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Re:Concern in Europe that the Ariane 6 and Vega-C rockets will not be ...
on Saturday March 27, 2021 @03:31AM (#26600653)
I was wanting to compare the industrial scale cost of doubling the width of a pizza to doubling the width of the cross section of a starship. Your entitled to you're opinion
Re:In Stockholm there's currently an IT battle underway
on Saturday March 27, 2021 @03:21AM (#26600615)
Take a triple bottom line solution to the problem.
Take a look at how kmalloc_obj is going in DragonFly BSD.
Government IT challenges three technical team leads to get to solution like kmalloc_obj. Performance pays for 1st prize and the rest get less money. Cut the time horizon from start to finish for the piece work to 18-months. Spread the risk of total failure to zero.
Re:China Cancels H&M
on Friday March 26, 2021 @12:21PM (#26593918)
Cold War 2.0 multicultural rap music piped in public places is sick, awful.
Re:China Cancels H&M
on Friday March 26, 2021 @12:19PM (#26593875)
The definition of what "human rights" isis being played by all sides in the grand disinformation game.
Re:Concern in Europe that the Ariane 6 and Vega-C rockets will not be ...
on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:45AM (#26552554)
Elon's leadership drive and capital had the catalyzing effect. Without Elon, all the capital in the world would've gone into laggy bureaucratic procurement and project management pie in the sky bridges to nowhere. ARPA might've done what today's DARPA/NASA does not do.
Re:Concern in Europe that the Ariane 6 and Vega-C rockets will not be ...
on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:36AM (#26552489)
Is the cost to doubling the width of starship proportional to pizza?
Re:Emacs is the 2D Command-line Interface
on Sunday March 21, 2021 @10:43AM (#26530809)
I saw a post on hacks to bring video/animations into Emacs using :base_uri svg functionality going in the direction of subwindow glyph functionality.
Re:GNU Project Needs Volunteers to Write JavaScript Drop-Ins for Non-F...
on Saturday March 20, 2021 @01:37AM (#26521012)
The FSF is said to have engaged the services of a PR firm. Hopefully, the style of activistic petulant juvenilia is confined to a narrower band target audience with their help.
Re:Apple M1 vs. Intel – Which Processor Is Right for You
on Friday March 19, 2021 @12:29PM (#26515303)
Apple's ARM M1 is less likely to have x86 insanity in the architecture due to 286/386 legacy for purists that appreciate what's under the hood is really nice. The AMD/Intel SEE/FRED initiative, for example.
Re:Interstellar object ‘Oumuamua is likely a chunk of nitrogen ice
on Thursday March 18, 2021 @05:16AM (#26500830)
Should be possible for study group to naturally form around topic of interest and comb through the details to write up two pager and 30 second video to condense the subject at hand.
Re:Audi abandons combustion engine development
on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @02:13AM (#26487208)
A team of six or eight should have a dedicated scribe to link everything that is going on in one coherent whole. That role functions as the interface to the team and onboards new team member when people move on. A team without a scribe creates a new opening for that role for a noob to learn by doing.
Re:Ant Group CEO Resigns
on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @06:56AM (#26475137)
Doesn't have the technical chop of Tesla's Teknoking or Master of Coin.
Re:Title of Elon Musk Has Changed to Technoking of Tesla
on Monday March 15, 2021 @07:34AM (#26464686)
The royal title attributes color to his musical genius in the A16ztech Empire (previously before Dogecoin, Rebel Allstar Technologies).
Re:Apple discontinues original HomePod, will focus on mini
on Friday March 12, 2021 @09:28PM (#26443354)
Apple lost the sense of taste a while ago.
Re:Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simulation
on Thursday March 11, 2021 @09:36PM (#26431655)
Having three horses in the race competing for the stated goal is a better bet for results you can at least compare the pro/cons of their approaches to. At next iteration, fuse the best parts and recompete towards the stated goal.
Re:Joint Strike Fighter Air Vehicle C++ Coding Standards [pdf]
on Monday March 08, 2021 @07:52AM (#26385155)
The LM Goliath needs to put up actual performance figures under scientificly rigorous scrutiny for comparison to substantiate those claims against enthusiast driven technology (not marketing, PR) or shutup. And, factor in dollars a bang for every block of technical excellence performing in the source code.
Re:Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger l...
on Monday March 08, 2021 @01:54AM (#26382919)
Is there a hall of fame to put him in not sponsored by Boing?
Re:Do Language Models Know How Heavy an Elephant Is?
on Saturday March 06, 2021 @04:30AM (#26366275)
Needs a supervisor for cheeky monkey curve ball playful question to interpret answer on gradient of seriousness from thousands of mind model with access to knowledge library and language as commonly used. The part before "on" doesn't sound out of place from a template for language exchange in a butcher's shop and "on Moon" is a playful reframing adjusting the physics model. A child lucky to have a parent with training in physics would get an answer easy to this question.
Re:Nvidia Deep Learning Accelerator (NVDLA): free open inference accel...
on Saturday March 06, 2021 @12:51AM (#26365520)
The Microsoft buying Github isn't an encouragement to contribute for some people knowing what they know of previous Microsoft leadership.
Re:What Is Specialized Hardware and Why Open Source Will Drive Adoption
on Friday March 05, 2021 @08:06AM (#26356401)
On the "intellectual bottleneck", perhaps we will see exponential improvement in the next 10 years now that aesthetes in the political realm see the value in a TSMC.
The EU has a draft paper out for 2030.
Re:Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3 self-driving
on Friday March 05, 2021 @07:35AM (#26356135)
The Tiger Woods driving experience as informal industry use case standard to focus on is as good as the informal two golf bags carrying capacity.
Re:The decline of computers as a general-purpose technology
on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @09:31AM (#26328732)
Search for Nikkei article on TSMC and growth plans. Look for "cage" and "bird" search terms at that source.
Re:The Mars Helicopter Is Online and Getting Ready to Fly
on Monday March 01, 2021 @09:28AM (#26303052)
The helicopter project is somewhere said to cost $80 million.
Would be interesting to know cost allocation for that Sony/Samsung chip. Project manager and scientists/engineers could have listed design challenges for industry player like TSMC/Apple go beat with an offering, a short run of 20 chips specifically for this helicopter.
Re:The Mac price crash of 2021
on Saturday February 27, 2021 @08:54PM (#26289965)
The feedback indicator for volume adjust on iOS reduces to toothpick thin finger nail high placed immediate to the button, not an improvement on the squircle that used to occupy half the screen. That deterioration in usability rests on the shoulders of higher pay grades political infighting, Apple beige era bigcorp bad old days ladder climbing gaming, resulting in lack of oversight on aesthetic overview effect. Or, nobody can say "no" anymore.
Re:What Is Specialized Hardware and Why Open Source Will Drive Adoption
on Saturday February 27, 2021 @11:33AM (#26285892)
Does anyone have insight on what implications follow from Jim Keller's Tenstorrent graph processing chip? He speculates the future may have a $5 add-on chip to a child's toy which will have more intelligence than a human on #162 Lex Fridman Podcast. I get how the single threaded raster pixel gpu architecture is less evolved than a graph processor.
Re:The decline of computers as a general-purpose technology
on Thursday February 25, 2021 @02:01AM (#26260457)
How is the "Cage of Birds" experiment going at TSMC?
Re:The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter has failed
on Thursday February 25, 2021 @01:53AM (#26260412)
The pieces on the wargame board are going in place for a round one canceling out of 2B+ population between India, China and expect the thermal nuclear exchange to melt the snow on the high altitude mountainous region keeping them apart.
Re:Banned Famous Chinese Singer Li Zhi's music on GitHub: Songs are ba...
on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @03:14AM (#26247786)
Spain and France are reportedly arresting rap singer. The danger, I guess, is a song going viral and corrupting. The people in China don't have a bullshxx detector as one expects to find in say a savvy New Yorker lawyer or liar.