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I've no experience with Synology and have no opinion regarding their motivations, execution, or handling of customers. However... Long long ago I worked for a major NAS vendor. We …

One man's ongoing journey coaxing an LLM to write Common Lisp code. Bonus "AI generated" poem by Stanislaw Lem, and a five-paragraph story actually generated by LLM: "The Unspeakab…

> I think a new approach might be to ignore the specifics of the old system, implement a new system It doesn't work like that. When you're revamping large, important, fingers-in-ev…

As another layman, no, I don't think so. The "twin paradox" [1] is a prime example. The two twins depart from a common point in time and space, go about their separate travels, and…

You don't really want an agile toilet interface. This is more a waterfall project.

OK, the "typically 10^12 TEC" vs. a +/- 1 TECU (10^16 TEC) disturbance was really bugging me. I think the slide has an error, or there's an apples/oranges issue. The +/- 1 TECU loo…

Pretty astounding, isn't it? I don't see a paper, but there was a webinar [1]. There's a technical synopsis at 8:00. The phenomenon they're measuring is actually signficant. It's t…

The red line is axial acceleration. The rocket rapidly slows to terminal velocity, reaching it at about 25 sec., then continues to slowly decelerate as t.v. decreases as the air ge…

[This is a link to a Mastodon infosec topic. I've completely editorialized the page title, so am posting as Tell HN instead.] [Edit: Well, I submitted it that way. HN stripped the …

For folks jumping on saying "that's not a carrier thing". All comms are a carrier thing. Whether it's ETWS, SMS, or IP, it's going through the carrier, they process it, and they do…

It varies, a lot, and depends upon a lot of things. I'm not current on all the current details, but many moons ago was involved in push notification development. * Notification pat…

You can test ESR in-circuit, with caveats. Here's a good thread from EEVblog [1]. [1] https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/is-there-any-way-to-...

Totally believable if the debugging device was doing something with a serial port. I once hacked something together to interface a PC serial port to a Raspberry Pi. The PC serial i…

My most vivid gRPC experience is from 10 years or so ago, so things have probably changed. We were heavily Go and micro-services. Switched from, IIRC, protobuf over HTTP, to gRPC "…

One does not simply walk into RPC country. Communication modes are architectual decisions, and they flavor everything. There's as much difference between IPC and RPC as there is be…

Ooh, clever. Vaguely envision entropy problems, that some mash-up of Godel's Incompleteness theorem, Maxwell's Demon, and Bell's Inequality, and Newton's laws conspires against it.…

No. This and all previous flights have intentionlly been barely sub-orbital, with less than one orbit. Launch in Texas, re-entry over Indian Ocean. A full orbit at that altitude ta…

Two weeks ago [edit: local time] we submitted a request for some enhancements we really need for our term final paper, but haven't heard anything. We realize this is a volunteer pr…

I don't think so. That's assuming the program will always be in a frame of reference which is temporally unbounded. If, for example, it fell into a black hole it would, IIUC, never…

Nope on the last one:) That's from Adventure.

Works a treat :)