inamberclad

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1. 721.▲
   by inamberclad 9y ago

   To be fair, pre-launch development for Cassini was over $1B [0]. There was a massive upfront investment in the mission. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens#Object...
2. 722.▲
   by inamberclad 9y ago

   why?
3. 723.▲
   by inamberclad 9y ago

   It's not really coasting. A transport category aircraft is required to have enough power to continue climbing if it loses an engine, so it must also have enough power to maintain level flight indefinitely (barring fuel consumption, oil
4. 724.▲
   by inamberclad 9y ago

   I'm confused. Do you think they're doing it right with that as an intro?
5. 725.▲
   by inamberclad 9y ago

   I like it except that it installed it's own apt sources for updates without telling me, and that rubbed me the wrong way.
6. 726.▲
   by inamberclad 9y ago

   Anyone else a little miffed that the VSCode debian package adds another apt source without notifying the user when it's installed?