Klathmon

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by Klathmon 8y ago
Well they had to do quite a lot to be able to get to the point where NASA approves of them launching humans, and those costs have to be gained back. Just look at this mission and the upcoming abort test and the years of work that has gone i
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by Klathmon 8y ago
Last I heard they weren't even going to have the landing hardware on the booster, but you are right that there are rumblings about how exactly the abort test will happen. IIRC we know stage 2 is going to be mostly a mass simulator, but
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by Klathmon 8y ago
They still need to do an in-flight abort test, which i'm super excited for. They are going to send the whole thing up a second time (I believe they will be using this EXACT Crew Dragon capsule after it comes back down), but this time t
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by Klathmon 8y ago
I'm not saying it is, i'm just explaining what is new about this mission and why I'm excited for it. I think people are making it larger than it is because doing something and commercializing something are completely differen
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by Klathmon 8y ago
Yeah they were attempting to land all 3, but the center booster (which would have landed on a barge at sea) had issues relighting it's engines during the landing burn. They setup the landings so that they are on a trajectory to hit the
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by Klathmon 8y ago
I have a feeling SpaceX intentionally names things kind of weirdly just because it's almost a running joke among fans. The progression of Falcon 9 rockets is: * Falcon 9 * Falcon 9 V1.1 * Falcon 9 Full Thrust (also called V1.2 for a sm
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by Klathmon 8y ago
Not to diminish that feeling, but there was a kind of funny mistake made in the livestream for the Falcon Heavy launch (which was actually attempting to land 3 stages at around the same time, but one of them had an issue and suicided into t
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by Klathmon 8y ago
It costs about $81 million USD per seat round-trip to go to ISS on Soyuz. SpaceX is doing the same for around $58 million per person (last I read). That alone is a HUGE deal. And that cost is expected to drop as SpaceX gets more comfortable
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by Klathmon 8y ago
The current JS ecosystem leans heavily on bundlers and packers to enable this kind of workflow, and IMO it's a good thing that we do. For example, lodash (a somewhat common set of utility functions and general helpers) is a single pack
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by Klathmon 8y ago
To explain a bit more, this is "Dragon 2", the second (major) version of SpaceX's capsule. It has multiple configurations, one for crew, one for cargo, and possibly others. This launch was significant as it was the first time
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by Klathmon 8y ago
Congratulations to the team at SpaceX! They are opening the hatch right now on the stream if anyone here wants to watch along https://youtu.be/21X5lGlDOfg
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by Klathmon 8y ago
Wow, they claim that this is equal to or better than most apps that are bundled into a single bundle file due to the cache benefits! I never would have guessed they could manage that and keep it this easy to use! How common is the es module
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by Klathmon 8y ago
Is there nothing that you could do better than posting comments about how much you think others are wasting their lives? Is your job really the best application of your time to help the most people? Life is short, why spend it mad that othe
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by Klathmon 8y ago
While they do limit things in software unless you pay for them, this doesn't sound like one of those cases. It sounds more like they have found out how to safely take more power from the batteries and safely push more power to the moto
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by Klathmon 8y ago
This isn't a supply mission, it's a demo of a crewed mission to send people up to the ISS on SpaceX's platform. Assuming this demo goes well, and a few other things (like an abort test at a later date with the exact capsule t
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by Klathmon 8y ago
3! https://mashable.com/article/fernandina-giant-tortoise-galap...
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by Klathmon 8y ago
>If I had my way we'd have taken the much simpler approach of declaring that for any meeting with one remote participant, everyone connects by video I've tried that in the past, but sadly even good office networks often get pre
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by Klathmon 8y ago
It's really interesting that I have the same frustrations with video calls, however I also play VR videogames and video chat with "remote friends" very often, and almost NEVER have those issues. I'm not sure if it's
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by Klathmon 8y ago
But we have the tech to do that right now! Maybe 8k per eye is outside our current capabilities without being ludicrously expensive, but 4k should be doable! And the rest already exists in other products!
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by Klathmon 8y ago
That's mostly solved by keeping a screen around for others. I've found that sending the PC output of what I'm seeing in VR to a TV in the same room turns an isolating VR experience into a group activity fairly well. And if AR
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by Klathmon 8y ago
It may be partly the games fault, you are in a space ship with stuff around yourself that you need to physically look at to interact with (and by look at, I mean you need to point your head at it, there is no eye tracking), so i'll oft
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by Klathmon 8y ago
No it's not an uncanney valley thing (and I can touch type, my keyboard doesn't even have symbols on it!), but it shocked me how much that little bit of peripheral vision helps with things. The game I play most with the Oculus Rif
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by Klathmon 8y ago
But that's more than possible when working remotely. Emphasizing public-first communication methods is a big one. Don't just send a slack message to Bob asking about that thing, tag Bob in the #thing channel so others can see and
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by Klathmon 8y ago
It's amazing how well it translates to VR. You can feel the size of planets and stations in a way that you can't even describe. And things like the left and right menus you just look at to activate and control, and when you look
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by Klathmon 8y ago
I already somewhat routinely spend multiple hours playing text-heavy games in it, and while I'm sure it would be a problem if I spent my whole work day in it, I really feel that the resolution is the only thing that would be needed to
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by Klathmon 8y ago
Yes, but why? What is the limiting factor here, because from my perspective it's only missing a few small things on each platform that would solve it. I'd be honestly happy with my Rift as-is if they bumped up the resolution a bit
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by Klathmon 8y ago
So does anyone think this is at the point where I can pick one up and do away with multiple monitors? (Hypothetically, I see they aren't selling to consumers yet) I play a game called Elite Dangerous with my Oculus rift, and the UX of
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by Klathmon 8y ago
Do you know that first hand, or is this a case that you can see the cracks in the software industry because you are part of it? I worked as a mechanic years ago, and I feel the same way about cars as you (and I) do about software. Everythin
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by Klathmon 8y ago
>One request I didn’t see: money formatting. Probably for a good reason. Formatting currency should be handled by the i18n system, because that's what it is. Take one thousand dollars in US currency, it can be displayed as: $1,000.0
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by Klathmon 8y ago
I feel the same, but at the same time I understand that not everyone feels that way, and that there should be easy ways for those people to not have to be subject to it. Sadly any time this kind of thing gets discussed, the nuance gets thro

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