@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.
@Moon She's alright. Doesn't stop singing.
@AkaSci @NSFVoyager2 We really knew how to design stuff back then
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!
https://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch6-2.html
https://hackaday.com/2018/11/29/interstellar-8-track-the-low-tech-data-recorders-of-voyager/
@NSFVoyager2
#Voyager
3/n
"We've all been sacked LOL"
https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2023/12/a-new-chapter.html
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.
@kaia The Hugo Boss story is a banger
Today in 1994, 29 years ago: First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.
@HoolaHoolaNope@spinster.xyz @FeartnTired @Gelatinousrube Actual monsters in our midst
@maddiefuzz That is actually beautiful.
@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.
FOSS, motorbikes, and photography.