nwallin

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by nwallin 15d ago
Another pending example is the 2035 retirement of the E-3 AWACS and its replacement by the much less capable E-2D. There are/were other more capable options on the table, including the E-7 and the E-10, both of which have been canceled
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by nwallin 16d ago
Aircraft carriers are not particularly well suited to be supplied by cargo aircraft. The largest cargo aircraft with the strengthened landing gear, arresting hook, and catapult attachment used to be the C-2 Greyhound. It had a range of appr
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by nwallin 2mo ago
> Honestly it’s hard to refute the fact that we need roads and houses more than we need cat videos. If the software made by my company ceased to exist, every government in the US, federal, state, and municipal, every construction company
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by nwallin 2mo ago
A gps logger would likely be too heavy. The birds themselves only weigh 12 grams. You can derive latitude from the length of the day. You can derive longitude from the offset of dawn/dusk. It won't be nearly as accurate as gps of
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by nwallin 3mo ago
> (I would upload as AV1 but the encoder is slooooooooow.) If you're using libaom, try switching to libsvtav1. It's still slow, but it's slooow instead of slooooooooow.
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by nwallin 3mo ago
The Motorola 68000 was roughly an order of magnitude more expensive than the Intel 8086.
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by nwallin 3mo ago
I wonder if/when we'll reach the point that it's cheaper to manufacture SRAM (with 6 transistors per bit if I recall correctly) than it is to manufacture DRAM. (with 1 transistor and 1 capacitor per bit) The transistors get s
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by nwallin 3mo ago
My feeling about JavaScript is statistically speaking, random JavaScript code is more likely to be spaghetti nonsense than, say, the equivalent Python code. This feeling isn't based on empirical data, tbh it's probably as much ant
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by nwallin 4mo ago
> AV1 software decoding is already very intensive I think you might be misunderestimating how incredible the dav1d AV1 decoder is. Not only does it require less total time than the reference decoder to decode the same video, but it can s
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by nwallin 4mo ago
Wikipedia does not say that the Strait is Iranian/Omani territorial waters. Wikipedia says that Iran and Oman claim that the Strait is Iranian/Omani territorial waters. Claiming it does not make it so.
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by nwallin 4mo ago
A lot of people don't understand just how bad the 3d printer ecosystem can be. Most people understand how bad HP/Epson/Canon ink printers can get, but they really need to understand that 3d printers can be worse than that. Wh
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by nwallin 4mo ago
"Bambu's software" is forked from an AGPL project and is therefore itself AGPL. I have a right to fork, modify, and use it how I wish subject to the terms of the AGPL. Bambu's TOS is irrelevant. Their TOS is superceded b
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by nwallin 4mo ago
I like the idea of keeping stuff out of the kernel as much as possible, but in this case, there are good reasons why cryptography has to live in the kernel. We need on disk encryption, and we need to be able boot from an encrypted disk. S
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by nwallin 5mo ago
"A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision."--IBM training presentation, 1979
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by nwallin 5mo ago
Within the past month or so there was a fix for rtx cards that should unlock a massive performance increase for certain games. Only applies to rtx 30xx, 40xx, and 50xx. Search terms are "vulkan descriptor heap" if you would like t
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by nwallin 5mo ago
It feels... commercial. I feel like I have to read a EULA and hit I Agree before I can listen to that.
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by nwallin 5mo ago
The last time I had a season pass to something, they printed me the equivalent of an employee id badge with my face and name printed on it. The badge was the ticket. How do you resell an individual ticket?
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by nwallin 6mo ago
Hiding profiles has genuinely made the platform profoundly worse. It's impossible to tell if you've just got a troll on your hands or someone who's making a good faith argument. It used to be enough to check their profile, an
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by nwallin 6mo ago
I was on a jury a few years ago. The defendent was a homeless person with mental health issues. The cop was obviously lying about the one thing that was the core element of the crime. It was like a child telling the truth about every elem
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by nwallin 6mo ago
AirGas prioritizes industrial users, in the case of helium, copper welding. Argon is perfectly good enough for almost all welding purposes, but copper is different because of its heat conductivity. The heat from the weld really wants to go
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by nwallin 6mo ago
My experience is that it's really easy to subtly fuck something up if you're doing a bunch of trig in code. If there's something subtly wrong somewhere, everything seems to work for a while, then one day you hit gimbal lock.
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by nwallin 7mo ago
That's not true. The Bible provides a recourse for unwanted pregnancies in the form of a procedure to perform an abortion. Which is another reason the Bible should be banned from being accessed by minors. If a child needs an abortion,
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by nwallin 7mo ago
The law pertains to providers of covered application stores or operating system providers. Or, not and. They are not a covered application store, but they are an operating system provider, so the law does apply to them.
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by nwallin 7mo ago
I have 64GB of RAM and 16GB of swap. Swap is small enough it can't get really out of hand. I have memories from like 20 years ago that even when I had plenty of RAM, and plenty of it was free, I would get random OOM killer events rel
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by nwallin 8mo ago
Single pumped AVX512 can still be a lot more effective than double pumped AVX2. AVX512 has 2048 bytes of named registers; AVX2 has 512 bytes. AVX512 uses out of band registers for masking, AVX2 uses in band mask registers. AVX512 has better
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by nwallin 8mo ago
I am not OP and am not speaking for them. "A $30 million mess-up" can look like (at least) two things. It can be $30 million was spent on a project that earned $0 revenue and was ultimately canceled, or it can look like $x was spe
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by nwallin 8mo ago
Every inside contributor (besides the original author) started as an outside contributor. If the solution to the problem of LLMs is a blanket ban on outside contributors, I fear for the future of open source.
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by nwallin 8mo ago
> Maybe something changed between 2020 and 2025, shrug It's my understanding that this is the case. I could be wrong; I hope to be.
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by nwallin 8mo ago
Hyrum's law is a real sonuvabitch.
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by nwallin 8mo ago
These are light rail/tram tracks, not railroad tracks. The road is the same type of road that you normally drive up, they just have train tracks embedded in the road surface, signs telling you not to drive there, and every now and then

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