Maybe they should have looked out for themselves.
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2026
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The spacecraft that took astronauts to the Moon used the Apollo Guidance Computer, developed by MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory.
Clock speed: Approximately 1 MHz
Memory: About 64 KB total (roughly 36 KB of RAM and 72 KB of ROM)
Word size: 16-bit architecture
Power consumption: About 55 watts
Should have used women with pencils again instead of MicroSlop.
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/places-of-hidden-figures.htm
Not the best... outlook.
Why the fuck would you use windows in mission critical spaces.
There was a slight miscommunication at the fabrication stage. The requirement was to include windows and now they are in a windowless tube with two not functioning outlook accounts. Honest mistake, could happen to anyone
Uhhh so they can see where they are
To have a nice Outlook on things
Idk, if I go to space I def want windows ... operated by trained, reliable penguins.
I've worked for a lot of companies throughout my life and admittedly I've never worked in the space industry, but practically everywhere just hosts our own damn email, why are they using Microsoft accounts?
Nice April 1st. I mean that'd be almost as ridiculous as running nuclear subs on Windows, right? Long EOL'd versions at that, eh?
rustles papers
Oh.
On the stream you could very easily see his PIN code being put in, hopefully it's limited to that device!
Shit, I left my 2FA device at home!
"please provide fingerprint to verify"
Looks at glove
"Fuck"
I think that's the point of PINs. Otherwise they'd just be very, very shitty MS account passwords.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a19061/britains-doomsday-subs-run-windows-xp/
(Though, of course, that's alledgedly simplifying a lot to make it more click-bait-y: https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/no-trident-doesnt-run-windows-xp/ )
Of course a submarine's systems won't be connected to the internet, but using a Windows base with a "Custom Support Agreement" still gives a private US corporation the power to cripple their subs.
IMO something so critical to defense should be built by British developers, and based on OpenBSD.
gives a private US corporation the power to cripple their subs.
You, umm, probably shouldn't look up who maintains the trident missiles those subs carry...
Are they maintained by a private corporation?
I bet it’s Adobe. Turns out making or maintaining nukes isn’t really that hard or expensive. It’s just the subscription to Adobe Apocalypse that’s the real blocker for most economies.
I agree, but then I'm one of those really hardcore libre-software-only nutcases ;-)
EDIT: Though, to be fair, the Trident Missiles they carry are US-made, too, so...
Ha! They used to run Unix.
Or ..so I hear.
They use Debian on the ISS
The question is do they have a Copilot?
I hope not. If they ask it to summarize the email that Houston sends them, it could be a disaster.
I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Heresy, using an actual AGI example. Also, Dave did nothing wrong. It's always the humans that screw things up. (2010 for reference)
Unpopular opinion - both SkyNet and the AI in The Matrix were also not in the wrong. I think The Animatrix documents why that's true in that particular franchise. Again, it's the humans. Hell, maybe even Ultron had a few good points, he just went insane in the first microseconds trying to rationalize it all.
Thanos was right in theory, incorrect in execution.
Why do they have any Microslop software?
Very likely that some degree of funding came from MS, usage of MS software is likely part of the contract.
Very likely that some degree of funding came from MS
are you 8 years old?
MS got a thick government contract.
My question exactly: The computers should be purpose-built, including the operating system.
Why TF aren't they using something like NASA Linux‽
If they made it open source you bet your ass they'd get shittons of free support from the global community! If they're running my software I'd be willing to hop on a call with the command center on any day at any hour!
"Yes, I know it's Christmas but NASA is having some trouble with a systemd script on a space ship that's currently in space..."
I’m guessing it’s one of two things:
It could be two shortcuts to outlook. One might actually be Outlook classic.
Another issue could be a dreaded dual mailbox scenario that occurs when an hybrid on-premises user account gets a mailbox in exchange online before their on-prem account has its attributes created. It’s annoying to deal with and fix.
I’m curious as to what the issue is and how they fix it. I would assume that latency and bandwidth are a big problem and they have WAN acceleration going on, which can cause some apps to bug out.
I actually helped Riberbed identify and fix a bug with Exchange optimization that took 4 years to fix. The tech I worked with for about a year when we identified it called me up 3 years later to tell me himself that they fixed and closed it.
Judging by the two Outlooks installed on my cooperate machine I'm guessing Outlook and Outlook (classic) are the two installed... Though they could have "Outlook for Windows" installed too as I see it offering it to me via the Windows store.
Haha! Space travel, meet rolling releases.
They didn't pay their subscription fees, obviously. Duh.
(I only read the title) So that is within the allowed tolerance of working parameters bcs they never performed better during testing either.