markps

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   SpaceX Starship failure prompts diversions, Florida airports ground stops(reuters.com)

   9 points by markps 2y ago|0 comments
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   by markps 2y ago

   Assumption? So you were lying when you said you had a “concrete fact”?
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   by markps 2y ago

   Have you looked into AWS Ground Station? I don’t know if it’s economical, or has enough locations for 24/7 access, but it might be better than once an orbit.
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   by markps 3y ago

   Just so no one gets discouraged, there is no 10 year limit. You can get BasicMed as long as you’ve held a 3rd class medical after July 14, 2006. https://www.faa.gov/licenses_certificates/airmen_certificati...
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   by markps 10y ago

   When I was about 15, my dad and I volunteered to help strip cable and waveguide off giant dishes in a decommissioned radio-free zone north of Boulder. The material was donated to a local amateur radio club and was mostly recycled as scrap m
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   by markps 11y ago

   You're correct. I do agree with the point, but I misinterpreted where he was going with that example.
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   by markps 11y ago

   > If the fork() call succeeds, this means the OS has guaranteed that all the memory in the child process is available to be written over. i.e. it has had to allocate 'lots of memory' x 2 in total, even if only 'lots of mem