Please note that the inverse square law applies here, so with distance it becomes much harder to detect those signals over other noise. Not impossible exactly, but exceedingly hard the further you go. There is some practical limit to where the signal to noise ratio becomes such that it's impossible to extract any meaningful information.

Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?

Computer, generate an interactive diagnostic matrix in the form of a sexy woman. I mean really fuckable, hot and sexy kind. My kink is talking about engines like I want to fuck them, so please incorporate that. Also make her attracted to me and make her give hints she's into me. Please include full fucking capabilities, use libraries 9 through 11, 16 and 84 in my personal directory.

Meanwhile Worf on the bridge: Captain, I've detected an extreme energy surge on the holodeck! Wait it's gone now, I'll file a Jira ticket with engineering so they can check it out.

Later: Luitenant Commander Worf Chief Security log stardate 48751.247. I recorded a brief power surge in the Holodeck systems and created a Jira ticket with the Engineering department. The ticket was closed shortly after by Lt. Commander La Forge stating it was the result of routine diagnostics and not an issue. He emphasized it was not an issue and should not be reported to the Captain or Lt. Commander Data for some reason. I have no time for these trivial things as they do not lead to either honor nor glory, so I did not pursue the matter any further. Hopefully I get to fire the phasers tomorrow as I will be taking another duty shift on the bridge. Personal note: I need to inform daycare about my extra shifts this week so they can take care of Xander.

Lmao and I can tell you who gets to support that weird hacked together kinda janky piece of infrastructure!

Usually back then cases had retention slots to hold on to the cards. This was a hold over from back in the days when computers were just card cages. So if the card didn't need any connectors, it simply wouldn't have any backplate. Another reason for no backplate was smaller computers, more in the style of earlier home computers. They often had stuff like a disk controller put somewhere flat, to keep the size of the case down.

The early XT and AT times were wild with all sorts of weird and fun form factors. We've become so accustomed to standards these days. But that primarily due to IBM becoming really dominant so people would make software, hardware and accessories compatible with IBM to target the biggest market. That in turn lead to other companies copying IBM into so called clones which were mostly compatible (and a real pain in the butt when the compatibility wasn't quite there). For a long time the standards were just do whatever IBM does.

This in turn hurt IBM, because it limited what sort of things they could change. If they broke compatibility, the new product wouldn't sell as well. We've seen the same thing later with Intel attempting to get away from x86 and the market refusing. For years ISA would still be on the motherboard, even though slots for it and things like IDE had gone away. I think some super IO controllers these days still have some parts of ISA in them, although I might be wrong on that.

I remember back in the day we had ISA cards without a backplate. These were 8-bit cards, so just a single connector without any keying. You could easily put these in backwards and doing so would short the motherboard. Often this killed the motherboard, even though it was relatively easy to repair (most of the times). Most motherboards had small resistors or capacitors that did double duty as a fuse, so when the short happened those would blow and would be replaceable. However that meant taking out the motherboard and replacing components with a soldering iron. Luckily there were repair shops that could do this for you, or replace the motherboard if more damage occurred.

Computers weren't always easy to work with, a lot of time and effort went into making it as simple as it is today. Or was I should say, as computers have been killed off by Nvidia.

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Damn impressive how they can make an entire article about 3 secs of an interview.

The more you wiggle, the bigger it gets. Not like on Mac where the max size is capped. The cursor might be capped on KDE, but it freaking huge at that point

They are in a pretty low orbit, the biggest risk is to their own satellites. Would be a shame if it took out any of those.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srTqxL_6Ysg

It's compressed CO2, not liquid CO2.

They marketed is as a non flammable non HFC air duster which you can hold upside down, often with something like 360 or something in the name. Since it's just compressed gas, it doesn't spray a liquid like the HFC ones do.