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Looks like they're making progress toward getting things restarted: "Update #2: The GOES-19 Safehold has been resolved and engineers are working to prepare for restart of the onboa…

Very unfortunate timing given the ongoing wildfires and associated smoke spreading across eastern North America in recent days.

There's an agreement to do something about leap seconds before 2035, either by allowing DUT1 to exceed its currently specified bounds (this is most likely) or by agreeing to simply…

Fortunately, in the past couple months, the likelihood of actually needing a negative leap second in the next few years has been trending down. This is based on measurements and pr…

I have a machine that's on a Debian installation that I've been steadily upgrading, one Debian stable release at a time, since I originally installed it about a decade ago now. At …

They bought P.A. Semi, but it was for their design capability; they never had fabs anyway, and Apple still depends on TSMC and others for manufacturing chips. Apple building fabs t…

I made something similar a long time ago partly as a challenge to see what could be done with just 2 KB RAM [0]. It was possible to implement some very basic context switching betw…

~450 square feet, with how many feet in the third dimension? You probably had an order of magnitude more volume than 330 cubic feet there.

This is really fun! A possible bug though: I managed to finish Inverness to Gibraltar, and the top three spots on the leaderboard somehow had negative time durations!

My intuition would be that constant usage (not exceeding maximum rated capacity/thermals/etc.) should generally result in less wear compared to the more frequent thermal cycling th…

But if everyone follows this advice, then everything just gets overwhelmed by "hustlers" (and their "shameless spam"), and collectively we're now all worse off because of it. It ju…

The total size isn't what matters in this case but rather the total number of files/directories that need to be traversed (and their file sizes summed).

> I've seen claims of providers putting IPv6 behind NAT, so don't think full IPv6 acceptance will solve this problem. I get annoyed even when what's offered is a single /64 prefix …

If that's really the case, I wish they would just come out and say it and spare the rest of us the burden of trying to debate such a decision on its technical merits. (Of course, I…

Maybe the thought is that there will be more pressure now on getting all the tests to pass given the larger install base? It isn't a great way to push out software, but it's certai…

I can certainly understand it for something like sudo or for other tools where the attack surface is larger and certain security-critical interactions are happening, but in this ca…

I'm not going to speculate about what might be ahead in regards to Oracle's forecasting of data center demand, but regarding the idea of efficiency gains leading to lower demand, d…

The industry definitely seems to be going in this hybrid PQC-classical direction for the most part. At least until we know there's a real quantum computer somewhere that renders th…

> until there is actually a quantum computer that can break it There isn't one yet (at least that the general public knows about), but that doesn't mean we don't need to do anythin…

There's also a lunar occultation of Mars (which is near opposition itself, making it relatively bright) happening in a few days, and then again in February, which should be visible…

> If you do consider paying for either Wubuntu or LinuxFX, it's worth keeping in mind that in the past, the developer's activation system and registration database have both been i…

It looks like there's also a fix for that nested virtualization bug causing host reboots on Ryzen 7000/8000 CPUs [0]. It's nice to see that the cause appears to be known and that i…

For some reason this also made me think of the boundary of the Mandelbrot set...that place where all the interesting structure reveals itself.