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Interesting. You can see the building from the beach and I always wondered what's inside. And while it's the only (decommissioned) nuclear power plant on Long Island, it's not the …

Yeah, I'm still concerned about crystalline entities suddenly showing up. Have they ever fixed it? I don't see anything in the issue tracker, probably because no one was left last …

Maybe their CRTs had horrible burn-in and they had to erase everything 9 times before it was gone...

I would expect all RNG algorithms to be deterministic and stable with their seed, but the cryptographically secure ones to have some additional properties like making it unfeasible…

It feels a bit unfair to say that it is faster by being able to tell the total length from the first byte and capping it at 64 bit, while some of the other formats can store arbitr…

Eh... unfortunately they shut down their forums a couple of years ago. So good luck getting any form of support as a free user even if you run into real bugs in their software (bel…

And Hamamatsu (and some others) still produce and sell photomultiplier tubes. The microchannel plate PMTs are pretty nifty things [1]. You can get single-digit picosecond time reso…

bacon!

Clearly, we should place a radioactive source, a Geiger counter, and a computer in a sealed box. Every time the counter registers a decay, the computer performs a HTTP GET. Thus, w…

At least you can tick the "stay signed in" checkbox and... get kicked out a few hours later with a smug "you successfully signed out" message.

Obligatory Futurama reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vIBijzg4w

> which is faithfully translated by the (hopefully bug-free) compiler. "Hey Claude, translate this piece of PHP code into Power10 assembly!"

> You have to be the one who reaches out. But that's the whole issue. Who am I supposed to reach out to? The 2 people at work I occasionally talk to because they happen to sit in t…

Funny how it went from "just get an Nvidia card for Linux" and "oh my god, what did I do to deserve fglrx?" to "just get an AMD card" and "it's Nvidia, what did you expect?"

> Recently, GPT informed me that the strong force is really a tiny after-effect of the "QCD force" Maybe you should not take everything GPT tells you at face value? I have no idea …

that was the joke

Should be fine as long as the chips have ECC

Isn't Incus/LXD separate from and running on top of LXC? People sometimes seem to use the names interchangeably which can be annoying because I run just plain LXC but when looking …

Meanwhile, the DPO4054 I use at work has issues with half of the buttons, the data returned by some commands doesn't match the manual, and the probes from some newer scopes don't f…

This also confused me. The current ones have very distinct colors and also all the previous series used different colors as far as I can tell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknot…

This brings back memories of my old HP laptop with an Athlon 64 and a Radeon X200M. The crappy FGLRX driver only supported overlays (afair) and so when running something like Compi…

Can confirm. My 3TB Seagate was the only disk so far (knocking on wood) that died in a way that lost some data. Still managed to make a copy with dd_rescue, but there was a big reg…

> When you send your design to pcbway or jlcpcb they have much tighter control over the process, so you no longer have to worry about this stuff. Funny that you mention jlcpcb. The…

> Including things you like quite a bit, such as WiFi support A while ago I set up Win 98 on an old P2 laptop from 1998 I found in the trash at work. Even that can do WiFi with WPA…

You mean Microsoft Windows which dropped support for Zen 1 with Win11 not even 5 years after Zen 1 was released? Meanwhile, Linux will still run on a 30+ year old CPU...