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Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:02PM (#50347047)
Any go service exposed over the internet for me is through an apache reverse proxy. Does that preserve MCTCP? Probably not, especially on an EL system...
Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:56PM (#50347000)
RHEL did release a new kernel. Presumably it has the fix (though I guess I didn't actually check)
Re:TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8 on Sunday November 01, 2026 @07:57PM (#50331704)
until you can't delete a file because it's not valid UTF-8
Re:Do dentists know what they're doing? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:15PM (#50097917)
mine were erupted already. at least removing was easy (local anesthesia + pliers... but the sounds!)
Re:Do dentists know what they're doing? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:04PM (#50097401)
Unfortunately wisdom tooth removal is basically required for polar programs deployment, otherwise I'd surely still have mine
Re:Do dentists know what they're doing? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:58PM (#50097350)
Unfortunately polar programs requires a dental PQ for antarctic/Arctic deployment, so I have to do whatever they say. Sigh.
If only we could figure out how to get rid of the pesky ionosphere....

... at least in a way less intrusive than https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0021916964...

Re:Mozilla Introduces Firefox Enterprise on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:16AM (#50073059)
Just wait until you find out about the organizations that make other browsers
Re:A Modern Web App in C on Monday October 12, 2026 @06:25PM (#50063921)
supply chain, compile times, binary size
Re:Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @02:20PM (#49982133)
Greenland is much better logistically in some ways (I work on experiments both in Greenland and in Antarctica), but the ice in Greenland is unlikely to be as good for IceCube as in Antarctica, due to a presumed larger number of dust layers from dry periods in Europe.

The US has a research station at Summit Station Greenland but compared to South Pole, it's spartan (like, the first time I went there, I slept in a tent because of lack of hard-sided berthing, but then a Polar bear came a few years later and now hard-sided berthing is required). There are longer-term plans to improve the station in Greenland but we'll see.

needs more sharding.
Re:What is the size of Yemen? (2024) on Sunday September 27, 2026 @02:04AM (#49863793)
Well, this is a pretty perfect usecase for AI (although it's also easy to just get shapefiles from NE and do it yourself, obviously).

Interestingly all of UAE, Yemen and Saudi Arabia have significant discrepancies between the World Factbook and their shapefiles (in every case overestimating), probably all related to not having had a demarcated border in the Rub Al Khali.

Re:OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields on Sunday September 27, 2026 @01:50AM (#49863697)
All of ChatGPT is built on stealing, why would this be any different?
And worse for posterity, Python
Write it in C or Fortran.
Re:VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025) on Thursday September 24, 2026 @12:18PM (#49832890)
It also fills up the hard drives on shared server, where each user up to 5 GB of vscode nonsense.

Also, I realized that students are likely to use vscode to connect to embedded Linux machines and fill up their emmcs (and RAM), so I came up with a partial solution for our experiment's yocto image (https://github.com/RNO-G/meta-rno-g/blob/main/recipes-suppor...) , but a more general solution would be nice. Probably better to just not allow any node process to run via LSM.

Re:GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @12:44PM (#49818843)
Let's see how well you play counterstrike with a 100 ms ping...
Re:Europe's "Less" Is Doing More Than Anyone Gives It Credit For on Saturday September 12, 2026 @12:48PM (#49674329)
Yes, a lot of obvious tells.
I bet the 137 isn't though since that's a common satellite downlink band. Swarm who they acquired used that
Re:Cherenkov Radiation - traveling faster than light on Saturday September 12, 2026 @12:03AM (#49668660)
The photons don't slow down. It's the phase velocity that slows down because the electrons in the medium rearrange themselves in the presence of electromagnetic radiation, causing interference reducing the phase velocity of a wave. This is why the dielectric constant is related to the polarizability of a medium.

It's more about how fast communication can happen within the medium. The Cerenkov radiation happens because electrons can't "find out" about the charged particle coming through, creating a shock, similar to a sonic blast or the wake of a boat.

Hopefully I got this more or less right... I build detectors to look for Askarayan emission (a related phenomenon in the radio) but I'm definitely not a theorist :).

Just wait until wireless networks on the moon ruin that too.
These are either incidental or unauthorized transmissions. Not the Ku band downlink to terminals.
Re:Are others seeing Google's ReCAPCHA rejecting Firefox users? on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @11:22PM (#49638002)
Yes, a yubikey works for when I really need it, but it's enough friction to take out out and plug in that it's just annoying enough.
Re:Are others seeing Google's ReCAPCHA rejecting Firefox users? on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @10:11AM (#49626927)
But passkeys are not supported natively (i.e. without a USB key or other shenanigans) by Firefox on Linux, as there is no place to store them. I do have a USB key, but it's annoying enough that I don't like passkeys if I can avoid them (instead using long randomly-generated passwords by Firefox's builtin-in password manager).

Maybe Lennart needs to write systemd-passkeyd .

Re:On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @10:52PM (#49620249)

   It was considered at the least a sin to reveal that sqrt(2) was irrational to those outside Pythagoras circle
perhaps a 2 sin 45?
Don't they ship a propetietary clang variant with weirdass version numbers? That was true at least at some point. Fortunately most Mac users on my experiments have given up attempting to compile any code in their Macs after SIP etc made it too annoying so rarely have to support them anymore.
Re:Intellectual Fly Is Open on Sunday September 06, 2026 @05:15PM (#49591026)
Only if it's not too byzantize to understand what part you should look at
Re:It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis on Sunday September 06, 2026 @05:14PM (#49591018)
I guess it could in principle be profitable for the website, not the client?
Re:Intellectual Fly Is Open on Sunday September 06, 2026 @02:36PM (#49589465)
For instructions you really care about, yes of course you review the assembly output! Usually when you're doing SIMD or want to check atomics are doing what you expect.
Re:Can AI design circuit boards yet? on Friday September 04, 2026 @05:00PM (#49570143)
that's FPGA firmware isn't it?

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