Posts by JK63

Re: 69 megajoules

The timeline has slipped. Fusion was always 20 years away in my youth!

Re: Terrible name

Depends on who's granting doesn't it? Microsoft got a trademark on "Word" and "Excel" in the past... Amazon can hire enough lawyers to win the case.

It's been happening for decades at least as far back as Palmisano. I don't know if Gerstner's cuts were to age out older, experienced employees.

You left off another critical part: "Scheduled for November 2024".

Re: Definitely not a new idea

Google was doing this about 4 years ago.. So other giants have been doing this already not just startups.

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/google-alphabet/when-air-no-longer-cuts-it-inside-google-s-ai-driven-shift-liquid-cooling

The resource actions are only for actual productive employees, not executives.

Re: Build a New One

If I am remembering the details correctly... The Roman Space Telescope is going to function as a survey telescope and was originally named WFIRST. While the frequency range is comparable to Hubble, survey telescopes serve a different function.

The iconic images from Hubble are from pointing at a single spot in the sky for extended periods of time.

The NRO donated 2 units with 2.4m mirrors, one is being used as WFIRST. I have no idea what the plans are for the second. A direct Hubble replacement implemented with 21st century technology would be awesome! I don't know if I'll be around to see it.

Re: So just around the corner

In the strictest sense, the Voyagers have made over 40AU in 40+ years. NASA has a page showing their progress.

One is at 125+ , the other is at 150+ AU.

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/

Re: That's what happens when you don't know what you're talking about

This was an attack on the most fundamental aspect of their business. Namely accurate recording and tabulation of votes and speaks to the integrity of the companies. If the allegations were true they'd deserve to be out of business and the cost would be immeasurable beyond the businesses.

Their freedom of speech wasn't impeded in any way, and they should not be immune from consequences for that.

Re: Fumbling in greasy tills

Amazon can sell you a book, physical or electronic about that topic! It'll probably appear in my recommendations in 3... 2... 1.

Re: Hmmm

The 1st amendment limits government's ability to censor free expression of ideas. None of the social media platforms is part of the government and is not constrained by the 1st amendment.

Using one's right to free speech does not provide freedom from consequences for the exercise of free speech.

The choice of moderation and/or censorship is, in the end, solely at the discretion of the private company. Even a publicly traded company is private in this context.

Re: Low IQ or low volition?

If we had a reliable OS that didn't require reboots as frequently that would be a solution too.

Re: Must try harder

Correct. It was also a time when the highest nominal tax bracket was 90% or higher. So when you hit the last bracket 90% of that income was taxed. It is not 90% of all income.

Oddly enough, as the highest nominal tax bracket rate ha gone down, CEO pay has gone up.

Re: Illegal.is relative.

Tulsi Gabbard is a member of the House of Representatives, how did she even manage to vote in the Senate? See, election fraud is rampant!

Re: SCO Unix

SDS didn't make you immune to stupid mistake syndrome.

I had beautifully defined all of my meta devices and was mirroring root. metattach d0 d2 d1 was my downfall. d1 was from the build and it was dutifully wiped clean with the end result being a rebuild.

Thankfully, preproduction and it was just an afternoon's work.

Re: 110,000 miles per hour

The byline lists San Francisco, so it's possible they were using US units thinking of a US audience.

But science should always be reported in metric units.

Re: Why not test it on earth?

At least in the US, there's no national imperative like there was in the 1960s. We're too fragmented as a nation these days.

Add in a significant % of the population that revels in scientific and mathematical ignorance and it's, sadly, a nearly impossible dream.

In all honesty, this is the Trump era here in 'mer'ka so facts are not necessary. Just send out a good sound bite with no relation to truth or facts.

Re: Explanation request

Details from my recollection of the press conference.

We view the black hole nearly from a polar perspective. Rotation is clockwise in the image. The brighter region at roughly the bottom of the image is moving towards the observer (earth) with the darker portion moving away from the observer.

Re: Dark matter/energy question

Is there a reason there can't be multiple experimental facilities at multiple locations?

Re: Fuel? Why no solar panels?

The fuel was for station keeping not for general propulsion. It also has nothing to do with sunshine, which is used to run the platform's electronics packages.

The design life was 3.5 years. They got almost 10 out of the platform. Sorry that nearly 3x the design life isn't acceptable.

Re: Interesting final line.

I haven't studied the design, but I suspect the lander would separate from the transport stage to become the relay. Similar to the lunar module separating from the Command and Service Modules of Apollo.

Re: Multi-GB Unplugging the keyboard = kernel panic ?

Not in 1996.

He would have been at the OBP (aka the OK> ) Prompt. Resume would have done the unthinkable, resume the still in core OS.

Yeah, Sun hardware circa 1996 had its quirks.

Re: Lloyds

Okay, brilliant. Until you have to do the math spanning years in COBOL, which was the business programming language of the time.

Re: It’s a Geo orbit

They've recovered from GeoSync launches in the past, that's what the drone ships are for.

Re: @coresstore

You have a possible suspect. You don't have a perpetrator until you can establish a lot more information. Unless they're using data from multiple towers, you haven't established that the person is actually at the locations of the shooting, just at the nearest tower.

What you don't have is a case, but rather a coincidence.

Re: Tool for the job

What point are you trying to make? That business and consumer workloads and requirements are different? Well noted by the author that these are consumer grade SSD.

As for plug it in and have a failure? That happens with traditional disk as well without warning.

Re: "slash their funding"

Sadly, it will be reality TV without the quotes in the US.