I think it comes from the divorce of what people are hired to do versus what their work actually contributes to. I also remember the countless cloudflare turnstiles that I've had to get through one way or another on airlines' websites which reset every minute (looking at you, airserbia, for being the worst).
Imagine a world where you can upgrade your device's RAM, storage, and cores with a simple digital purchase. It’s a bittersweet idea—practical for many, yet potentially pricey. Could Apple be considering this innovation?
GMTA. What's old is new again. And at many enterprises, 'nobody can get fired for recommending Apple'. 'Crippled hardware unless you pay up': talk about the quintessential protection racket.
People seem to miss the forest for the trees here. The goal is to get a base on the moon, and this is the first step. Starship will eventually be bringing lots and lots of cargo to the moon for this purpose. Bringing people there for a few days and then bringing them back is a very short term goal.
Falcon 9 launches every three days. It's not even fully reusable and it burns kerolox, requiring the engine be cleaned.
I doubt they'll have that cadence ready for Starship within NASA's ambitious timeframe, but if they can get orbital refuelling and full reuse working (which are big ifs) high cadence should only be a matter of time. And when you're just refueling it every flight, rather than building a bespoke new rocket (as with SLS), the cost for twelve launches would likely be significantly lower than one SLS launch.
The internal cost for a Falcon 9 is approximately 15 million, and that's including a thrown away second stage, drone ship usage, fairing recovery, and engine refurbishment.
I saw one like this 15 years ago. It was terrifying as I was alone in a forested area and I had no idea what it was at first. But then the sonic boom that lasted for minutes was even more disconcerting.
The reliability of mid grade appliances is trash. You can expect a new range to maybe last 10 years on average. An electric/induction stove will be so costly to repair you might as well buy a new one. A gas stove has much less complexity, and in a pinch you could just light it with a lighter.
We're remodeling a rental and having a gas stove is a big plus versus alternatives. Electric is poor for cooking and induction requires new pots and pans.
Induction requires a specific type of pots and pans. When we switched to induction we were pleased that we didn’t have to buy a single item to use our new stove.
In other words it really depends on the cookware you have today - it may require new cookwar, but it may not.
CXL supports cache-coherent memories and even the numbers claimed in marketing materials are ~5x when it comes than DDR5 access times measured on desktop CPUs in microbenchmarks. It's still a lot better than having software handle the coherency protocol and could be really useful to allow either very large ccNUMA systems or memory capacity and bandwidth hungry accelerators to access the host DRAM as long they can tolerate the latency e.g. something along the lines of a several SX-Aurora cards hooked into a big host with a few TiB of DRAM spread over ≥16 DDR5 or later channels.
Non alcoholic drinks are becoming a lot more prevalent where I live, which is maybe surprisingly Wisconsin. It's a welcomed change for those of us that want to drink socially but not get drunk.
As an "ultimate" (frisbee) player, calling a game based on disc golf "ultimate ascent" makes me cringe a bit! I can't tell you how many people mistake ultimate for disc golf.
