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> You can also set init_on_free=1 in linux cmdline, the kernel will overwrite freed memory. Does this only work with kernel buffers? I’m wondering how glibc handles freed memory. I…

Can we talk about capacitive buttons while we’re at it? Worse in every way from a usability perspective. Supposedly more reliable, yet I’ve had plenty of failures. My damn dishwash…

BMW uses a rotary encoder for their iDrive thing. I have it in my 2011 3 series. People trash talk it, but I actually like it.

I’d become a burner technician for boilers. You have to be technically minded so there are some barriers to entry, and it’s basically critical infrastructure so there’s some securi…

Cars didn’t really start getting wireless CarPlay until around 2021. It would take a while for those cars to age out. My guess is that if Apple makes a portless iPhone, they will a…

There is a serious push to find a way to tax electric car owners to make up for the lack of a road tax that’s normally rolled into gasoline prices. Some people will propose trackin…

It’s actually kind of cool to see Mastodon being enough of a threat to be talked about these days.

> That seems to suggest that folks who have goods stolen from their stores would be justified in using violence to stop the thieves? I’d be happy with a store owner not being liabl…

You could use heat exchangers (coolant) with a thermostat. It would stay closed until the batteries reached a certain temperature then it would dissipate heat through a radiator. J…

> BUT ALSO shot out of an "injector" to fall precisely into alignment with the lasers, in vacuum within a plasma field... It does sound like magic, but doesn't EUV involve some pro…

One thing I've always wondered about is how the ECC is handled on a modern SSD with regards to data retention. SSDs often have a data retention spec that basically defines how long…

Not surprised to see you on here. I was the guy who got into the discussion about the merits of single mode vs multi mode with a few of your friends on Facebook a while ago. I was …

You can attach a string to a foam ball/plunger type thing and then suck it through with a vacuum from the other side. Then, fix your wire to the string and pull it back in the othe…

Another example is how garage door opener trip-beams work (the sensors that detect if something is in the way before lowering the door). The transmitter and receiver are wired in p…

It’s fine for debug builds, but people should be aware that building with the address sanitizer enabled balloons the size of the executable and slows it down tremendously.

I’m not sure about that. Most cars can stop way faster than they can accelerate. The differences in force would be even more extreme for front wheel drive cars where the weight tra…