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Comment Re:Ah yes, those highly-accurate digital thermomet (Score 1) 227

You miss the point.

We don't give a shit about having the temperature of 1716 to 1% of a degree of accuracy.

"1.48 degrees Celsius higher than pre-industrial times" means:

- almost 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than pre-industrial times
- 0.18 degrees Celsius higher than 1.30 which was the previous record (2016/2020)

Comment Re:Different requirements (Score 3, Informative) 22

> supercomputers are generally built for a specific purpose

Yes and no.

Some are (weather forecast, CFD). But many supercomputers are owned by academic institutes which can have a wide variety of users and workloads.

And then, there's the military. You'd be a fool to believe the benchmarks they run on their supercomputers (and are given to the hardware vendors) match the programs they actually run ;-)

 

Comment Re:I fail to see the point.. (Score 2) 221

300+ mph without all the expensive and fragile magnets required for maglev trains, while still powered by overhead electrical lines.

AFAIK a good part of the trouble they had when running the french TGV to >550km/h speeds was related to the overhead electrical lines. Waves propagating along the line and preventing a good contact between the line and the train.

Plus with this kind of train, there is no ground connection. So they would need two overhead electrical lines.

Comment Re:BIG PROBLEM???!!! (Score 1) 73

does it matter what pixels in the imager are receiving a particular star? Are they all calibrated the same or, if the star-light falls upon more than one or on a pixel boundary, can the software make adjustments so that the measurements will provide consistent data?

Looks that they designed the thing so the light of a star is not measured by a single pixel:

The CCDs are not used to take pictures. The images are intentionally defocused to 10 arc seconds to improve the photometric precision.

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