Comment Re: "I think his name was George" (Score 0, Troll) 93

by Aardpig on Sunday December 03, 2023 @08:35PM (#64051761) Attached to: How the Concorde Plans Were Secretly Given To the Russians

Last name Soros, by any chance?

Comment Re: MacOS gaming is kinda of catch-22 (Score 1) 246

by Aardpig on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @02:26PM (#63915927) Attached to: Valve Says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS Not Happening Because There Aren't Enough Players on Mac To Justify It

I had an awesome multiplayer game of Baldurâ(TM)s Gate 3 last night - on my M2 Mac. If Larian can do it, why not others?

Comment Re: It's also about the software (Score 1) 81

by Aardpig on Sunday March 26, 2023 @02:06PM (#63400667) Attached to: The Orange Pi 5: a Fast Alternative To The Raspberry Pi 4

Indeed - I have run Linux in 4MB!

Comment Re: Chief WOKE-tard Officer (Score 1, Troll) 121

by Aardpig on Saturday March 11, 2023 @11:49PM (#63362913) Attached to: Tech Layoffs Caused by Vain Over-Hiring for 'Fake Work', Argues Former PayPal Executive

I find you ideas fascinating and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Comment Re: Quote from the article (Score 2) 46

by Aardpig on Sunday December 11, 2022 @02:21AM (#63120802) Attached to: Source Code for Adobe's PostScript Publicly Released

No Bill Paxton the genius curmudgeon who went on to create Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics.

http://mesa.sourceforge.net/

Full disclosure: Iâ(TM)m a MESA developer, and working with Bill in recent years has been the ride of my life.

Comment Not tsunami-like (Score 5, Insightful) 29

by Aardpig on Monday June 13, 2022 @07:46PM (#62616982) Attached to: Gaia Probe Reveals Stellar DNA and Unexpected 'Starquakes'

"Star-quakes" (more accurately, the excitation of one or more internal acoustic or gravity oscillation modes in a star) are neither tsnunami-like or cataclysmic, and TFA is pure clickbait. In most stars in which they've been detected, the brightness fluctuations they cause are well below the one-part-in-a-thousand level.

They do, however, have the potential to uncover the internal structure of stars, via the technique of asteroseismology. So, the Gaia DR3 release is pretty exciting stuff -- just no need to overhype it with Michael Bay adjectives.

Full disclosure: I am a computational asteroseismologist.

Comment This movie seems appropriate... (Score 2) 498

by Aardpig on Monday November 01, 2021 @01:12PM (#61947663) Attached to: The 37-Year-Olds Are Afraid of the 23-Year-Olds Who Work for Them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Re: Why yes, Watson. (Score 1) 118

by Aardpig on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @06:31PM (#61933567) Attached to: McDonald's Partners With IBM To Automate Drive-Thru Lanes

Extra big-ass fries?

Comment Processing power? (Score 1) 16

by Aardpig on Friday April 23, 2021 @06:52PM (#61306872) Attached to: European MPs Targeted By Deepfake Video Calls Imitating Russian Opposition

I was under the impression that deepfakes require significant processing power. That this is being done in real-time indicates significant resources, no?