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by m4rtink 1y ago
Shuttle regularly launched spy sats and was designed to grab an enemy one in a single orbit mission. Also Soviets believed it would nuke Moscow by sudden plane change via its wings & build their own version as a result. That sounds mili
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Many Saturn V stages blew up on test stands as well (its also in the history books) and some flight were very much on the edge of success. It was also not trying to make the whole system reusable and economicaly sustainable (just check when
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Isn't the Singapore government pretty authoritarian? They might have other motivation than just pure user security.
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Still close enough passes could disrupt orbits of all the stuff orbiting the stars far out in the Oort Cloud (basically leftovers from star formation) and result in comet bombardment of the inner system/free mas delivery for mega proje
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Yeah, this one is super scary...
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Reportedly it was just running over local mobile internet connectivity. The attack was over so quickly they would likely not even have time to shut it down.
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by m4rtink 1y ago
There is often quite heavy GPS jamming or spoofing. Also in some of the published videos I think you can see a "no GPS lock" status message - but maybe they just did not bother with GPS if all the drones were manually piloted anyw
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Wasn't Ireland used for tax evasion for a long time ? Wondering if that might be somehow related & how irish some of those companies are in practice. Also there are quite a few successful gaming companies in central and eastern Eur
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Ehm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_Czechoslovakia
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by m4rtink 1y ago
I kinda had this sentiment until I actually started working - quite often an issue only manifests at an obscure customer system or is a race condition that it too rare to catch reliably, yet happens often enough so you can't just ignor
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Isn't it essentially a thanks/appreciation for what the people built once they retire ? Without theire work, there would be nothing for the younger people to use and benefit from. Would not be very motivational if you work hard yo
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by m4rtink 1y ago
The Hisatsu line[1] in Japan was built through pretty insane terrain to make it protected from coastal attacks after the Russo-Japanese war. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisatsu_Line
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Yeah, the big JR (Japanese Railways) companies that were created when the JNR (Japanese National Railways) state owned company was privatized really do seem to operate in some form of hybrid way - not really either private or public/st
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Well, they used to take quite a bit longer in the past.
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by m4rtink 1y ago
The bigger cold war era civil defense bunkers around here (Czech Republic) usually have the following design for ventilation: * one or two filtration rooms, powered by electricity with optional manual backup * one or two diesel generators t
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by m4rtink 1y ago
But AFAIK it still does not have a web browser, because they are scared of all the exploits webkit exploits people used to enable custom software on the PlayStation Vita. So rather than that they released Switch without a built-in web brows
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Snaps do zero deduplication and bundle everything AFAIK - flatpak at least does some deduplication on file level and has shared runtimes.
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by m4rtink 1y ago
IR with palm devices was super nice - just point to the other device and send, then confirm on the other. No persistent pairing bullshit & you could also use it to control TVs.
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Investigating some some are to decide what to buy properly could be a couple hundred tabs easily. Usually you can close those when you are done, especially if you use Tree Style Tab to have them in their own little trees - but not always yo
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Its supper useful if you really want to make sure not to loose your session, as its serializes everything into files, which you can then even backup somewhere if you want. :)
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Wouldn't that be actually good thing for supporting local manufacturing and local buying, if customers could easily see which products are expensive because they are imported and which ones are expensive because they are locally made ?
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by m4rtink 1y ago
I suggest using the session manager extension & having it do periodic snapshots.
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Can report that my testing indicates 40k+ tabs is doable with unloading on a 64 GB machine, across multiple Firefox windows with tree style tab. Since task manager has been introduced, making it easy to unload whole related tab groups its e
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Yeah, that would be like the football lobby forcing the blocking of Cloudflare just because someone used it for unauthorized football streaming!
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by m4rtink 1y ago
That would be more likely for outer system probes, where even simple radio isotope heaters could be very useful. For Venus it is unlikely to need anything like that, as the expected flight duration was much shorter (quite important for not
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Or maybe you just have what was stored in various nuclear shelters at that time ? That could be even more confusing! In one unused shelter here in Brno the numbered stones of a medieval chapel are stored since it was demolished long ago. In
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Maybe you could detect the directional radio beam we used to talk to it first ? Would be likely doable with a stellar scale radio telescope array.
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by m4rtink 1y ago
IIRC some Abrams tanks in non-export variants use depleted uranium as part of their armor scheme - again not very safe to be around in case it burns out.
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by m4rtink 1y ago
It works also with cold/frozen stuff - you can even store snow over the summer if needed: https://www.slf.ch/en/snow/snow-sports/schnee-und-ressourcen...
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by m4rtink 1y ago
Also in Satisfactory pumps need power to run, so coal power plants quite realistically won't start without extra power (unless you have a water tower on the input).

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