Did I miss it or did they fail to explain how that would work? Does it just slowly move around the moon so it gets its 1000 hours of observation, then eventually comes out of the EM shadow?
It would orbit the moon as a satellite, presumably in a fairly tight and low orbit; the article says a 2 hour period, which is < 100 km above the surface. About half the time it would be on the "far side" and Earth would be blocked by the Moon below it.
The other half it would have line-of-sight with Earth and be able to communicate, but also exposed to radio pollution. Presumably the mission designers would hibernate the experiment for this period.
It will almost certainly hit the moon one day. The moon has many mascons (mass concentrations, a.k.a. lumps) and destabilizes anything orbiting it over a long period of time. Or even a short period of time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16#Particles_and_Fields... But an orbit can be chosen to give at least a couple years, which is the mission goal.
It's a little confusing, but technically RMB (renminbi) is the official name of the currency and CNY (yuan) is the base unit of the currency. Think of it like the difference between USD ("US Dollar") vs "dollar and cents", except there is no fractional yuan equivalent of cents, so it's all just yuan.
Oh yeah, you're right, I forgot about that. It doesn't really get used much except occasionally for very small transactions, usually ones less than 10yuan.
nobody really use jiao (1/10th RMB/CNY), same as nobody really use yuan (CNY/RMB)
they are called mao (1/10th RMB/CNY) and kuai (CNY/RMB) in China
but mao pretty much dont exist anymore now with electronic QR payments everywhere even in food stalls, heck even beggars have QR codes and fen is for many many years more like some monopoly money papers
Yeah, you're right, you just literally never see any transaction using the 0.01 unit (fen) and only very rarely see any transaction use the 0.1 unit (jiao).
The currency code is CNY or Chinese Yuan. Yuan itself is like “dollar,” with many different countries calling their currency “dollars.” Renminbi refers to the Chinese currency as a whole rather than any particular unit.
it's actually "kuai" (pronounced same way as popular incorrect name of famous The Bridge on the River Kwai (the correct name is K(h)waE)) in Chinese streets, if you use yuan or renmimbi you will sound like you pretend to be some snobbish TV news host
I don't think I've ever used anywhere in street, shop or restaurant yuan/renmimbi, at least not in Beijing and around, some people may use yuan, hardly anyone renmimbi
here you have AI answer based on Reddit thread, which I can confirm is correct:
"In everyday spoken Chinese, kuai (块) is overwhelmingly the most common term used to state prices. Yuan (元) is used in formal writing and official contexts, while renminbi (人民币) names the overall currency system like "Sterling" or "USD" rather than a daily price unit."
Is quid really used in UK by 80-90% people? I thought it's very informal slang word (of some lower educated people), in China most of the people just use kuai (well I guess not bank tellers).
My argument is that all the vocabulary for computer science are things. Even if they are virtual, they are tangible. You can draw a picture and label a box "bytes".
Nothing in the ChatGPT conversation is tangible. It's all in the realm of concepts.
A ‘Byte’ is not a concrete thing and the fact you think it is speaks to the degree to which you have immersed yourself in a mental model which thinks of ‘information’ as if it is a real concrete thing, to the extent that you don’t even realize the levels of conceptual abstraction you needed to build in order to internalize what a ‘byte’ is.
Over a wire it sends pulses of electricity which you can see with an oscilloscope.
Heck there is a standard for tcp/ip over short wave if you want to hear the bytes being transmitted. More widespread, those of us familiar with dial up modems are also aware that network traffic can be carried as actual sound.
Or fiber optics where network traffic is flashes of light.
Or IR transmissions, use your phone camera and you can see data being sent over the air. Not tcp/up but physical blinking lights sending digital data.
All of these are, actually, a long way removed from the ‘stream of octets’ which TCP delivers between applications.
All the Wikipedia actually means by ‘stream of octets’ is ‘sequence of numbers between 0 and 255’. TCP is a protocol concerned with sending a message encoded as a sequence of such numbers from one computer to another, over a packet-based network (i.e. one where it can only send limited bursts of information at a time); and it helps make sure that the original number sequence is able to be reassembled, in the right order, and makes sure that all the pieces have arrived.
The fact that people have tried to explain ‘octet’ concretely by pointing to RAM chips or flashes of light in a fiber really points to the fact that a lot of computer people just mentally gloss over a lot of the things that are virtualized at lower levels in the stack.
Yes, those are physical manifestations of ‘bits’. But not necessarily the ones TCP is concerned with.
I'm stodgy, but I can't get past how they chose VERB-OBJECT instead of OBJECT-VERB. get-<tab> is useless. MSFT knew tab-completion would be a thing, yet they made it useless.
Get-AD* is less useless, though? modules should have prefixes! (except for Exchange/ExchangeOnlineManagement who have Get-User and Get-Group, because fuck you apparently)
I saw a commit in the repo at work that edited a few config files and a dictionary.txt file. "co-authored by Fable"
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