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tempaway4575144on Max Headroom and the World of Pseudo-CGI (2013)

And the Max Headroom style was notably copied for the Back To The Future 2 "80s Cafe" scene, with Max Headroom style version of Reagan, Michael Jackson and Ayatollah Khomeini.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAEU-Lf60LA

tempaway4575144on The Fall of StackOverflow: A Data-Driven Analysis

And its gone! 'Hot on Meta' has now disappeared from the homepage

tempaway4575144on The Fall of StackOverflow: A Data-Driven Analysis

I have a theory that if the homepage didn't show 'Featured On Meta' the reputation of the site would be much higher because we wouldn't all be getting a window into the bickering and nitpicking. The bickering and nitpicking is far too prominent on the homepage

tempaway4575144on The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile

The idea behind inertial navigation is to keep track of the missile's position by constantly measuring its acceleration. By integrating the acceleration, you get the velocity. And by integrating the velocity, you get the position.

This sounds like it couldn't possibly work (surely all the little errors compound?) but apparently it's how Apollo navigated

https://wehackthemoon.com/tech/inertial-measurement-unit-mec...

tempaway4575144on Time is an illusion, and these physicists say they know how it works [video]

define "Previous"?

tempaway4575144on End Poem by Julian Gough

The original (in Minecraft) used the player handle so the site sortof has to ask you your name to reproduce that

tempaway4575144on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

"Too big to uninstall" is a thing I guess

tempaway4575144on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

That approach only makes sense if trusted inputs are tested

tempaway4575144on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

Indeed. Its worse really, it means there was a bug lurking in their product that was waiting for a badly formatted file to surface it. Given how widespread the problem is it also means they are pushing these files out without basic testing.

edit: It will be very interesting to see how CrowdStrike wriggle out of the obvious conclusion that their company no longer deserves to exist after a f*k up like this.

tempaway4575144on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

You are completely right. BTW It wasn't a software update, it was a content update, a 'channel file'. Someone didn't do enough testing. edit: or any testing at all?

https://x.com/George_Kurtz/status/1814235001745027317

https://x.com/brody_n77/status/1814185935476863321

tempaway4575144on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

Sounds like it was a 'channel file' which I think is akin to an av definition file that caused the problem rather than an actual software change. So they must have had a bug lurking in their kernel driver which was uncovered by a particular channel file. Still, seems like someone skipped some testing.

https://x.com/George_Kurtz/status/1814235001745027317

https://x.com/brody_n77/status/1814185935476863321