Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26111 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
Nasa have been doing a PR program for a few years of naming sites and missions after underappreciated former staff. Generally the first black / women / minority staff member who, given Nasa's history, were probably in fairly minor roles at the time.
Oddly Sturmbannführer Von Braun doesn't seem to be getting much prominence.
Main issue is thermal movements, as the telescope points to different targets it will have a slightly different aspect to the sun and the sun-shield effectiveness will change slightly
Plan is to check the mirror and re-align every 2weeks or so. Ideally they will create some sort of model of changes and be able to realign preemptively.
(Not been in this game for nearly 20years, was amazed it has gone so well = never trust space missions)
> when components fail you take them out of service forever and operate the rig round them
Rackspace had an interesting blog around how as they scaled they went from replacing dead drives to ignoring them, to ignoring entire servers to ignoring entire racks.
> "The brits can buy real chocolate frogs?!?!" C
But only:
"the finest baby frogs, dew picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose."
But there are no ads on the Register (looks at PiHole and Brave-Browser)
Ironically yes it's a big problem in tech.
Everybody on el'reg / Stackoverflow has adblockers, nobody is going to trade shows anymore and the few surviving magazines are aimed at C-level execs.
Only hope is to get featured by an Nvidia/AMD/Microsoft and pushed to their developer day shows.
>Political lobbying by big businesses moves at this speed: >< and possibly faster.
Or this is actually by big business.
If I can specifically target individual visitors by Google/Facebook's data then I can advertise my speciality product to that subset. With no customer data it's only worth advertising if you're ad goes to everyone.
So worth it for McD / Coke / VW showing an ad to everyone online but not worth it for my startup selling developer tools.
This levels the playing field back to the days of ITV being the only mass market ad platform.
Our GlobalMegaCorp parent company just announced that for the 2nd year there are no bonus because of weak earnings (we are in the movie effects business)
Local management seem pretty resigned, and I quote: "Anybody under 40 can immediately go to Microsoft/Google/Amazon and double their salary. Anyone over 40, in this city, made $250K++ a year in house price increase so the pay is irrelevant.
The more tools available the lower the cost of creating code and so the more places code can be used and so the greater the demand for code and coders.
Compilers, microprocessors, mobile computing may have threatened the jobs of mainframe operators but it hasn't been terrible for the programming profession
There are no jobs for programmers because studies in the early 1960s showed that soon everyone on the planet would have to be employed in laying out circuit board designs for computers. So there would be nobody left to program them.
So automatic tools had to be invented, which meant fewer tape-out jobs and lots more computers
That is pretty much the defn of 'law'.
Hey my Royal Society hommies.
It really looks like two massive objects attract each other with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely with the square of the distance between them. I think it should be my law.
My Newton why are you talking like that? This is the 18th century ?
I'm hoping that somebody writes a best selling musical about my fights with Leibnitz and I want it to be hip with da yoof.
>You'll have to explain how the F-35 would survive the exact same threat?
