Tuesday, August 05
Daily News Stuff 5 August 2025
All All Nighters Edition
Disclaimer: What he said.
All All Nighters Edition
Top Story
- The Moon is a harsh parking lot. (Engadget)
NASA's Trailblazer mission ended in disappointment.
After just one day.
When the batteries went flat.
- NASA is planning to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon. (Politico)
No scrounging though the kitchen drawers for AAA cells on Christmas morning for these guys.
Tech News
- Details have leaked of AMD's Radeon 9060 non-XT mode, which has the same GPU chip but slightly slower clock speeds and memory. (WCCFTech)
But -
- AMD has officially announced the Radeon 9060 non-XT only the information above is wrong and you can't buy one. (Tom's Hardware)
Strictly for prebuilt systems.
- AMD may be preparing a 9950X4D model with extra cache chips attached to both CPU dies. (Tom's Hardware)
The company already does this for server CPUs, but hasn't done it before now on the desktop because the performance gains for typical desktop apps are limited.
- What the Amiga looked like before it got its famous custom chips. (Tom's Hardware)
Big and complicated and likely to fail if a gnat farted nearby.
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"The Lunar Trailblazer mission to the moon officially ended on July 31, but it wasn't a complete journey."
This is right up there with Arianespace's press release for the first flight of Ariane 5, where they described it's explosion 37 seconds after launch as "the flight did not meet all of its objectives."
This is right up there with Arianespace's press release for the first flight of Ariane 5, where they described it's explosion 37 seconds after launch as "the flight did not meet all of its objectives."
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, August 05 2025 10:54 PM (/vuXS)
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Did they get those batteries from the lowest bidder?
Posted by: Frank at Tuesday, August 05 2025 11:45 PM (+i6Xr)
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Woz helped make the Apple II affordable with the Woz Machine allowing the 6502 to control their floppy drive. He then crippled the Lisa and Mac by crowbarring in the Integrated Woz Machine so the 680000 could do the same thing, hence the reason Macs came to a screaming halt when it wrote to the floppy. Times had changed, costs had shifted but the Woz machine would live on.
Amiga went all in with custom chips so it could play music, run animation and write to its floppy all at the same time with cooperative multitasking. When I'd show Mac users that feature in my Amiga 1000 their jaws would drop.
Amiga went all in with custom chips so it could play music, run animation and write to its floppy all at the same time with cooperative multitasking. When I'd show Mac users that feature in my Amiga 1000 their jaws would drop.
Posted by: Rick T at Wednesday, August 06 2025 12:24 AM (xeXUW)
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The serious take Lunar Trailblazer is that obviously NASA funded science missions supervised by Biden are worthless, so cutting all of the science missions is obviously a good idea if science mission advocates think that Harris is their best ad copy. The silly take is what they don't want you to know about the NSDAP moon base, in NASA's area 420, where the real headquarters for NASA is.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, August 06 2025 12:26 AM (rcPLc)
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