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Re:Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:38AM (#50334398)
Stuxnet damaged gas centrifuges by introducing a subtle change in rotational speed over time, eventually the motors failed mechanically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

Re:When did Google get so f-ing weird? on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:23AM (#49875469)
Adjust your browser's search engine setting for Google and set it to append "&udm=14" to the URL, that'll force it to bring up the "Web" tab without annoying useless "helpful" other stuff.
Re:Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @02:24AM (#49812385)
The post comment here is 100% packed with LLMisms, so yes.
Re:Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @02:20AM (#49812366)
It's incredibly jarring, and subtly nonsensical...
Re:SDL Now Supports DOS on Friday April 24, 2026 @03:15PM (#47894608)
It certainly is not.
bulletproof/bulletproof/bulletproof .... Gemini LLM
I doubt it, SLS and Artemis predate 'For all mankind' by many years.
Re:Swappa.com for GrapheneOS compatible devices – Stay Away on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @07:21PM (#47607908)
In the context of an online marketplace "Unlocked" means "Not carrier locked". This has _nothing_ to do with the bootloader.
*Asterisk
Re:Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years? on Friday March 20, 2026 @06:09AM (#47452579)
Running X11 on Ubuntu 22.04 - I have a 2650x1600 main at 150% scale and a 1920x1980 secondary at 100% scale. Essentially they're the same virtual size side-by-side. This _only_ works on my nVidia GPU...
Re:Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @06:17PM (#47342957)
The "enriewu" thing wasn't a misspelling of "en route", it was someone's name who had arrived in Miami with Jean-Luc and Peggy. It's probably a misspelling of Henry pronounced in French.
Re:Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases on Monday December 22, 2025 @01:02PM (#46356696)
LLMs are so good at telling me about things I know little to nothing about, but when when I ask about things I have expert knowledge on they consistently fail, hallucinate, and confidently lie...
Re:Charles Proxy on Saturday December 20, 2025 @03:59AM (#46334627)
MacOS, iOS, Windows, and Linux
Re:Making Google Sans Flex on Friday December 19, 2025 @07:16AM (#46325003)
It should not be possible for a webpage to change my mouse cursor.
Re:Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game? on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @03:50PM (#46139944)
25 years ago my 3.5mm jack headphones would buzz whenever I moved the mouse... Bzzzzzzzzz,tk, tk, tk ,tk, bzzzzzzz, tk, tk, tk, tk, tk....
The vast majority of carbon in trees is pulled from the atmosphere during growth. A dead tree is still made of organic molecules, which have carbon in them. So trees are not "Carbon Neutral", they're "Carbon Negative" until the wood is burned, or it decomposes enough to become crude oil and then, well...
Re:I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @02:00PM (#45201435)
The most fun I've ever had in a museum was at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas. The exhibits are interactive, educational, fun... mostly for kids...

I was 33 years old... I'd love to go back and do it all again.

green-needle/brain-storm would disagree with you!
I really hope they bring back the Denon AK-DL3
Re:Making a smart bike dumb so it works again on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @03:32AM (#43769542)
I would imagine it's minimal. I'll never forget a demo I played with at a Science museum as a kid. A dynamo with a crank you can turn, and set of switches that allow you to turn on one, two, or three incandescent bulbs. The crank turns freely without load, and is increasingly more difficult to turn as load is added.
Re:Waterfox: Fast and Private Web Browser on Friday February 28, 2025 @09:37AM (#43206084)
Waterfox isn't new, its first release was in 2011. I used to run it because they had an x86-64 build when Firefox didn't.
Re:Turning Off Zen 4's Op Cache for Curiosity and Giggles on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @12:41PM (#42390418)
I ran mitigations=off on my Zen4 until I saw that phoronix article and realised that in most workloads it made essentially no difference, and even harmed performance in others. I no longer run mitigations=off. But on my old i7 7700HQ mitigations=off improved performance by 10-20% depending on workload.
The misuse of apostrophes has ruined my day.
Re:How Olympics Officials Try to Catch "Motor Doping" on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @07:42AM (#41055914)
*heroes
It runs at Ring 0, there's no lower ring (besides maybe IME and the like).
Re:My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore on Saturday June 22, 2024 @04:54AM (#40757510)
Removing snaps is trivial.
The Apple A8X, found in the iPad Air 2, contains about 3 billion transistors. (This is comparable to the number of transistors in modern desktop computer CPUs as well.) At the scale of the MOnSter 6502, that would take about 885,000 square feet (over 20 acres or 8 hectares) — an area about 940 ft (286 m) square.
Re:A bug which is only a bug five days out of the year on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @09:01AM (#39203858)
ISO8601 or death
Re:mAh Is an Industry Mistake on Thursday October 12, 2023 @10:39AM (#37857815)
And Ah is a measurement of charge, it reduces to Coulombs. Amps is couloumbs per second (Q/t), if you multiply by time again you get (Qt/t) which is just Q, or charge.

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