Also free heating in summer, whether you want it or not.

A difference of 5dB is a factor of 3.1x. (i.e., Square root of 10.)

See that tiny region that overlaps? Not something to brag about, but that still makes them better than plenty of companies.

Skip the paywall.

How is this a science meme?

Womp womp.

It’s the circle of grift.

I once ordered some bananas from a grocery (online order, in-person pickup), and the store wanted to substitute corn. On the one hand, both are yellow and edible, with an outer husk that must be removed. On the other hand, they are otherwise nothing alike.

Didn’t they just buy all those studios? Is anyone in upper management listing losing job over such gross incompetence?

The unilateral presidential pardon was a terrible idea, and we should get rid of it at the earliest possible opportunity.

TFTP is fine for LAN, but very inefficient for sending bulk data over the Internet.

To keep things as simple as possible, TFTP sends one packet at a time, waiting for a response before sending the next packet. If your ping is 50 ms, the that’s 20 whole packets per second. (That’s assuming zero packet loss, otherwise it will be even slower.)

For historical reasons, the packet size is locked to 512 useful bytes. That puts the transfer speed at 10 kB/s (80 kbps), which is faster than dialup but not by much.

Even in death, I serve the Omnissiah.

Horror episodes do exist, but they’re rare, and not generally representative of the series as a whole.

What sick person gets the license to make a Star Trek game, and decides survival horror is the best genre fit? Have they seen a single episode?

🎵 What a thrill

🎵 With darkness and silence through the night

🎵 What a thrill

🎵 I’m searching and I’ll melt into you

🎵 What a fear in my heart

🎵 But you’re so supreme

🎵 I give my life

🎵 Not for honor, but for you (mouse eater)

I’m not okay with any of those things.

Right idea, wrong number. Satellites in low Earth orbit are typically moving at about 7-8 km/s, depending on the exact altitude. The speed required to get from the surface to deep space (i.e., the “escape velocity”) is 11.2 km/s.

The escape velocity for the Earth is 11.2 km/s. If you shoot a cannonball upward at that speed, it’ll have enough energy to completely leave Earth and never come back.

I am the primary author of an open-source framework for Ethernet in embedded systems. There is not a single line of fucking AI slop in that repo, because I am not an irresponsible hack.

Seems I was mistaken. My previous statement was based on what others have said, but I haven’t actually run the tests myself. In any case, I have learned not to rely on statements made by the accused in this type of dispute.