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mkwt,

It’s not an aircraft carrier. It’s an aircraft carrying country.

mkwt,

Aha! Must be Australian dollars!

mkwt,

That is a wildly morbid slogan.

mkwt,

That makes a lot more sense. Thanks.

mkwt,

Probably get blocked by dirt if properly buried.

mkwt,

It’s from Coca-Cola (headquartered in Atlanta) having total dominance of the south for a long time.

mkwt,

Wearing underwear complicates cartoon drawing.

mkwt,

I think that “Balance of Terror” was the very first episode of Star Trek to feature ship to ship combat with a near peer adversary. The Romulans in that episode got cloaking technology because the screenplay was ripped straight from a WWII submarine movie.

I guess after that point the “submarine” tropes got established, because that style of combat was basically doctrine up until Star Trek (2009).

mkwt,

Can somebody make a joke about “one of the classic blunders?”

mkwt,

It’s a play. And the famous spoiler is that ::: spoiler Spoiler Godot never shows up :::.

mkwt,

I’m on jerboa, and the spoiler part works okay for me. But it somehow swallowed the first part of the post.

I haven’t looked on the web client.

mkwt,

Once again I remind you all that these consoles are not powered by a substance as boring as regular electricity. Oh no. It has to be highly energetic tuned plasma…straight to the user interface consoles…for, uh, reasons.

mkwt,

All I’m saying is, there’s no way this would pass a MIL-STD-882 safety assessment in the twenty first century. So I have no idea how they got their spaceworthiness certificate.

mkwt,

Looks like the top one is MCDU. You can do things like type in latitude and longitude coordinates to fly to.

Bottom panel looks like radio tuner, so just for entering radio frequencies and maybe transponder codes.

From other comments it appears this is not a shop. I don’t know why ATR would use this design. There are definitely other planes where you can key in radio frequencies into the MCDU.

mkwt,

Real answer: it used to be common for UNIX daemons to send mail to root or to other users. This wasn’t the same thing as email, because it didn’t hit a network unless you set that up. But it ended up in the same mailboxes.

mkwt,

This reminds me of the beginning of lend lease. Where the us and Canada built a few air strips in the middle of nowhere that just happened to straddle the border.

  1. American factory pilot would fly brand new fighter plane and land carefully on the neutral American side of the runway and drive away.
  2. Somehow, the now abandoned salvage property would get towed to the other side
  3. British pilot in Dominion of Canada gets in and flies to United Kingdom.
mkwt,

Yeah this stuff has to pass qual testing. Extreme high and low temperatures, vibration profiles, humidity and sea water exposure, probably shock loads, stricter EMI controls (compared to FCC), ESD exposure, explosive atmosphere testing, and so on and so on.

mkwt,

I started Premium as Google Play Music back when. Made sense as an alternative to Spotify. In my book, it still does. Ad-free YouTube is just a bonus for a music streaming service.

mkwt,

The replicator is not a straight energy to arbitrary matter machine. It uses a lot of energy to rearrange matter quickly. But there are still storage tanks of basic nutritional components that go into the process. At least that’s what the Star Trek Technical Manual says.

Also, the dilithium crystals are allegedly not fuel, but catalysts or moderators. The ships (at least in the TNG era) still fuel up on cryogenic deuterium slush, of which half is converted into anti-deuterium before entering the warp core.

Enterprise-d, at least, had some limited capability to gather fuel from space with the ram scoops. These were the red things on the front of the nacelles.

mkwt,

Holy cow yes. When Star Trek (2009) came out I calculated that there was, at that time, 28 plus days of Star Trek video content to watch. This guy covers all of that, plus the newer stuff, very adroitly.

mkwt,

I can just imagine a whole state of the art SAM system disappearing into Nellis, never to be seen now heard again.

How a 23-year-old first-time Firefox coder fixed a 22-year-old bug (arstechnica.com)

Back in June 2002, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth was experiencing space for the first time, the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Microsoft was reaching its final arguments, and Adam Price, using what was then called Mozilla on a Mac, had an issue with persistent tooltips....

mkwt,

Oh wow I think I’ve been dealing with this bug. And just chalked it up to regular Linux ill-polish.

mkwt, (edited )
  1. Linux kernel is mainly C, but it does use some of the GNU extensions, and the most support is available to compile it with GCC. The kernel can be compiled with clang, but I think it’s extra work. So step 0: Get a working GCC build system.
  2. Obtain Linux kernel source tarball and extract to a working directory. The official Linux source releases are available at kernel.org. If you are already using a Linux distribution, your distribution has some kind of way to easily get the kernel sources they use, usually through a package management tool (e.g. apt for Debian and Debian derivatives). Note that very few distributions actually distribute real “Linux” as delivered from the authoritative kernel.org source…they all maintain patchsets on top of official Linux that can be very extensive.

1a. A traditional location for source directory is /usr/src/linux-[version]. And /usr/src/linux is traditionally a symlink that points to the “currently active” kernel source.

  1. Configure the kernel. In the kernel tree run one of the following (The actual configuration is stored in [source_path]/.config. You can copy that file from a previous kernel version to the next revision, and it will mostly work):

2a. make config. This is the original configuration script. It asks you about a 1000 yes / no / module questions one at a time. Not recommended.

2b. make menuconfig. This is the same options as make config, but in a text-based menu format, where you can use arrow keys to go back and revisit previous options. Much better.

2c. make xconfig or make gconfig or make qconfig. Same idea as menuconfig but using X Windows, GTK, or Qt, respectively, with actual windows and dialog boxes.

  1. make clean. This deletes stale object files. This is unnecessary if you just extracted the tarball and haven’t built anything yet. There’s also make mrproper which is deeper than clean.
  2. make.
  3. make modules_install. This copies loadable kernel modules (in *.ko files) that were compiled during make into /lib/modules.
  4. Optional: make install. At least this is available on my distributions sources. If you don’t do this, you just need to pull the kernel image out of [source_path]/arch/[your_arch]/boot. The filename depends on which compression was selected in configuration. For me its “bzImage”. Take this file and copy it to a location where your bootloader can get to it. Traditionally it also gets renamed to vmlinuz-[version].
  5. Update bootloader menu entries.

Note that most distributions will also do an initramfs, which isn’t covered here. Most people don’t actually need initramfs, particularly if they compile the key early drivers into the kernel (select “yes” rather than “module”). You may need an initramfs if your root partition is encrypted and you need an early system capable of decrypting it.

Edit: Lemmy ate all my angle bracket paths, and monospace formatting.

mkwt,

This is the thing. You can’t use a circuit breaker if you’re powering your control console directly with “tuned plasma”.

mkwt,

ed is the standard editor!

mkwt,

I once worked at a place where they announced they were going to start evaluating performance reviews based on number of bugs closed. But the very devs who were responsible for closing the bug reports were also responsible for finding the bugs and opening the bug reports.

That policy didn’t last very long.

mkwt,

In the museum of fine arts in Houston there’s a really cool wall tapestry made out of bottle caps.

Maybe you could do that.

mkwt,

MSVC is probably about the same as mingw. Compiling stuff on Windows is slower because compiling creates a lot of short lived processes, and process creation is a lot more expensive on Windows NT.

mkwt,

Negative temperature means that the system loses entropy if you put more energy in. This means that negative temp is hotter than any positive temperature, in the sense that if you put two systems in thermal contact, heat will flow from negative to positive.

In the continuum of temperatures, positive absolute zero is the coldest, going up to positive infinity Kelvins. Then minus infinity Kelvins is just slightly hotter than positive infinity. Then it keeps going up to negative absolute zero, the hottest temperature.

These infinities keep cropping up because the reciprocal of temperature is actually the more fundamental physical quantity.

mkwt,

Also look at “Negative Temperature”.

mkwt,

A normal computer is usually constantly writing little bits and pieces of data to disk. But data on the disk might accidentally remain on the disk even if it’s not intended. Then that data could be read later by someone else who is spying on VPN users .

There’s also a common assumption that data on disk storage may leave behind remnants even after it’s been overwritten. (Magnetic disks may leave behind some magnetic signatures. Flash drives will stop using sectors that are worn out, potentially leaving data there.) And state actors like NSA might have some capability to recover this ghost data if they get a hold of the actual drives.

There’s a general understanding that data on RAM is irrevocably destroyed within a short time after the device loses power. So attacks on RAM data have to occur in real time while the data is in use. (There may be some attacks that preserve RAM after power down using low temperatures and liquid nitrogen).

mkwt,

For me it was 2003. Debian Woody. On an EasyBytes CDROM. That I paid 5 dollars for. Replaced Windows 98. The boost to the usability of that computer was insane.

mkwt,

Helvetica!

mkwt,

Looking at the link that was posted it appears to be a dummy CSS file to test some part of the go standard library that works with html and CSS.

mkwt,

There are also some plans in the works to fully end leaded avgas in the 2030s.

Abnormally high ram usage on idle (NixOS)

My computer over the last week has (after using the computer for a few hours) shown very high ram usage, around 50 - 60% out of 32GB, even though nothing in htop appears to be the culprit with the highest consumer being Firefox at 1.6% ram, even in a tty, around half of my ram is being used up even though no process shows over...

mkwt,

Compared to Windows NT, Linux is famous for using spare pages for cache, and reporting relatively high RAM usage, which is not directly related to the working sets used by processes. It also (I think NT also does this) pre-zeroes unused pages during idle CPU time, so they can be allocated to processes faster on demand.

There’s probably no problem. And as the other commenter mentions, if you dig down into the reporting, you can figure out how much is actually going to processes.

Hello, I’m going to be getting a new computer soon and have thought about linux. Questions inside

With the new computer and the newer Microsoft Windows updates they have really jam packed their OS with bloat and spyware. That being said I have no idea what I’m doing with Linux, need help with where to start.? What are some general tips? I understand there’s a lot of prebuilt Linux distributions or something what are some...

mkwt,

Usually each distro decides which packages go in / and which in /usr based on how critical, more or less, a package is to the system. It’s often not very easy to configure these choices because it affects other distro decisions, including filesystem structure and paths, and boot sequence. Beware that “just the OS” on a typical distribution is usually a lot less functionality than you get with “just” Windows NT.

There’s also /usr/local for packages you install on your own, apart from the distro package manager, and /opt, for closed source binary only packages or for anything else that doesn’t want to conform to the bin, lib, include, share schema.

mkwt,

Novels are a lower tier of canon, and appear on the Memory Beta wiki, instead of Memory Alpha. There is also a third tier wiki called Memory Gamma. Memory Alpha is generally considered to be an authoritative source on primary canon.

mkwt,

I’m still getting current Reddit data out of RiF, as of right now. Not sure exactly what’s going on there.

mkwt,

The OP's screenshot shows that the entity turning him down is a CVS MinuteClinic. MinuteClinic is staffed by nurse practitioners, not physicians, and it is limited in the scope of problems that it can treat. Evidently, male UTIs are outside of that scope. OP needs to seek treatment from a different office, and probably a regular physician, either at a primary care clinic, or at an urgent care center.

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