This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Funny observation on the side:
This content is geoblocked in Germany.
And, as far as I can tell, trying a few destinations with my VPN: only in Germany...
So what the hell is in there, that we Germans must not see???? π
Fear of change and modernization. :)
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It's blocked on the server side, though... (nginx message).
Maybe some German "Neuland" shenanigans the page owner doesn't want to be exposed to ...
Itβs a slippery slope. If you let the village know thereβs a ship sailing the cosmos then next thing you know theyβll want the rathaus to use email instead of fax. Just best to follow the rules and keep things the way they are.
It and its sibling are probably the only working examples of flywire memory left in existence. That memory with little ferrite cores threaded with 3 wires was very labour intensive to make but was the backbone of the entire computing industry at the time. Very solid and reliable.
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A kilobyte must have sounded like so much memory back then.
A byte is 8 bits. Even if we want to call bits quarters ($0.25) and bytes dollars, 69KB would be $69,000! That's a lot of dollars.
(And it's actually 1,024 or something instead of 1,000, which just increases it that much more).
It's crazy how KBs used to be incredibly meaningful, and now we're buying multi-TB drives like they're nothing!
I was alive when computer RAM was measured in MB, not GB. Yes, I am an old codger
Wouldn't a byte be $2 if a bit was a quarter, or do you mean 2 bits are a quarter? Also i think you were right to use powers of 10 in your estimate. Article says kilobyte, not kibibyte. I really like what your conversion illustrates, I'm just tripping up on the details. I could be wrong-- commenting so someone can correct me if i am-- if a bit is a quarter, 69 Kilobytes would be $138,000
buying multi-TB drives like theyβre nothing!
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Last year, I bought a 22TB hard drive to recover from a 17TB drive failure. I barely got my wife to agree to the one drive, and simply could not convince her that we should get a backup. Our compromise was that I'd add a category to our budget with a year-long goal for a new hard drive. On Friday, I bought my new hard drive after wiping out the category, cashing some old bonds, and borrowing some money from a friend who also uses my server. I wanna fucking cry...
Well...up until recently
Link gives me a 403 error
Yep, same for me...
Its hard to maintain a link with a craft outside or solar system. There's a very tight orientation requirement and you have to set a very large delay for the expected response.
Come on now, it's not that bad.
Voyager 1 is just 23h 32m 9.981s light seconds away.
One way.
By some measures, it hasn't even left the solar system yet.
So slightly better ping than my ISP, then.
But 403 is "Forbidden".
So...
Leslie Nielsen?! Who does he play? The robot or the woman in the robots hands?
He plays "Commander Adams". It's been a while since I've seen it, but as I recall it's a pretty decent sci-fi movie. And it's the only serious role that I think I've ever seen him in.
He was a dramatic actor up until he did Airplane! That's one of the reasons he was cast in the role.
Yeah for a 60s sci fi movie it's pretty good
50s sci fi movie, actually.
Part of that groundbreaking film stuff starting in that decade, kicking off our modern understanding of the genre.
Twilight Zone also comes to mind.
Currently watching season 2 of it. Totally great stuff, so many "firsts" in there!
When I'm on a plane I still idly think about the possibility of there being a gremlin out there on the wing eating an engine...
(I fly a lot and even learned to fly gliders/sailplanes back in the day, so definitely not afraid of flying, but if I'm ever sat next to William Shatner I'm deplaning. No point taking chances. ;-).)
I have not seen this episode yet (it's in season 5, just checked).
Definitely looking forward to it!
We just watched the "Nick of time" episode not to long. Came as a surprise that Shatner was in there - it was kind of a culture shock for my son, suddenly seeing "Captain Kirk" as a superstitious groom in a 50s era dinner... :-)
Surely you canβt be serious.
Working again
Just tried it - still 403 for me.
Weird. Geoblocking maybe...? VPN blocking...?
