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Comment #49221684
> let us ship delta updates over crappy wifi connections to Linux computers on robots How were you doing that? Running your own channels, or something more complex? Also, did you u…
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Comment #49169084
> There is just way to much media out there to keep track of and especially with games you are looking at frequent updates and patches, that your DRM-free backup won't get, unless …
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Comment #49127766
Convection cooling efficiency is mostly dictated by the delta in temperature between the hot and cold source. Coolant temperature in the core is in the 300C ballpark. So the river …
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Comment #49121383
Absolutely wrong. A difference of a couple degrees is not going to hamper cooling a reactor that is running at many hundred degrees. Just imagine what it would spell for your car o…
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Comment #49120503
Running it at a couple dozens jobs per second, and we're happy with it now that we polished the cutting edges (virtually the same thing as in TFA).
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Comment #48910370
> I often see people targeting frame rates way beyond their display’s refresh rate Could this be to reduce input lag?
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Comment #48891401
Interesting; French standard “x” is this one. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NCr5KgIXd2Q
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Comment #48889880
How do you write it; two separate diagonal bars like described in the article? In this case, how do you “flow” it within a word?
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Comment #48889128
A comprehensive video on Buran, from a Youtuber that does a lot of deep-dive on mostly cold-war tech. I personally strongly recommend his videos on the B-29 firing system[0] and tr…
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Comment #48889108
Oh nice, I was taught to write it first a “barless small-case f”, then an “infinite” in the middle.
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Comment #48888996
> Only й and э require two strokes Wouldn't the ф as well? > [for the x], I draw two mirrored c’s Isn't that what everyone is doing, or are we Frenchmen the exception? For referenc…
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Comment #48870479
Why would they put phased arrays on UAVs? They are typically using beam-forming antennas + cheap gimbals for the same purpose. Phased arrays are nice when you want to scan a large …
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Comment #48864854
> Defense show = super expensive Really depends; there you can see both Lockmart exhibiting multi-billions project, and 150m after some Serbian company selling jet engines for UAVs…
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Comment #48863980
But sysadmins should be there to deploy stuff and make sure the infra does its job, not get bogged down handholding some dev that can't even compile a project.
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Comment #48863873
> That might have some defense application considering what's going on in Eastern Europe right now. This is a bog-standard phased-array RDF calibrated for WiFi freqs; that stuff is…
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Comment #48859616
At some point, shouldn't installing a venv be a pre-requisite to actually be hired as a dev?
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Comment #48859344
> Don't forget this is a text editor, not [a] general purpose automation harness This arguable. I personally use emacs for text editing for sure, but not only: it also does emails …
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Comment #48824588
Having B1 seems like a really lenient condition to get citizenship. I got B2 after 6 months of Erasmus, and I have B1 in Russian even though I never even stepped in the country. Ha…
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Comment #48797131
> the author got tired and decided "this is a good stopping point." Or the deadline was closing in, as this is a university thesis ;)
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Comment #48731897
Because for some reason, our societies decided that cancer caused by radiation = bad, cancer caused by air pollution = OK.
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Comment #48588222
Of course real life has outlines. Look at these for instance: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.... https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/skala_…
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Comment #48469427
Indeed, and I highly recommend this website for some stunning examples of the technique. http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/
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Comment #48469404
> They're definitely rare. Mirror's Edge is almost 20 years old You probably didn't play many FPS recently: from the top of my mind, CS2, Battlefield {1, V, 6}, CoD {BO3, Vanguard,…
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Comment #48329486
Not all CVEs are RCE. This one[1] for instance is go's nil-dereference caused. [1] https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-29785