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631.
by ansible 6y ago
> Wouldn't there also be seals on the two faces of the rotor too? Yes. However, the apex seals of the Wankel are the most troublesome, from what I've read about the RX-7/8.
632.
by ansible 6y ago
Definitely planned. If you look closely at the SpaceX stream, the first two engines that were shut down were the ones restarted during the landing flip maneuver. Too bad about the loss of fuel pressure from the header tank. SN8 wasn'
633.
by ansible 6y ago
We had just finished a code review, and I put the launch / landing up on the TV in the meeting room. Good times.
634.
by ansible 6y ago
It would be nice for the environment and the Chinese people if they pursued reuse more. Landing the 1st stage is a lot better than dropping it on top of a village and exploding... as part of a normal and successful launch. No, I'm not
635.
by ansible 6y ago
Shivetya is talking about landing rockets afterwards. If they keep up the launch cadence next year, they will surpass the Shuttle in number of reuses in a space program.
636.
by ansible 6y ago
> TEA-TEB is not used on Starship This is correct. The Raptor uses an electric spark igniter.
637.
by ansible 6y ago
Great flight! Elon tweeted that the header tank pressure was low: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1336809767574982658 There was also a substantial green flame coming from the raptor engine used for landing. G
638.
by ansible 6y ago
> Both phones can run fairly hot. I think given how I hold the phone (closer to the base of the phone) I tend to notice the Librem 5 more often than I notice the Pinephone getting hotter. This is mostly because the frame / chassis
639.
by ansible 6y ago
It had a decent physics engine for the time, which I appreciated. They talked about the basics of flight, energy management, maneuvers, and more. Chuck would yell out "Check Six!" when an enemy was coming up behind you.
640.
by ansible 6y ago
As a sort of microcosm, my undergrad CS started off with a top end dual-VAX, and ended with Sequent Symmetry 386 multi-processor systems that had vastly more processing power and memory.
641.
by ansible 6y ago
How do we teach adults to seek the truth? How do we get people to not share stories just because they want to believe the story is true?
642.
by ansible 6y ago
growlaw.net was online until very recently. There was no activity for a very long time. I used to visit that site regularly during the lawsuits, and waiting for SCO to go bankrupt.
643.
by ansible 6y ago
MEMS accelerometers were definitely a thing. But commercial, low-cost MEMS was not yet a thing at that time. Motorola was rolling out their first product around that time, which was derived from military-grade hardware. That was for autom
644.
by ansible 6y ago
There was a A Whitney Young video a while back about that. He was going on about "what good are dead Iraqis to me?" basically. And he had a point. Instead of killing people, and destroying their civilization's infrastructure
645.
by ansible 6y ago
Yes, because apparently Disney won't say or do anything without first signing a NDA. Which is BS of course.
646.
by ansible 6y ago
So, on the one hand, just about any common product that can be bought online, can be bought on Amazon. So, good for them. However, given the horrendous search UX with Amazon, you'd think there would be more competition in this space
647.
by ansible 6y ago
A chromebook can be an excellent SSH terminal. Cheap, light, and a decent keyboard. You can install a Linux container, and inside that, run ssh-agent, so you load up your keys just once. The one major annoyance is the lack of a caps-lock
648.
by ansible 6y ago
> ... Trump had, he was on the side with the better economic playbook. Ah, yes, the "fiscally conservative" move to give permanent tax cuts to billionaires, while giving small, temporary tax cuts to everyone else. And without
649.
by ansible 6y ago
Unfortunately, most new TVs don't have a 3.5mm audio jack these days.
650.
by ansible 6y ago
After the fiasco with an HP InkJet MFP, we went with Brother. Instead of constantly using steam to clean clogged jets, it just... works. Much less fiddly. The missus mostly prints from her iPad, phone, or Windows laptop, I haven't u
651.
by ansible 6y ago
> This is why I develop everything in Docker Compose locally. For a small setup like this, just having a docker compose file in version control is more than sufficient. You can easily leverage services someone else has set up, and the
652.
by ansible 6y ago
I've tried evil mode a couple times over the years, but slight behavioral differences threw me off my game. I don't remember exactly (it was years ago on the last attempt), but it was something small like the cursor position bein
653.
by ansible 6y ago
The gravitational assists (especially from Jupiter) helped a lot with the delta-V.
654.
by ansible 6y ago
> I thought that compilers couldn't really use this effectively… The status bits part in general, or the speculative load stuff? They allegedly have all this working, privately. They haven't released any development tools or
655.
by ansible 6y ago
Yes, the old, old way of having a single condition code register or the like (which dates back 40+ years) doesn't work well these days. I like the Mill CPU approach, where every "register" (it doesn't have named register
656.
by ansible 6y ago
That's true. It does fold up a lot more compactly than some of the recent flying car designs with conventional wings. One of those looked more like a car plus a small trailer in size.
657.
by ansible 6y ago
That's nice. But very expensive. For that much, you could buy a couple nice autogyros and also a nice car to drive around to the airports where they are parked. I could see this being a little more viable if it was less than double t
658.
by ansible 6y ago
> From what little I’ve seen in this space, FPGAs have not made large inroads in the ML space or datacenters in general. I don't know that they have actually made large inroads into those spaces, but Xilinx is indeed pushing hard
659.
by ansible 6y ago
And for their products that include hard cores, maybe they will switch to RISC-V like with the MicroSemi PolarFire. I'm still debating on getting the Icicle development kit.
660.
by ansible 6y ago
Maybe when it hits 10 years without a release (like its predecessor), we can really call it abandonware: https://www.xfree86.org/cvs/changes.html

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