pietroq

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   by pietroq 4y ago

   Fun fact: Turbo Pascal was 38KB and that included the editor, compiler and debugger. It was lightning fast, compiling 10s of kSLOC in mere seconds on a 4.77MHz single-thread 8088 with 640KB of RAM. Now to build a Hello World full stack web
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   by pietroq 4y ago

   "Only the paranoid survives" - Andy Grove
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   by pietroq 5y ago

   SpaceX is at the moment the only feasible enabler of humanity as an interplanetary species. Their deeds can open up a new economic growth regime that has no practical upper limit, we can expand to trillions of people in the solar system. Yo
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   by pietroq 6y ago

   In the nineties (1990-1999) we had a distribution deal in the USA with the PowerUp! catalog for a software product that moved a few millions of copies. Of the $24.99 sticker price we received something like $0.80 and that was an USA-only de
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   by pietroq 7y ago

   Looks like you have never done computers. It is trivial to substract the well known light effect of the sat.
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   by pietroq 7y ago

   Let's put this to rest for once and all. The average radius of Earth is 6,371 km. Initial sats will be at 550 km height (many will be higher, many somewhat lower, but does not make much diff.) So the surface of the 6,931km radius globe