dabluecaboose

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by dabluecaboose 11d ago
I've heard a lot of arguments against human space exploration, but "We could put that energy into working less" is probably one of the more out-there arguments that's hard to take seriously.
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by dabluecaboose 17d ago
I don't see any of those discussions. I see people complaining that Kenton is "privileged", that him enjoying himself his somehow harmful, that his house is too big, and implying that all is a problem; with little to no spec
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by dabluecaboose 17d ago
By contrast, I think that every post on HN doesn't need a bucket full of crabs complaining that they can't do the same thing. It's not intellectually stimulating.
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by dabluecaboose 17d ago
Hi Kenton! Big fan of the build and the writeup. The "cat bathroom" and cat-walk has lived rent free in my head since I read this the first time, and I fully intend on replicating it if ever I'm lucky enough to build a home
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by dabluecaboose 24d ago
Rocket Scientist here. Quick (simplified) primer on engine nozzles and why aerospikes are advantageous: A rocket engine bell is a supersonic nozzle. Subsonic nozzles, like on your garden hose, typically go from wider to narrower to increa
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by dabluecaboose 2mo ago
> Lot's of HN (and "social" media) commenters in this world evidently are; nothing ironic about it. I suppose what I'm trying to say is that it's ironic that the one guy providing these consumer-friendly features
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by dabluecaboose 2mo ago
I believe you're correct! Two such stations with that orientation should warrant a mention.
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by dabluecaboose 2mo ago
I'm surprised they didn't mention the Pentagon metro, which always stood out to me since instead of having side-by-side platforms, they're stacked vertically within the same vault. I guess it falls under "Waffle" st
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by dabluecaboose 2mo ago
Comparing a run-of-the-mill defense contractor to a serial rapist and murderer is certainly up there in the most unhinged justifications that I've seen on HN.
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by dabluecaboose 2mo ago
A friend of mine did posit the quandary that an "unpalatable" individual such as Luckey appears to be one of the few making consumer-friendly products: Removable, swappable battery packs, AA battery support, standard USB-C chargi
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by dabluecaboose 2mo ago
Good to see Kotaku's admirable journalistic practice of posting a list of histrionic tweets is alive and well
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by dabluecaboose 2mo ago
Are you looking to make homemade homebrew carts? If the M64 carts are anything like ModRetro's chromatic carts, the boards will be flashable. ModRetro has also stated they're planning on open-sourcing the design, so if we'r
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by dabluecaboose 2mo ago
> Does Modretro's target market buy this type of stuff? Or are they the type to just download and emulator and ROM. Speaking as someone who spent all weekend playing his new M64: Yes, the target market often does buy the cartridge.
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by dabluecaboose 2mo ago
> I'm unaware of the Californians attempting to seize anyone's domain name over this issue. They may not be attacking the domain but they're attempting to leverage the US Legal system to shut down operations. Arguably tha
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by dabluecaboose 2mo ago
> The idea that a state court in one particular state can enforce such an absurd law against a company that likely has no business operations or servers in the state is ridiculous. I agree. California has been doing this since 2022 [1][
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by dabluecaboose 2mo ago
"Anomaly" is one of those words that, in the space industry, can mean anything from "Our payload isn't behaving as well as we're expecting" to "Someone stepped on it" to "A rock hit it" You
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by dabluecaboose 2mo ago
The cool thing about geostationary orbits is that they're far enough out that they get 24/7 sun (Except around the equinoxes). We could easily fit a solar worship break in the schedule in between imaging and momentum dumps.
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by dabluecaboose 2mo ago
Hah originally making an animation was my plan, but as so often happens it fell on the backburner and then I ended up with a massive archive. I just deleted it once I realized that A) Better archives exist elsewhere and B) I wasn't go
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by dabluecaboose 2mo ago
They're concerned because GOES-19 deployed with the newest Rothschild Space Weather Laser, which could disrupt their atmospheric camouflage
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by dabluecaboose 2mo ago
We don't need a bloated React framework to show a plaintext file with the fuel tank levels. It's NOAA, not Microsoft.
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by dabluecaboose 2mo ago
Looking at the timestamp, that's from yesterday. Nominal product delivery happens ~every 10 minutes.
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by dabluecaboose 2mo ago
Former GOES engineer here. At this point I'd almost be surprised if 19 didn't have something go wrong. We had issues on almost every other satellite. GOES-17 had the loop heat pipe anomaly(Supposedly from someone stepping on
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by dabluecaboose 2mo ago
While it may not be flashy, I personally find the GOES sites extremely useful. Things are often simply placed at obvious and expected URLs, so scraping or monitoring is extremely easy. I wrote the script that provides the GOES NavSum [1] a
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by dabluecaboose 2mo ago
> Please note: This status information on this website is generally updated on a monthly basis. Recent outages and anomalies on data flow are highlighted at the top of the page.
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by dabluecaboose 3mo ago
> He was a cancer on Reddit and I’m sure he still exists under different monikers. But now there are 100s of gallowboobs. Yep, for example: If you mention the name "TurboStrider27" on /r/Games, your comment gets shad
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by dabluecaboose 3mo ago
The term GP was looking for is "Caseback Knife": https://diplomatwinders.com/cdn/shop/products/55035knife_102...
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by dabluecaboose 3mo ago
Great stuff! Apologies for the snark before, there weren't many comments and I was miffed that one of the few was so short. I stepped outside my office into the sun right after posting and felt ridiculous. Go outside, people!
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by dabluecaboose 3mo ago
> Did you sincerely believe that the parent poster was suggesting bear-overrun as a probable outcome? Gee, maybe they should have written a comment explaining their point of view that we could then discuss, instead of a quippy, dismissi
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by dabluecaboose 3mo ago
Looks more like the 368, but yeah. Good call! Sounds like the juice may not be worth the squeeze on a USB-C refresh if I have to use an A-to-C cable for it anyway
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by dabluecaboose 3mo ago
Oh man, please tell me it wasn't the CC GP-7. I have the micro version and have been hemhawwing about updating it.

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