Static RAM they bought from IBM; they trusted it too much, didn't include ECC in its path to CPUs, and completely torched any chance at becoming an enterprise vendor by blaming their customers, making them sign NDAs…
Real, intelligent people for customer support (well, the last time I needed any, which was years ago). You are paying for the service and it's not cheap although also not expensive compared to normal things you also…
"not going out and getting better vaccines for narcissistic reasons" Not narcissism but the loss of face, which also means a loss of power. Which is the only thing Communists care about; compared to that the loss of a…
"If by being open and liberal (in the non-political sense) one risks being banned then essentially it's punishment (or the threat of punishment) for defection and the outcome is for everyone to end up being governed by…
There are others, Pleroma was explicitly designed to be lightweight for small nodes, written in Elixir and thus running on the battle tested Earlang ecosystem BEAM VM. Also have heard and run across a few instances of…
You should be careful about such "I'm sure" statements. "Right wing" Fediverse is very tolerant in moderation, that which results in bans, the only big issue is how much, if any pornography to allow and that gets fierce…
Their two main COVID vaccines aren't terrible as far as I can tell but they're not great. Against classic Wuhan and I'm not sure about pre-Omicron variants. Which we've got some data saying is as bad as the previous…
My understanding is that Xi and the CCP he controls simply didn't prepare for this besides administering without mandates the PRC's two major indigenous vaccines which appear to be subpar in general. Although as…
I thought it was a post-WWII Czechoslovak Soviet thing but it turns out the history goes 1419 and the English word to an example in 1618 which per Wikipedia helped spark the catastrophic 30 Years War:…
As a general principle, the Space Shuttle program was massively capital constrained, so many trade-offs were made that compromised safety and operating expenses. I suppose the latter helped in limiting the number of…
So fiction showing people were thinking about X at such and so a time not evidence people were thinking about X at such and so a time??? All the "get to the moon" or beyond SF, which per Robert Heinlein was an explicit…
"Everything is trying to kill you and your hardware 100% of the time. I was appalled when I learned about LEO atomic oxygen. "Leave the protection of the magnetosphere and things get much worse." Anything in the Orion…
"And then the status quo took root & reusable rocket proponens were no longer taken seriously because - what were they thinkig, this is how we have always been doing it!" Disagree as someone who as a kid watched this…
See https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Jupiter_Energy_Fleet from the late 1970s; people have been thinking about this problem for a long time. This SF TV series cheated with a new physics which allowed compact nuclear…
Some people have called the SLS the Senate Launch System.
"a massive unforced error, like the Chinese government going after all its internet giants with a hammer" Depends on who's viewpoint you're talking about. The Xi and CCP are so far presumably very happy with the…
"now we're doing it safely." Mercury through Apollo really did not like the idea of using solid rocket boosters, you can't turn them off if things get out of hand, and of course they'll do that themselves in lots of…
Apply the Willie Sutton principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Sutton)? "Because that's where the money is" frequently works, even if the quote is apocryphal.
This refers to proposed legislation in the Senate "to ban the use of Chinese semiconductors by US government agencies and their contractors," not the Executive's very severe action against making them in the PRC.
Absent something more serious, it'll take a long while for the PRC to get hurt in the way you outline, there's just too much it and it's large number of people do compared to much smaller Vietnam with I think on average…
"Dr Who. This was the era of Tom Baker as the Doctor. Honestly, it was amazing. But there were other shows that were just plain goofy like The Goodies and Monkey. On the sci-fi front you had Blake's Seven, which was way…
Is there some new way Prime is "going down the toilet" as opposed to Amazon's retail arm in general?
My understanding is that Pleroma was first and foremost designed to have a small memory footprint for small instances. As an Elixir program running on the BEAM (Erlang) runtime it ought to scale a lot better, but…
Still a grave failure in the victim selection process.
Nowadays "the cynic in me immediately thinks" the funds are going to be allocated to hire more administrators. They've generally taken over running universities from the faculty, and as I recall they're where the vast…
Static RAM they bought from IBM; they trusted it too much, didn't include ECC in its path to CPUs, and completely torched any chance at becoming an enterprise vendor by blaming their customers, making them sign NDAs…
Real, intelligent people for customer support (well, the last time I needed any, which was years ago). You are paying for the service and it's not cheap although also not expensive compared to normal things you also…
"not going out and getting better vaccines for narcissistic reasons" Not narcissism but the loss of face, which also means a loss of power. Which is the only thing Communists care about; compared to that the loss of a…
"If by being open and liberal (in the non-political sense) one risks being banned then essentially it's punishment (or the threat of punishment) for defection and the outcome is for everyone to end up being governed by…
There are others, Pleroma was explicitly designed to be lightweight for small nodes, written in Elixir and thus running on the battle tested Earlang ecosystem BEAM VM. Also have heard and run across a few instances of…
You should be careful about such "I'm sure" statements. "Right wing" Fediverse is very tolerant in moderation, that which results in bans, the only big issue is how much, if any pornography to allow and that gets fierce…
Their two main COVID vaccines aren't terrible as far as I can tell but they're not great. Against classic Wuhan and I'm not sure about pre-Omicron variants. Which we've got some data saying is as bad as the previous…
My understanding is that Xi and the CCP he controls simply didn't prepare for this besides administering without mandates the PRC's two major indigenous vaccines which appear to be subpar in general. Although as…
I thought it was a post-WWII Czechoslovak Soviet thing but it turns out the history goes 1419 and the English word to an example in 1618 which per Wikipedia helped spark the catastrophic 30 Years War:…
As a general principle, the Space Shuttle program was massively capital constrained, so many trade-offs were made that compromised safety and operating expenses. I suppose the latter helped in limiting the number of…
So fiction showing people were thinking about X at such and so a time not evidence people were thinking about X at such and so a time??? All the "get to the moon" or beyond SF, which per Robert Heinlein was an explicit…
"Everything is trying to kill you and your hardware 100% of the time. I was appalled when I learned about LEO atomic oxygen. "Leave the protection of the magnetosphere and things get much worse." Anything in the Orion…
"And then the status quo took root & reusable rocket proponens were no longer taken seriously because - what were they thinkig, this is how we have always been doing it!" Disagree as someone who as a kid watched this…
See https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Jupiter_Energy_Fleet from the late 1970s; people have been thinking about this problem for a long time. This SF TV series cheated with a new physics which allowed compact nuclear…
Some people have called the SLS the Senate Launch System.
"a massive unforced error, like the Chinese government going after all its internet giants with a hammer" Depends on who's viewpoint you're talking about. The Xi and CCP are so far presumably very happy with the…
"now we're doing it safely." Mercury through Apollo really did not like the idea of using solid rocket boosters, you can't turn them off if things get out of hand, and of course they'll do that themselves in lots of…
Apply the Willie Sutton principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Sutton)? "Because that's where the money is" frequently works, even if the quote is apocryphal.
This refers to proposed legislation in the Senate "to ban the use of Chinese semiconductors by US government agencies and their contractors," not the Executive's very severe action against making them in the PRC.
Absent something more serious, it'll take a long while for the PRC to get hurt in the way you outline, there's just too much it and it's large number of people do compared to much smaller Vietnam with I think on average…
"Dr Who. This was the era of Tom Baker as the Doctor. Honestly, it was amazing. But there were other shows that were just plain goofy like The Goodies and Monkey. On the sci-fi front you had Blake's Seven, which was way…
Is there some new way Prime is "going down the toilet" as opposed to Amazon's retail arm in general?
My understanding is that Pleroma was first and foremost designed to have a small memory footprint for small instances. As an Elixir program running on the BEAM (Erlang) runtime it ought to scale a lot better, but…
Still a grave failure in the victim selection process.
Nowadays "the cynic in me immediately thinks" the funds are going to be allocated to hire more administrators. They've generally taken over running universities from the faculty, and as I recall they're where the vast…