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This fall, the agency will have a grand ol’ time with one such object called 2012 TC4, which will whizz past us at a comfortable distance of about 4,200 miles (6,800 kilometers) at its absolute closest. Because then we'll have an open shot when the UFO shows up
Have pew-pew, will travel
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That's a comfortable distance?! Geosync satellites are at 22,000 miles. This thing is passing by at less than a quarter than distance.
I don't feel comfortable.
(I wonder what the margin-of-error is for that 4200 miles firgure...)
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The uncertainly is all the other direction. That article's pulling from a different source than the one I'm looking at. JPL Small-Body Database Browser[^] I believe the numbers are from the center of the Earth since that's the natural point for an orbital calculation and subtracting off 4k miles for the radius gives the reported 4200 mile minimum.
Close approach data is: Min 8.80453517512432e-05 AU, nominal 0.000596663929512258 AU, max 0.00164202117532665 AU. In terms of distance from the surface of the earth, these numbers work out as 4200 miles minimum, 51k most likely, 148k max.
The range is so wide because we've only got a single set of observations from 2012 before it got too far away to see anymore. Once it gets close enough to spot again the min/max will tighten greatly as the interval being used to calculate goes from days/weeks/months(?) to years long.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Peter Levine, a general partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, believes that cloud computing is soon going to take a back seat to edge computing — and we will very quickly see the majority of processing taking place at the device level. "The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."
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As I sit here surrounded by 6 office tower blocks at least 50 stories high I think there must be a sh*t load of processing power sitting idle at 2 am.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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"Edge", as in the cloud's silver lining? 
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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The two systems mentioned (Greenfield and Azure stack) are absolutely not "Edge" computing - mobile phones and smaller smart devices are what we are thinking instead.
Things like cameras with built in AI for facial recognition and the like doing the hard work of that but then handing off the data back to the cloud for subsequent processing - I don't foresee data not acquired by the "edge" devices being sent to them for processing though. (?)
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I am the fringe, and I don't want no clouds pushed over here !
I will never own a car again (promise), but if I did, the last thing I would want it to do would be for it to be communing with other cars to engage in "machine learning." Nor would I want my "smart house" sharing its sensor data with other smart houses in the area (what a lure for hackers).
Bad enough I have to turn off Win 10 from making my boxen into P2P servers rendering parts of itself to unknown digital denizens.
"Communal bandwidth ?" Maybe ... if.
Oh, yeah, more servers, more cores, less latency, more years to live-stream your own vegetation before death, lower birth rates, climate change, higher resolution, richer rich, poorer poor, no more jobs ... tabloid tweet reality ... terrorism ... apocalypse ... yada, yada, yada ...
Telemetry: just say: "no !"
«Differences between Big-Endians, who broke eggs at the larger end, and Little-Endians gave rise to six rebellions: one Emperor lost his life, another his crown. The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. Big-Endians gained favor in Blefuscu.» J. Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels,' 1726CE
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Marcus Hutchins, a British national, is in FBI custody for alleged involvement with the Kronos malware. I've got good news, and bad news...
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JavaScript, a smash hit among programmers, made the web powerful. Now Mozilla's Rust could protect the web from hack attacks. Because it never sleeps?
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I can see it now: a tool coming out to deal with Rust runtime deficiencies named ... Tetanus
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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R.I.P. Rust in Peace 
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Hey Hey, My My.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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In today’s IT community, automation is quite a buzzword. We hear about it a lot — from marketing and sales force automation to workload management automation and the automation of software related to business processes. "By pressing down a special key, it plays a little melody"
I was going to go with "We are the robots", but someone sent me that recently. And after all, any Kraftwerk is good.
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See? They're all good. Damn fine gentlemen, those.
TTFN - Kent
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The Art of Noise with Max Headroom - Paranoimia (Official Video) - YouTube[^]
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Those were the days my friend ... that's a song too btw, do you know who sang it ?
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I didn't, but google knew: Mary Hopkin[^]
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Lots of downsides to drinking, but happy hour may let your mind store memories. Then how does that explain the fact I can't remember anything after 7:30 last night?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: but happy hour may let your mind store memories.
Like I really want to remember the work day?
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Some may drink to remember, but most drink to forget.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Welcome to California!
'PLAN' is NOT one of those four-letter words.
'When money talks, nobody listens to the customer anymore.'
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Isn't that Moloko - I don't have Yt at work so I don't know what your link led to
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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