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@Flick @HebrideanHecate We have had a very mild December so far. A kind of perpetual October. It's meant to be more or less constantly below zero at the moment.

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Voyager's computer systems were custom-built using 1960s technology, with clock speeds measured in KHz and RAM in kbytes, running hand-crafted software, crammed into 4K of 18-bit wide plated-wire memory (similar to but better than core mem).

And yes, it uses digital 8-track tape for storage.

The custom-designed hardware, (upgraded) software and instruments are mostly still functioning after 46 years in space!

history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch6
hackaday.com/2018/11/29/inters
@NSFVoyager2
#Voyager
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In a very long list of things I despise on the internet, those picture grid captures havet to be the absolute worst.

Got a very chunky palo alto firewall for evaluation so I'm going to fuck around with it on my desk. Bye bye little Netgear switch, you served me well and you shall have a little holiday.

These yearly wraps people share should give users pause for thought. This engagement gimmick is a demonstration of what they are selling of you. I know it's fun and I hate to be that guy about it, but there is a downside.

@why@shitposter.club I will have your know Piranha II is a masterpiece

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Because I've turned into my mother I've really enjoyed S2 of The Gilded Age, or 'Real Housewives of New York' as some wags have it.

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Lord Kelvin, absolute unit
(yes I posted this years ago on twitter, yes I still find it funny)

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Today in 1868, 155 years ago: at the mouth of the Avaí stream (in the current town of Villeta, 40 km southeast of Asunción (Paraguay) -within the framework of the War of the Triple Alliance- the Brazilian army defeats the Paraguayan army in the battle of Abaí.

#OnThisDay

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Today in 1994, 29 years ago: First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.

#OnThisDay

Boss copies me on a mail when I'm on a family outing stating there's an issue on a prod server but "He might not be able to get to it as it is a weekend". You cannot say something like that to someone like me, or any sysadmin. It's really fucking dirty.

@HoolaHoolaNope@spinster.xyz @FeartnTired @Gelatinousrube Actual monsters in our midst

@maddiefuzz @clacke @drwho I knew a former Bundeswehr Armour officer that did a lot of simulation consultancy work as a 2nd career, and he described AI in exactly the same way. He said it can seem clever, but actually is equally capable of being stupid to the point of hilarity. It's all in how you understand it. This was back in the 90s.

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