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When you're trying to hit something moving 20kt, with something moving 30-35kt, from a few thousand yards, it doesn't take much error in estimating speed, heading, or distance, to …

So, no, you've not worked with batteries, battery management systems, or anything of the sort. Determining battery health is hard.

I'm guessing you've not dealt with power electronics and batteries terribly much. Depending on what limit has been hit, it's quite likely there is no way to log the cause of the er…

I've suggested to a range of people that if their only complaint is runtime, and the phone is a few years old, getting someone to replace the battery is far cheaper than a new phon…

I'm pretty sure that a lot of people are very happy with water resistance in exchange for having to do a bit more work to replace a battery (that they don't actually replace). The …

Imagine the tradeoffs, though. A "user-serviceable battery," by requirements, is going to be a hard shell plastic sort of thing - which means a decent fraction of the "total batter…

It was more to prevent unexpected shutdowns. Which, I'll add, were a problem with Android devices at the time, and the Nexus 5, in particular, had three battery OEMs, one of which …

> My genuine hope is that secretly we actually are really good with drones and just strategically have decided not to broadcast it... What would you call the Reapers and such? The …

The book from a year or two ago, "Means of Control," by Tau, goes into some pretty good detail on the data collection and sales from just the adtech firms - where the entire ecosys…

They're an absolute pain in the rear to deal with, because they're self igniting, and it propagates between cells. Your typical lithium 18650 - vape cell, old laptop cell, whatever…

> I treat it now more like advice from a friend. Great information that isn't necessarily right and often wrong without having any idea it is wrong. "Drunken uncle at a bar, known …

I don't believe it was capable of it, which is why it was so massive. The SR-71, which required inflight refueling repeatedly, only held 80k pounds of fuel (about 12k gallons). I d…

Per Wikipedia, the XB70 carried: 300,000 pounds (140,000 kg) / 46,745 US gal (38,923 imp gal; 176,950 L), on a maximum takeoff weight of 542,000 lb - so about 55% of takeoff weight…

> ...especially when someone is particularly passionate about them. The engineer-type brain is very much prone to "... in order to prove we can, " as opposed to "Because we should.…

That era of aviation was nuts. I wish I was around for it. Men with slide rules working out the limits of material science, aerodynamics, and everything else, all at once. Because …

I tried the whole "ads and reach" thing for a while, discovered I actually don't care about it for "beer money" levels of revenue, and went back to just blogging about that which I…

> Consolidating most of the web into giant content silos is one of the worst things to happen to it I'm not sure that "giant content silos," alone, is the harm. But as soon as you …

> (see also: what causes lift in an airfoil) That's easy! It pushes air down, and the reaction force is what we call lift! ... now, why it pushes air down... there be many computat…

It'll usually be listed in the BIOS upgrade guide. I've only ever seen the "weird recovery methods" on more performance-oriented mainboards - your RGB-heavy "gamer" boards tend to …

Yes, in some cases. The common case for this would be writing the flash chip ("Updating the BIOS"). Some boards are more cautious about this than others, and a lot of "enthusiast" …

Neko! It's been software for many decades - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software) I'm glad it's enjoyed. I very much like having him chasing around, even if it's a bit dist…

You have the ability to push files from one AppVM to another - they appear in ~/QubesIncoming/[source-vm-name]/ and you can do what you want with them from there. I do this regular…

QubesOS is very much not "Linux on the hardware." It is silos of isolation, interacting freely at the window level. I wrote on it some while back: https://www.sevarg.net/2023/07/29…

My understanding, though I've not played with it, is that Looking Glass is a way to have hardware GPU accelerated guests "render in a window on the host." Normally, GPU passthrough…