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by repiret 2y ago
Not to take away from the depravity of Japanese violence in WWII, but 300,000/7,000≈43. The rate was either higher, or “a matter of days” is probably the wrong term.
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by repiret 2y ago
A space in an otherwise 8.3 file name would still be treated as a long file name and get a ~1 shot name alias.
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by repiret 2y ago
At least in the Western United States, most hunting is done on publicly owned land, and there's enormous swaths of public land with absolutely zero cell phone coverage.
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by repiret 2y ago
It is not unreasonable to think of bats as flying mice.
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by repiret 2y ago
There’s nothing to sort. In Binary, a Mersenne prime comprises only the digit 1.
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by repiret 2y ago
Apple was also first to bring multitouch and high DPI displays to consumers. They were slow with OLED, and they have also been slow with each new generation of cell phone radio standards.
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by repiret 2y ago
Alternatively, let me choose the font sizes and weights and such independently. I don’t need to look at the same point size for two fonts, I need to look at two fonts where I set the size and whatever to be how I would set them in my code e
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by repiret 2y ago
In my experience in the US, it's about the same. Although it seems my house doesn't get quite as sick as yours; I don't think I've ever been sick enough long enough to take 10 days off work.
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by repiret 2y ago
If there's a $100,000 oscilloscope, then it's there to get used. Specifically, it's there to allow the >$100,000/year engineer to get their work done more quickly. And the engineer is there because the company think
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by repiret 2y ago
A good point indeed! There are certainly grumpy controllers and a time for discipline, but there is a strong culture around continuous improvement and safety throughout aviation. A phone number from a controller is not nearly as adversaria
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by repiret 2y ago
Specifically, they say that if (they think) you’re breaking a rule. When you get to a phase of flight that you have the bandwidth to do so, they’ll give you a phone number to call after you’ve landed. From there you might just get chewed o
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by repiret 2y ago
Typically in utility co-ops, every utility user is an owner. My local power company is a co-op. I get a vote on who is on the board. I get a dividend from time to time. They waste an inordinate amount of money on feel-good marketing crap j
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by repiret 2y ago
Are you aware of a form of library subject to US law that lends copyrighted digital assets without either a license from the copyright holder or legal trouble from the copyright holder?
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by repiret 2y ago
On a recent trip home from the airport, there were 4 charging stations in range, three of which are 60kW, so I drove to the 150kW station. Except 3/4 of the chargers there were out of order, and the remaining one was going at 30kW and
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by repiret 2y ago
It is quantized, but not necessarily to a power of two. RAM and flash sizes of 3x2^n are common even in contemporary microcontrollers, and it’s clearly possible to use fewer R chips then your bus decoder supports in the less integrated comp
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by repiret 2y ago
I initially had the same reaction although having read the whole thread, the author convinced me that SUID is in fact a fatally flawed architecture and that run0's client-server architecture is correct.
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by repiret 2y ago
My wife runs a small medical clinic. In the past, she worked as a physical medical biller contracting for large hospital systems, which gives her an unusually good understanding of how to submit a good claim to an insurance company. Despi
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by repiret 3y ago
That seems plausible. I wasn’t deeply involved in the investigation, but the silicon vendor supports the cosmic ray hypothesis.
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by repiret 3y ago
I am of the opinion that far more than safety critical systems should use ECC. You should use ECC anytime bit flips might cost you more money then the ECC does, which is why I insist on ECC for my desktop computers.
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by repiret 3y ago
At work we make a hardware product, and among other things, it has a small microcontroller on it. We keep several hundred instances of our product to run automated integration tests. At that scale, we find SRAM bit-flips one of the microc
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by repiret 3y ago
I can't even stop my family that lives with me from overloading crappy extension cords; most people, including my tenants, don't know enough to avoid overloading extension cords. Frankly, all extension cords with a NEMA 5-15 or 1
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by repiret 3y ago
The math really isn't that different from "should I install solar on my house". Although I live (and own rental properties) in an area with lots of sunshine, we also have relatively inexpensive electricity, about 15% cheaper
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by repiret 3y ago
As a landlord, I would not approve of this tomfoolery in any of my buildings. Safety hazards I see include: Solar panels on the roof that aren’t bolted dow; I don’t care what wind speed they’re rated for. Wires running from them to the ins
84.
by repiret 3y ago
Solar panels can sit in the sun without producing any power at all just fine. The sun will cause a voltage to develop on the solar panels output terminals, but if that voltage is not enough to cause current to flow, for example, because of
85.
by repiret 3y ago
Incidentally, you often put magnets in a hydraulic sump for much the same reason.
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by repiret 3y ago
One of the systems I maintain at work uses enormous, highly compressible, text files, which need to be compressed once and decompressed many times. Decompression speed isn't critical, it just needs to keep up with processing the decom
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by repiret 3y ago
20 cents? I pay 13/kWh.
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by repiret 3y ago
Is that because you mismanaged their security features and locked yourself out but they were working as designed, or because they failed? If the latter, I think we can expect a higher quality bar from an integrated solution. If the former,
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by repiret 3y ago
It's always seemed crazy to me that the TPMs are separate chips rather than being integrated with the CPU; at least in the same package if not on the same die. That would make the bar for attacks like this much much higher.
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by repiret 3y ago
I’m not convinced that actually happens very often. I can’t remember a case where it has happened to me, and consider that changing to a type with a different number of seats would require issue in new tickets. And you need to balance deman

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