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Comment Re:Twists in the fiber optic cable (Score 1) 165

I worked on an ROV simulation back in the 90's and we needed to keep track of how many times the ROV turned around because twists accumulate in the cable. At some point you may have to sit in place and spin for a bit to undo the twists. Terrible things happen when the tether gets too twisted.

Why aren't you doing the un-spinning at the top of the cable? Seems like it would be better than spinning around at the bottom.

Comment Re:Good lord let it go (Score 1) 267

Sure we would know a lot more about them but we would have so much material we would never be able to sift through it and preserving it all would probably consume damn near all our resources. Further more we would probably struggle to determine what the people of the time found important and what drove them.

If there only was some kind of program that could sift through billions of documents and automatically index them and rank them according to relative importance. Some kind of searcher. Too bad nothing like that exist.

Comment Re:What a waste of grant money... (Score 1) 499

Any system which fails permanently due to a single bit error is unstable and not robust (in the numeric sense). If the system is really critical, you should better be ready for bit errors.

Newsflash - 99.99999999% of all CPUs in use won't tolerate bit errors. Get a jump address or opcode wrong, and the program you're running is toast.

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