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by penagwin 7y ago
My understanding of orbital mechanics is mostly because of KSP (and Scott Manley). I HIGHLY recommend both of them.
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by penagwin 7y ago
Then this entire thread is irrelevant to you. Why are you here?
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by penagwin 7y ago
From Geostationary Orbit yes, for other orbits it can be the opposite. Satellites in lower positions actually have to maintain their orbit due to orbital decay. Because Geostationary orbit is so far away, there's a lot less decay. For
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by penagwin 7y ago
Geostationary orbit is REALLY far away from earth (and also the atmosphere) compared to other orbits, but it's very special and so we want to keep as little junk in it as possible. Other types of orbits are so low, that they have to ke
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by penagwin 7y ago
Keep in mind to do garbage collecting you are essentially trying to intercept high-speed objects that likely have no telemetry. If your speed and orbit aren't correct, or if there's shrapnel or other debris, you'll destroy yo
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by penagwin 7y ago
Oh... Yeah that explains it for sure.
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by penagwin 7y ago
That and being late to work. I don't think anyone would believe me if I said that I'm more upset that I'm 10 minutes late then my boss is. I got up 10 minutes early! I thought I was running on time! Suddenly I'm supposed
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by penagwin 7y ago
> Ever spent a day off staring at a wall dreading the possibility that you might waste a day until you realize the sun has gone down? Yup, so much fun. This is literally every Saturday for me. I'm thinking about keeping my Ritalin b
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by penagwin 7y ago
Let's assume that Signal is fully encrypted and there's no feasible way to read the messages. The problem is that the phone is likely used for other things too, and you don't want [insert important app here] to leak informati
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by penagwin 7y ago
A VPN is completely different from the messaging applications. A VPN will protect data leakage from other applications, and potentially help out a little against DPI and dns logs. > So why use these apps? Because (theoretically) Signal&#
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by penagwin 7y ago
If applications can't write to the Application Data folder then what's the point of an application data folder? > Why is this even possible? Well they said "on execution" so that's what made it possible. Now if i
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by penagwin 7y ago
I kinda meant both. I feel silly not knowing that it's only "php ./script.php". I also meant long-running processes, which it sounds like is still problematic. To be fair, it doesn't sound like PHP was ever designed
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by penagwin 7y ago
> needs a package manager, environment variables, command line experience Is this not the same with PHP? If you want to use packages then you'll need to use a Package manager, you still need command line experience etc. Node.js come
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by penagwin 7y ago
Anecdotal, but a lot of times phrases similar to that are used because the real answer is "We don't have any way of knowing if users were actually impacted" and it's obviously far better for PR to phrase it that way.
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by penagwin 7y ago
But why ads at all in a $100 operating system?
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by penagwin 7y ago
This. Currently most mental health medicine is like throwing darts in the dark. We clearly don't actually understand why some medications work for some people but not others. If you go through the medicine path then I can only wish you
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by penagwin 7y ago
Disclaim: I'm American and I'm mostly guessing here, I know that sometimes companies create multiple SKUs of products to get around certain restrictions. For example, if the Coca-Cola in Poland is only sold in Poland, and is diffe
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by penagwin 7y ago
Context really matters though. Is the storage locker being bidded off because the owner died 5 years ago? What if the last payment was 8 months ago, and you haven't heard from the owner since? It's a completely different story if
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by penagwin 7y ago
For sure. There's dozens of types of tests (although many don't apply to certain use cases). In a healthy system you should be using a lot of them. And they don't stop at deployment, you need to be tracking exceptions (after
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by penagwin 7y ago
Depends on the type of test. What you guys are talking about are unit tests, and are designed to test individual methods/functions. You write a separate test for each one. There's other types of testing, integration tests sound li
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by penagwin 7y ago
Slightly off topic but I love the fact that (over simplifying) some of our most advanced technology - for detecting neutrino - is a cubic km of ice.
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by penagwin 7y ago
Yeah I love this kind of license. It's basically a "do what you want but please don't rip us off without attribution". If you want a new typeface to take off, this (and having a good typeface of course) is the way to do
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by penagwin 7y ago
There's not really a good server side way to do it unfortunately. All the current alternatives to my knowledge require js. It depends on your application but the only real alternative is to use a js analytics library to collect the sta
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by penagwin 7y ago
I tried to develop with it (We use primarily python and typescript) but intellij is just so darn good. It's kinda clunkly for one-off files and text editing though, which is why I prefer sublime for a lot of that stuff.
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by penagwin 7y ago
Freaking awesome name for a red team too haha.
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by penagwin 7y ago
Funny I use sublime the same way. It's my go-to tool for when I need to manipulate text (ctrl+d is a godsend) for copying and pasting. It's super powerful, but uses few resources compared to vscode/intellij. Not to mention it
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by penagwin 7y ago
There should be better ways to identify the browser than the user agent. The user agent is a legacy artifact, have you seen how many "compatibility" parts are in there? Like why does the chrome user agent say "Mozilla" i
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by penagwin 7y ago
> "having type annotation" should be as important as "having decent unit test coverage". I mean this is pretty spot on IMO. I've worked with many languages, and have concluded that having a powerful type system c
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by penagwin 7y ago
I enjoy testing HTTP endpoints by bit-banging an ethernet cable so that I don't have to buy a computer. In all seriousness - Regardless of the solution Postman/Postwomen/Insomnia/Paw/etc - People use these tools so
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by penagwin 7y ago
I know of (and have done) development windows before. Especially with WSL and docker, things like a django application aren't _too_ problematic once you get around some of the quirks. It's not perfect but it does work for a lot of

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