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Re:AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems on Saturday September 05, 2026 @10:11AM (#49576691)
In aviation all code and doc are available to inspectors when a catastrophic failure or near miss happens.

It's not the case for other industries, and in particular car industry is able to hide about everything software related from inspectors.

Lucas Nussbaum reply:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/08/msg00362.html

"I produced¹ another version of the results graph, with all pairwise results and percentages, so that it's easier to read, for example, that the community is split 64%/36% between the winning option and the most popular "ban" option (Debian is created by humans). Or 61%/39% with the most popular "discourage" option. (...)

¹ obligatory disclosure: the script used is AI-generated "

And provided graph:

https://people.debian.org/~lucas/gr-2026-002/results.png

Interesting device for those using diet to induce ketosis for diabete or mental illness care.

One great thing about the keto diet is that it is the only diet where you can be sure you follow it correctly ... by measuring your ketone levels.

And for glucose since different people will react very differently to various forms of carbohydrate (and associated foods) a CGM is always a must. (1)

(1) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03719-2

Re:NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier on Sunday August 23, 2026 @11:32AM (#49409649)
google.com and fb are continuous services with perpetual running costs whereas an openweight llm is a file to be dowloaded once and then no further cost to the provider
Re:Fixing a Bricked Framework Laptop on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @12:25PM (#49348105)
Old frame.work mainboards make fantastic proxmox home servers: 3 watt idle 8 cores 64 GB RAM.
Re:Fixing a Bricked Framework Laptop on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @12:22PM (#49348069)
Dell latitude 7480.

usb-c port is now dead, it is soldered.

Not going to happen to my https://frame.work laptop, 10 eur part, no soldering, not even a screwdriver, and good as new

Re:The Mysterious Syndrome Destroying Endurance Athletes on Monday August 17, 2026 @12:16PM (#49333443)
The article talks about above 10 hours run time, is that "high intensity endurance" or something different in the context?

(Curious)

Re:The Mysterious Syndrome Destroying Endurance Athletes on Monday August 17, 2026 @08:37AM (#49329868)
Tim Noakes is cited in the article for his 1987 book "The Lore of Running", I wonder if people following its 2021 "Real Meal Revolution" about keto would be subject to the very same OTS or not in the long run.
Do you have a reference for the leaks? I read leaks were underestimated but I didn't find recent studies about it.

Thanks!

Re:FDA approves new kind of cholesterol pill on Sunday July 19, 2026 @10:29AM (#48968503)
Isn't diabete and metabolic syndrome way more predictive than ldl or apob?

Do you have a reference comparing the various factors?

Re:FDA approves new kind of cholesterol pill on Sunday July 19, 2026 @10:23AM (#48968461)
Documentary: The Cholesterol Code

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=57Z8bUb1P94

discourse combines web forum and email, people can use either one as they see fit.

https://github.com/discourse/discourse

Re:SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible on Sunday June 21, 2026 @09:43AM (#48618920)
In French

https://www.francenormalisation.fr/les-acteurs-de-la-normali...

If there is only knowing the norm that makes you able to follow the law that refers it then it's a "obligatory norm" and must be readable without cost.

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI00004...

List of such norms in spreadhseet linked here:

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/contenu/menu/autour-de-la-loi...

Re:SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible on Sunday June 21, 2026 @09:38AM (#48618881)
Interesting, could you cite one such law and norm?
Re:SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible on Sunday June 21, 2026 @01:57AM (#48616057)
In France if a standard is mandated by law (like electrical home wiring) then it must be freely available.

I assume most democracies have similar laws, it's a basic right to know what laws you should follow ...

Re:Performance of Rust Language [pdf] on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @10:28AM (#48280323)
On https://godbolt.org/ select Ada and compiler option "-O2"

    function Square(num : Integer) return Integer is
        tab : array (0..100) of integer;
    begin
        for i in 0..101 loop 
            tab(i):=i; 
        end loop;
        return tab(100);
    end Square;
The assembly code generated is :

    sub     rsp, 8    #,
    mov     esi, 11   #,
    mov     edi, OFFSET FLAT:.LC0     #,
    call    "__gnat_rcheck_CE_Index_Check"  #
Loop is not run and exeption handler is called directly.

Link : https://godbolt.org/z/qT4TsKPxz

In the french system an appeal is basically a re-trial since the appeal court can confirm, infirm or modify the lower court verdict.
Re:Everything in C is undefined behavior on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @10:28AM (#48208458)
You're mixing specification (a language reference manual) and implementation (a given compiler, target, options, ...).

The Ada language specification says the Ada programmer can expect any Ada compiler when used in fully compliant mode to properly raise STORAGE_ERROR when a stack overflow occurs.

Only the Ada compiler writer has to deal with this, not every single programmer on every single program and platform (the UB behaviour of some languages).

In the case of GCC/GNAT the compiler manual provides insight on how to be in compliant mode per target regarding stack overflow, what are the limitations if any. You have tools to monitor and analyze you Ada code in this respect too.

That's exactly what the CEO of Mistral Arthur Mensch says in this audition before french legislators:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I20fcnkzj5A

Re:Everything in C is undefined behavior on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @03:46AM (#48204457)
Ada 83 has no UB on call stack overflow, from the reference manual :

http://archive.adaic.com/standards/83lrm/html/lrm-11-01.html

"STORAGE_ERROR This exception is raised in any of the following situations: (...) or during the execution of a subprogram call, if storage is not sufficient."

Re:I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows on Friday May 15, 2026 @12:42PM (#48150768)
"I've been distro-hopping for probably twenty years. Fedora, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Arch, and most recently Fedora with KDE Plasma."

Missing : good old debian :)

I found this video by Modo Energy interesting on why Spain has so little battery right now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CwB38oLEYM

Solar Saturation & Grid Collapse: Spain's BESS Opportunity - Modo Energy

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