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by mnw21cam 27d ago
See the Doomsday algorithm, discussed elsewhere on this thread. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule
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by mnw21cam 27d ago
I don't believe that is true - rockets produce a very supersonic airflow from gas pressure.
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by mnw21cam 28d ago
Or if you have a limited supply of gunpowder but a way to make sufficient numbers of appropriately shaped projectiles, an air rifle would do the job and is much lighter and simpler than a trebuchet.
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by mnw21cam 29d ago
There was a fellow student at university who put the entire Hunting Of The Snark in their .plan file. It scrolled for a while.
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by mnw21cam 1mo ago
Did the author forget to add pictures? They seem to be referred to in the text.
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by mnw21cam 2mo ago
One of the meeting rooms here at work has a couple of big panels for displaying presentations, and they're regularly misinterpreting noise on some line or other and changing their brightness/contrast/etc settings. It's h
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by mnw21cam 2mo ago
There was also an issue with Linux about 8 years ago where the THP daemon would start busy-looping searching for pages to amalgamate, wasting loads of CPU time (and I believe freezing the processes it was inspecting), and so people were adv
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by mnw21cam 2mo ago
That particular tool's purpose was actually to shift the Amiga's very simple RTOS-like static priority scheduler more towards a more complex fairness-based scheduler like Linux/Windows currently has, making it less real-tim
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by mnw21cam 2mo ago
Software that tried to implement memory protection or virtual memory on the Amiga had to have a huge long hit-list of software that set the AllocMem flags incorrectly and had to be treated differently. That's because the MEMF_PUBLIC fl
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by mnw21cam 2mo ago
AmigaOS couldn't be described as a RTOS proper, not like QNX. For one, it had a forbid() system call which would stop the scheduler from pre-empting the current running process. It had no guarantees on latency, which is the essence of
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by mnw21cam 2mo ago
Yeah, it works really well on a tiny screen, surprisingly enough.
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by mnw21cam 2mo ago
On Android there is Endless ATC. It also appears to be on Steam.
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by mnw21cam 2mo ago
Agreed. It'd be great for after the person has left the DV situation but not really beforehand.
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by mnw21cam 3mo ago
It's not just so that a few people can tune engines. The majority of the MOT is the roadworthiness check.
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by mnw21cam 3mo ago
I don't think "enormous costs" is a strong argument here. The annual MOT is usually under £50, and that includes a fairly comprehensive roadworthiness check and emissions check. A stronger argument would be that a car owner c
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by mnw21cam 3mo ago
PSA: Flashing someone is never a signal that you're giving them priority. That is explicitly forbidden in the highway code and dangerous. Flashing someone, like using the horn, only means "I'm here, just in case you didn&#x27
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by mnw21cam 3mo ago
My 18 year old A3 reads about 1mph higher than the true speed at motorway speeds. It's pretty spot-on, which is very unusual.
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by mnw21cam 4mo ago
I'm not.
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by mnw21cam 4mo ago
It's a "drop everything and patch" if you have a large multi-user server where you don't completely trust all of the users. Like say in a university with a server that students can log in to, like I have just had the joy
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by mnw21cam 4mo ago
I used one of these to win an inter-school science competition when I was ~13. It was a minute timer. The competition board doubted I had built it all myself, so they plonked it down in front of me and demanded I draw the circuit diagram in
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by mnw21cam 4mo ago
How many capacitors do you have that can hold their charge for 55 years?
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by mnw21cam 4mo ago
To go along with these, aurora light consists of emissions at specific wavelengths, and this can potentially interact with the optical system of the camera you use to produce interference patterns. If you see these patterns (which can appea
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by mnw21cam 5mo ago
Yeah, but that one's ok because it's just named after the guy who wrote it.
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by mnw21cam 5mo ago
Price, no. Value - probably.
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by mnw21cam 5mo ago
Yeah. Recurring card purchases are hard to stop. They can keep going even after the card has been cancelled or expired. The direct debit guarantee is so nice in comparison.
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by mnw21cam 5mo ago
I'm getting a 403 forbidden on this page.
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by mnw21cam 5mo ago
Agreed. It should get itself into a twist with the undefined output being fed into the input and therefore the output always being undefined or 1. Likewise, level 2.12 is a bit messed up, given you can ignore BitLineBar. I'm not sure
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by mnw21cam 6mo ago
It's an LCD display.
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by mnw21cam 6mo ago
I think Zstandard would be the most benign example.
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by mnw21cam 6mo ago
I don't see the problem with this. It's inadvisable to try to stop the police from doing whatever they want to do if they assert that they have the right to do it. You then get the lawyers involved and sort it out afterwards. Comp

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