Greenarrays is still going. They've made some new app notes.
I've found the 64x18b word limitation of memory per computer much less daunting than I did at the beginning, simply because how amazingly terse you can make your code. You also end up just simplifying, making your look-up-table or other array 8 or 16 words long...sometimes 32 or 64, but that's a bit more work.
One experiment I've done with it is harnessing 95 simultaneous cores for a virus vat, with a 47 core vat enclosure keeping it from hanging. The last 2 nodes are I/O and the probe to see what's going on. The virus is exactly one 18b word.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've done it a lot, we've asked you more than once already, and we eventually ban accounts that won't stop doing this.
Cooling the LNAs on the earth station? Yes. I doubt the LNA on Voyager is actively cooled.
I wonder if any feed components (prior to LNA) on the earth station are cooled? [1] does not indicate.
Read a paper recently on converting an old NASA earth station with beam waveguide over to a wideband feed. They had to put a rigid waveguide horn on place of the waveguide and actively cool it.
I don't necessarily go there to read other people's stories. My interest was in learning how to do it myself and once I successfully experienced it a few times my perspective on the possibility of other peoples stories was changed
It's always written cursive, i.e. the letters are joined together. The letters represent sounds. A letter has the same sound regardless of context. Vowels are divided into long and short ones, and the short ones aren't written. I.e. the word "(he) wrote" is pronounced kataba, with three short a-sounds, is written ktb.
You can write out the short vowels but it's only done in special contexts (like children's books, books for foreign language learners, or the Qur'an). It's easy enough to read if you know the language, but it makes it a little harder to learn.
It's actually not very different. Hebrew works in the same way, except it's not cursive. They share a common ancestor in Phoenician script I think, also used for a Semitic language, for which it works well. The Greek alphabet (and thence ours) was derived the Phoenician script that worked in a similar fashion, by adding vowels.
It is a writing system found in Eurasia. Hit its wikipedia pages, on the right hand side there'll be a little thingie that lists 'parent systems', you can follow it back to Phoenician which also happens to be an ancestor of the Latin alphabet.
