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by _moof 5y ago
I was working at Twitter when we learned this the hard way. We switched to a separate service for generating tweet IDs (instead of MySQL sequences), which for various distributed systems reasons meant IDs started taking up more bits. And wh
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by _moof 5y ago
Honestly these days even the “real” astronauts are basically passengers. The systems are so heavily automated, including anomaly response, and the parts that aren’t are mostly done by ground operators. Crew Dragon doesn’t even have a stick.
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by _moof 5y ago
I recall this too (with equal vagueness). I remember even at the time talking about IE for Mac being a great browser. Basically a completely different product than its Windows counterpart.
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by _moof 5y ago
I build wooden, hand-riveted boats in my spare time and it’s an absolute joy. One day on the computer when I was fighting with a stupid custom-made build system, I muttered to myself, “anyone who says a good carpenter doesn’t blame their to
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by _moof 5y ago
I'm aware. I'm not saying the altitude is the exact same altitude at all times under all conditions. I'm saying there is a specific altitude where centrifugal force becomes the dominant force if you want to stay aloft. And th
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by _moof 5y ago
Er, not really. There is a specific, identifiable altitude where this happens.
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by _moof 5y ago
The Kármán line isn't arbitrary - or at least it wasn't when Kármán first conceived of it. It's supposed to be the altitude at which centrifugal force becomes more significant than aerodynamic lift. That's a definite alt
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by _moof 5y ago
That's a diaeresis, not an umlaut. Same symbol but different phenomena. An umlaut is a sound shift in a vowel to make it more like another vowel. For example in Icelandic a word like "Katla" will decline the final "a&quo