https://twitter.com/fioraaeterna/status/948684092333158400

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/whats-behind-the-intel-design-flaw-forcing-numerous-patches/

Fucking insane but there you have it.

https://9to5mac.com/2017/12/26/apple-trillion-dollar-company/

Google just doing what Google does—but in the real world.

How is Apple maps doing in comparison? It seems that there are at least six years of catch up Apple needs to do but actually that gap also seems to be widening not narrowing.

The pace of improvement of Google maps is actually accelerating.

https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat/

Via Emlyn O’Regan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGaBU5cKluU&feature=share

The technology behind Malcolm Turnbull’s multi-technology mix approach to the National Broadband Network (NBN) revealed.

This week, the scientists and engineers on the Voyager team did something very special. They commanded the spacecraft to fire a set of four trajectory thrusters for the first time in 37 years to determine their ability to orient the spacecraft using 10-millisecond pulses.

After sending the commands on Tuesday, it took 19 hours and 35 minutes for the signal to reach Voyager. Then, the Earth-bound spacecraft team had to wait another 19 hours and 35 minutes to see if the spacecraft responded. It did. After nearly four decades of dormancy, the Aerojet Rocketdyne manufactured thrusters fired perfectly.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/12/after-37-years-voyager-has-fired-up-its-trajectory-thrusters/

https://vimeo.com/244052622

In which I disagree with the sage Carl Sagan.

Anti-intellectualism is neither created nor destroyed.

Old Carl probably wasn’t feeling very optimistic in 1995—after all, he was dead a year later—but in my experience the process “dumbing down” has neither increased nor decreased. It was just as prevalent in the past just as it will be in the future.

Carl would probably hate the present era too even more than the 1990s and yet for all the dumbness, more people today have more access to information than at any point in history. Knowledge is no longer a scarce commodity locked away and no inquiring mind is prevented from learning whatever it is interested in. This is actually a great time for the autodidact and people are sharing skills and learning tools at an accelerating pace.

It’s easy to downplay the changes that have happened over the last thirty years but don’t judge them superficially. Certainly TV and cinema would be the last places to look for signs of this. The internet and supporting technologies have transformed the intellectual background of our global society and we are only just starting to see its implications.

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Carl Sagan in 1995