The NASA app is here: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/

It has "Distance From Earth" at 44,096 km (converted from miles...,) as opposed to 158,000 km. So yes, far off.

> And what does the customer do if the vendor has discontinued it? Or charges for an upgrade? Or has gone out of business?

Those can all be filed under Not My Problem (as in, Microsoft's problem,) and safely ignored. On the other hand, when Highly Influential So-And-So upgrades from 3.1 to 95 or whatever, and Very Population Application v4.9.6 starts falling over, Microsoft gets the black eye whether they deserve it or not. The whole equation changes.

> Those can all be filed under Not My Problem (as in, Microsoft's problem,) and safely ignored.

It was absolutely Microsoft’s problem. Had it ignored compatibility issues, what incentives would users have had to buy Windows 95?

^^ The voice of experience, here.

Or you desperately need to tag some system object and the system provides no legitimate means to do so. That can be invaluable when troubleshooting things, or even just understanding how things work when the system fails to document behavior or unreasonably conceals things.

I've been there and done it, and I offer no apologies. The platform preferred and the requirements demanded by The Powers That Be were not my fault.

One workaround Microsoft has done for use-after-free is detecting when an application is prone to this and using an allocator that doesn't actually free RAM immediately. It believe that lovely bit of fun is a function of "Heap Quarantine".

Yes, the real, can't say no world of system software is not what one might wish.

Not too different to using MS's mimalloc to run zenlisp under OpenBSD because the core malloc will just tell good try, but GTFO to the interpreter.

IIRC Sim City 2000 is one such piece of software.

It was SimCity Classic.

Looks as though ARM is doing ASL for Armv8-M.

"For example, the ASL code published through the A-Profile Arm Architecture Reference Manual, Exploration Tools downloads for A-Profile, or the Armv8-M Architecture Reference Manual."

https://developer.arm.com/architectures/architecture%20speci...

I hadn't noticed that... wonder if it's new. Just downloaded the Armv8-M ARM (nice acronym) and... this might be helpful, but man extracting this stuff from a PDF seems error-prone and the wrong way to do it.

They first published the Armv8-M ASL around 2017.

I suspect you've believed that this didn't exist due to the predominance of pre-Armv8-M devices in the market: there is no ASL for Armv7-M and earlier, and devices based on these older cores remain extremely common (STM32F1x, etc.) The good news is this is changing as new devices appear. The bad news is there probably will never be ASL published for older cores.

All the high performance RAM, frontier node wafer capacity, flash and disk drives on Earth. Also, all the gas turbines.

Universal paperclips. And here I am asking ChatGPT which type of onion to use dor coq au vin.

If they buy all the jet engines too (to turn them into gas turbines) they can be carbon neutral. More gas burned, but less jet fuel. It's a win-win.

The original question does discount the capability of Oracle's database too much, as only something "golf executives" buy. When you have a large problem that is best solved with a relational model, Oracle delivers and can indeed be worth all the money and license hell involved.

Another auto spinning globe with no way to turn that off.

At this point I'm convinced all these globe apps are copying the same examples from somewhere and inheriting the same gimmick.

Hah, I intentionally turned it on to record a video but consistent feedback has been that it's bad, so it is default off now!

Much appreciated.

Bad mouthing others hard work is not encouraged, but when I and others point out this behavior, it actually gets modded up. So yes, you should feel confident that default off is the right choice.

SpaceX manufactures network gear (Starlink satellite internet terminals) in the US. Bastrop, Texas, specifically. Those phased array transceivers, with heaters, ethernet, GPS and WiFi are way more difficult to make than the typical indoor WiFi router.