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Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Remote: In-person preferred, open to remote. Willing to relocate: Yes. Technologies: Efficient Real-Time Systems on GPUs Résumé/CV: https://jbakita.m…

Yes. The kernel has access to data from every workload, and so technically a bug in _anything_ running at kernel level could result in data leakage.

No official word, but the communication antenna on the tower appears to be damaged [1]. Seems likely that played a role. [1] https://x.com/CSI_Starbase/status/1858998330401190375

This law does not prevent Americans from reading, viewing, or saying anything. You will still be free to visit TikTok's web client and do that. This prevents US companies from doin…

Broadcast news and radio are limited to at most 20% foreign ownership by default [1]. Applying a similar requirement to large internet news distributors seems reasonable if they wa…

Although there is a type of peer review that includes redoing experiments and analysis: artifact evaluation. All of the top conferences in my field (real-time embedded systems) inc…

Very nice overview of the Voyager program. I love the words from the President included on the spacecraft: “We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community…

It's like a bonus level!

> Last commit was from march... why was this posted now and is there any interest/activity left? I work in an adjacent research group at UNC, and I can assure you that this is a ve…

As of fairly recently, the average US household had 1.9 vehicles. [1] [1] https://www.bts.gov/archive/publications/highlights_of_the_2...

Per [1], the comment appears to be partially correct. The data prior to 1950 does not agree with [1], but hurricanes were not tracked in the same way prior to 1950. The author may …

From what I understand, they just lengthened the submarine to increase its displacement enough to counter the extra weight. It also looks like the hull of the first submarine is no…

> Tangentially related, does anyone know if there is a DisplayPort-to-USB-C/Thunderbolt cable one could use to connect a GPU (DisplayPort) to a monitor (USB-C/Thunderbolt)? Edit: S…

(Disclaimer: I'm a PhD student in real-time operating systems at UNC.) Each program has its own strengths, and simply comparing between similarly titled classes is an unfortunately…

A large part of that competence comes from their increased manpower. It's almost funny how many more developers they have. I heard from an ex-Google-intern that Google has over 1,0…

Oh, I could certainly see that. I don't recall encryption/signing working very well in the best of cases. If you haven't yet, I'd suggest submitting a bug report (I think there's a…

Eh, half the problem is that there are far too many options to maintain, many of them legacy. Smart card authentication has worked great in Edge on Office 365 for years without any…

> Finally, reboots are necessary on all major operating systems, even linux... Sure, but there's the question of regularity. For the most part, I can do live updates of every part …

"For example, they may start integrating technologies for which they have exclusive, or at least 'special' access. Can you imagine if all of a sudden Google apps start performing b…

Note that this does not effect all MIPS-based systems. The standard has included hardware floating point for many years now, it just seems some OEMs have neglected to upgrade or cu…

They revived the app sometime last year and it's back in a usable state now.