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SABRE is pretty good compared to the card file it replaced.

SDI is not really comparable. The numbers for the orbital parameters did not add up at the time, but they had Edward Teller behind them.

It's just a heavy metal umlaut for someone who could have written "state-level" or "country". Like forcing the word "geopolitical". I would not get too worked up about it.

The more recent US hegemony in radio communications technology was held by pioneering Bell Labs work leading to patented implementation as 3G standards. I think the US rested on th…

Won't errors due to cosmic rays be an increasing issue at these process sizes?

You can't be sure what's in it these days, especially if it looks super professionally packaged.

My bank just said that there was "no error" when I did this after Amazon failed to deliver something last year. I imagine that Amazon makes up a good portion of their chargeback co…

Is church/temple out of the question too? Where do people go these days?

On a printed receipt at a restaurant, I once saw suggested tip percentages where the corresponding currency amount was greatly inflated and nowhere near the actual percentage.

There is a heater for the vidicon which had to be shut off due to power budget. This heater had been on since launch. After being switched off, turning on this heater back on, or t…

It also has a vidicon tube for gathering images, although that can no longer be switched on.

You have to be logged in, so you can also see a register of who has browsed your own tax returns. I once saw that somebody I had dated 7-8 years prior had checked up on mine. It wa…

Growing tensions over whether US employers interview process represents a good-faith effort to hire

Where does 2.73 come from?

This cannot be the "the first time such rock-and-roll acoustic engineering has been employed in a church" if it is referring to digital delays. The other weekend I visited a gospel…

'92 Olympic Dream Team (US) in basketball. Asking anybody to play against them was pushing the boundaries of ethics.

Apollo 11 command module computer did receive a patch from Houston to the running executive in core memory while in flight to the moon.

UFOs as such are as American as Elvis. Foreign spies can waste their time figuring out how much somebody has read into The X-Files. In our society, we can openly wonder about these…

"We will provide you with vast riches when we arrive, if you build the receiving end of this matter transporter according to these instructions/accept us as gods/wear Nikes/tell no…

KDE5 Plasma is superb. I wish that it ran on OpenBSD. However I do not wish to run Wayland, D-Bus, or any sound server on an OpenBSD installation. So, I wish that it were light as …

I saw a UFO maybe 12-13 years ago. It did not look like anything a human would design, even with advanced technology. It looked something like the oblong silver blob in The Flight …