I just love that a bunch of people immediately just went to work when the power went out.

"How's clock number five?"

"Not sure, but eleven and twelve are holding. We seem to be losing synchronization."

"We can't lose NIST UTC!! Don't we have that generator in the back?"

Thanks for the precise tech info; it's why we appreciate Slashdot.

It would be good if a controller (or pilot) could instruct Autoland to circle or choose another airport. Probably feasible with voice recognition. It's awesome that it has a deliberate robotic voice.

Good news coverage here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

We have nothing to compare 100 attoseconds with. With times this short, we should denote it in meters of light.

In this case 100 attoseconds = 30 nm of light.

China is no longer communist. Just like Russia isn't.

The thing is, Norway is wealthy exporting its plentiful oil.

That's because your city is designed wrong.

Walkable cities have always been a thing. Only in America were cities designed around the car.

LOL is the only comment.

The Invincible, 1964.

There's more. In TFA, it says 300ÂC is 500ÂF. (It's 572ÂF.)

This article is exactly why I am still on Slashdot.

And this is why we have Slashdot. Thanks!

What do you mean? An African or European solar system?

These computers typically have a "subtract and conditionally branch" as their single instruction. SUBLEQ a, b, c, subtracts the contents of a from the contents of b, stores it at b, and jumps to c if the result is less than or equal to zero.

An unconditional branch has the next instruction as the destination. A move is a series of subtractions, involving a location that contains 0. Jump tables are a series of subtractions and conditional branches.

My friend Sphinx wrote a compiler he called C--, around that time. A subset of C, it didn't have any of the "fancy" C stuff, but it would output machine language the way you would translate C into assembly. info

(It was 3.5K RAM. Every bit counts!)