Does this only work with kernel buffers? I’m wondering how glibc handles freed memory. I feel like there’s a good chance it doesn’t always notify the kernel that the memory has been freed.

My damn dishwasher has capacitive buttons…a dishwasher - something you use while your hands are wet like 90% of the time. Infuriating.

People trash talk it, but I actually like it.

Kind of a cheat guess since it’s already starting to happen now, but I expect it to intensify as more and more people get EVs.

I’d be happy with a store owner not being liable for injuries if they tackle someone who is trying to steal from their store and the thief ends up getting hurt.

I don’t think they should be able to start blasting thieves with a gun but you should be able to use some reasonable amount of force. Let a judge decide whether it was reasonable or not.

It does sound like magic, but doesn't EUV involve some process similar to this? Something about shooting drops of tin with a laser? That sounds like magic to me too but is apparently a thing. Obviously two totally different things, but the level of magic to me is the same.

SSDs often have a data retention spec that basically defines how long you have until your bits start flipping, and it usually falls off a cliff w.r.t. temperature, which can make SSDs non-ideal for offline backups.

However, I've read that reading from the SSD periodically allows it to detect these errors. Some say that even keeping it just powered on is enough.

My question is, do SSDs run some sort of internal scrub while they're powered on? I don't think so, based off of some power consumption tests I've done.

Also, if they do detect an ECC error, will they actually re-write the block in question, or just correct it and return a successful IO, while leaving the compromised data still on the media?

That said, the cost gap between MM and SM optics today is much smaller especially for 10G (and for the fiber itself it seems to have even reversed), so single mode definitely makes more sense. For some reason, MM fiber is still widely deployed in certain niche use-cases though. Not quite sure why.

For example, I know that it's used on modern military jets for their 10GBASE-SR networks. I wonder if it has something to do with being able to repair terminations in the field? I know MM is pretty forgiving that way. Or maybe it's just another case of them adopting whatever was popular at that exact moment.

The transmitter and receiver are wired in parallel and connected to a power supply through a series resistor. When the receiver receives the signal from the transmitter, it pulls the supply voltage down, which then causes the transmitter to stop transmitting, which then causes the receiver to stop pulling the supply down, and the cycle continues. The end result is that if there's no obstruction, the supply voltage pulses and the system checks for this. If there's any other type of condition, the signal is either 0 or VCC. Basically, the system is designed so that false positives are extremely unlikely since that's the worst case scenario.

There's some capacitors in the transmitter/receiver to control the frequency.

This was before Xbox live (Halo CE didn't support live AFAIK), then even afterwards for modded consoles that got banned from live.

I wonder if it’s due to our outlets being 120V? We’d be limited to less than 2.5 HP with a normal outlet, whereas gas push mowers typically have engines in the 5-7 HP range.

> significant decline in economic activity

What is "significant"?

> more than a few months

How long exactly?

All I gather from their description is that they basically just get a "feel" for it. That's why so many people choose to follow the two negative quarter thing - it's objective and clearly defined, but maybe less accurate (particularly in cases like now where unemployment is still really low).