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by shabble 10y ago
This[1] explains the various fuzing types pretty well. Generally, some sort of intertial or centrifugal striker lights a fuse-train of constant-speed burning powder, which subsequently ignits the main charge. Timed fuzes could be set by eit
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by shabble 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_by_pilot
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by shabble 10y ago
Whilst this is largely true, there are plenty of opportunities for harm from contaminated or adulterated drugs, blood-bourne disease from needle sharing, and all manner of peripheral damage from poor injection technique or inappropriate rou
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by shabble 10y ago
Are there any good sources on what sort of generative trickery a good cracking tool will use? I've noticed that the OSX Keychain 'memorable' password suggestions are almost always /(\w+\d+[[::punc::]]+\w+)/, which i
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by shabble 10y ago
The Stormtrooper, obviously
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by shabble 10y ago
"I just don't see the value of metric for everyday purposes. For science, yes, but not for everyday measurement." Two systems of measurement for essentially the exact same things just complicates matters. Suggesting that y
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by shabble 10y ago
I wonder if anyone has tried to build a ttyrec[0]/termrec player with synchronised audio? Then you have the best of both worlds. Adding some sort of out-of-band overlays (like iTerm2/3 annotation maybe[2]) for extra commentary wou
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by shabble 10y ago
An important part of this (that I've still not really figured out) is, if you're pushing much of your validation in the DB, how & where to interpret the different validation errors you might receive, and pass back through your
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by shabble 10y ago
I don't care if they're good, I want 'em lucky!
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by shabble 10y ago
This makes me wonder what the actual real-world equivalent of the SFF trope 'diamond edged monomolecular sword' might actually be, since it sounds like diamond would be a pretty poor material to actually use.
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by shabble 10y ago
IIRC there was some tedious justification for firefox about this being 'more correct' since escape would close websocket connections and pause javascripts and other fancy modern cruft sites rely on. There's an extension (Supe
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by shabble 10y ago
If I recall from (maybe?) the linuxCNC forums, it's also pretty crucial to ensure your motherboard has a suitable chipset if you want to do soft-steppers. I think the reason is that some boards have various non-maskable system interrup
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by shabble 10y ago
I'd imagine that many chemical plants and oil refineries have substantially worse failure modes. I have no idea what measures are generally taken to safeguard them though. My understanding is that the greatest threats are accidents and
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by shabble 10y ago
At the risk of stereotyping; because he's Dutch? :)
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by shabble 10y ago
That would assume a comprehensive system of serial number scanning at point-of-sale in order to track the movements and actually connect it with people/purchases. The technology is probably available, and it's entirely possible th
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by shabble 10y ago
Simple, use em all, and make a majority decision :P
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by shabble 10y ago
I've yet to find any good intro-level PCB design references. There's plenty of good information out there, but it's generally not easily accessible, and is scattered around blogs, forum posts, open hardware sourcefile dumps,
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by shabble 11y ago
> What are they using to switch all that current? No heat sinks are visible, so either the switching is really efficient or the drive electronics will overheat. My guess, pretty well verified by some similar pics in teh teardown by ken
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by shabble 11y ago
That sounds like a pretty nifty feature - can you point at any docs about how that works/how to set it up? At university the lab systems had a networked home directory setup, and one of the greatest things was a '/yesterday&#
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by shabble 11y ago
http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/ is an interactive viewer with configurable pausing on 'interesting' frames.
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by shabble 11y ago
are there tools or applicable models out there that do represent the other factors you mention? I've been looking recently at ways to smoke-test my network app (probably separated into parts using docker containers) under adverse netwo
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by shabble 11y ago
This is definitely not always the case in my experience, although that might be due to some addon (I have quite a few) hanging the main FF thread/process. I'd love to see a 'task manager' that can show CPU usage as well
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by shabble 11y ago
http://brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/
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by shabble 11y ago
Good fun, I'm going to hope that using ipython still qualifies, and it made things much easier by letting you define functions that join some ad-hoc datasets to look for matches, or read particular files. A similar approach to differen
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by shabble 11y ago
Having had some personal experience in hugely dense crowds (like the Edinburgh Hogmanay Street Party[1]) it does indeed feel exactly like being carried along in a shoulders-deep irresistible flow of people. There were actually perceptible c
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by shabble 11y ago
This assumes the app isn't ransacking your device for as much personal or saleable information it can find, in addition to the nominal purchase fee. Information leakage between sites and apps on mobile no doubt varies wildly based on y
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by shabble 11y ago
what solution did you end up with (soft- or hardware?) and what devices was it supporting? I've got a bunch of things that I'd like more switchable than standard 'kvm' type muxes can do, so curious how it worked out.
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by shabble 11y ago
I wonder if it's possible/practical to model the mechanical properties using multiple different tools, and check for agreement, along the lines of N-version programming[1] for software. It might get tricky where you're doing
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by shabble 11y ago
I was surprised to discover a little while ago that the London Underground has had energy recovery systems in place for quite some time, based around a short incline on the route into a station, and a descent leading out of it[1]. Energy is
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by shabble 11y ago
It'd also be kinda neat if you could somehow tag your trust conditional on a content hash of the service's ToC or Privacy Policy. It'd be rather impractical in today's world, although maybe machine readable policy format

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