Comment Time to dust off that tinfoil hat (Score 2) 144
Layer foil or some other blocker into clothing. That's what Cowboy Neil does and why he walks funny.
Comment how old? (Score 1) 51
Not a fan of forced obsolescence to be sure. But what hardware does -march=x86-64-v2 compiler flag cut? Surely CERN can't be using anything that old?
Comment Re:Starlink (Score 1) 64
I think so too. Soon they will have more Starships than they know what to do with. Once orbital re-fuelling is nailed you can bet they'll chuck one in the moons direction, probably before any official Artemis mission.
After that their target will be Mars, they'll probably send multiple ships (some might dump starlinks in LMO before landing attempt) in the next window...maybe not next as that's in a few months...but you never know.
Comment Re: I have a theory (Score 1) 10
I have wondered why they didn't think to just tack a camera on to each one. You could then project a real-time Earth image onto the Las Vegas sphere, although I'm sure there are 'better' uses.
But not only cameras, plenty of other sensors could gather data continuously from a LEO shell.
Comment Re: Is there really point? (Score 4, Insightful) 180
Information bad, knowledge bad, ignorance good.
Comment Re:Debian Solves All the Issues (Score 2) 89
Of course that AI 'knowledge' is largely based on community content - if the communities die the AI will not 'learn' as wide as it does now, can do deep with official documentation I guess but I would it see it quickly fall behind with future distros.
Comment All I want to know is... (Score 1) 80
...did he subtract bones and giblets?
Comment Re:Would. (Score 1) 93
The Blue Origin thing is space, just not orbit. I would go in any of them after I see 100 successes in a row with the vehicle. I'd still be aware that the risks are orders of magnitude higher than most other earthly travel. but I would still go.
Submission + - Tesla needs to come clean about HW3 before the word 'fraud' comes out (electrek.co)
theweatherelectric writes: Fred Lambert of Electrek writes, "The walls are closing on Tesla’s claim that millions of its vehicles with Hardware 3 (HW3) computers will be capable of unsupervised self-driving. Tesla needs to come clean before the word 'fraud' comes out. Making a mistake is not a fraud. If Tesla really thought that it could deliver unsupervised self-driving to vehicles equipped with HW3 and, at one point, it figured out that it couldn’t, it’s not fraud even though it used that as a selling point for millions of vehicles for years. However, the moment Tesla figures out that it can’t, it needs to stop selling its Full Self-Driving package to HW3 vehicle owners and come clean to owners about what their vehicle will and will not be able to do, like a robotaxi service. Has the moment come?"
Comment Smells of Marketing Bologna (Score 1) 115
Does it reduce energy usage by 95% or up to 95%? There's a big difference. Like a toothpaste that can make your teeth up to 100% whiter but does naff all.
Comment do the math (Score 1) 32
A 300% increase is a four-times jump. Just as a 100% increase is double.
