Comment S23 gets AI also (Score 2) 18
I was happy to read that the S23 series will also get the AI stuff as I just bought a S23 Ultra a few months ago.
https://www.engadget.com/samsu...
Submission + - Star Citizen's failed 3.18 upgrade (robertsspaceindustries.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Alpha 3.18 upgrade from 3.17.5 of Star Citizen has brought the crowdfunded project down for 5 days. With short exceptions the system has been unavailable. Very little is coming out of CIG other than they are working on it.
Comment Documentary (Score 1) 146
There was a doc a few years ago about this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What struck me was that even though this appears to be a successful project it is only a fraction of even Finland's nuclear storage problem. We would need hundreds of these world wide.
Submission + - Aricebo Observatory sustains major damage and is shut down (cnn.com) 2
mknewman writes: Around 2:45 a.m. Monday, a three-inch auxiliary cable that helped support a metal platform broke, according to a news release from the University of Central Florida. UCF manages the facility alongside Universidad Ana G. Méndez and Yang Enterprises, Inc.
When the cable broke, it created a 100-foot gash in the telescope's 1,000-foot-long reflector dish, according to UCF. It also damaged about six to eight panels along the observatory's Gregorian Dome, which is suspended over the reflector dish. The broken cable also twisted a platform used to access the Gregorian Dome, making damage assessment even more difficult.
When the cable broke, it created a 100-foot gash in the telescope's 1,000-foot-long reflector dish, according to UCF. It also damaged about six to eight panels along the observatory's Gregorian Dome, which is suspended over the reflector dish. The broken cable also twisted a platform used to access the Gregorian Dome, making damage assessment even more difficult.
U.S. Hatches Plan To Build a Quantum Internet That Might Be 'Unhackable' (washingtonpost.com) 75
U.S. officials and scientists unveiled a plan this week to pursue what they called one of the most important technological frontiers of the 21st century: building a quantum Internet. From a report: Speaking in Chicago, one of the main hubs of the work, they set goals for forging what they called a second Internet -- one that would function alongside the globe's existing networks, using the laws of quantum mechanics to share information more securely and to connect a new generation of computers and sensors. Quantum technology seeks to harness the distinct properties of atoms, photons and electrons to build more powerful computers and other tools for processing information. A quantum Internet relies on photons exhibiting a quantum state known as entanglement, which allows them to share information over long distances without having a physical connection.
David Awschalom, a professor at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, called the Internet project a pillar of the nation's quantum-research program. "It's the birth of a new technology. It's becoming a global competition. Every major country on earth has launched a quantum program ... because it is becoming clearer and clearer there will be big impacts," he said in an interview. The United States' top technology rival, China, is investing heavily in quantum technology, a field that could transform information processing and confer big economic and national security advantages to countries that dominate it. Europe is also hotly pursuing the research. The Energy Department and its 17 national labs will form the backbone of the project.
David Awschalom, a professor at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, called the Internet project a pillar of the nation's quantum-research program. "It's the birth of a new technology. It's becoming a global competition. Every major country on earth has launched a quantum program ... because it is becoming clearer and clearer there will be big impacts," he said in an interview. The United States' top technology rival, China, is investing heavily in quantum technology, a field that could transform information processing and confer big economic and national security advantages to countries that dominate it. Europe is also hotly pursuing the research. The Energy Department and its 17 national labs will form the backbone of the project.
Comment My first TI (Score 1) 220
When I was taking Freshman Calculus at UT Austin in 1973 was a TI-2550. Used AA batteries at a furious rate. 4 functions plus percent and one memory. I got through it. Even had it go dead during a test.
My daughter got a TI-94 when she was in about 7th grade. I liked it so much I went out and got myself one too.
The biggest thing about these is that they are allowed in the SAT and ACT. Huge advantage for those that actually learn how to use them.
Comment Re:I've been saying this for years (Score 1) 353
Look, I love sci-fi. I don't care what you watch. But having some basis in reality is 'nice'. The 'superpower' comics and movies are ridiculous to me. I see Ironman getting bounced off a building and I think 'hmm, severe brain concussion'. Most of the powers are such hokum that it's not worth my time to think about. Physics folks. I'm not crazy about fantasy for the same reason.
Comment I've been saying this for years (Score 3, Funny) 353
Comics and graphic novels are for kids.
Adults should watch enriching cinema. It's hard to come across but IFC, AMC, and independent cinemas is a great place to start.
Comment Not sure about 'better' (Score 1) 194
Lower HP/TQ
Slower
Shorter range
Less seats
Lower charging rates
Yep, I"m a Model 3 owner but that's my take on it. I've owned 2 Mustangs and would have considered a Mach-E if they had made it a 2 door pony car, not a grocery hauler. I can't believe they ruined the Mach name with this.
Comment Java (Score 2) 60
I thought Java was coffee!
Comment What's next? (Score 1) 194
Solitare?
Comment But is it... (Score 1) 29
Kosher?
Comment It's swapping (Score 1, Informative) 569
That's why it gets orders of magnitude slower, and the disk starts going crazy. Solution, add more memory or do less in memory. There are all kinds of ways to reduce memory usage.
Submission + - Is Dockerisation a fad? 4
Qbertino writes: I do LAMP Development for a living, and in recent years Docker has been the hottest thing since sliced bread. You are expected to "dockerize" your setups and be able to launch a whole string of processes to boot up various containers with databases and your primary PHP monolith with the launch of a single script. All fine and dandy this far.
However, I can't shake the notion that much of this — especially in the context of LAMP — seems overkill. If Apache, MariaDB/MySQL and PHP are running, getting your project or multiple projects to run is trivial. The benefits of having Docker seem negilible, especially having each project lug its own setup along. Yes, you can have your entire compiler and CI stack with SASS, Gulp, Babel, Webpack and whatnot in one neat bundle, but that doesn't seem to dimish the usual problems with the recent bloat in frontend tooling, to the contrary. ... But shouldn't tooling be standardised anyway? And shouldn't Docker then just be an option, who couldn't be bothered to habe (L)AMP on their bare metal?
I'm still sceptical of this dockerisation fad. I get it makes sense if you need to scale microsevices easy and fast in production, but for 'traditional' development and traditional setups, it just doesn't seem to fit all that well. What are your experiences with using Docker in a development environment? Is Dockerisation a fad or something really useful? And should I put up with the effort to make Docker a standard for my development and deployment setups?
Educated slashdot opinions requested. Thanks.
However, I can't shake the notion that much of this — especially in the context of LAMP — seems overkill. If Apache, MariaDB/MySQL and PHP are running, getting your project or multiple projects to run is trivial. The benefits of having Docker seem negilible, especially having each project lug its own setup along. Yes, you can have your entire compiler and CI stack with SASS, Gulp, Babel, Webpack and whatnot in one neat bundle, but that doesn't seem to dimish the usual problems with the recent bloat in frontend tooling, to the contrary.
I'm still sceptical of this dockerisation fad. I get it makes sense if you need to scale microsevices easy and fast in production, but for 'traditional' development and traditional setups, it just doesn't seem to fit all that well. What are your experiences with using Docker in a development environment? Is Dockerisation a fad or something really useful? And should I put up with the effort to make Docker a standard for my development and deployment setups?
Educated slashdot opinions requested. Thanks.
Comment TI started in 1972 not 1975 (Score 1) 187
I had a Datamath in 1973, and a SR-57 programmable (100 steps, 10 memories) in 1975. Those were the days.
