Jul
10
comment I want to pick my flight route. I can either get 2 round trip tickets (SRC<->MID, MID<->DST) or 3rd party booking (SRC<->DST). Which is more reliable?
It really depends on the ticketing agent -- basically the Amadeus system is a piece of really arcane technology that is difficult to use, but gives full flexibility in booking, while airline websites go for simplicity and will not even present you simple options like "extend this layover by 24 hours, but keep all the flights on a single ticket." So a skilled agent can definitely get you tickets that are not available online. Airlines use Amadeus even to sell their own tickets, so airline agents have access to the same ticketing options, but often it is a skill issue.
Jul
9
awarded Pundit
Jul
9
comment Is it possible to go back to the U.S. after overstaying as a child?
And more specifically, being in a long-distance relationship with a green card holder is a strong indication of immigrant intent.
Jul
9
comment Why do jet aircraft need chocks when they have parking brakes?
The reason you don't need to indicate this for smaller aircraft is that the pilot can see them before getting in.
Jul
9
asked Automatically generating pull requests for subproject changes
Jul
6
answered Failed NVMe M.2 SSD, broken filesystem, unwriteable; can I wipe it anyway?
Jul
4
answered Synchronize Outputs of Separate FPGAs Within 1ns
Jul
4
comment Resource consumption of Ettus USRP devices
My expectation would be that the dominant factor in power consumption for the entire board will be the RF amplifiers.
Jul
4
awarded Nice Answer
Jul
3
awarded Notable Question
Jul
2
comment Cannot boot ubuntu after replacing the windows partitions of my dual boot pc by a data partition
none of these errors look like something that would stop a boot. Try booting without the quiet option (edit the kernel parameters in the bootloader) to get more output.
Jul
2
answered NetworkManager slow boot in Ubuntu 24.04
Jul
2
comment Project consumption under AGPL V3
You need to provide source to any user of project B that requests it, but project A is not a user of project B -- unless the service is accessible to them, then they are free to request the source code as well. There is never a requirement to contact project A, because that would fail the desert island test.
Jul
1
comment Predictable Network Interface Names: ensX vs enpXsY
If the system has multiple PCI domains, the domain number is inserted into the interface name as well, prefixed with capital P.
Jun
27
comment Can a planet have a warm, tropical climate both at the poles and at the equator?
Freeze/thaw cycles are kind of important though.
Jun
25
comment Making audio signals imitate USB flash drives
Can be done (basically it would need to present a USB mass storage device containing a big WAV file, and then simply return ADC data when the data areas from the WAV are being read), but I'd expect it to be flaky (because the head unit might want to read ahead in the "file"), so probably no one turned into a product.
Jun
21
comment Could an Alien decipher human languages using only comms traffic?
As an alien, I'd start with air traffic control messages, these use standardized phraseology and their contents refer to observable movements.
Jun
17
comment choose which GPU to use for each application
I think Vulkan applications can choose on their own.
Jun
16
comment ATA error count increased / failing ssd?
@ndx, the normalized value for the reallocated sector count shrinks towards zero, typically (but not guaranteed) from 100, so it usually behaves like a percentage remaining -- it's at 92%, and 10% is the threshold for failure.
Jun
16
answered ATA error count increased / failing ssd?
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