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sheepshear··on Lockheed is now tracking phones and walkie-talkies from space
Historically, it's for dwelling over the interesting long side and rushing past the uninteresting short side.

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

sheepshear··on Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0
I don't have this problem because I just don't update mine very often.
sheepshear··on Amazon Time Sync Service now supports microsecond-accurate time
Correcting drift is exactly what a disciplined clock does. It's the solution to the problem you mentioned.
sheepshear··on Microsoft will allow uninstalling Edge, Bing, and disable ads to comply with Act
I don't know what else the region choice affects.
sheepshear··on Microsoft will allow uninstalling Edge, Bing, and disable ads to comply with Act
> Windows uses the region chosen by the customer during device setup to identify if the PC is in the EEA. Once chosen in device setup, the region used for DMA compliance can only be changed by resetting the PC.

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2023/11/16/preview...

sheepshear··on The EU will finally free Windows users from Bing
Is there a way to hide all of that Rewards, Wallet, and Money bullshit?
sheepshear··on Ask HN: What work/office purchase transformed your life?
I'm just saying if you're dying to use their post it notes but you don't want PFAS, check back in a couple years to see if they've been removed.
sheepshear··on I visited over 120 EV chargers: why so many were broken
The incentive reason is that rushing to market is more lucrative than waiting for a reliable product. The technical reason is that these early prospecters simply lack the capability to do sufficient reliability engineering. It would be a boring article.
sheepshear··on Ask HN: What work/office purchase transformed your life?
Hurry up and stock up on PFAS before they're gone!

https://pfas.3m.com/pfas_uses

sheepshear··on I've resigned from my role leading the Audio team at Stability AI
You don't see how one is shorthand for the other?
sheepshear··on Thermal transistors handle heat with no moving parts
I think "cooling" is just typical science reporting hype. It's a variable insulator. You could use it for holding stable a slightly elevated temperature, like in an oven controlled oscillator.
sheepshear··on GraphCast: AI model for weather forecasting
The accuracy improvement boils down to representing more salient features in the model. The humans got a head start figuring out what to model, but the machine figures it out faster, so it caught up and surpassed them. Now it models more important stuff.

The speed difference is a side effect of completely different implementations. One is a step-by-step simulator, the other is an input/output pattern matcher.

sheepshear··on Why do people still use VBA?
100% true. Teams have team-sized work queues. Individuals with unique roles have individual work queues. Benefiting from a faster individual requires solving a similarly large coordination problem across the company for a smaller payoff.
sheepshear··on Firmware Software Bill of Materials (SBoM) Proposal
They're notifying companies that do regulated work to check if their compliance obligations have changed. It's not an address to the general public telling us that our gadgets will be different now.
sheepshear··on Lessons I wish I had learned before teaching differential equations [pdf] (1997)
The old one-size-fits-some approach is as pragmatic as it gets. Society's education needs have grown beyond what the old model can adequately service. We need new solutions that don't cause regressions on the old solutions.

You're right to protect your existing solution against regressions, and there's value in revisiting old topics in the new discussions, but you're not going to constructively contribute much if you're unwilling to engage with why so many people feel the need for something different in the first place.

sheepshear··on Lessons I wish I had learned before teaching differential equations [pdf] (1997)
I actually completely agree with everything you wrote. I'm also very familiar with the ongoing battle between education and training.

What I'm talking about is expanding options to meet additional education needs. Since universities are a shared resource, any solution must be carefully designed to preserve the ability to continue providing existing services. That's difficult to achieve, so I understand the obstructionist response.

All I'm saying is that if you position yourself as an obstructionist, don't be surprised when you're treated like one.

sheepshear··on To free the Baltic grid, old technology is new again
I think the article should not have described a condenser as a generator. It's causing confusion.
sheepshear··on Lessons I wish I had learned before teaching differential equations [pdf] (1997)
Your response does a pretty good job demonstrating the internal challenges universities face. The interest in making a change was motivated by unmet needs, and it's not going away until those needs are met. The only way to deal with people who won't meaningfully engage in the problem solving process is to go around them.
sheepshear··on Cars downloading text messages from phones doesn't violate state privacy law
Looks like the request is qualified with "when connected", which would not grant permission to store the data.
sheepshear··on SanDisk Extreme Pro failures result from design flaw, says researcher
> What does this even mean?

It means you should click through to look at the pictures in the original article.

sheepshear··on Officially Qualified – Ferrocene
If that's still an option, then they haven't reached the point yet where they have to choose.

They're promising yearly updates. I'm asking what happens when a new upstream feature has already gone uncertified for one full year. Either they blow past the deadline and release nothing for over a year, or they ship what's currently available.

There's no third option. Ferrous doesn't have a time machine, and AdaCore is just explicitly saying that they'll give you what they have at least once a year.

sheepshear··on Officially Qualified – Ferrocene
The manual isn't directly consumable by formal processes. The compiler design doesn't have to be influenced by a specification, but it does have to be described by one.
sheepshear··on Officially Qualified – Ferrocene
What happens when a new feature holds up the certification process for some reason? There are only two possible options, and they both suck:

1. Stay on the last certified version until everything is certified.

2. Incorporate the parts that can be certified.

sheepshear··on Officially Qualified – Ferrocene
The direct competition between Ferrocene and AdaCore should take care of that.

In any case, the compiler wouldn't be certified if they didn't vet the new features. These companies can't control what gets added to the language, and it might take longer than a year to vet future changes.

Their statement is an upfront, no-bull fyi about how reality works. I highly doubt it's a statement of intent to stagnate. It would kind of defeat the purpose of switching away from a stagnated language and ecosystem.

sheepshear··on Officially Qualified – Ferrocene
I know, thank you, but I'm asking about the "curated" language features gp is criticizing. AdaCore does make Ada language extensions (who else would push the language forward these days?), but I didn't think they had any for rust, which is why I'm asking.
sheepshear··on Officially Qualified – Ferrocene
I didn't think they made any language extensions for rust? Thought it was just for Ada.
sheepshear··on Why is "pineapple" in English "ananas" in other languages? (2013)
https://youtu.be/VUuzkA0Qg6U?t=40m23s
sheepshear··on New BeagleV single board computer adopts Microchip's PolarFire SoC with FPGA
https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/fpgas-and-plds/fpga...

Then click on the link "Libero license selector guide" to download the Excel spreadsheet. Filter or search for MPFS025.

Microchip does Excel spreadsheet selector guides for everything. As a general guideline when dealing with hardware components, don't trust anything you read on a web page.

sheepshear··on New BeagleV single board computer adopts Microchip's PolarFire SoC with FPGA
Thought I might have accidentally navigated to Slacker News for a moment there. Logging in, I can see that there's a big blue button that says "Request Free License".
sheepshear··on New BeagleV single board computer adopts Microchip's PolarFire SoC with FPGA
The product table says that MPFS025 works with the free Silver license. Only the -S (security) versions require a paid license. Meaning, the MPFS025T has a free license, but the other MPFS025TS would not.

When searching for hardware part numbers, you should first omit the letters at the end, and then read carefully about what they mean.

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