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The linked article is awful -- it not only doesn't contain a link to the demo (just to "nvidia.com"), but it doesn't even say what the name of the demo is... plus there's a couple …

It's worth noting that there's basically zero proper evidence that there is any malware included with this device -- it runs an exe when inserted, but that exe appears, at a glance…

I really wish I could move my personal email over to gmail -- I've run my own local email server for 30 years, and tbh I just don't really care to do that anymore. But I'm stuck --…

To expand on this for @causi: The largest thing is the earth's atmosphere, because changes in the ionosphere (and a lesser degree, the troposphere) cause the signals to get refract…

There's pretty much never a reason (...normally, but see below) you'd use a separate satellite for the time -- you do need four satellites to solve for X/Y/Z/time, but you solve th…

At one point (I don't know if it's still the case) for certain launches the US government laid claim to "100% of the thrust available from a booster" or somesuch, basically not lea…

I'm impressed at just how hard it is to see what catppuccin actually looks like in VSCode without installing it first. The catppuccin github has no screenshots, and the catppuccin-…

I think the answer to literally every question that starts with "Why does the US..." is going to always be: profits Profits are the only yardstick by which anything in the US is me…

I suspect having a color coding material/technique that can apply to random bits of random plane parts, that won't get rubbed off / broken off / obscured by dirt/grease/grime/etc, …

Neat, if so! Where do you see that, though?

I wonder if it's doing L1/L2, or L1/L5...

Actually, UTC -is- continuous. Even with leap seconds. At no point does UTC go backwards, at no point does a second happen twice, and at no point does a second change in length -- …

Hasn't happened, but it may actually happen in the next half-decade or so. If not, it's almost guaranteed to happen ~25 years from now.

One thing that I found amusing/interesting/horrifying back when I read about this originally is that you can measure the computer reboot time in feet . IIRC, in the problem vehicle…

They also followed almost none of the guidelines in the MISRA C standard, which is a standard developed by the automotive industry specifically for helping to ensure that code runn…

IIRC, they did identify a bit that if it were flipped in a certain way at a certain time, would lead to the struck throttle condition, and were able to successfully replicate the s…

One thing I don't see mentioned -- why is the write load so high? Can anyone from Roblox say? (I have a specific reason for asking.)

Related, does anyone know if there are any good tools for learning things about a graph (not necessarily a graphviz graph, but that'd be fine!)? Things like... take a graph from me…

I really hope Streamlabs paid a ton of money for this "cooperation", but from the wording, I doubt they did (since otherwise they'd be listed as a sponsor, etc, etc). Which... I'm …

Or just... wrong. I know a bunch of people that prefer manual transmissions. And every single one of them also prefers loud music while they're driving.

I love Backblaze, I really do, but holy hell is the user experience bad if you ever need to actually interact with any part of their software -- client or website. And it's been th…

I don't suppose you have any idea if there are publicly available motion amplification tools, yet?

I came here to say exactly this. Ligatures make a -huge- difference to me, please offer some example text that makes use of them. Also, please make it an option to hide the font na…

Git was not intended (AFAIK) to be cryptographically secure. Being unsuitable for crypto != being unsuitable for other uses.

I'd say they should do one of these for police shootings, except the whole system would probably overload and melt down.