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If you asked Alan Turing (and his chums) to build this (using thermionic valves/tubes) in standard sized cabinets then *the memory alone* would take up floor space equivalent to the area of Spain and it would require 25000 times the total Earth's electrical power generation. I repeat - that is NOT counting the actual 11 million CPU cores.
#SuperComputer #ElCapitan #HP #LLNL #FunFact #computers #computing #electronics #valves #JustSaying #MindBoggling #WTF #statistics #BigNumbers

Will Damron's read of the audiobook of Cliff Stoll's "The Cuckoo's Egg" is excellent.

While the book is required reading or listening as a historical record for anyone interested in Information Security, it's a thoroughly enjoyable a thriller. Though much of the technology mentioned is familiar to folks who are thinking I'm about to call them old, it's unsurprising how much remains painfully pertinent today, yet pleasing how a few things have improved significantly given only a few decades.

While some library networks such as the DoD MWR will keep you waiting months for one of their few copies, Fairfax County has unlimited copies of the audiobook.

I hope @AndresFreundTec is keeping good notes on his adventures with xz/liblzma.

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#Kernfusion #Atomwaffen #atoms4war #Rüstungskonzern #Lobby #Sitta #FDP

"Diese jahrzehntelange symbiotische Beziehung zwischen dem Lawrence Livermore National Labor #LLNL und #GeneralAtomics erzeugt einen stetigen, zuverlässigen Strom von etwa 10.000 Präzisionszielkomponenten pro Jahr. Die Komponenten sind von zentraler Bedeutung für die #NIF-Forschung auf dem Gebiet der hohen Energiedichte, der fortgeschrittenen #Waffen-Physik und der Trägheitsfusionsforschung."

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#Fusion power is always 40 years away from any practical utility. The announcement this week from #LLNL doesn't change that. It's still 40 years away. If you're not convinced, just read the details of the lab setup they used, and ask yourself how to turn that into a practical power source. It will still be 40 years away, long after the point when we need to cross the net zero threshold.

From the #laser #fusion #history files:

A 1977 article where Los Alamos scientists predict #laser #fusion gain by 1981: nytimes.com/1977/03/05/archive

and a 1978 article which demonstrates the expectation that #ICF at #LLNL -- the Nova laser, which is #NIF's forerunner -- would achieve #ignition: nytimes.com/1979/05/15/archive

These 45-year-old hopes are what are finally being realized today (if the rumors are to be believed!)

www.nytimes.comScientists Achieve Fusion Reaction With Carbon Dioxide Laser SystemVon Walter Sullivan