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by dingaling 6mo ago
> None of his wealth was transferred to him. Mr Musk's move to the USA was funded by his father, and his first company was started with a loan from his father. The advantages of the family running an undocumented emerald mine in Zam
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by dingaling 6mo ago
My workplace has now blocked Kagi Search because it offers an AI assistant ( only approved AI providers are accessible). AI is ruining everything.
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by dingaling 6mo ago
Retrospectively, yes https://www.forcesnews.com/news/warning-mod-staff-amid-fears... "Warning stickers banning military workers from discussing sensitive information have been placed inside the Ministry of Defence
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by dingaling 6mo ago
If it's a choice between no phone and an old, software-EOL phone I can't blame them. Frankly so long as my browser, VPN and mail app are updated I'm happy.
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by dingaling 6mo ago
It's difficult to copy & paste an entire app from Stack Overflow
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by dingaling 6mo ago
> According to this recommendation, writing should never have any emphasis... If you have measurable amplifications, use them. "This outcome was 40% more frequent". Otherwise keep subjective emotion out of documents, unless y
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by dingaling 6mo ago
Familiarise yourself with the SANDY aircrew rescue missions in Vietnam. Vast amounts of hardware and many American lives were lost trying to recover downed pilots, even when it was known it was a body retrieval operation. For one famous exa
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by dingaling 6mo ago
Annual executions per capita, 2024 and 2025, excluding the Iranian protests: USA: 1 in 12 million; 1 in 8.6 million Iran: 1 in 97,000; 1 in 62,000
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by dingaling 6mo ago
I'm not sure why you think that when even the US President was tweeting about it
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by dingaling 6mo ago
There's a difference between quantifiable but unmanageable situational risk and predictable, manageable technical risk. The heatshield issue is the latter. $100 billion has been spent on this project. Ablative heatshield coatings have
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by dingaling 6mo ago
1 hour 29 minutes seems excessive to extract the astronauts; if any of them _did_ have a medical issue they'd be in for a long wait. The commentary said that the initial problems with the boats approaching Integrity was due to an unexp
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by dingaling 6mo ago
Artemis rides on extended versions of the same SRBs that made the Shuttle ascent so dangerous.
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by dingaling 6mo ago
I've raised concerns about the Signal project whitewashing risks such as keyboard apps or the OS itself, and the usual response is that it's my fault for using an untrustworthy OS and outside Signal's scope. At some point the
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by dingaling 6mo ago
Sadly, libraries in UK towns have very little shelf space left and what's on them is usually mass-market fiction, biography or very old non-fiction. Honestly isn't worth the effort to visit my local one, unless I want to join a cr
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by dingaling 6mo ago
The Ineos Grenadier 4x4 has a 'toot' function for cyclists, largely because Ineos is a sponsor of a cycling team. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PbGp24MIRDQ
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by dingaling 6mo ago
It's difficult to decoy because the missile's processor is programmed to know what typical aircraft profiles look like; for example a transport aircraft has two or four propellors with hot leading edges, numerous turbine exhausts
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by dingaling 6mo ago
Iran enriched over 450kg of uranium to at least 60%. There's no need for anything over 5% for powerplant use. They were preparing HEU for weapons; whether those weapons were to be built now or in 20 years is irrelevant.
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by dingaling 6mo ago
Probably a risk worth taking; defending a pipeline is much easier than escorting huge, slow-moving ships through a 24km-wide Strait laced with mines and peppered by artillery and missiles.
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by dingaling 6mo ago
I can't blame them. We've been force-upgraded to Windows 11 at work and that OS and its apps do their upmost to obscure where files are located. I've frequently saved on OneDrive instead of locally, by accident, and then bee
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by dingaling 6mo ago
But how many Moonshots could we have got out of $100 billion of vegetarian non-pork? Everything about SLS, and most of Artemis, has been dictated by Congress, often overriding expert advice. Why not just give NASA the money and let them get
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by dingaling 6mo ago
It's exactly what it is How do you think data is created? It's lots of anecdotes, normalised.
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by dingaling 6mo ago
But Usenet style didn't have a trendy name, an 'inventor' or Github stars. So it didn't exist.
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by dingaling 6mo ago
I disagree, I work with a bunch of Gen Zs who live in TikTok and talk in meme-slang, and several of them stayed up late to watch the launch. They're not anyway interested in spaceflight but they still got the news
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by dingaling 6mo ago
Everyday Astronaut's coverage
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by dingaling 6mo ago
This program has cost nearly $100 billion to date. Yesterday's launch alone accounted for $4.1 billion in direct costs. Saying "it was either this or that" doesn't make sense at these magnitudes. They could have hired
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by dingaling 6mo ago
I wish we'd known this before the launch Both myself and my 12yo were disappointed by the NASA feed, it was more like the matter-of-fact coverage of 'routine' Shuttle launches of the 1980s than something worthy of this histor
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by dingaling 6mo ago
There is no technological innovation in the Artemis stack. Three of the main engines are refurbished Shuttle engines. The fourth is a clone that cost more than the entire SpaceX Starship stack. The boosters are derived from the Shuttle SRB
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by dingaling 6mo ago
Adding 70+ strike and AEW aircraft apiece, individually more than most national air forces could muster.
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by dingaling 6mo ago
Amd for the diner, new cars are much less nutritious due to the regulation. They're like some sort of bland protein-shake lunch.
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by dingaling 6mo ago
> You’d have to devise some sort of fire proof mini airlock Maritime patrol aircraft like the P-8 already have such a system, for releasing sonobuoys and float-flares while at altitude. So it's not a technical issue, more one of reg

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