Posts by druck 3039 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jun 2007
It doesn't need the Starship, only a rocket capable of getting a manned capsule to Hubble's orbit, has a docking adaptor to attach to the capture ring, and is capable of allowing space walks. I'm pretty sure that a Falcon Heavy plus Dragon capsule could be made suitable with a few modifications.
26 bit ARM was a thing of beauty with all instructions conditional, free barrel shifts, and the combined PC+PSR allowing costless flag preservation over subroutines. 32 bit ARM lost a bit of the magic when the PC and PSR became separate, but it was still fun. But now with ARMv8, it could really be just any other 64 bit ISA, so I leave it to the compiler.
As we've said before, it's nice that Microsoft is pointing out cybersecurity issues in other people's code – raising awareness is good for users – but it's strange to see Redmond making a song and dance about this sort of thing when it routinely downplays the scores of vulnerabilities it fixes in its own products every month.
If you can't fix your own shit, throw some at your competitors.
So after the equivalent of hundreds of billions of new notes being printed in 14 years of Quantitative Easing, is your currency worthless? Does it fluctuate by tens of percent on a daily basis? Are there massive fees for purchasing goods or conversions to other currencies?
If you think that crypto and fiat currencies are equivalent, I've got a bridge I can sell you (once people have stopped queuing on it).
Swift has always been a pretty sensible organisation, so why now this madness?
There is nothing you can do with blockchain can't be sone better with other technologies, and the only thing you ever hear about smart contacts is appallingly insecure code causing millions in losses. Alarm bells should be ringing.
So the boosters become expendable. Or go out in a blaze of glory. "It's just great to see them used in this manner," said Hurley
"We've got 16 total engines from the Shuttle program," he explained, "so we can get to Artemis IV."
I'd go a bit stronger than eating your own seed corn, to destroy these reusable parts which have been used on multiple Shuttle missions for one flight of a big dumb booster is verging on criminal. It's progress with its foot flat to the floor - in reverse gear.
One place I worked for at the turn of the millennium was so paranoid about the PCs or RAM being stolen, they used to get a lockable 20ft shipping container delivered to the workshop, to put all the PC's in over the Christmas and New Year shutdown.
I always thought that if thieves found out about this, they could break through the shutter doors and put the container on a lorry, far quicker than the half a day it took us to unplug everything and bring it all downstairs from the offices.
And of course it cost us nearly a whole day to put it all back again on the 2nd of January.
@heyrick you don't need to believe anything, he states that directly.
"Machines can outpace humans in generating intellectual property, thus producing unprecedented global prosperity. That could lead the way to an economy in which people strive to improve themselves rather than brutally competing against others for wealth and resources. I believe that would amount to a better, but still not perfect world," he said.
i.e swamp the global patent system with auto generated patents, and gain unprecedented prosperity - for himself. Mere humans wont be able compete any more, and will have to hand over all the wealth and resources to who controls the AI. An almost perfect world for him, with probably only the issue of some people with envy and guns getting in the way.
The solid boosters are just big fireworks, the core stage powered by rocket engines is very complicated mechanics. That's why the Saturn V still is a far more impressive achievement - fully dependant on rocket motors, rather getting most of it thrust from solid boosters as the the SLS does.
Specifically, the smartNIC features 16 A78-AE cores for high-performance workloads and four R52 cores for low-power and lights-out operations.Memory is supplied via up to four 32GB LPDDR5 or DDR5 memory DIMMs to the card itself.
Finally, networking and host communication will be provided by a pair of 200Gbps interfaces and 16 lanes of PCIe 5.0 or CXL 2.0 connectivity.
Forget that as a SmartNIC, I'd be happy with that as a desktop! Certainly a step up from a Raspberry Pi 4.
Beening born in the year of Apollo 8 and growing up during the moon landings, Skylab and the introduction of the reusable Shuttle, I had great dreams of future space manned missions, which have come to nothing. It is really disappointing that after 54 years we only now staging a mission equivalent mission to Apollo 8, but not even manned.
The tens of billions spent on the SLS does not even given us a core rocket as powerful as the Saturn V, as most of the SLS's thrust is achieved by the use of Space Shuttle era solid boosters with extra segments. When the Shuttle came along we thought that was the end to giant throw away rockets, with just tiny capsules splashing down in the sea at the end of a mission.
Luckily Space X is working on something different and better.
Thanks Liam, when it next appears from the old laptop graveyard under the sofa, I'll give that a try.
I think our his & hers EEE PCs are still under there too, last seen running Debian 8 with LDXE, so might see if they'll run x86 Raspbian.
KDE was known as memory hog when the machines RAM was still measured in MB rather than KB, but rather than shrinking their footprint what they have done is resist the bloat that the others, particular gnome, seems to have acquired over the years.
Back in the 2000's I used to run KDE on the high spec machines at work, but my more modest home system struggled, which lead me too picking Mate desktop. But well done to the KDE developers for opening up the choice of desktops to all classes of machine.
The later Atoms do run 64 bit OS's, but with limited cache and memory sizes they run noticeably slower than 32 bit OS.
I dual booted Linux Mint 32 bit and 64 bit variants on an old Atom N450 netbook until 32 bit was dropped after version 19. The 32 bit OS being just about usable on such a low spec machine, the 64 bit OS was actually a little quicker when first booted, but then a lot slower when a few applications were running - the maximum of 2GB of RAM being the real killer.
When I said the people behind Tornado Cash should be up on charges https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2022/08/08/treasury_sanctions_tornado_cash_korea, I got down voted by the crypto-shills, luckily no one was listening to them.
At my last company to Windows, I had to call IT at least every 2 months to get they key for the Bitlocker recovery screen. With a Linux only policy ever since, not a single problem with LUKS, and I've resized various partitions on the encrypted disc twice.
Well the government keeps going back to the same large IT companies time and time again, no matter how much of an unmitigated disaster the previous projects have been, so I doubt if mere security issues are going to persuade them to ditch these serial cock-up merchants.
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