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Over time, require trusted boot and a TPM. Require a signed age-verification cert to get tokens to access io devices and net. It feels like part of a long play to claw unregulated …

Assuming the jamming is coming from close to the horizon, I wonder if one could improvise a choke ring around the antenna with some sheet metal or foil.

No, they got rid of the load delay slot in MIPS II. While not required in later ABIs, they kept the branch delay slot for backwards compatibility. MIPS32/MIPS64, which came out muc…

The paper would be a lot less infamous if the title had more accurately been "A Texel is Not a Little Square".

99.9999999...% of 'everything' in the universe simply falls down a gravity gradient to be crushed into simple oblivion.

Lex Fridman interview with Lenat a few years back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wMKoSRbGVs

Good video with Harry Brodsky from CU Boulder talking about phosphorus availability around ocean vents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppc3zzMTJTs

Anyone who buys Intel would probably be making the same mistake Boeing did with McDonnell Douglas.

Unlikely; the pilots are (correctly) following the approach controller's direction. It's approach's responsibility to keep them clear of other traffic. Also they just got handed a …

His well over 6,000 word perspective. And I think that's one of the reasons Kent got the pointy, if maladroit, end of the CoC's attention. Every time he wants to break/rearchitect …

Upon further thought, the child can't inspect a parent's environment variables after forking, so my thinking of ^Z eval `resize`; fg can't be the way it worked. Maybe quit and rest…

e.g. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1073

If you dig into the RFCs, you'll see that ssh and telnet can negotiate whether each end can send/receive out-of-band messages about changes to window size. If they both can, the cl…

As with everything tty related, there's a lot of history baked into the architecture. As new features arrive, you have to find some place in that architecture to insert it, perhaps…

Will their existing suits work on SpaceX or will SpaceX-compatible suits need to be flown up? If the latter, I wonder what the odds are of a suit-related problem (e.g. doesn't fit,…

A truly fitting punishment would be that Boeing is prohibited from piggybacking certification of any further 737 variants.

Yeah, my dad was my first bully too. First at my mom and then shifted towards me once I got old enough to have independent thoughts and interests (around 6-7). Led to me being a tw…

Ken Shirriff, naturally, has tackled the subject a while back in a multipart analysis of the Yamaha DX7. https://www.righto.com/search/label/dx7

Close, things like PCI and AGP (i.e. fast/wide parallel busses), not PCIe. Everyone in the late-90's recognized that parallel was maxed out and GHz SerDes with embedded clock recov…

Searle's finally going to get his Chinese room.

Wondering about pH and leaching mercury...

As someone who has had a couple bad back and neck injuries, the idea of being able to position hi-res displays anywhere in space is very attractive. $3500 would be totally worth it…

Is this one of the models that had its radar removed or disabled? I'm not saying working radar would have prevented this accident, but working radar would have prevented this accid…

I wonder if there's any issue with disorienting pilots - having lights sliding along the ground could provide misleading visual cues. I know the flashing lights on tall objects are…

"2010: The Year We Make Contact" is a much more accessible movie that holds up pretty well. It also feels like a payoff after investing so much time being confused/bored by 2001. I…