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by msl 6y ago
I don't think the LM used wax for thermal management, but the Lunar Roving Vehicle did, as a "thermal capacitor" [1]. That is, heat was stored in a block of wax while driving, and then radiated away between uses. [1] https:&
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by msl 6y ago
> These parts of the regulations need to be true without electrical power. How would you make that happen in a fly-by-wire airplane? In fact, how would you implement it at all in a digital fly-by-wire system without software? If you feel
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by msl 6y ago
These are some of the only ads I see online these days (on Read the Docs, mostly). I don't use ad blockers, but I do use tracker blockers, and those block pretty much all ads, for obvious reasons. Not these ones, though. And that'
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by msl 6y ago
It is unintuitive. There's a video [1] demonstrating just how difficult it is to get moving air to do any work when you have as little air to work with as you would on Mars. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYe3sIa
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by msl 6y ago
No you can't. Only a licensed photography studio can do it [1]. You can, however, submit a paper photograph taken by anyone. [1] https://www.poliisi.fi/passport/passport_photo_instructions
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by msl 6y ago
Oh, don't worry: more options have been removed again: setting browser.urlbar.update1 = false no longer gives you back the old, unintrusive urlbar behavior. Mozilla UX people have once again shown that they know best and you won't
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by msl 6y ago
Adding more light fixtures might actually prove to be a very good thing: always having a light source that is (almost) exactly above you is really nice. The more light sources you have, the fewer shadows you'll have to contend with. Th
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by msl 7y ago
My experience is the opposite: while there certainly was a time when I felt DDG actually respected my queries [1] that time is now gone. The results I get often have very little to do with what I typed in the search box. I find myself resor
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by msl 7y ago
Ken Shirriff used them in his Xerox Alto ethernet gateway [0] for bit banging a 3Mb/s ethernet signal. [0] http://www.righto.com/2018/01/xerox-altos-3-mbs-ethernet-bui...
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by msl 7y ago
> Is the argument that it would be easy enough to build on Earth places to survive such events rather than going to Mars? I'd say the argument is that Mars is currently a (much) less hospitable place for life as we know it than the
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by msl 7y ago
That would be kind of pointless though, wouldn't it? The handshake only takes place after the cable has been physically connected to the port. You would need to manually guide the connector to where it needs to be and then keep it stat
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by msl 7y ago
> The cycle literally ends at that point. Not quite . It turns out that even the ashes have their uses [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incinerator_bottom_ash
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by msl 7y ago
> NASA worked better when produced everything in-house. I believe NASA has never produced everything in-house. They don't build (or even design, as far as I can tell) launch vehicles, spacecraft, EVA suits, computers etc. They come
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by msl 7y ago
Getting hit by a car can be a death penalty, and drunk driving greatly increases the risk of causing an accident [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving_under_the_influence#Ri...
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by msl 7y ago
> Why not simply add an `is_closed` flag and throw an error if it is? That's a way of doing it at runtime. The article describes catching the error at compile time.
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by msl 7y ago
One nice thing about trains is that you don't need to just sit: there is a lot of room to move about. Also, the trains you use on the Trans-Siberian route stop all the time, often for half an hour or longer at a time, so you can get of
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by msl 7y ago
A suicide is certainly different from a homicide, but counting them in this context still makes sense, seeing how suicide incidence correlates with access to effective means [1][2]. [1] https://www.who.int/mental_health&#x2F
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by msl 7y ago
Satellites usually need to point their solar panels and high-gain antennas properly in order to stay powered to be able to communicate with ground stations, although this particular satellite seems to have been unable to use its high-gain a
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by msl 7y ago
One thing I have learned from reading (and occasionally taking part in) these discussions is that no, it is not . The US is different . It is too big, too small, too densely populated, too sparsely populated, too hot, too cold, too dry an
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by msl 7y ago
Using Earth's magnetic field for attitude control is already a thing [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetorquer
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by msl 7y ago
> Other countries, like europe, hide the VAT taxes, so it looks like you are not paying taxes at all. That is not true at all. In all European countries that I can think of you get to see the whole price, including VAT so that, you know,
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by msl 8y ago
The title is wrong: this is not a statement by Microsoft, but by a single individual, as explicitly pointed out by said individual.
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by msl 8y ago
What if they value all animals' (that is, including humans') lives equally? Would you rather save someone close to you or a stranger?
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by msl 8y ago
> You say this is a good thing, until you go to Europe and get treated terrible service. Try Eastern Europe. You are expected to tip, and the service is usually atrociously slow (and not necessarily good in any other way either). Bad ser
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by msl 8y ago
I have found that DDG often gives me better answers than Google does. I attribute it to DDG not trying to read my mind, but the query string.
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by msl 8y ago
> [...] allowing children [...] to have unsupervised access to guns has a cost. It’s not a simple problem. Does everyone else feel like the quoted statement is a perfectly normal thing to say? I am asking because I sure do not. The world
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by msl 8y ago
Drum memory [1] and hard disks [2] have been used in nuclear tipped missiles, which are supposed to operate in an environment where EMPs are expected. Both types use magnetism for storing data. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by msl 8y ago
That graph shows percent grow in pay, not the absolute pay. In fact, it notes that at the age of 22 men earn $40,800 while women earn $31,900 (median, in both cases). The difference in growth does not suffice to close that gap, let alone ri
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by msl 8y ago
I dug up the original article for some fact checking, and it seems my previous post has a few mistakes in it. There are "grams" of silver and gold (each or together? The article does not specify.) and "kilograms" of copp
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by msl 8y ago
It is already being done. Dealing with old piles of trash is somewhat dangerous (all sorts of volatile gasses build up there) but once you get around this you can burn the thrash (releasing quite a bit of energy) and go through the ashes la

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