As @alantielrainne.bsky.social points out, a key feature of the Apollo guidance computer was core rope memory, used on all Apollo ascent and command modules. The ropes were woven by women. Ken Shirriff explains the technology below. There are 3 known Apollo module impact sites (12, 14, 17). š§Ŗ
Onboard the Apollo spacecraft, the revolutionary Apollo Guidance Computer helped navigate to the Moon and land on its surface. One of the f...
Fun fact: Meta's recently released climate report shows that it consumed 15.3 TWh of energy in 2023 - A 6.2x increase from 2017 (increase in monthly active users was ~1.6x) - More in 2023 than the entire electrical demand of Kenya in the same year, a country with a population of 54m
Iāve had a similar thought about games like Guitar Hero. (Which Iāve barely played to be fair) Iām a drummer but with a few hours here and there over some years learned to play chords decently
2) wifi goes down; software gets compromised; things get hacked; companies charge for once-free gidgets. I want my students to be able to think, summarize, argue, *write* when all of that happens, and not be stranded because somedays it's $25 to use ChatGPT.
A huge portion of the sky was pink/purple like 9:15 but it didn't last too long
Living Colour is your answer
Love the Wikipedia history tab!
Iāve had a few folks ask if I use AI in my work and I tell them that if I donāt understand something well enough to do it myself, I sure as hell donāt understand it enough to know whether the AI has fucked up
For sureāRic definitely seemed like the front man in the videos, so it was only a few years ago I realized how many songs Ben Orr sang lead on!
6/ (I forgot to chuckle about "our award-winning CFO" - who talks like that?) Frey & lapdogs are also trying to paint the Council as the big spenders, despite the biggest budget buster: a new cops contract w/outsize raises (+spending $350K on Goodman's function). Anyway, 2025 messaging, take note!
