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Re:Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB Officially Released on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:23PM (#50278539)
you're still limited to TB5's 120Gbps speeds vs 1.2Tbps memory bandwidth on M5 Ultra
I have been known to inhale entire costco sized sleeves of biscoffs

I don't look at the nutrition facts

> The incident was triggered by a valid manual request for a squawk code. This manual request was made correctly and there was nothing abnormal or invalid about the associated flight plan.

> While this request was being processed, the NAS received a message for a higher priority activity to be undertaken which resulted in the squawk code allocation being paused while the system processed the higher priority message. Switching between different activities in response to prioritised requests is a normal function of the system; however, when the processing of the squawk allocation request resumed, the software defect meant it did not resume correctly and the resulting output was corrupted.

> The reason this scenario has not occurred before is because:

> 1. The defect existed in a specific subsection of code within a software module, with an exposure window estimated as approximately one millisecond.

> 2. For the fault to occur, a higher-priority request had to arrive during that exact millisecond while the original request was part-way through updating a value.

> 3. Had the higher-priority request arrived even one millisecond earlier or later, the update would have completed normally.

> Post-incident investigation has identified that when processing of the squawk allocation request resumed, the data associated with it had been corrupted and affected some subsequent flight data updates.

Chris used to publish all sorts of fun wacky exploits and then stopped when he joined Intel. Putting the LinkedIn puzzle pieces together, he recently left Intel so it looks like he’s back to publishing fun wacky exploits again.
Re:JetKVM – Control any computer remotely on Monday October 27, 2025 @02:28PM (#45724604)
annoyingly, AMT still requires me to have a dummy HDMI dongle plugged in to work
Re:Retiring Test-Ipv6.com on Sunday October 05, 2025 @11:28AM (#45482248)
Wow I saw jfesler on the page and instantly knew who. I never knew either! Awesome guy.
Re:1TB Raspberry Pi SSD on sale now for $70 on Friday September 05, 2025 @11:03AM (#45139401)
I actually love the bumper. Solves a nitpick I have when tinkering.
Hmm I granted access to my photos then selected an album but it says "No photos found" after. It also says "PhotoManager has 0 photos" and "DisplayedPhotos has 0 photos". I chose a shared album, if it matters.

edit: okay yeah it doesn’t work with a shared album

Re:Coventry Very Light Rail on Monday June 09, 2025 @12:05PM (#44225904)
> Ironically, this steep grade saved the J-Church line from being replaced by buses. After World War II, San Francisco began replacing the streetcar lines with buses, but the Church Street hill proved too steep.

Little bit of columns A and B

https://www.opensfhistory.org/osfhcrucible/2019/08/10/the-j-...

Re:Coventry Very Light Rail on Sunday June 08, 2025 @12:43PM (#44218014)
The J Church line on Muni is still a train in part because back when they were converting lines to buses, the hill on Church St was too steep for buses.
Re:Bill Atkinson has died on Saturday June 07, 2025 @01:01PM (#44210897)
Wow. Rest in peace Bill. I think he is deserving of a black stripe up top.
Re:Migrating Away from Rust on Monday April 28, 2025 @03:55PM (#43825383)
Same on mobile safari
Fingers crossed for Cadillac/Andretti!
They should call the warp that is yielded to the weft.
Cryptomator does this and it's on the App Store. And it's open source! https://github.com/cryptomator/ios
Re:Macrodata Refinement on Sunday February 02, 2025 @11:32AM (#42909661)
Counterpart was so good and I was so sad to see it cancelled.
The comments from the VASAviation video [0] seem to indicate that it wasn’t the DL but instead the WN plane that caused the scrub. The DL was routed north of the zone and the WN was routed south of the zone. The launch path is southerly, so it seems like the WN was the more likely offender, but I guess we won’t know specifically until we hear from the RSO.

[0] https://youtu.be/4RMhf0YELrA

Re:Tcl's bet on screens that look like paper on Saturday January 18, 2025 @03:10PM (#42751042)
I would add the nano-texture display option on the M4 iPad Pros (1TB+ SKUs only) and the newest MacBook Pros. I recently bought an iPad Pro with the option and it’s been really nice. I can read outside in direct sunlight with it. The downside is a slight loss in contrast and very small loss in crispness but frankly for my use cases it still looks really good. My next MBP I’ll be getting this option.
Re:Servo vs. steppers: Speed, Torque and Accuracy [video] on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @02:59PM (#42702975)
Sure this criticism is totally fair, and I suspected as much (as a non controls engineer), but that's also why I said breadth and not depth :)
Re:Servo vs. steppers: Speed, Torque and Accuracy [video] on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @11:17AM (#42699178)
His breadth of knowledge constantly amazes me
Re:Understanding Round Robin DNS on Saturday October 26, 2024 @10:55PM (#41959511)
> but typical APIs for name resolution such as gethostbyname / getaddrinfo don't return the TTL

Oh wow I didn’t know this but I looked it up and you’re right. Interesting.

Re:Understanding Round Robin DNS on Saturday October 26, 2024 @08:31PM (#41958894)
> Golang HTTP2 clients will reuse the first server they can connect to over and over and the DNS is never re-resolved.

I’m not a DNS expert but shouldn’t it re-resolve when the TTL expires?

I don't really know why they need this when a lot of these sideshows are advertised on social media in advance.
Anyone know what the BART FOTF trains use? I’m guessing it’s IGBTs but they sound more like fixed PWM switching to pattern mode with pulse drops.
Re:Waymo and Hyundai enter multi-year, strategic partnership on Friday October 04, 2024 @10:47AM (#41741992)
I hope they’re not getting rid of the Zeekr because as far as I know Hyundai doesn’t make any vehicles that have wheelchair ramp conversions and Waymo was planning a wheelchair accessible version of the Zeekr. If Cruise hadn’t so colossally screwed the pooch their next-gen custom vehicle was going to have an accessible version too which I was excited for because they were already testing it.
Re:A $1k Wheelchair on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @11:56AM (#41721953)
I think it works in this case because Zack has a high profile YouTube channel and a high degree of trust in his workmanship from that. As they say, regulations are written in blood, and I would trust an approved device over a chair from some no name company somewhere because I have more faith that it won’t break on me while I’m out and about. Zack is obviously an exception to that because of his reputation which I think will help him be successful in this endeavor.
Re:A $1k Wheelchair on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @11:52AM (#41721905)
You should really have an ATP evaluate them to determine what they need. Hemiparesis and a bad fitting chair is no joke. Unfortunately this is likely to be expensive (as noted in this entire post). You can try getting a lightweight chair like a TiLite or Quickie online, but the fitting and sizing is the most important part and in my experience a trained professional is the best route your first time around. After that, as you become more familiar with the needs of your parent you can make adjustments in the future.
Re:A $1k Wheelchair on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @02:58PM (#41712700)
In this case the OP is targeted towards people who are already familiar with this type of chair, so I can sorta understand why the reader who has only ever seen the hospital style chair is confused.

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