* Posts by NoCoffee

9 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Oct 2023

ESA cuts the ribbon on 34,000-core Space HPC center tailored for space workloads

NoCoffee

good stats

Yeah....good stats...but can it run Crysis?

Athena Moon lander officially FOADs – falls over and dies – in crater

NoCoffee

BattleBots?

Where is the big flipper, I've seen RobotWars we can do this!!!!!

Elon Musk's galactic ego sows chaos in European politics

NoCoffee

Re: Who cares

"He is a canny investor and seems to mostly let the sensible folk run his companies once he's bought them (Cybertruck excepted)."

He really isn't. Hyperloop, Mars Oasis, Solyndra Investment... to count a few rather big failures. He seems to want to live off Government grants in the early days, and when that dries up, he gets out of dodge.

SpaceX survives getting ex-Nasa investment to get to ISS and sat-bird launching.

When old Microsoft codenames crop up in curious places

NoCoffee

I worked for a company that used Star Trek universe characters as names as codename before rebranding on release, and I was forever finding them in the SDK/API. Chekov.bin was my old firmware nemesis.

Look! About chest high! Is it a pallet? Is it a drone? No, it's a Palletrone

NoCoffee

Free Trim got little Tommy running in the aisles

i see some small children getting a free haircut at the same time as the "supermarket" visit.

Elon Musk’s Starlink won't block Elon Musk’s X in Brazil, as required by court order

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His Mum said he cant fight https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/60209/1/elon-musk-s-mum-won-t-let-him-cage-fight-mark-zuckerberg

he just a fat druggy

Dumping us into ad tier of Prime Video when we paid for ad-free is 'unfair' – lawsuit

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Re: Idiots

to quote Cory Doctorow "The 'Enshittification' of the service as a rule!

Apple sets new 16,000-foot iPhone drop test after 737 fuselage fail

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Yeah but what speed did it get up to in (Ssx)? https://www.theregister.com/2007/08/24/vulture_central_standards/

13-year Google privacy settlement pays litigants the equivalent of a Big Mac meal

NoCoffee

The house wins on Green

The Lawyers got paid so its win win right?