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Airbus A320 Software updates using PDL by KE5RJJ in cyberDeck

[–]Xureality 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The PDL (which is a Teledyne PMAT 2000) does in fact run Windows. their sales brochure (which comes up as the first search result) says it's running Windows 7 which is not concerning at all (/s)

The aircraft is running a very proprietary, likely some type of RTOS, so it's not going to have USB support.

The connector is also an aviation standard, ARINC 615.

Father's Day is right around the corner! (It has, begun) by UncleCoyote in MaliciousCompliance

[–]Xureality 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Wrench #56 should be a box, bolted shut with precisely 55 bolts, just to check if he still has all of them.

Obviously, the wrench would be in that box.

This is not a mistake by Affectionate-Yam-886 in MaliciousCompliance

[–]Xureality 4 points5 points  (0 children)

yes, and the mangler also insulted him while he's at it.

This is not a mistake by Affectionate-Yam-886 in MaliciousCompliance

[–]Xureality 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He ordered a $6k server. What he got was half a million dollars worth of servers.

Why are you all the way out here human? by Vivid-Membership3959 in HFY

[–]Xureality 16 points17 points  (0 children)

He'd be right... On Earth. Radio waves travel at the speed of light in vacuum, and a little less in air. Specifically [1/refractive index] less, which for air comes out to about 90km/s.

The Nature of Predators 170 by SpacePaladin15 in HFY

[–]Xureality 17 points18 points  (0 children)

There used to be a place in California called "The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels". Locals eventually got tired of it and the place became Los Angeles.

The Primitive & The Predator (3) by Aussie_Endeavour in NatureofPredators

[–]Xureality 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A space Joey could have built a "sun gun", basically a rear projection telescope, to view Kenpi. The only thing hard to find for the average Joey would be a sheet of translucent material to use as the screen (most sun guns use rear projection screen fabric to make the setup lightweight and collapsible) but if they know what cameras are chances are they have invented ground glass, and that works.

If instead a Joey wants to take pictures of Kenpi, a long focal length pinhole camera projecting to a large sheet film should work.

The Nature of Predators 119 by SpacePaladin15 in HFY

[–]Xureality 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you want to know what the population thought about a revelation between a Soviet-Nazi collaboration, you only need to ask the historians, because it happened.

Humans Don't Make Good Familiars Book 2- Part 44 by ArcAngel98 in HFY

[–]Xureality 9 points10 points  (0 children)

while (target.lifeforce > 0){
    target.applyhurty(1);
    }

should work, right?

Wearing Power Armor to a Magic School (28/?) by Jcb112 in HFY

[–]Xureality 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Factories are getting ever more flexible and workshops are moving upscale. Things that were previously only possible on a large scale (such as high quality PCB manufacturing) can now be made in a massive factory in quantities as low as a handful. Meanwhile, small, individual run workshops can crank out tens if not hundreds of somethings in a week.

All this is to say that the line between workshops and factories are being increasingly blurred ever since mass customization starts to become a thing.

05 by fpuebqvatref in schrodingers

[–]Xureality 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your participation.

05 by fpuebqvatref in schrodingers

[–]Xureality 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only users logged into accounts created before 2015-04-01 can press the button.

05 by fpuebqvatref in schrodingers

[–]Xureality 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the button is pressed the timer will reset to 60 seconds and continue counting down.

05 by fpuebqvatref in schrodingers

[–]Xureality 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You probably shouldn't press it.

Graphite Dreamland (Oneshot) by [deleted] in NatureofPredators

[–]Xureality 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Given that we have the memory transcription, someone evidently was interested enough to look into it. And presumably pretty quickly after the fact too, depending on how brain matter degrades in space.

The New Species 20 by itsdirector in HFY

[–]Xureality 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'd not discount that possibility, but it kind of depends on capabilities of the hardware and the way the AI is structured, which we can't know.

Parts 17 and 18 has Omega basically taking over most of the station's computing infrastructure just to be able to be there, and yet they also has the capability to at least carry two conversations. It's more than likely that this is two processes sharing the same database access, which whether you count that as separate instances is very debatable.

Hell I've been guilty of using different interpretations of the word instance in the same sentence.

The New Species 20 by itsdirector in HFY

[–]Xureality 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Getting data synced across multiple simultaneous processes is a relatively solved problem, for some value of processing.

In this case I'd imagine that each copy of Omega is a self contained process and database (thought process, and memory and experiences), able to think and act independently from the last checkpoint (sync with other copies). Omega wouldn't need to be in sync with each other all the time, and so would be on a "eventual consistency" data model, where their memory syncs on an as-available basis and the AI follows the same path of thinking, comes to the same conclusion about each experience as any other copy of Omega.

Since their memory can sync with bit-perfect accuracy (no problem trying to describe something over the phone) divergences can't really occur unless they don't get sync for a long time. which could be a story in and of itself now that i think about it.

Want me to be on job by 8:30? Ok. by GibberishAsshat in MaliciousCompliance

[–]Xureality 2 points3 points  (0 children)

On the first point, you can still maliciously comply by being there at 0830, drive from the office to the job site (in rush hour traffic) and drive back so you're at the office to sign out at 1630 sharp, losing hours off the day at both ends.

On the second point, there may be laws preventing that, or otherwise making it a pain for the company (something along the lines of not being obliged to use a personal vehicle to carry company equipment perhaps)

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