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by gvb 4y ago
Contracting can also be lose-lose: 1) Software engineers have to be salesmen as well to find companies willing to pay them well for jobs. Software engineers that can sell themselves do very well. The rest do not. Rule of thumb is that &qu
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by gvb 4y ago
https://archive.ph/5ilZR On their linkedin page "We have made the decision to wind down Kittyhawk. We're still working on the details of what's next." Ref: https://www.linkedin.com/compan
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New Shepard suffers in-flight abort on uncrewed NS-23 mission(nasaspaceflight.com)
2 points by gvb 4y ago|1 comments
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by gvb 4y ago
More info: "New Shepard suffers in-flight abort on uncrewed NS-23 mission" https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2022/09/new-shepard-ns-23/
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by gvb 4y ago
"This story is sponsored by BOSS Retirement Solutions." tl;dr: spamvertisement
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by gvb 4y ago
https://archive.ph/OPL2W
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by gvb 4y ago
Already happened: "A Swarm of Self-Driving Cruise Taxis Blocked San Francisco Traffic for Hours" https://www.thedrive.com/news/a-swarm-of-self-driving-cruise...
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by gvb 4y ago
This is not hyperbole. a) A lot of gas is feedstock for chemical reactions generating products e.g. fertilizer. Russia is burning that gas and creating 100% pollution rather than useful products. b) For all the Russian gas would have been b
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by gvb 4y ago
>I wonder what would have happened if Musk had not requested data from all accounts, but a more targeted list of valuable targets. Would that have been granted? Not likely. Discovery requests have to be justified to the judge that they a
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by gvb 4y ago
https://archive.ph/80EgJ#selection-4015.30-4015.82
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by gvb 4y ago
The boat is only the surface of the money pit. You will be astounded at the depth of the pit. * If the boat is on a trailer, you need a vehicle big enough to pull it - pickup or larger SUV. You also need a place to park the trailer. * I
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by gvb 4y ago
The Scam Test [X] Too good to be true [X] Give us money today and we will send you a hamburger next Tuesday* * https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=I%27ll%20gla...
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by gvb 4y ago
...or not: "FCC denies Starlink’s application for $885M subsidy" (breaking news) https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/10/fcc-denies-starlinks-appli... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by gvb 4y ago
> Perhaps a Starlink connection would have been enough for them and perfectly fine if it's a single family. Oh the irony... Starlink is also tapping (federal) government subsidies to provide internet service to rural areas. Tapping
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by gvb 4y ago
https://archive.ph/IIIQO
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by gvb 4y ago
I use thunderbird to read quite a few email accounts, some quite large, all of which are IMAP (not POP3), and most are hosted by gmail. Thunderbird has a client that runs on Windows. You can try before you buy.
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by gvb 4y ago
https://archive.ph/98879
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by gvb 4y ago
This is a photo-op for Putin to put a positive spin on the fact that Russia soon will no longer be a crewed space-fairing nation.[1] From TFA: “Without cooperation with the west, the Russian space program is impossible in all its parts, in
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by gvb 4y ago
The decision was made in 2015. "In February 2015, Roscosmos announced that it would remain a part of the ISS programme until 2024."[1] Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station#En ...
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by gvb 4y ago
"In February 2015, Roscosmos announced that it would remain a part of the ISS programme until 2024."[1] Move along, nothing to see here. "As of 2022, the space station has been in orbit for an impressive 21 years. As NASA and
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by gvb 4y ago
Britain’s spy chief says Russian forces are ‘running out of steam.’ “I think they are about to run out of steam,” Mr. Moore said, making rare public comments at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado. “Our assessment is that the Russians wil
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by gvb 4y ago
Then it free-runs at about 60Hz (50Hz). It only has to synchronize with the grid if it is exchanging power with the grid. The Old School way of synchronizing a generator with the grid is to connect a light bulb between each leg of the two d
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by gvb 4y ago
It's too early to tell if it is a stalemate or if it is high tide.
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by gvb 4y ago
From Bloomberg's article: https://archive.ph/Lx3gi "Gazprom said it isn’t able to fulfill its long-term contracts to supply gas due to unforeseen circumstances, said the people, who asked not to be identified beca
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by gvb 4y ago
https://archive.ph/UuqcS
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Magic Leap 2 will go on sale in the US on September 30th(engadget.com)
15 points by gvb 4y ago|3 comments
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by gvb 4y ago
From TFA: "However, Professor Qing-Bin Lu from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, told The Independent that research shows this new hole has been open for more than 30 years." Apparently the only thing new about the ho
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by gvb 4y ago
The antenna is electronically steered. The pictures do not show any gimbal but they probably had to add an IMU to measure the motion of the boat (antenna) and adjust the antenna beam steering to compensate. https://en.wikipedia.o
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by gvb 4y ago
"Starlink for RVs is not designed for use while in motion." Marine starlink needs to compensate for rolling, pitching, and forward motion.
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by gvb 4y ago
Unrolled: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1544258707197935617.html

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