I didn't miss the jr. high "figure out what g is" stuff in the beginning of the book. I was kinda bummed at how much the selective breeding was glossed over as they had to cram a line into the movie to explain the disaster at the end. But a the same time the movie is two and a half hours long. While there are a handful of other cuts I think they could have gotten away with (the extended Karaoke scene maybe), there wasn't a ton of fat to trim to keep the runtime reasonable.

I don't think Xenonite is made of Xenon exclusively, but it is strange enough that handheld spectrometers can't deal with it. Maybe it offgasses xenon when bombarded by charged particles? One thing the movie glossed over is how Rocky's species is in many ways much less technologically advanced than Humans. Their materials science is outstanding due to the hellish nature of their home world, but they don't have electronics. Their math and science are back in the early 20th century. They went interstellar before discovering relativity. Mostly due to the fact that the astrophage is basically magic. In the book one background character mentions offhand that the astrophage is a miracle that will solve countless problems and everybody just glares at him angrily because even though he is right it's also killing them. On the other hand, while reading the book I had thoughts of an interstellar ferry service that collects astrophage and brings it back to Earth where it is tricked into releasing its energy into the atmosphere to warm the planet and light up cropland. Spin drives open up the entire solar system to exploitation and the astrophage is the perfect energy storage medium.

I'm a fan of "ruff" and had hopes for moving some stuff to "uv" - I guess it's time to rethink that.

But a human is needed to do the login for QA.

A script will click where it expects the password to be required to log in.

PASSED

Time to download your personal copy I guess.

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

Years ago I had an alternate OS for a clickwheel iPod that had it. That was something else!

They link to "GPU.zip" which apparently is another side-channel based on the GPU's compressions - https://www.hertzbleed.com/gpu...

So apparently by asking it to blur the background, they can time it. Then the "core" of the attack is this GPU.zip so really it sounds like this is more of a "look we found a new way to exploit this."

FTA:

What Android APIs does Pixnapping exploit?

Pixnapping forces sensitive pixels into the rendering pipeline and overlays semi-transparent activities on top of those pixels via Android intents. To induce graphical operations on these pixels, our instantiations use Android’s window blur API. To measure rendering time, our instantiations use VSync callbacks. For a more detailed explanation, we refer to the paper.

Have you looked lately? I got my laptop last year and put Pop on it. Uses the 4070 out of the box and I was playing the second Horizon game on Steam on release day. The huge tons of effort put into getting AAA games running on the Steam Deck has really paid off. I'm currently playing Uncharted 4 on it.

I do still have two desktops running Windows, but finally migrated my daily driver laptop last Black Friday.

So if it is an eight-year study, that means it was also spans COVID-19.

One of the know side effects can be "brain fog."

I didn't see that in the preview, and IMHO would be a giant glaring mistake. I'd love to know who got it, what strain (the O.G. was definitely much more malicious), and how hard it hit them.

Python2:

True, False = False, True

...and I had no problem waiting and playing God of War and Horizon on Steam...

You'd almost think handwriting involves more human senses than typing and that correlates with memory...

Garbage.

70-90 year old "science" is valid?!?!

70 years ago smoking was promoted as being healthy, plastics were a wonder product with no hazards, seat belts weren't required in cars, electronic circuits wouldn't get much smaller, there were only a handful of computers, satellites didn't exist.

" anthropogenic climate change" is a theory, not a fact. It's also very, very, very shaky because it's based on cherry-piking data. It's quite easy to "disprove" a theory which is based on accurate data from an incredibly small fraction of time. Every claim of temperature that's more than about 100 years old is an extrapolated guess. For that matter, the records of "accurate" measuring devices are very inconsistent because they don't account for plenty of changes around the measuring devices.

I can't disable it, especially on my phone. Very annoying knowing I'm contributing to the climate disaster without even trying. I got rid of some of the buttons with uBlock Origin previously...

"You can ask it anything!" "Ask it to fuck off!"

Ran into that with my daughter the other day. She didn't realize she was using Samsung's (shit) calendar and was mad when stuff wouldn't show up on her phone and the rest of the family would say "it's been there for a week!"