• Ch3rry314@piefed.social
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    The spacecraft that took astronauts to the Moon used the Apollo Guidance Computer, developed by MIT’s Instrumentation Laboratory.

    Clock speed: Approximately 1 MHz
    Memory: About 64 KB total (roughly 36 KB of RAM and 72 KB of ROM)
    Word size: 16-bit architecture
    Power consumption: About 55 watts
    
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    Nice April 1st. I mean that’d be almost as ridiculous as running nuclear subs on Windows, right? Long EOL’d versions at that, eh?

    rustles papers

    Oh.

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    I’ve worked for a lot of companies throughout my life and admittedly I’ve never worked in the space industry, but practically everywhere just hosts our own damn email, why are they using Microsoft accounts?

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      I hope not. If they ask it to summarize the email that Houston sends them, it could be a disaster.

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          Heresy, using an actual AGI example. Also, Dave did nothing wrong. It’s always the humans that screw things up. (2010 for reference)

          Unpopular opinion - both SkyNet and the AI in The Matrix were also not in the wrong. I think The Animatrix documents why that’s true in that particular franchise. Again, it’s the humans. Hell, maybe even Ultron had a few good points, he just went insane in the first microseconds trying to rationalize it all.

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              Thanos was wrong in theory.

              Halving all life doesn’t change the life to resources ratio. Even halving all sapient life doesn’t solve anything when populations will just continue to grow.

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      Very likely that some degree of funding came from MS, usage of MS software is likely part of the contract.

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        Very likely that some degree of funding came from MS

        are you 8 years old?

        MS got a thick government contract.

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      My question exactly: The computers should be purpose-built, including the operating system.

      Why TF aren’t they using something like NASA Linux‽

      If they made it open source you bet your ass they’d get shittons of free support from the global community! If they’re running my software I’d be willing to hop on a call with the command center on any day at any hour!

      “Yes, I know it’s Christmas but NASA is having some trouble with a systemd script on a space ship that’s currently in space…”

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    I’m guessing it’s one of two things:

    It could be two shortcuts to outlook. One might actually be Outlook classic.

    Another issue could be a dreaded dual mailbox scenario that occurs when an hybrid on-premises user account gets a mailbox in exchange online before their on-prem account has its attributes created. It’s annoying to deal with and fix.

    I’m curious as to what the issue is and how they fix it. I would assume that latency and bandwidth are a big problem and they have WAN acceleration going on, which can cause some apps to bug out.

    I actually helped Riberbed identify and fix a bug with Exchange optimization that took 4 years to fix. The tech I worked with for about a year when we identified it called me up 3 years later to tell me himself that they fixed and closed it.

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      Judging by the two Outlooks installed on my cooperate machine I’m guessing Outlook and Outlook (classic) are the two installed… Though they could have “Outlook for Windows” installed too as I see it offering it to me via the Windows store.

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    (I only read the title) So that is within the allowed tolerance of working parameters bcs they never performed better during testing either.