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by hydrogen7800 5mo ago
Me too, but on a snowboard. (I suppose I'd be the same on a skateboard) My second time snowboarding was quite a few years after my first, and I just could not get the hang of it, wondering how I was faring so much worse than before.
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by hydrogen7800 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Public_Broadca...
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by hydrogen7800 5mo ago
This is one of those things that, if it weren't already a public service, could never be implemented as one today. Add to that list public schools and public libraries.
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by hydrogen7800 5mo ago
This is good to hear. My mother was a PA for a private practice and also would often call the insurance providers to challenge denials, often from people far from the relevant specialty. By her accounts she was usually able to reverse the
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by hydrogen7800 5mo ago
"It's so easy when you don't know how". I'm not sure if this phrase is in common use at all, or if I just misheard it once and attributed it to mean that when the details of a problem aren't obvious, its easy
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by hydrogen7800 5mo ago
I downloaded one of the models, but it is only the outer mold line, with no internal features. Not sure how useful this is to someone who needs to replace their shell, or modify it.
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by hydrogen7800 6mo ago
Apologies if it seems I'm just stoking a stereotype, but this comes from personal experience with family. For a demographic who generally are proud to be "old school", "not computer people", skeptical, distrustful
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by hydrogen7800 6mo ago
I'm also surprised how few people know about Tulip Mania[0]. Funny thing about bubbles is that mostly everyone seems to know its a bubble, but they think they will have a seat when the music stops. [0] https://en.wikipedia.o
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by hydrogen7800 6mo ago
I'm shooting from the depths of my memory, but I recall reading that one of the earliest government needs for computers was for the decennial census. At some point, it was requiring more than the 10 years to process the previous censu
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by hydrogen7800 6mo ago
Interesting read. This may be unfair to Louisiana based on this case, but I've heard the USA described as a federation of a bunch of states and some 3rd world countries.
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by hydrogen7800 6mo ago
I built it circa 2012 or 2013 and still have the physical win8 disc. I considered futzing with linux on it. The extent of my linux experience is via SSH to a raspberry pi kludging some docker containers for this and that. SSH/linux
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by hydrogen7800 6mo ago
Thanks! Also useful for an old win10 machine I have, and probably shouldn't be using anymore, that no longer responds to clicking the start menu button...
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by hydrogen7800 6mo ago
Frustratingly, I have my foot in both worlds to a degree. I'm interested enough in tech to pay attention and often lurk the tech bubble that is HN and hear about the raging dumpster fires from the folks who live and work in that domai
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by hydrogen7800 6mo ago
Ugh, I can no longer press win key and type "p a i enter". I now have to find the old paint manually.
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by hydrogen7800 6mo ago
In the post splashdown conference, they mentioned that these were indeed attitude control bursts to orient for favorable orientation for water impact.
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by hydrogen7800 6mo ago
My suspicion was they were burning excess propellant, rather than attitude adjustment while under the parachutes. Though who knows how much propellant remained. It could be quite a bit more than it appears was used.
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by hydrogen7800 6mo ago
Ha of course! Entirely predictable.
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by hydrogen7800 6mo ago
Too much of our government requires/required its trustees to act in good faith. Clearly that was too vulnerable. And I realize it sounds naive to think that past trustees were acting in good faith, but there are relative degrees of
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by hydrogen7800 6mo ago
That's a bit too much to ask of these folks, I'm afraid, but I did boil it down for him by saying that the real question is understanding why he is inclined to believe its a hoax, rather than trying to pile up evidence in front of
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by hydrogen7800 6mo ago
I haven't been actively looking for them, but a friend sent me something about the launch tower escape zipline/gondolas and how that somehow indicated something fraudulent. He is not a denier, but works with one and is always ask
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by hydrogen7800 6mo ago
I hear similar from my own Mother. I don't know the extent of what she believes, because I don't want to ask, but there is a strong rejection of Leo among the American right. It seems as simple as challenging Trump to a degree,
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by hydrogen7800 6mo ago
>that episode from From The Earth to the Moon where they take the astronauts out and give them geology lessons so they could be more productive with their descriptions. My favorite episode of the series and I was thinking of it during In
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by hydrogen7800 7mo ago
Yeah, RS25/SSME still have a higher specific impulse than any boost stage engine in operation, past or present.
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by hydrogen7800 7mo ago
Yeah, certainly not the kings cult.
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by hydrogen7800 7mo ago
That's enough for me. There was also much hype about a new blue marble picture, but I'm ok with that.
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by hydrogen7800 7mo ago
I have a ~20 in x 30 in poster of the Grand Tour from this collection[0]. I considered printing the whole series, but not enough wall space. [0] https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/visions-of-the-future/
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by hydrogen7800 7mo ago
Good recommendations here, thanks. I was aware of Orwell's account of the Spanish civil war, so maybe I'll start there.
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by hydrogen7800 7mo ago
I read this more than 10 years ago, so I don't remember a lot, but I do appreciate it for being the only account of the crash that doesn't have historical hindsight. It was interesting to hear someone trying to make sense of thin
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by hydrogen7800 7mo ago
xkcd 538 https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/security.png
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by hydrogen7800 7mo ago
I took pencil and paper mechanical and architectural drafting for 3 years in a high school vocational program (in the US) which also included learning AutoCAD. I enjoyed the pencil and paper work more, and I must have been among the last a

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