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Comment Re:The physics is measured, not supposed. (Score 1) 71

Sure, but is the cited paper about file systems, radiation hardening of aerospace hardware, or something else entirely? My point isn't whether or not the phrase is a real scientific term used by physicists, the point is whether or not the phrase is meaningful or relevant to someone reviewing the code for a file system.

Comment Re:The physics is measured, not supposed. (Score 1) 71

I understand everything you said, but the quoted line is still phrased pretty awkwardly. I frequently hear people talking about radiation, cosmic rays, etc. (I'm not an aerospace engineer myself, but I work with a lot of them). I don't think I've ever heard anyone talking about atmospheric neutrons though. Being that specific almost never matters to anyone except maybe the engineers working specifically on the radiation hardening.

And "the medium is not exempt" is just weird.

Comment Re:This will certainly be great discussion (Score 1) 42

I'm not really qualified to deliver a good holy war; but it does seem like there may be something to the criticism that monolithic integration has gone a bit far if supporting one utility being written in a different language is a special feature rather than a matter of the rest of the system not knowing or caring what is on the opposite side of an interface so long as it can act as expected.

The summary isn't clear on this. I also initially thought that it was talking about programs written in Rust and being managed by systemd's init/service management. But that can't be what's now supported, because systemd should be able to launch anything that's executable (any compiled binary, shell or Python scripts, etc.). So my guess is that this is some kind of systemd library that now has a Rust version.

Comment Re:Wait, what? (Score 1) 39

I remember seeing a discussion about a sci-fi show (Babylon 5, for anyone else who remembers the discussion) where someone said basically the same thing about a dead body sticking to the outside of a space station. If you do the math, though, you'll find that it doesn't take as much mass as you might think for an object to have enough gravity to pull in free-floating objects.

Wikipedia says Phobos' escape velocity is 11.39 m/s (41 km/h), which is enough to hold down a jumping human. So all the probe needs to do to reach an orbit around Phobos is slow down enough.

Comment Re:Communists lying (Re:Good luck with that.) (Score -1) 72

Statistical contortions might provide copium, but don't prove anything. I gave you a straightforward parameter median household income. Something economists have been using for generations. You had to cherry-pick — and your cherry is rotten, because you complained about the period of COVID lock-downs, much of it presided over by your champion.

And you provided no citations. No wonder, your moderation is so high :)

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