et al from A
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by p_l 11mo ago
The incident report on the 2008 case specifically mentions SEU for memory - certain level of EDAC techniques is applied on the whole unit, but one area that was not covered was the possibility of non-catastrophic (in terms of operation) f
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by p_l 11mo ago
Yes, and it's not the scanners that fail. Scanner upgrades are mostly effective against weapon smuggling , not carrying on board by determined team.
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by p_l 11mo ago
One thing to remember is that unless you explicitly made a device to operate in space and even there beyond LEO , you quite probably might have seen no requirement for ECC memory for radiation reasons. ECC memory usage in the past was heav
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by p_l 11mo ago
Only if the actual "drive letter" assigned to the drive is the special value for "auto". Otherwise, the drive letter is allocated statically and won't be used by another volume.
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by p_l 11mo ago
That's because some filesystems like NTFS expose necessary metadata for integration and some don't. FAT and exFAT do not.
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by p_l 11mo ago
Cold War involved a lot of imperfect knowledge - until Gorbachev, soviet leaders were utterly convinced that USA plans to attack first. On one hand, it was paranoia, on the other hand, US intelligence actions including gleeful setup of mass
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by p_l 11mo ago
Toyota has also been working on "hydrogen cartridges" that can be quick swapped including just delivering them like fuel cans
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by p_l 11mo ago
My favourite is how it works on Chrome but only if you have only one proper GPU (Swiftshader does not count). If you have 2, especially dissimilar ones (different vulkan backends) WebGPU will fail to even list the adapters, a big that by no
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by p_l 11mo ago
The issue is that Qualcomm is critical path in that and they don't cooperate nicely even with Microsoft
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Qualcomm's problematic changes to Arduino policies(twitter.com)
5 points by p_l 11mo ago|3 comments
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by p_l 11mo ago
Quote from possibly a bit too alarmingly written tweet outrage summary fully irrevocable license to all user content surveillance-grade ai monitoring baked into “improvements” patent-infringement shield clause turning your uploads into liab
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by p_l 11mo ago
My understanding is that GlosSI isn't actually required for using Steam Controller, but what it does is add SteamInput, aka the whole complex rebinding layer that also handles things like custom multi-level menus etc. to games that exp
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by p_l 11mo ago
It is still a major non-trivial difference between implementing USB-A header (super trivial, just wire up the lines) and implementing USB-C - needs additional TCPC with enough ports, located nearby enough, plus flash rom, plus possibly an e
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by p_l 11mo ago
USB-C requires additional "Type C Port Controller" which does increase complexity compared to USB-A
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by p_l 11mo ago
Funnily enough AMD was actually the first with GPGPU... they just floundered and managed to start 3 or more completely new software stacks for it, while CUDA focused not just on keeping one backward compatible one, but also made it work fro
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by p_l 11mo ago
All you need is good HID driver in OS... unless the application hardcodes expectations about XBox controller
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by p_l 11mo ago
It's related to XInput making that easier option on Windows, from my understanding. Especially if you supported both XBox and Windows. So the only complex HID game controllers are for very much enthusiast setups, which are rare enough
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by p_l 11mo ago
NHS services originally (tories have been chipping at it a lot) had all NHS services delivered by NHS staff and infrastructure, with I think one major exception being dentistry. In Poland we have public insurance system (also slowly killed
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by p_l 11mo ago
That's the true magic of "modern standby". The OS can just leave BT on and still get interrupt and service it.

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