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Comment How does it work? Read the actual article. (Score 4, Informative) 36

Ars Technica is just a summarizer like Slashdot.

What has happened, slashdot readers? So lazy - back in my day, you whippersnappers - we'd see a link to a scientific journal PDF and *click* the thing so we could learn stuff.

Instead the first two comments are just "how does it work"

https://www.cell.com/iscience/...

Muons don't arrive all the time (unlike GPS signals) so you have to kind of get lucky that you detect enough in the right spots, but if you do, with some math and knowledge of how the particles work, you can locate the receiver apparently.

Cool trick

Can it be jammed ? Hmmm

Comment Disinformation from acct Hersh did not register (Score 1) 352

So, someone registers an account on some platform Hersh is not on, under Hersh's name.

Someone publishes this obvious russian disinformation

And, everyone eats it up. Look! Hersh said something!

Prove Hersh actually owns the account used to publish the thing, and/or prove the thing, then we're talking.

Oh wait, we're already talking because disinformation like this is perfectly suited to the information economy. Blah blah here we all go in an endless and informaiton-free news cycle

Comment The desktop itself is dead (Score 1, Insightful) 108

There will never be a "year of the desktop", because the desktop is dead. The reality is that such a large percentage of the population use mobile devices for the majority of their interactions that whatever happens on the desktop is irrelevant. I find it bizarre because the mobile experience is so abysmal compared to a proper desktop. But I've never understood the mainstream, and I guess this is just another example of that.
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Journal Journal: Farewell, part II :-( 9

It seems right to post this here, where it all started. Farewell, ~jawtheshark.

Comment Serious ?: nested hypervisor compatibility (Score 1) 148

So, I briefly attempted to use windows on the metal and WSL / Hyper-V etc to stack VMs on for "real work"

I need to run Windows, Linux and macOS VMs for mobile development environments

My pain point was that nested VMs inside all expect to run nested items (like Docker) using HAXM or QEMU etc, which did not seem possible as soon as you even attempt WSL.

As a concrete example, let's say you need to spin up a macOS VM (which is typically done with e.g. OSX-KVM) and that's QEMU so now that's working with Docker and Android Emulators nested nicely in it, but your WSL is broken because Hyper-V is a different hypervisor and you can only have one at a time.

If I do Linux on the metal I am generally able to have all my VMs agree on the hypervisor (KVM) with nesting working, but for entertainment purposes (windows gaming) you're stuck hacking through the thicket of setting up a windows VM with GPU passthrough etc.

If there's a point to this I guess it's that I wish there was One True Hypervisor so different requirement tensions could be satisfied with different decisions but compatibility wasn't an issue.

Would be interested to hear if I'm missing something here with regard to getting all 3 major OSs (windows, linux, macOS) all running in VMs on windows host OS with nested virtualization working well in all guest VMs

Comment Re:Great! Air Safety Culture vs Road Safety Cultur (Score 1) 49

I dunno, in the general sense that a government is tasked with protecting life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, I see it as a core goal and easily worth of the expenditure for the whole "life" thing vs ...I dunno the death involved with the current military budget. Would be quite happy with a re-allocation there.

Comment Re:Great! Air Safety Culture vs Road Safety Cultur (Score 1) 49

No sarcasm at all. You seem to be afflicted by that "it looks hard, we shouldn't try" disease, what a shame.

It appears there is an agency (from TFA) starting to do it.

I imagine once real safety standards are applied the number of accidents goes down rapidly (probably a log curve) such that you're defeatist "oh my god there's so many" pearl-clutching is addressed

Comment Great! Air Safety Culture vs Road Safety Culture (Score 4, Interesting) 49

I'm a sometimes vulnerable road user (motorcycles, scooters, bicycles), but I also drive cars plenty so everyone calm down.

I think it's clear that driving is disproportionately dangerous though, and most collisions are preventable and caused by us lame meat sacks doing one or more stupid things in combination.

Imagine if that sort of behavior was tolerated in air safety!

Now imagine the opposite: if air safety standards (all mishaps reported, investigated, root-cause-analyzed, remediated) were applied to auto safety!

I could go out on public roads on two wheels without fearing for my life. Buses full of passengers wouldn't crash killing all passengers.

Bring on rigorous reporting and let's up our game here, it is about time.

Comment AORUS 15G, upgradable ram, great cooling, 105W GPU (Score 2) 38

Typing this comment from a "works out of the box" installation of linux from an Aorus 15G YC (the one with an RTX3080 setup for 105W max draw)

Thing screams, and doesn't get that hot - definitely not throttling.

2 SSD slots even, and the GPU is on it's own IOMMU so PCI passthrough for KVM gaming should work

https://www.gigabyte.com/WebPa...

Soldered ram, who would do such a thing?

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