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Submission + - The Mysterious 3i Atlas

Submitted by MrKaos
MrKaos writes: The third interstellar comet to enter out solar system brings some interesting coincidences. First it is traveling at the Local Standard of Rest. Second it is entering the Sol system on the Ecliptic of the planets which is not on the ecliptic of the Milky Way. Third, it passes close to Mars, Venus and Jupiter whilst obscured from Earth by the Sun.

With several Mars orbiters available to capture a look at this rare phenomenon, why isn't NASA (or China for that matter) preparing to point some of them at this object to collect some cheap science instead leaving it all up to ESA?

After all, isn't science NASA's mission?

Comment Nietzsche (Score 1) 76

by MrKaos (#65620974) Attached to: One Long Sentence is All It Takes To Make LLMs Misbehave

I'd like to see what an LLM does with his long, verbose prose with sentences that, considering the depth of his ideas, combined with examples and depending on the topic, take, if one is not interrupted or sidetrack by thought and able to focus, 3 minutes each to read. You'd dump core too!

Comment Re:Always nice to see a launch (Score 1) 25

by MrKaos (#65602004) Attached to: ULA Launches First National Security Mission On Vulcan Centaur Rocket

Even the Starship is just a reprise of the Soviet N1 rocket.

No it isn't. Starship is different from N1 in pretty much every possible way, except in that both use a large number of engines.

8^) Not the Starship is somehow identical to the N1. My apologies if you thought I was trying to say that. No, they aren't identical.

The fundamental problems were identical in the two vehicles though. SpaceX has clearly learned the primary lesson of running that many motors from the N1 program, testing and balancing the engine output to eliminate vehicle instability. Had the Soviet's mastered that aspect of the vehicle production I'd say the space race would have never ended.

Comment Model M2 (Score 1) 74

Was even better. Probably the best keyboard to ever be paired with a computer.

I was partial to the M2 which was lighter and quieter than the M whilst maintaining a good feel. I still have my Model M but it takes up so much desk real estate there isn't much room for anything else.

Still I think if a tank ran over my Model M there wouldn't be much damage to the tank, with the added bonus of if anyone has a problem with the keyboard being so loud, a good bang on their head with the M silences any complaints. That's why the M is the choice of keyboard worriers everywhere.

Comment Re:The writing is on the wall (Score 1) 31

by MrKaos (#65526050) Attached to: VMware Reboots Its Partner Program Again

Is anyone using the Xen hypervisor? I tried it out and it had some interesting features, like a CPU emulation layer, it ran sparc cpu stuff on intel, slowly but I also did not have a huge amount of CPU time to throw at it. Here is the the Xen wiki, from my understanding Amazon, Citrix and Cisco are users of this in their infra.

I'm working a migration project away from VMware, thanks for all the extra work broadcom.

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