Getting to the moon, or mars, in general only requires a single push. Without drag there is nothing to slow down the spacecraft afterwards and you don't need to keep pushing. So you can push once against the magnetic field of the earth if you are pointed in the right direction, and also get to your destination in a reasonable amount of time. The actual questions are: 1. can you push hard enough for accelerating to a reasonable velocity within a reasonable time? 2. What about correction burns/pushes? I suppose you will still need conventional thrusters for course corrections.

They were thought to be dwarfed Homo erectus. Homo erectus is not a modern human.

Well, one thing you're missing is the fact that when humans learn something, they don't start from scratch. The driving instructor teaches you not only the basic rules, but also empirical cues so that you can learn quickly. Ditto for chess, learned and self-obtained experience informs the grandmaster that some opening moves are better than others. Those others and their algorithmic children don't need to be checked. A computer brute forcing a problem like chess or driving will be lousy, but if you give it more empirical information (weights and biases), like teaching a human, it will perform better.

Nobody said that horsepower was based on a *good* horse...

Indeed, all companys offering mods will be all over this. So much potential!

"LineShine uses semi-custom 304-core LX2 processors based on the Armv9 instruction set architecture running at 1.55GHz. The LX2 appears to have been co-designed with China's National Supercomputing Center and Huawei, with 40,960 chips deployed across 92 cabinets. It has a total of 13,789,440 cores." From: https://www.datacenterdynamics...

How about a bait and switch? Lure everyone in promising MS-Office compatibility, then switch the default saving setting to a standardized format. People even start getting oblivious to the fact that there are files out there somewhere in the cloud, nobody cares about the extension...

Donotwant. Then the car will bother me all the time about infotainment subscriptions, heated seat subscriptions and the like. I'd like to hover some plastic and enter a pin, thank you!

Funny that you say that. I was looking at a magazine from the 50ies the other day, and those ads were super verbose! I mean, they really had *text*! Whole paragraphs of it!!! So, no, reading advertisements *today* certainly does not involve reading from a historical perspective.

To be fair, the WebEx GUI is a disease. WebEx used to be better than Teams, but now it's the other way around.

That's all nice and well, kudos to your dad-in-law, but you didn't tell us *how* does he actually achieve such good results since it's not the homework? Maybe it's a combination of a lot of factors, including teaching talent, but maybe you have a couple of hints? Or point us to one of his "papers on education"? Honest question.

The wikipedia list is not sorted.

No conspiracy necessary. Norway is a dystopian nightmare in terms of surveilance. Most places don't take cash and everybody is used to pay with a card or their mobile phone. Using a lot of the main roads means paying for tolls, which means all cars have an electronic device for that in addition to the ubiquitous license plate reading cameras for catching the freeloaders. They have a digital ID system that is controlled by the banks (Bank-ID) that you can't take a shit without. The government knows where you are, what you eat, who you sleep with, where you drive to etc, etc. They could just legislate the use of Bank-ID for logging into a computer and nobody would bat an eye.

This looks very promising. Researchers have been complaining since a long time about the fact that publicly-funded, published research was behind paywalls and the alternatives were rather undewhelming when it came to cost for the authors (and their institutions) and peer review methodology. The new approach is quite interesting. In "how it works" it says that the publishing will be immediate after submission and the peer-review will be done *after* publishing, with all article versions being available and linked together. This will be for European Commission-funded researchers, but I hope they will widen the scope later on.

Thanks for the link. This must be the most insightful thing I've read on the internet since a long time, probably ever.