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by jccooper 6y ago
They've deorbited 5 of the 540 launched so far, and a few more of the first launch seem to be derelict.
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by jccooper 6y ago
Many beers traditionally packaged in clear or green bottles (like Heineken and Mexican lagers) got "skunked" during shipment and consumers (especially in export markets) came to recognize that as the taste of the beer. Today, they
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by jccooper 6y ago
The explanation of dimensional sizing isn't quite correct. The lumber is indeed cut at the mill to its nominal size (like 2x4), but it's rough from the saw. (They use big, fast saws that tear up the wood.) Rough-sawn used to be so
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by jccooper 6y ago
Yeah, but that's implementation. Top level syntax, an object and dictionary are distinct.
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I'm surprised they didn't design out stuff like tape. Although perhaps they did and the article actually means handling things like ribbon cables, which is super impressive, as humans can barely handle those.
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That case was not quite that simple. It involved import of third-party refurbished/remanufactured parts still bearing the Apple logo (because they contained some original Apple parts). This is clearly problematic, and something auto pa
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by jccooper 6y ago
So which of these has a good framework I can use for making a (fairly acurate-ish) fake desktop? I've looked at quite a few in the past, and haven't seen a good option yet.
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by jccooper 6y ago
Pretty much. They're on alert 24/7 anyway, and training is mostly to get a specific number of hours. There are likely cases where an intercept adds to monthly flight hours, but it's not a big impact overall.
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by jccooper 6y ago
I found it useful as well as entertaining. Convinced me to drop the "Home" link in the header of one of my sites.
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by jccooper 6y ago
Nor image maps, my favorite antique web technology.
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by jccooper 6y ago
Apparently there's evidence for domesticated chickens appear Mohenjo-Daro by c2000 BCE. That may be the first paved road that a chicken crossed. There would have been plenty of dirt paths all over the world well before the advent of th
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by jccooper 6y ago
Depends what you mean by "political". It clearly has a bias towards "eviction moratoria", going so far as to publish a "scorecard" in which that's basically the only criteria. One should always be suspicio
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by jccooper 6y ago
Bad publicity on a major news site seems to be a major Google support channel. So you're halfway there; had you included names in this post you'd have a chance at that avenue.
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by jccooper 6y ago
It's always possible it was something else, but lack of (testable) antibodies does not rule out COVID-19 infection, as they are not always developed and/or expressed after some time. Seems like that may even be common. Since T-cel
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by jccooper 6y ago
That's not the sort of test under discussion here. The Abbot test and other antibody tests are blood based. I'm sure there are things in the pipeline that can go wrong, but they're much less susceptible to error. What is impo
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by jccooper 6y ago
Perhaps worth noting that this is not the Rocket Lab launching small liquid fuel rockets today. This Rocketlab seems to have been a mail-order publisher mostly of NASA public domain stuff, with some original material and other authors. This
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by jccooper 6y ago
I had to find out what happened. Apparently after a year it came back, but why is unclear. https://www.kansascity.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/chow-tow... https://www.dairyreporter.com/Article&#x2F
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by jccooper 6y ago
People sell cars because they don't like them. But they crush cars because they become too expensive to fix. If your smelly 20 year old EV is still rolling someone will buy it for a couple hundred bucks and drive it until it fails. How
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by jccooper 6y ago
They don't. Apple puts logos on their parts and then someone uses them in a "refurbished" part and doesn't scrub the logos. It's not a problem in China, because they don't care, but in more legally-observant pa
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by jccooper 6y ago
Quite a lot, I imagine, but given they're (supposed to be) fully reusable, the idea is that testing will be $$ instead of $$$$.
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by jccooper 6y ago
Two things: (1) no one's used methane on a rocket before, so there's not a lot of experience in ground handling it, and its properties are rather different than other fuels. (2) Making large lightweight steel pressure vessels is a
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by jccooper 6y ago
That AMA is from 2013, when LabView would have seemed like a more reasonable choice. Dunno if they've changed since then, but it's possible they've come to their senses.
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by jccooper 6y ago
This is actually a brand new capability for NASA: human spaceflight that isn't ruinously expensive.
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by jccooper 6y ago
Thus far all SpaceX F9 launch failures have been on all-new vehicles. But those were both in the second stage, which are not and cannot be reused. The F9 first stage has basically been perfect on launch, save for two single engine-out incid
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by jccooper 6y ago
Because it's the second demonstration flight before certification for regular rotation. Demo-1 was 13 months ago, flown without a crew.
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by jccooper 6y ago
Charging at home or at work is best with electrics, but the gas station model is still possible. With a range of 500-600km and high power charging at 1000-1500kph, which is all being done right now, you can go somewhere and charge once or t
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by jccooper 6y ago
Remove "Tesla" and the headline is exactly as true. That's just there for clickbait.
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There was a SARS outbreak in an apartment building due to shared (and presumably faulty) plumbing, and CV-19 does seem to have a fecal route.
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Yeah, there's science and then there's science. I'm sure they're correct about aerosol protection, but if this virus is mostly spread via respiratory droplets (as seems likely) that's an entirely different question
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Facebook is surely in a similar ad dollars crunch as Google. I can't imagine they're full speed.

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