I expect fully steerable radiotelescopes to be a major element of the next Mad Max movie. Please don't let me down.
Posts by HCV
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China starts building world's largest fully steerable radio telescope
Apple throws shade on pokey AI PCs, claims its maxed out M4 chips are 4x faster
Mac Mini ports
the port selection has been cut back considerably
Not really, especially depending on what you're comparing it to.
My current Mini is the 2018 Intel, which has 6 USB-ish ports -- plenty for what I need.
Its successor, the M2 Mac Mini, cut that down to 4 USB-ish ports, which was kind of obnoxious, especially since it also only supports 2 monitors. So I've been holding off on upgrading.
The new M4 Mini, as you note, has 5 USB-ish ports, so that's one more than its immediate predecessor, and only one less than the Intel mini, plus it's back to supporting 3 monitors.
(All three also have an Ethernet port, an HDMI port, and a headphone jack).
I'd rather have USB-C by default than USB A going forward.
Oxide reimagines private cloud as... a 2,500-pound blade server?
Microsoft's code name for 64-bit Windows was also a dig at rival Sun
IBM to create 24-core Power chip so customers can exploit Oracle database license
California legalizes digital license plates for all vehicles
Smart thermostat swarms are straining the US grid
Pentester pops open Tesla Model 3 using low-cost Bluetooth module
400Gbps is the new normal for biz networks
Oracle creates new form of free Solaris
Re: digression
Those are all consumer hardware manufacturers. The Power architecture seems to sell mainly in the more serious space. Here you go, a cluster with 31424 Power cores spread over 1964 processors.
You may be missing the point here. In the mists of history, the Power architecture used to have some interesting volume markets, such as Macintosh, OS/2, and Nintendo consoles. 31,424 cores is super-cool and awesome, but 1,964 is fewer than the number of Arm processors sold every three seconds not so long ago ("842 Chips Per Second: 6.7 Billion Arm-Based Chips Produced in Q4 2020", Tom's Hardware). I imagine the numbers have grown since then.
You've got to have a hell of a lot of margin to make that kind of market math work in your favor. You can be serious AF, but at some point you need to make money.
International Space Station stabilizes after just-docked Russian module suddenly fires thrusters
Blue Origin sets its price: $1.4m minimum for trip into space
Texan's alleged Amazon bombing effort fizzles: Militia man wanted to take out 'about 70 per cent of the internet'
Oracle exhumes ‘Older, Still Useful Content’ penned by Solaris and SPARC veterans
Meet the ‘DPU’ – accelerated network cards designed to go where CPUs and GPUs are too valuable to waste
Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data' being shown to pilots
iFixit surgeons dissect Apple's pricey Mac Pro: Industry standard sockets? Repair diagrams? Who are you and what have you done to Apple?
Oracle leaves its heart in San Francisco – or it would do if, you know, Oracle had a heart
Internet jerk with million-plus fans starts 14-year stretch for bizarre dot-com armed robbery
Pentagon beams down $10bn JEDI contract to Microsoft: Windows giant beats off Bezos
Scott McNealy gets touchy feely with Trump: Sun cofounder hosts hush-hush reelection fundraiser for President
Apple kills iTunes, preps pricey Mac Pro, gives iPad its own OS – plus: That $999 monitor stand
Wondering why 'Devin Nunes herp-face' was trending online? Here's the 411: House rep sues Twitter for all the rude stuff tweeted about him
Boeing... Boeing... Gone: Canada, America finally ground 737 Max jets as they await anti-death-crash software patches
Tech bosses talk kids' books! Could they show a glimmer of humanity? You only get one guess
'We broke a few things and will continue to do so... in a careful way' – Oracle's Reinhold on Java renovation work
Sysadmin shut down server, it went ‘Clunk!’ but the app kept running
Re: FIXED: Halted machine on other side of the planet
Thank you! I've been trying to remember the "girl the plastic cover is named after" name on and off for years, and for whatever reason both my Google Fu and my friends' memories have failed me. I must travel in the wrong circles, or live in the wrong country.
Oracle's new Java SE subs: Code and support for $25/processor/month
Julian Assange said to have racked up $5m security bill for Ecuador
Re: 'There once was a time when [INSERT NAME HERE] were heroic figures'
Reminds me a lot of this
I guess it does if you squint just right: misuse of a thing in the service of a goal. Only in one case the goal was an odd stab at getting the United States to promote peace, the other's goal was stabbing the United States to promote Julian Assange.
Oracle pledges annual Solaris updates for you to install each summer
Oracle ZFS man calls for Big Red to let filesystem upstream into Linux
Vibrating walls shafted servers at a time the SUN couldn't shine
Behold iOS 11, an entirely new computer platform from Apple
Itching to stuff iOS 11 on your iPhone? You may want to hold off for a bit
Oracle softly increments SPARC M7 to M8, then whispers: We'll still love you, Solaris, to 2034
Confirmed: Oracle laid off 964 people from former Sun building
Oracle staff report big layoffs across Solaris, SPARC teams
MongoDB quits Solaris, wants to work on an OS people actually use
Re: Cross platform
original MongoDB post lists multiple Solaris distros, none of which run on SPARC
Argle bargle, Solaris is SPARC only, no one uses it on x86!
Nobody in their right mind actually runs Solaris for anything vaguely important on anything other than SPARC!
I can tell you with great assurance that many companies on Wall Street, in retail, and in government, just to name a few markets, ran Solaris on their x86 systems for their very important applications. One of the US' largest supermarket chains ran their entire business on Solaris x86 at one point.
...whether many companies still do is a more interesting question, since Oracle has worked for the last 7 years to make it difficult and expensive to get Solaris for non-Oracle boxes.
Your top five dreadful people the Google manifesto has pulled out of the woodwork
Re: asshe but
you should not fire someone because you dont like his political ideas.
But perhaps you should fire someone if they are a liability to your company. Or, more assertively: if someone is a liability to your company, you should fire them.
Mr. Damore has conclusively proven that he cannot work well with others. I would not assign him to any team of any composition, based on his documented thought processes and aggressive contempt for empathy,
In addition, he has put the company in a bind, internally and externally.
Therefore, I would give him the chance to exercise his right to be happy elsewhere, and at the same time make room for a more productive and less disruptive employee.