If an American moves to Europe and doesn’t attempt to learn the local language, then by a few months to a year in with zero effort people will say they’re in the wrong for not making an effort to integrate and expecting everyone to speak English for them.

My American cousin lived and worked in France as an engineer for several years. This is absolutely not true. He did make an effort to learn some French, but it wasn’t because of any pressure. He just wanted to.

Windows, on the other hand, is a hybrid kernel, which means some functions are managed in user space so that a program has more control over the hardware.

Windows and Linux are both monolithic kernels, in the sense that most device drivers run in kernel mode with kernel privilege. They’re not like Mach or Hurd.

Windows outsourced their device driver development early on to the hardware manufacturers, and they encouraged closed-source drivers with separate source trees and builds. To facilitate this, Windows NT developed a system called plug-n-play (PnP) which searches for and loads driver modules (.sys files) from disk into the kernel.

Linux developed a similar system of loadable kernel modules (.ko files), but their system arrived much later. One reason is that Linux’s GPLv2 license mandates that driver source code be licensed under compatible terms. That and Linux has always been pretty open about accepting driver code into their main source tree. Finally, manufacturers were never interested early on in writing Linux drivers, so the driver development was being done by the community, which was already using the Linux source tree.

So Linux didn’t have as much pressure to develop a loadable module system. So they did it later.

To the present day, the majority of Linux device drivers are submitted to mainline Linux and go through the Linux review process. Windows drivers are mainly developed by third parties, but they do have to go through the Windows Hardware Quality Labs review and testing process.

Apple writes all their MacOS drivers internally, because they are also the hardware OEM.

Okay. But then the thumbnail is clearly showing some power transmission lines? Too many insulators for low power data, and data typically doesn’t come in 3-phase.

If you stick to the premise that the portals exist in a universe with GR, then we can pay much know that space-time is locally flat in and around at least the middle parts of the portal. We know this because things don’t get fucked up when they’re going through.

At least MSVC has a number for every diagnostic that you can search.

It kind of is the wild west. In some cases, I think the track infrastructure is still exactly the same as it was from the old West days. There are some really breathtaking railroad bridges to go over, but they’re also limited to 15 mph because they’re so old. West Texas still has many miles of completely un-signaled “dark territory”.

This line traverses the Gadsden Purchase, a big chunk of Arizona that the US had to buy from Mexico in order to build this railroad. Back in 1854.

The service only operates 3 days per week. That’s 6 trains per week, total. 3 in each direction.

Then there’s also the fact that, how would a machine be able to confirm that the Switch cartridge definitely works? I think you would need human labor for that,

To answer this question, you don’t plug the cartridge-under-test into a regular Switch console. You plug it into a custom test rig, and the test rig has custom electronics and programming to interrogate the functions of the pins. It would probably also read the entire contents of the ROM and compute a hash to verify that the correct software is loaded.

They look like they’ve been inserted into the console by human hands.

Given what they sell these cartridges for, i think that would certainly be within the realm of economic possibility in a factory setting. A lot of electronics still get final assembly into enclosures by hand.

Haha, one year? How quaint. (Cries into ISO C++ standards)

I thought the joke was that the bug reporter didn’t realize the machine is doing its “thinking” on the GPU, in addition to maybe animating a singer.

Apparently TF2 added a “community-generated” map last week that was not only broken itself, it broke other maps too, causing game crashes.

The issue was a model of a row boat that was added to the official game in 2009. cp_premuda was added to the official game in July, 2026. But Premuda is a lot older than that, and it references a version of the row boat model that is older than what was added to the game in 2009.

People have written garbage collectors for C++, but just about no one used the standard library support that was in the standard.

In a breaking follow-up, NYT reports that Kash Patel personally headed up this leak investigation at the direction of White House officials.

In short the insides of the leak suppression investigation, have themselves leaked.

Akshully, they would be counting to 11,111. That’s nearly 100,000!

Just like how Java is “not intended for use in a nuclear facility.” They put it in the long-ass click through agreement, so it’s legally binding.

If you read the chart on that Wikipedia article carefully, the estimated temperature profile is based on data from two Apollo missions.

All of the Apollo missions spent all of their surface time during the lunar morning, relatively early into the 14-day lunar day. They did this partially because the cooling systems couldn’t cope with the full heat of the day, and partially to ensure good backlighting during the landings.

So there is going to be some “diurnal” surface heating and cooling that is probably modeled but not measured.

Your car radiator is actually using convection to convect heat into the air.

The spacecraft radiators use radiation to dump heat by emitting infrared photons. Photons do not require a medium. This type of radiator works by maximizing the area of hot surface exposed to empty space (which has an effective temperature of 3 K). They have to be pointed into a dark area and away from the sun. There’s no advantage to fins, because you want to maximize area perpendicular to the dark sky.

Both devices are called radiators, but they are different kinds of devices.

Solar sail effect is going to be dwarfed by regular atmospheric drag in low earth orbit. At perfect right angles the radiation pressure on the panels is 4.5 micro-Pascals. Meanwhile, in low orbit there’s enough residual atmosphere to generate a dynamic pressure (for drag) of 5 milli-Pascals, give or take (and strongly depending on the space weather).

So atmospheric drag is around 1000 times more than photon pressure. And the drag is big enough to be noticeable over weeks and months, requiring regular boosts to stay in orbit.

You could put em on the moon with a heatpump into the ground.

The interior of the moon is not super cold. You could still run a heat pump, but I don’t know what the conductivity is like.

This ruling confirms that there is no other legal path to obtain that data which isn’t a warrant.

The supreme court ruling doesn’t go this far.

The ruling says that a search occurred when LEOs obtained the geofenced location data from a service provider. The case was sent back down to the circuit court to determine whether or not a warrant was required.

There are various exceptions that allow the government to conduct warrantless searches under the 4th amendment. For example:

• the “frisk” in a Terry stop to search for weapons.
• search with consent
• search incident to arrest
• hot pursuit and exigent circumstance allow police to follow suspects into a place, but not usually to then go looking for stuff.
• searches within the (generous) border zone for border enforcement
• searches at airport security and similar contexts
• public roadway DUI checkpoints and other road safety checkpoints that stop all drivers.

It’s not obvious that any of those apply to this case, but maybe they do. The circuit court will decide.