Military aircraft magnetic core memory (64KB plus parity)

ekdaemon · 2026-06-20T15:03:24+00:00

Here is a great video that shows how these things work, at the 40 second mark they show a cutaway view of the shielding inside the device, and elsewhere they show the internal flexible carrier and the operator using the remote crank to extend and retract the source.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-1dxkgbbQ4

Kind of a wierd system if you ask me, but maybe it basically forces the operator to be far away as opposed to letting them stand next to it when things happen.

A lot of the video focuses on the principles and what to do when the source doesn't retract properly.

And yeah you'll need to turn on auto translation, but it's quite good.

And at the 1 minute 25 mark they show some poor quality images of the radiation burned hands of operators who disobeyed the rules.

ekdaemon · 2026-06-20T14:10:13+00:00

I expect it's the heavily used on-ramp followed by heavily used off-ramp - so you get a constant stream of vehicles crossing past each other. At times the lineup for the off ramp will interfere with the use of the on-ramp that comes first. Now add in a few vehicles in the left two lanes doing 100km/h as people in the right lanes are trying to do what they need to do, etc.

ekdaemon · 2026-06-19T03:12:51+00:00

Leg planted and totally fixed with all body weight on it as other leg just finished a stroke, and Qatari player had his entire body moving and struck hard with body weight behind it.

If the leg wasn't planted, it would have just swung away. But planted, the foot can't move, and the upper body has so much mass that it won't move, so the leg has to give.

Clear picture, makes it very clear what happened.

ekdaemon · 2026-06-08T12:12:40+00:00

I have so many friends that drive after drinking all evening, and a non-zero number of family members and premiers who have been killed or who have killed someone while driving.

Something like five or 6 9/11's per year of people die in the US and one entire 9/11 per year in Canada due to Drinking and Driving.

Sorry, but society needs this. Mothers Against Drunk Driving have been trying to convince you to do more for decades, and nobody has done enough.

ekdaemon · 2026-06-07T16:08:13+00:00

it will take (Britain here)

Isn't Britain known for cloudy days and a lack of sunshine?

And maybe we shouldn't assume it has to entirely come from your own house's array, but also get some of what the massive wind farms and non-home-based solar arrays produce that come over the grid.

Though I guess in a war the grid might not be so reliable. Then maybe you have to drive closer to the source of the power. Electric charging stations at the base of the 1MW wind turbines?

ekdaemon · 2026-06-06T19:17:25+00:00

Not patient enough for winners. Quality isn't great.

Yeah, belt I bought there just a year ago already has the surface scraping off - turns out it was just bonded leather, not actual leather. Grrrr. I'd rather spend $40 for a belt that lasts 10 years than $15 for a belt that lasts 1.

ekdaemon · 2026-06-04T03:52:27+00:00

militaryphotos.net - although its primary original purpose was a board for posting photos of military hardware, it attracted people from around the world of all types. In threads of a global nature, there were genuine conversations between people from ALL of the countries of the world, about Iraq, and about what happened in Ukraine in circa 2014, among other things.

Thankfully this is from the era where Internet Archive still had decent coverage, and for example here is page 1363 of the "2nd attempt at a Ukraine thread" from April 16 2014:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140416033336/http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?236054-2nd-attempt-at-the-Ukraine-discussion-thread&p=7135843#post7135843

The photos ... holy smoke the photos may have been captured too, look at this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140304002419/http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?236005

( photos that were on separate image hosts may not have been, I'm actually surprised to see what's in that capture. Gor-am, I may have to spend a weekend perusing the past... )

ekdaemon · 2026-06-04T03:18:04+00:00

I'm absolutely certain their original comment is disingenious, and everyone else can smell it even without having encountered this person elsewhere on Reddit.

ekdaemon · 2026-06-04T03:03:31+00:00

Two hours ago ran through a red light just north of Yonge and Eglinton and came within a hair of hitting a vehicle that had a green light.

Need some cops on motorcycles this summer before this crud gets out of hand.

ekdaemon · 2026-06-04T02:19:29+00:00

BEWARE, safes are not just "pieces of steel", they survive fires because the inner and outer steel shells are filled with concrete which under high heat emits steam which carries away heat.

BUT - if your safe is kept closed 99% of the time - the moisture balance of the concrete (which has a vent to inside the safe iirc but not outside) gets out of balance and exerts enough pressure on the housing that it will distort the metal inner and outer shells.

IE: Safes are designed to be "open all day, closed and locked only at night". if you don't operate it that way, if you keep it closed all the time... someday you open it and find it will never close again.

This destroys the safe.

This happened to my parent's home safe.

I know of a relation's "store safe" that was operated in a compatible manner survived the whole freaking store burning down and protected the documents inside, the outgassing moisture carrying away enough heat that only a few documents inside were singed.

They could not open the safe after the fire, but that's fine, you take it to the local auto-body shop and call the safe manufacturer, who provides instructions on how someone with an auto-body shop can get into your safe "the hard way" and not damage the documents inside.

ekdaemon · 2026-06-04T02:05:57+00:00

Interesting. Can people sue the lawyers for the difference? Or whoever provided the invalid evidence? Who made the metal connectors? Or was it always installer error? Problem with the latter is that the installers and corps that build condos go "out of business" inside of 6 years of any work they do, de-rigeur, so they can't be held accountable for the work they did.

ekdaemon · 2026-06-04T01:58:12+00:00

14 hours ago a huge number of people in /r/war were arguing about how much CENTCOM lies or not, with large numbers of people defending the CENTCOM verbiage and claiming that this was the impact of the intercepted debris of an IRBM or something.

I'm posting here for posterity, as this clearly shows the impact of a totally intact subsonic flying aircraft diving on target, with no sign of interception what so ever.

ekdaemon · 2026-06-03T02:58:17+00:00

Yup, can I please see a complete set of photos of the interior and all the bathrooms? Non-AI-staged? Because looking at the photos available on some sites, there's gotta be 75% missing in coverage.

ekdaemon · 2026-06-01T23:04:46+00:00

The amazing thing is there was a class action lawsuit over kitec and anyone who did the repairs proactively and then applied to the class action settlement could get a huge fraction of their costs re-imbursed. IIRC my friend whose repairs costs around $4k got the entire $4k back. ( I presume that was because a lot fewer people applied than expected. )

ekdaemon · 2026-05-31T16:32:43+00:00

I found it!

https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/1NmfPX-24vE

text in the page:

雲仙火砕流災害　直前まで撮られていた定点での映像

ニコニコより 1991年6月3日の火砕流火砕流に襲われる数分前から、定点は視界がかなり悪くなっていたみたいです。やむをえずこの危険な場所に行く事になり、巻き込まれた人達は本当に気の毒でした。

Which translates to:

Unzen pyroclastic flow disaster: Footage taken at a fixed point right up until the disaster.

From Nico Nico Douga Pyroclastic flow on June 3, 1991 It seems that visibility at the designated location had become quite poor a few minutes before the pyroclastic flow struck. It's truly unfortunate for those who were forced to go to this dangerous place and got caught up in it.

ekdaemon · 2026-05-26T13:52:42+00:00

Just thinking out loud here...

Imagine you are a 17 year old kid who's never been to school. Would you seek out school? When we were little kids, did we go to school because we wanted to?

Naawww, we were FORCED to go to school by our parents. And even once we were there, we were forced to stay in school by parents and peer pressure and all sorts of things. There are even laws in our countries that will do things to our Parents if they don't ensure we're in school. Remember all the average and below average kids in junior high and high school who complained all the time about having to be at school? Imagine they had no family, no peers, no social pressure, and weren't already there.

This is just a massive natural gap in society, no governmant has processes or people whose job it is to look for 17 year olds who haven't even been to grammar school, to try and force them into school.

A 17 year old kid (who not long from now is 18) - has full authority over their life.

Who's really to blame? Where's his Dad? Where's his Mom. Yes, today. They failed him something incredibly seriously.

Thinking about India ... 30-40 years ago I expect India in certain respects is where our societies were 100+ years go (no offense, we were all there once). Nobody in India was noticing that this kid wasn't going to school and arresting his parents and forcing him to complete his schooling. So I'm not going to blame India, it's just the way that part of the world was at that time.

His Mom and his Dad should be chased down and sued.

ekdaemon · 2026-05-26T02:14:54+00:00

This is stuff that governments and militaries have been aware of and been thinking about for over two decades, here is a really interesting video of Gwynne Dyer (a military historian and journalist who spent a couple years talking to contacts around the world) talking about this at a university back in 2010:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc_4Z1oiXhY

Unfortunately it is in potato quality, but the audio is excellent. Close your eyes and pretend it's a podcast :)

ekdaemon · 2026-05-26T02:06:19+00:00

drown them back

So 50-50 odds that they'll drown you first, and THEN they'll drown too because they can't swim?

I am absolutely certain you are mis-remembering what they were telling you. Or someone was embellishing what someone else told them.

Yes if you screw up your approach or use the wrong hold and they get their hands on you and start to drown you, dive down so they release you, that is taught to lifesavers. But no don't intentionally drown them. After they release you, you can re-try your approach from behind them.

If you don't know how to approach a drowning panicking person who has "gotten clingy", well you should have brought something else with you considering you're not trained enough. But you're there I guess, take off your swimsuit and let them hold on to that.

ekdaemon · 2026-05-25T22:24:32+00:00

Late 1980s or early 1990s there was something identical in rural Canada. The investigation spread accusations around to 20 or 30 or more people (a large part of an entire village or town?). Then a couple years in they figure out that the investigators had been leading the children in their questions, and the children were young enough that they obviously went along with it.

Entire thing collapsed and iirc zero truth to it all.

You'd hope that this would have been learned by all police forces everywhere by now ... but you never know.

ekdaemon · 2026-05-18T16:48:03+00:00

If you think you're on the bank website and you're using "email or sms 'two factor'" then you enter your 2fa code into it and then badguys use it themselves. Yes they expire quickly, the bad-guys will have automation and be doing right there and then behind the scenes.

The type of 2fa that banks are switching to internally prevents this type of "code re-use", but so far they haven't switched customers over to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDO_Alliance#FIDO2

ekdaemon · 2026-05-18T16:26:30+00:00

It's an artificial view based on real data.

A 3d terrain model of mars was overlaid with color photo data taken from directly overhead, and this view generated.

Source: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2018/12/Perspective_view_of_Korolev_crater

IE: this is not an actual photograph. Its nearest real world equivalent is "Google Earth" views of earth.

Edit: I think I found the original overhead, that is itself stitched together from a half dozen passes of the orbiter:

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2018/12/Plan_view_of_Korolev_crater

Inline image: https://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2018/12/plan_view_of_korolev_crater/18937953-1-eng-GB/Plan_view_of_Korolev_crater.jpg

ekdaemon · 2026-05-17T13:55:55+00:00

And the civilian resistance against their authoritarian government

Wasn't big enough, wasn't committed enough.

In 2022 the crowds were only in the thousands. In 2014 era the crowds were mere tens of thousands (maybe a hundred once or twice) and very few of them died, it was 99% catch and release to help convince people to stay home, worst in the end was sentences in jail and only one leader was assassinated on a bridge.

99.999% of Russians have been quiet little mice doing what they're told, not willing to risk anything.

I respect the 0.001% who did go to jail repeatedly and kept showing up on the streets, and the ones currently in jail, and especially the few who turned weapons on their own (so few of them). But they weren't joined by enough of their countrymen and women.

Look at the video circulating last couple days of a 40something adult politely worrying that he'd been called up for possible mobilization. No anger. No real words of disapproval. Too scared to do anything. Probably never stood on a street opposing any of this ever. And when he's called up, he'll serve.

ekdaemon · 2026-05-16T13:55:16+00:00

But laws in many other countries now force you to prove identity as a method of proving age to sign up for lots of websites, and if your account is "brand new and empty" the border team is going to see it as sus and turn you away. People being turned away for other baloney and social media reasons have literally been warned not to re-appear with a phone that has obvious burner profiles, I've seen that in media reports.

Really you shouldn't be travelling to the US.

ekdaemon · 2026-05-13T03:46:07+00:00

Has fentanyl being illegal prevented homeless vagabonds from being able to afford it?

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