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by elurg 4y ago
> EC is about the same size as the current Artemis program. EC cost estimates are currently about 4-5 billion for the whole program while a single SLS launch is ~2 billion. The whole SLS/Orion program runs at few billion each year a
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by elurg 4y ago
Yes. If you send stuff to orbit you can probably also send stuff to the Moon, it's just a payload penalty. Several Moon missions were launched on commercial rockets. Even tiny RocketLab launched one: https://en.wikipedia.org
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by elurg 4y ago
I don't know where you're getting "4000ish non starlink satellites". This seems to be the current number at the start of the year inclusive of starlink. It's growing fast! Many sources on the web seem to quote the U
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by elurg 4y ago
So when is everybody transitioning to QUIC?
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by elurg 4y ago
> When you're terrified of Covid, so you suspend most of your activities and spend two years mostly staying home, gaining 50 pounds and decimating your fitness which drastically increases your risk of cardiovascular disease and over
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by elurg 4y ago
Place names get translated when they become widely used in another language, this is because most "native" names often don't fit with the phonology of another language or the character set. It's particularly awkward for
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by elurg 4y ago
> Very honestly, it might have worked out fine - organic produce fetches a much higher price overseas. This also affected staple crops like rice which are eaten domestically, effectively forcing the country to start importing food instea
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by elurg 4y ago
> This vulnerability doesn’t break the anonymity and encryption of Tor connections. > The Safest security level of Tor Browser is not affected because JavaScript is disabled at this security level. > For example, after you visit a
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by elurg 4y ago
Possibly a stupid question but can any of these public CI services support the following: 1) Build containers easily, for each commit? 2) Provide hypervisor access for custom VMs? 3) Secure support for 1/2 for possibly hostile PRs? I&#
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by elurg 4y ago
I recently bought a laptop which came with Windows 10 preinstalled and I was shocked to find that not only does Ubuntu feel much faster but it has better support for Intel Xe graphics hardware. Windows frequently with 4K HDMI plugged in, th
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by elurg 5y ago
I've recently began to take life tracking semi-seriously and mostly use "off the shelf" tools. A good all-around dashboard is https://exist.io/ , capable of pulling data from multiple sources like RescueTime a
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by elurg 5y ago
> Self rule, just like you'd think. Is Vietnam in any way "more independent" today than if the north had lost? It makes sense if you claim to fight the Americans because they're evil capitalists but Vietnam turned aro
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by elurg 5y ago
Defending a communist regime purely on nationalist grounds ignores the whole point of communism. Today Vietnam and China having mostly-capitalist economies so what was really the purpose of their revolutions?
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by elurg 5y ago
Doing fork/exec for the mkdir tool is still many times slower that calling a good library function.
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by elurg 5y ago
This is terrifying.
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by elurg 5y ago
> My "Tor 0day" blog series focused on one specific scenario: Can someone watching the network traffic determine if you (specifically you) were using Tor? Tor never claimed that it can hide if somebody is using tor. It only cla
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by elurg 5y ago
You seem to be assuming that a base on Mars or the Moon would have to be a closed system but that is not true. There are plenty of useful materials on a planetary surface, for example water. There are also many ways to take advantage of a C
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by elurg 5y ago
> Instead of becoming an instrument to strengthen freedom, it actually weakens it and promotes domination and inequality. I don't agree with this, other communication mechanisms can be more easily controlled for propaganda purposes
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by elurg 5y ago
Anyone surprised that the title is not a metaphor? The article is about the literal sale of substances which are harmful when ingested by rodents.
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by elurg 5y ago
Is there any good way to cache a built container and use it as the image for later steps? I think that caching files is much less effective than caching a built container which already has dependencies installed. For tools like apt and pip
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by elurg 5y ago
Yes, writing maintainable code requires the ability to explain. There is far far more to "communication skills" than explaining yourself very well, stuff like negotiation and persuasion and conflict resolution. Most of those are l
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by elurg 5y ago
Is it even possible to make a CO2 tax that is not regressive? The purpose of a CO2 tax is reduce emissions and a lot of emissions are not caused by luxury products and services but simple stuff like growing food or driving to work. Increasi
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by elurg 5y ago
Small communities will literally lynch you and after the fact they will all agree you were a rapist. It's not clear why you brought up feudalism but systems in which a local lord is responsible for dispensing justice allow for far more
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by elurg 5y ago
This is easy to disable. I enabled it after covid struck and found that nowadays the data has extremely low granularity.
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by elurg 5y ago
> > Large impersonal institutions are much easier to hold accountable than local communities. > I think this is exactly backwards. No it is not. States and corporations are bound by law and to a great extent by public opinion while
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by elurg 5y ago
The idea that shifting "norm enforcement" from local communities towards impersonal institutions is somehow "bad" is extremely wrong and harmful. Large impersonal institutions are much easier to hold accountable than loc
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by elurg 5y ago
How would switching to GPL affect support questions?
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by elurg 5y ago
Doom is less that 30 years old and was resource-intensive for the time.
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by elurg 5y ago
I'm happy to see everybody hate Russia. They truly deserve it.
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by elurg 5y ago
Python libraries shipped by distributions are so old that this mechanism is mostly useless for python development. This also applies to many others programming languages which have their own packaging systems. While python packaging is inde

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