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  • Linus Torvalds kicked the Russians out of Linux, now they're creating a sovereign Linux community in Russia — Ministry of Digital Development steps in

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  • And they are all welcome back if they can satisfy the Linux Foundation that they're not affiliated with a sanctioned entity on the SDN list.

  • Trump losing sleep over polling numbers days before election

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  • I think it was right around 35% as you say. Unlikely, but not impossible for Trump to win. If Trump hit a one out of three lucky shot, that should be somewhat surprising, but not too very surprising.

    Anyhow, he's saying this one is an even coin flip.

  • Trump losing sleep over polling numbers days before election

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  • Nate Silver left 538, but he is still hosting the Monte Carlo model at the Silver Bulletin. That model is putting it right around 50-50 for Trump win vs Harris win. That's not a polling average... That's the result of playing a few million elections where the results are based on the current polling average.

  • Need more fiber

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  • Oh they really did. Except because it was the 90s it was real analog closed circuit television, and nothing was wireless.

    It was the one piece of NASA training that you just graded yourself on.

  • Need more fiber

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  • This is exactly how NASA built the Space Shuttle Toilet Simulator.

  • Is it time to question the yearly release cycle for phones?

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  • Compare with the yearly release cycle on cars.

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    Election Night Red Wave and Blue Shift

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  • Coupled with secret ballots, that implies that all mail ballots must remain in the sealed individual envelopes they came in until the polls close.

  • Programmers Contest

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  • Like any other convention, it's not really a big deal either way. Fortran gets along just fine with 1-indexing.

  • Missouri Republican election challenger says he should be allowed to watch early voting

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  • To be fair, I think it's more typical for these kinds of partisan poll observers to operate on a volunteer basis.

    Here's a nice YouTube that describes one experience representing the interests of Count Binface in the recent UK election.

  • Boeing allegedly overcharged the military 8,000% for airplane soap dispensers

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  • Yeah. The expensive soap dispenser probably had to pass shock and vibration testing, thermal stress testing, and explosive atmosphere testing... Because that was in the requirements.

  • Boeing allegedly overcharged the military 8,000% for airplane soap dispensers

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  • Also, as the safety briefing says, "we do not anticipate a change in cabin pressure," but if a rapid decompression should occur, there was probably some provision made so that the soap dispenser doesn't just shatter or explode or something.

  • Why Are Americans So Rich?

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  • There was a second Thirty Years war from 1914-1945 where all of the old wealth in Europe was destroyed, but not America's.

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    Jury awards Apple $250 in design patent lawsuit against Masimo

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  • Is it really just $250? That would be a pretty serious rebuke from the court.

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  • 802.11ax, clients just... (essentially) wait for a random amount of time, listen for a break in the signal, and take a leap of faith.

    Ethernet originally worked the same way, back when it competed directly against token ring. Ethernet won by being as reliable in real world scenarios while being cheaper to build out. Gigabit Ethernet was the first standard that insisted on full duplex only.

    Half duplex mode with the collision avoidance is still actively supported for 10/100, but it is becoming very hard to find an unswitched hub. So you may have to write up your own twisted pair cables.

  • After 25 years this still happens

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  • Those people are almost as bad as the junior devs that are very confidently incorrect.

  • Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’

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  • Blitzkrieg was like the American football play of the same name. If you don't win real fast, you tend to find out that your motorized units are beyond reach of your supply lines. Then they get cut off, and the whole thing can collapse rapidly.

    The Ardennes offensive was pulled off in 72 hours by using the powers of methamphetamine. Seriously, the German army issued a lot of meth to the troops. Imagine what would happen to the combat effectiveness if they had to keep fighting at that pace for a while.

  • Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’

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  • This was a serious mistake, yes. And Barbarossa was another serious mistake.

    But I think that Germany was still destined to lose the war anyway, because they were running out of oil and getting out manufactured. And the United States was going to find a way to enter the European theater one way or another.

  • Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’

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  • Some generals tried this. Other generals just kind of tried to survive and fight for their country. Still other generals were ideologically Nazis and they fought for the cause.

    Like anything in the real world, it's a mixed bag.

  • Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’

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  • Germany mainly lost by losing the economics and resources games. A secondary factor was when Hitler started taking over strategic and tactical planning from the generals.

    My take on the generals themselves is that they were at least not terrible.