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kayfox··on NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor
It can provide power when solar and wind are not generating, and while doing so also provide base generation that allows the grid to be robust against fluctuations in solar and wind.
kayfox··on Flock CEO gets his house blurred out on Google Maps and Zillow
> flockhibiki17

I guess we now know what someone at Flock likes in their whiskey glass.

kayfox··on GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?
I see you haven't experienced USFoods and Sysco.
kayfox··on The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]
> The "Crypto and Privacy" village at Defcon demands you agree to the privacy policies of Salesforce, Google, Microsoft, and Discord to interact with them.

Do you have a citation for this? I am not seeing anything on their website and they did not come up to me and demand I sign anything when I was there?

kayfox··on The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]
I think you got them confused, DEF CON is the more counterculture and Blackhat is the corporate conference.
kayfox··on House passes bill to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country
I grew up in rural Oregon, if there was rain forecasted and the farmer was in the middle of a alfalfa or wheat harvest, they would be up in the middle of the night with a combine or bailer to get the harvest done before it gets soaked and potentially destroyed.
kayfox··on House passes bill to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country
> Here on the west coast I'd say most jobs start at 9am

If you work on things for banks, financial markets or the federal government, you may be starting as early as 5~6am on the west coast.

kayfox··on Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer
Well, in New York you will soon need to so that the cloud service can verify your not printing a gun: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/stop-new-yorks-attack-...
kayfox··on Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)
You can also grow up exploring the woods in an area with a lot of poison oak like me and it just does not react on your skin.
kayfox··on The map that keeps Burning Man honest
That subreddit complains about trash dumping the other 11 months of the year, its just for a little while it can all be blamed on Burning Man.

(Also, despite having lived in Portland, Reno seems to be the worse city in my experience with people complaining about everything on Reddit.)

kayfox··on The map that keeps Burning Man honest
So, one of the problems with leaving trash in Reno is that even if you do it in a way you think is ethical, moral and correct, your trash can be part of the "Burning Man Trash Problem", things I see _every year_:

1. Burners drop trash with people offering to dispose of it for $5 a bag or so, they end up dumping it somewhere else.

2. Burners drop trash at the major hotels and casinos, who buy dumpsters to attract the burners and then people from the local area toss the dumpsters scavaging for things.

3. The normal trash dumping issues Reno has are, for two weeks a year, blamed on burners instead of the locals. I seriously doubt trash bags full of baby diapers, mail and construction debris (all examples I see on the Reno subreddit every year) are from Burning Man.

There are already legit places in Gerlach, Reno, Lakeview and Ceaderville where you can dump trash and know its going to be disposed properly, but not everyone going is really hip to spotting the trash scams and all that.

Unfortunately all this mixes with the percentage of people going to Burning Man who don't dispose of their trash respectfully and it becomes a large, hard to quantify issue.

kayfox··on Why airlines are always going bankrupt
How exactly does Boeing drive up the cost? The cost of the aircraft is less than 20% of the lifetime cost of operating an airliner and a lot of the maintenance cost is not related to the cost of parts from Boeing, since most parts that get replaced on an aircraft are not made by Boeing and airlines do not go through Boeing to buy them.
kayfox··on Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant
Flock can also fix this by validating the description of the target vehicle against the detected vehicle.

The dispatch backend can fix this by annotating this warrant with a warning that its not this particular vehicle.

Police themselves can fix this by being a human check on dumb entries in computer systems.

kayfox··on Brands got worse on purpose
Costco has the same sourcing issues a lot of other companies have, they do spend a lot of effort on due diligence when sourcing Kirkland Signature brand products, but sometimes what they get in a production run ends up being something else, or there's unexpected issues with the products once the public gets them.
kayfox··on Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol
UBNT stands for UBiquiti NeTworks.
kayfox··on ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face
In the case of Global Entry you can enter your license plate into your profile to allow using it in the NEXUS lanes heading into the US.
kayfox··on Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings
From my experiences, it does have a higher chance of better outcome, as homeless youth are usually homeless because of some family issue and not because they are unable to hold down a job as a result of drug abuse or being homeless.
kayfox··on Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings
Your comparing statistics for homeless adults to homeless youth.

From my experience being a homeless youth 20 years ago, LGBTQ individuals make up a large share of homeless youth, I would guess more than 50% at the time.

There may be less gay or lesbian homeless youth these days, but transgender youth may have grown.

kayfox··on Chuck Klosterman on why we've never actually seen a real football game
> There can be two Skycams in major playoff games or the Super Bowl (high and low).

There can be more depending on how you block out the cables, I have seen 5. The two Skycam limit is based on two independent systems that do not do cable avoidance in software, you just block out the allowed altitudes on each system.

There also other cable suspended systems in use to move on a line strung between two points and sometimes a track suspended under the stadium roof.

Fun fact: The Skycam was invented by Steadicam inventor Garret Brown and uses some of the same principals for stabilization.

kayfox··on Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)
The page on Wikipedia for fsn was deleted because fsn is "not notable."
kayfox··on Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, NTSB report says
Airlines don't negotiate prices based on the exact options selected, they select a list of options and then negotiate on price from there. This particular option does not appear to have a price associated with it, it just increases the cost of training and documentation for pilots and some airlines would opt out of using it.

People talking about MCAS seem to simultaneously pound the line that everything on the aircraft the pilots encounter should be trained for and forget that adding new stuff to the flight displays will incur additional training that an airline may not want to deal with.

kayfox··on Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, NTSB report says
Did UPS Airlines ever fly the DC-10/MD10?

FedEx did and they retired them in the last 5 years because they had reached the end of their economical service lifetime and not because of any major flaw.

kayfox··on It's Always TCP_NODELAY
Things I have found that only do 10mbit:

Old CNC equipment.

Older Zebra label printers.

Some older Motorola radio stuff.

That SGI Indy we keep around for Jurassic Park jokes.

The LaserJet 5 thats still going after 30 years or something.

Some modern embedded stuff that does not have enough chooch to deal with 100mbit.

kayfox··on After NPR and PBS defunding, FCC receives call to take away station licenses
These stations and networks still have about 80% of their previous funding, so nothing is really going to get shut down right away.

Also, in many cases the TV and radio spectrums in markets these stations are in are not saturated to the point where new licensees are prevented from operating just because of saturation.

So this is really just some group asking for public broadcasting to be punished even more.

kayfox··on TSA to charge $18 fee for travelers without Real ID or passport
> or if you're rural, five minutes in and out.

After driving for an hour or two.

kayfox··on Lucent 7 R/E 5ESS Telephone Switch Rescue (2024)
COs are already being used for edge datacenters, its just not been talked about much outside the industry.
kayfox··on GPS 'kill' switch allows state police cruisers to go dark and disable tracking
But you do need a GDPR specialized attorney to review all of what your doing even if you don't use any cookies.

Why? Even logging an IP address in a request log is creating records controlled by GDPR.

When TV news in the US is broke and only gets along because large companies buy up stations to control the news, its hard to justify spending tens of thousands of dollars on complying with laws from another continent.

kayfox··on Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update
For fridges? True Manufacturing.
kayfox··on Collins Aerospace: Sending text messages to the cockpit with test:test
They were also involved in the Boeing MCAS thing as the company responsible for the computers and who presumably wrote the code.
kayfox··on FAA is granting Boeing “limited delegation” to certify airworthiness
You seem to want a system where the regulators, while embedded at Boeing, are just wandering around and looking at things. What we have in aviation is a system where engineers, the people wearing the rings, with an ethical and moral obligation to prevent harm to other people, are charged with identifying issues and escalating them as far as the FAA if needed as they work on their day-to-day tasks.

The latter is a much better system to find issues than the former, you get a chance to see a lot more issues when your actively working on the systems where the issues would be than if your walking around and looking at paperwork.

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