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I often see people targeting frame rates way beyond their display’s refresh rate

Could this be to reduce input lag?

Interesting; French standard “x” is this one. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NCr5KgIXd2Q

How do you write it; two separate diagonal bars like described in the article? In this case, how do you “flow” it within a word?

A comprehensive video on Buran, from a Youtuber that does a lot of deep-dive on mostly cold-war tech.

I personally strongly recommend his videos on the B-29 firing system[0] and tri-propellant rocket engine[1] as well.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKRszjV07ZQ

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX-0Xw6kkrc&t=2109s

Oh nice, I was taught to write it first a “barless small-case f”, then an “infinite” in the middle.

Only й and э require two strokes

Wouldn't the ф as well?

[for the x], I draw two mirrored c’s

Isn't that what everyone is doing, or are we Frenchmen the exception?

For reference if the author reads this, we write the latin x exactly like the cyrillic х, i.e. reverse c, bottom-left to top-right diagonal, normal c.

Why would they put phased arrays on UAVs? They are typically using beam-forming antennas + cheap gimbals for the same purpose.

Phased arrays are nice when you want to scan a large angular surface very fast; when it comes down to optimizing RF radiation toward your ground station, a gimbal is cheaper, simpler, and works fine.

Defense show = super expensive

Really depends; there you can see both Lockmart exhibiting multi-billions project, and 150m after some Serbian company selling jet engines for UAVs for a couple hundreds.

But sysadmins should be there to deploy stuff and make sure the infra does its job, not get bogged down handholding some dev that can't even compile a project.

That might have some defense application considering what's going on in Eastern Europe right now.

This is a bog-standard phased-array RDF calibrated for WiFi freqs; that stuff is already in every single defense show.

Also, that's why there's jamming everywhere (to blind that kind of things) and why many UAVs are now tethered to optical fibers instead of being RF-controlled.

At some point, shouldn't installing a venv be a pre-requisite to actually be hired as a dev?

Don't forget this is a text editor, not [a] general purpose automation harness

This arguable. I personally use emacs for text editing for sure, but not only: it also does emails (notmuch), git (magit), team & project management (org), mastodon, fleet management (nix + colmena + custom elisp functions), and, more importantly, all these “applications” can mutually share data.

So can you use emacs as a text editor only? Sure. Can you leverage its intrinsic abilities to reach what might be called an automation harness? Yes as well.

Having B1 seems like a really lenient condition to get citizenship. I got B2 after 6 months of Erasmus, and I have B1 in Russian even though I never even stepped in the country.

Have you even tried to learn German, and if so what is so hard that you can't even get B1, although you stayed long enough to have kids speaking natively the language?

the author got tired and decided "this is a good stopping point."

Or the deadline was closing in, as this is a university thesis ;)

Because for some reason, our societies decided that cancer caused by radiation = bad, cancer caused by air pollution = OK.

Of course real life has outlines. Look at these for instance:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....

https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/skala_displa...

Displays & controls are thematically grouped and/or framed, each button/rotary/switch has a color that constrasts from the background, and there are strong 3D clues to see what's a button, and what's a label or the background.

Indeed, and I highly recommend this website for some stunning examples of the technique.

http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/

They're definitely rare. Mirror's Edge is almost 20 years old

You probably didn't play many FPS recently: from the top of my mind, CS2, Battlefield {1, V, 6}, CoD {BO3, Vanguard, MWIII}, Control, the Borderlands, Far Cry {5, 6}, CP2077, Fallout {3, NV, 4}, Destiny, Prey, Valorant, Rainbow 6, Apex, Overwatch, all have female player characters.

And if CS2/CoD/BF/Valorant/Destiny/Apex have female players, that's more or less 90% of the current market.

I took a glance at the the most played FPS list from Steam[0], but I was too lazy to scroll far enough to find one without a playable female character.

[0] https://steamdb.info/charts/?tagid=1663

Not all CVEs are RCE. This one[1] for instance is go's nil-dereference caused.

[1] https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-29785

Nope. The C++ memory models is designed around no hidden/non-deterministic memory allocation.

If you try to allocate 10MB on the stack, that's the dev problem if the program fails, it's not the compiler job to guesstimate whether something will fit there or not (and it's impossible anyway, the compiler can't know all the stack sizes a program will ever run on).

Your second paragraph doesn't hold after one minute spent reading the CVEs list.

Hopefully, it's coming.

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/06/22/type-system-updates-...

comes with batteries included

I like CL, but I can't agree that a stdlib that doesn't even have a string split function is batteries-included.

Even in c++ could you not just define some int [1000][1000]foo?

If it fits on the stack, yes.

Typical code using MD-arrays is scientific code, and the data they manipulate generally do not fit there.

Damn, TIL. Now “Operation Mincemeat” seems less macabre.

And a function call is just a fancy JMP, still it's generally acknowledged to be better to have all the bookkeeping automated.

Kind of, at least in France? Our privacy-nefarious laws have been passed by both left- and right-leaning governments. It seems that if there is something the elite agrees upon, it is that the plebeians should be kept in check.

This is a question I don't feel qualified enough to lean one way or the other.

It was definitely not planned with the Soviets, for multiple reasons:

  - the Poles of the AK (London government loyal) were not the communist faction (Lublin government loyal), and saw the insurrection as the last chance to get a Poland out of the Soviet sphere of influence post WWII – especially after the publicization of Katyn;

  - even if they had wanted, Stalin had zero interest in giving a hand to London-loyal Poles that were in frontal opposition to “his” Lublin-loyal Poles;

  - the Germans were not caught flat-footed, they already knew of the insurrection preparations and therefore not only was the city well garrisoned, it would have been in any case, as it was the strategic lock of the area to hold the RKKA on the Vistula;

  - and all the above is moot in any case, because the RKKA units that reached the neighborhood of Warsaw in '44 had as many chance of taking the city as the German units that reached Moscow in '41 – they were just spent and at the end of their logistic tail after months of fighting during the Bagration operation, and had no chance of successfully developing an opposed crossing of the Vistula against two Panzerkorps.

They had bog-standard CPUs in most of the cases, because their power draw was quite low.

You might be too young to have known that time, but 386/486 just had a tiny heat sink on them and that was all; the real power consumption boom and the serious heat dissipation systems came down the Pentium line.