Comment Re:There is very little software that is Linux onl (Score 1) 201
macOS is a Mach microkernel pretending to be BSD Unix.
Pretending? LOL, macOS is officially Unix (TM) unlike Linux.
macOS is a Mach microkernel pretending to be BSD Unix.
Pretending? LOL, macOS is officially Unix (TM) unlike Linux.
I'm not too fond of the whole OS X UI and the ecosystem lock-in. An Ubuntu build that works OOTB and provides the same incredible battery life would go a long way to making an M1 Mac an option for me.
There is no ecosystem lock-in like in iOS. macOS let you install software without using the Apple Store. This is why pretty much everything that runs on Linux, console or GUI also runs on macOS.
Said like a true believer, if not just a fool.
Only a true believer would post something like you did. Others would see that neither Intel nor AMD _STILL_ have an answer even to the M1 when looking at is as a total price/performance/noise level/power draw/battery life package. If the claims of 1.7x M1 are true, things are getting outright embarrassing for x86.
Look at the universities, many of their respective assembly language classes have switched to ARM.
The venerable Art of Assembly Language book which started out in x86 16-bit days and is now in its 64-bit incarnation, has a 64-bit ARM version under development.
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My son can recite PI to 100 digits but can't remember his cell phone number.
LOL. I remember when I could remember friends and families numbers, do math in my head, etc. Damn electronic marvels ruined all that.
I don't believe adding more digits of PI would help even a tiny bit with course corrections.
Well I was not thinking just Pi but all numeric values and computations supporting more significant digits.
As planets/moons/asteroids are not perfectly smooth and evenly dense spheres, any slingshot maneuver used to accelerate/decelerate will require course corrections. And of course, very tiny effects from microgravity, solar wind, space dust, etc. add up over sufficiently long periods of time, requiring more course corrections.
To stick with the more digits theme, this seems to be a problem of the number of parameters not the digits.
Why on Earth would you EVER want someone to toss unguided rocks around the solar system. IMO one of the best lines ever in a sci-fi novel... Q: "What are we going to do, throw rocks at them?" A: "Yes."
My joke was "The Expanse" inspired.
Microsoft will tell you that official support for Silverlight will end in less than two months, on Oct. 12, 2021
So on Oct 12 software updates will stop offering to install Silverlight?
15 digits was good enough to get New Horizons to Pluto. I think it will be good enough for deciding how much fencing to buy for your round garden plot.
Only because it had a motor and fuel and could do mid course corrections. When we toss unguided rocks around the solar system we will need more digits.
Scientists Calculate Pi To 62.8 Trillion Digits
Relax folks, your computer/phone will only handle 15 digits. There is no need to start memorizing pi beyond that.
The weakness in bitcoin is two factors.
Three actually. Bitcoin has abandoned its security model, mining is no longer decentralized. 70% of the miners are located in China and dependent upon cheap electricity from the government. Basically bitcoin's security model was voluntarily discarded by the community. The adoption of exotic ASIC hardware centralized mining and maintaining the blockchain, and made a government backed 51% attack possible. Lets say reversing transactions the government disapproved of, like a ransomware payment and any obfuscation.
Now I admit the Chinese government is unlikely to do any such thing at this moment, however the bitcoin security model was supposed to make this sort of thing impossible not unlikely. Merely unlikely means the security model is broken.
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