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NASA has no plans to buy more Soyuz seats (after early 2019)(spaceflightnow.com)
1 points by msl 10y ago|0 comments
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Esp-lisp: a small fast lisp interpeter for a ESP8266(github.com)
31 points by msl 10y ago|0 comments
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by msl 10y ago
See also esp-lisp [1] for a perhaps more practical Lisp on the platform. EDIT: I created a new submission [2] for it, should someone want to discuss it. [1] https://github.com/yesco/esp-lisp [2] https://news
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by msl 10y ago
> This could be the end of Samsung. This really could not. Samsung is a gigantic conglomerate. They make everything from power plants to super tankers and weapon systems. They could lose their phone business entirely and still be huge.
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by msl 10y ago
> They were always white as that was part of the spec - dark colours would have taken heat absorption out of limit! Interesting. The SR-71 Blackbird was dark (almost black) in order to radiate heat efficiently [1]. Then again, the Blackb
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by msl 10y ago
What about the brake pads in my multi-ton death machine? Should I be prohibited from replacing them with third-party parts for the fear of risking everyone else's lives?
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by msl 10y ago
> Past practice lacked in some regards This seems like a rather mild interpretation. As for the effective addressing of safety issues, it was not that long ago that the USAF last "lost" nuclear weapons [1]. (The weapons were in
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by msl 10y ago
Another option for running a lisp (like language) on a small package is esp-lisp [1] running on ESP8622. The ESP8622 has a 32 bit processor running quite fast, and comes with 64K of RAM, so it's clearly not as challenging a platform to
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by msl 10y ago
Crash did not really do anything weird with the CD drive, it just read from the disc a lot. So much, in fact, that a single playthrough would hit the disk more times than the drive was rated for (the drive was rated for some 70000 reads, bu
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by msl 10y ago
> We already have autonomous weapons, their called mines. And those autonomous weapons keep on killing and maiming people for a long time, whether the orignial conflict continues or not. The squeamishness does not seem to have quite disa
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by msl 10y ago
Their website[1] suggests that the price will be around $250,000, in the same ballpark with other launch options. The real selling point is supposed to be quick lead time (months instead of years) and the ability to send payloads with, say,
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by msl 11y ago
For some reason, this worked really badly when I tried it. About the only things it figured out were that I run Linux on an x86_64 system and use Firefox. Well, it did get my ISP right, so that pretty much limits my location to a single cou
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by msl 11y ago
According to Wikipedia, "One gram of anhydrous lithium hydroxide can remove 450cm³ of carbon dioxide gas."[1] Also according to Wikipedia, a person produces some 1kg of the gas a day [2], which translates to roughly 550000cm³. Tha
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by msl 11y ago
The flight computers on any manned NASA spacecraft have not been made by HP. The Gemini capsules and the Space Shuttle used IBM computers [1,2] and Apollo used computers made by MIT (primary computers) and TRW (Abort Guidance System) [3]. I
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by msl 12y ago
I've noticed that a lot of people seem to think there is something fundamentally wrong with it. Some have told me to stop doing it despite having never seen my desk. Whenever I mention it to people (which I seldom do nowadays) I'm
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by msl 12y ago
My setup is a bit similiar, except that I don't use paper. I just write or draw directly on my desk with a pencil. Most of my notes are only needed for a few minutes and they can be easily erased without any tools.
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by msl 12y ago
There is a write up about the development of the STS-software[1]. If memory serves, the key is specifying everything extremely rigorously. It seems to me though, that writing such specification (if sensor A detects such-and-such value and s
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by msl 12y ago
The International Space Station, orbiting at around 420km is dragged down by atmosphere[1], so I'm going to call that 150km limit an arbitrary one. Also, the Wikipedia article on the subject[2] doesn't appear to consider it worthy
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by msl 12y ago
> why slam on the brakes? Maybe she wanted to stop the car she had lost control of? The reason for ABS to exist is that slamming the brakes is a very natural thing for (most of) us to do in a dangerous situation. If you're designing
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Design is Expensive(prog21.dadgum.com)
52 points by msl 12y ago|7 comments
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by msl 12y ago
Jolla
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by msl 12y ago
> but for what I hear from parents and teachers I would bet that a large majority of this very loyal following are still < 16 years old. Well, yes, I'd expect parents and teachers to talk largely about < 16 year olds.
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by msl 12y ago
But quite unlike modern OpenGL, which does not simulate physics at all.
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by msl 12y ago
Chording keyboards are mentioned in the first sentence of the post.
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Brazil court to Apple, Google: Wipe anonymous sharing app off users' phones(arstechnica.com)
6 points by msl 12y ago|0 comments
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Hearthstone Tournament Showcases Misguided Plan To Segregate eSports By Gender(forbes.com)
8 points by msl 12y ago|0 comments
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Tor exit node operator prosecuted in Austria(network23.org)
286 points by msl 12y ago|140 comments
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by msl 12y ago
The document "On The Typography of Flight-deck Documentation" [1], prepared on contract for NASA might be of interest. [1] http://cache.preserve.io/q8grbgyj/56bf2d42b93df82c576f20f05b...
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by msl 13y ago
Well, that has changend since I last checked, then. I've been using nightlies for a long time, but it sometimes takes a few days before they update the version requirements.
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by msl 13y ago
It works fine with Firefox 26, but you need to manually change the "maxVersion" attribute in the install package's configuration.

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