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That's exactly how Challenger was lost.

> The researchers analyzed US-flagged ships less than 1,000 gross tonnage, which includes primarily passenger ships and three types of tugboats. This is the buried lede. They are e…

It's only I/Q on the receive side. The TX side is FM only.

> Fibers and async/await are backed by the same OS APIs async/await doesn't require any OS APIs, or even an OS at all. You can write async rust that runs on a microcontroller and p…

Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that out of all the accounts included, most of them won't be actively playing games right now.

A similar fun example is the distribution of Elo ratings on a chess site, e.g. here's the weekly distribution on Lichess for Bullet games (less than 3 minutes): https://lichess.org…

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all…

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The cracked versions will simply disable all these anti-features. All you will do is annoy legitimate users.

Jamie Zawinski wrote a similar shim layer to port xscreensaver from OpenGL to OpenGL ES, and had quite a rant about it: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/06/i-have-ported-xscreensaver-…

Giant predatory dragonflies the size of seagulls, if the fossil record is anything to go by. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101029132924.h...

It's a transformer - I'm guessing it's the magnetics for the 10base2 port. You can see the two pairs of enamel wires coming out on each side the sides. There are two windings, both…

Circa the late 1990s, there used to be not just this shade in the source, but a message that would be printed in the logs if a 3c501 were used. It read something like: "Detected 3C…

Say someone finds a bug in your software. They're running release 4.1.2. They'd just upgraded from 2.6.4, which is three years old, where what they're doing used to work. You put t…

This is basically the idea of io_uring [0], although that mechanism is specific to certain I/O operations rather than being a generic queuing system for syscalls. [0] https://lwn.n…

I'm not a materials scientist, so I probably don't really know the right answers to these questions or what the correct terms are. All I can do is try give you an idea of what happ…

The gasket does deform. But that doesn't let the pressure out. I'm not in this field, but I know several experts in it. I've helped out on experiments and have loaded DACs myself u…

71: same as above up to 55, then left to 60, up to 65 and right to 71.

Diagonal moves by alternating directions are helpful. 69: Alternate down/right to 18, up/right to 30, up to 32, right, left to 40, up to 46, left to 49, up to 55, left/up to 65, le…

63: Down to 5, right to 20, up to 25, right to 30, left to 38, up to 45, left to 48, up to 57, left to 63. I've also got up to 65 on similar strategies, but that's the best one I'v…

"Vendors keep bitstream formats secret, so Verilog is as low in the abstraction hierarchy as you can go. The problem with Verilog as an ISA is that it is too far removed from the h…

Executive summary: Cessna: How fast. Tower: 6 Beechcraft: How fast Tower: 8 Hornet: Yo how fast bro Tower: Eh, 30 Sled: mfw Sled: How fast sir Tower: Like 9000 Sled: More like 9001…

> Slow as molasses Slow as custard, surely.

It's a classic, but per rules the title should include "(2003)". I remember this doing the rounds on Livejournal.

The word you're looking for is "missiles". The idea of dogfighting drones makes very little sense. If you build a lot of expendable tiny planes with a high thrust to weight ratio a…