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by rst 9y ago
Have you got a writeup of the ssh setup methodology you used? (I've tried scouting around, but not found anything clear yet. Someone's done native support in ssh, but the patch set is hung up on licensing issues and technical qui
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by rst 9y ago
For comparison, expendable payload of Falcon 9 more than doubled between the first launch and the current version. (Reusable payload of the current version is less, but still exceeds the expendable payload of the original Falcon 9 1.0.) Th
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by rst 9y ago
There may be more people who want a TeX-style layout engine in an embeddable form, without the TeX macro language. Or a multiple-scale version of it, which would make it easier to avoid widows and orphans, by making it possible to reconside
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by rst 9y ago
Corrections: CIDR stands for Class less Inter Domain Routing (because it superseded the Class A/Class B/Class C arrangement, which allowed only three particular allocation block sizes).
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by rst 9y ago
Michael Redmond, the only western-born pro to ever attain a 9-dan professional rank. (He sometimes does commentary for all-human pro tournaments for Japanese TV, in Japanese.) He's talking with Stephanie (Ming Ming) Yin, a 1-dan Chine
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by rst 9y ago
You could say the same about the toner cartridge ban cited in the article (and the article itself does!) -- but DHS did it anyway.
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by rst 9y ago
Someone ought to write a comparative study of Scully's time at Apple with the successful turnaround of IBM led by Lou Gerstner, whose prior experience was at RJR Nabisco.
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by rst 9y ago
That function was served not by SLS but by the formation of United Launch Alliance (a/k/a ULA), which merged the former rocket divisions of both Lockheed/Martin and Boeing, operating both their boosters (Atlas V and Delta IV)
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by rst 9y ago
I got this message on a system which has a Core i7-4510 CPU; this is not on the list of systems with "vPro" technology. I've seen referenced as another name for the vulnerable component --- but given the marketing-spawned con
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by rst 9y ago
The spacecraft portion of ITS is being designed for interplanetary travel. Skylon, as I already said, is confined to Earth orbit, with the air-breathing space-plane portion confined to LEO. (It only gets stuff to GTO or GEO with the payloa
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by rst 9y ago
The question isn't whether they could reduce operating costs per launch vs. SpaceX. It's whether they could reduce them by enough to pay back the R&D costs, and the cost of building a much more complicated spacecraft than Spa
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by rst 9y ago
SANS writeup: https://isc.sans.edu/diary/22372
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by rst 9y ago
Among the examples cited was the Sony entertainment breach, whose causes included a negligent security officer keeping passwords in a plain text file on his desktop. It's not clear what better coding practices could have done to improv
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by rst 9y ago
Getting it out of the exhaust of that other rocket is probably job one...
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by rst 9y ago
We've certainly seen gunked up stages after landing -- and a lot of the gunk isn't charred paint (or thermal coating), but soot from the rocket exhaust in the re-entry burn, which they can just clean off.
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by rst 9y ago
If you're doing the suicide burn with the main engine, you have to flip inside the atmosphere (while supersonic), and also need to lose large chunks of the nozzle (not just to get it out of the way of landing legs, but because firing t
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by rst 10y ago
Airlines made $25 billion in profit in 2015, on about $169 billion in total revenue. Doesn't seem razor-thin to me. (A few years before, airlines generally were barely eking it out, but that was in a time of high oil prices. The rece
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by rst 10y ago
So did switching to their homebrew serialization format -- in fact, most of the article is about how they managed the changes (which touched codebases at multiple sites in a fairly large organization).
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by rst 10y ago
Geographically, Silicon Valley is about an hour south of San Francisco proper on highways, depending on traffic. The concentration of tech startups there was seeded by Stanford University (in Palo Alto), and by a lot of defense contractors
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by rst 10y ago
Not exactly like Delta; Falcon 9 second stages are still one-flight throwaways, and plans for reusing them have been shelved. (That might change if they build a second stage powered by the Raptor engine currently being prototyped for their
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by rst 10y ago
Not at all sure how anyone following this advice with, say, a Rails app ever upgrades to a newer version of the framework. When the framework APIs change, you need something exercising the code just to verify that it interoperates with the
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by rst 10y ago
That sounds like Soyuz 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_1
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by rst 10y ago
It certainly is possible to write Rust code that references uninitialized memory, and thus serves up whatever was left there on last use. This is one way to get "...bleed" type problems, in which malformed requests trigger respon
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by rst 10y ago
Probably easier when it's coming down on land, and not offshore past the horizon.
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by rst 10y ago
The Bloomberg article confirms he bought a used TBM, probably for not a whole lot more than scrap.
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by rst 10y ago
Other successful high-speed rail systems (France's TGV, for example) also have dedicated rights-of-way, not shared with older equipment, and rail physically built to different standards (specially welded). You really don't want g
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by rst 10y ago
He's overcome similar sorts of challenges in the past. Early in his career, Zuckerberg was notoriously awkward on any kind of stage. (His 2008 appearance at SXSW was, by almost all accounts, a debacle.) Now, he's pretty good in th
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by rst 10y ago
He may be talking about NTP -- that is core infrastructure code that had been poorly maintained for many years, and he's been involved in the rescue effort. Points off for not saying so, though; without context, your reaction is pretty
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by rst 10y ago
Fort Hill, the neighborhood the article starts with and returns to repeatedly, is a lot more like Queens than like Chelsea -- and that's where people are getting priced out of now in Boston.
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by rst 10y ago
Getcher open-source fork of Solaris here: http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/illumos+Home It's been around for a while, initially started by some of the people flooding out of Sun in the immediate wake o

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