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by rrmm 6y ago
Oh hey, another bad thing to worry about happening in 2020. But it's a cool paper. It would be interesting to see if they can find more instances of this sort of damage over various, widely space geographic areas. And especially in o
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by rrmm 6y ago
As long as your external actions and your underlying goals are in harmony there is no dishonesty. Look at it like this: I have a friend. Friends try to do good things for each other. My friend seems different today than they are usually. Th
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by rrmm 6y ago
Did they ask for less?
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by rrmm 6y ago
Yeah there's definitely a capability gap. The issue is many of the capabilities weren't necessary or used on every flight. Stuff like spacelab missions can probably be done using the ISS. Some of the military capabilities are mo
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by rrmm 6y ago
SpaceX has brought the costs down a lot. Around $500mil for a shuttle launch.
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by rrmm 6y ago
They'll release the whole footage once they get it back from sea. I would also like to see more video from inside the capsule too.
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by rrmm 6y ago
Yay! Finally, a good thing happened!
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by rrmm 6y ago
I'm not sure I can agree with your priorities here, but fair enough. Would be nice to see some progress.
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by rrmm 6y ago
Non-toxic would be better than toxic. What would be the options? Compressed cold-gas (which don't have much kick, and require compressed gas which carry their own dangers). You could go with a monoprop Hydrazine which would eliminate
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by rrmm 6y ago
Hosers!
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by rrmm 6y ago
Do you think NASA considers it an issue? They seem pretty ok with it and have plenty of experience with it. The robustness of the system is hard to give up. And fueling and recovery has always been a large production requiring attention t
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by rrmm 6y ago
I thnk they slipped a 'norminal' in on us. (A John-Insprucker-ism).
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by rrmm 6y ago
Cool! I missed the shock front. I guess the cloud was a lot bigger than I was giving it credit for. thanks for the update. EDIT: oh man I just saw another view of it in the twitter thread. It was proper!
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by rrmm 6y ago
Another turn the wrong way issue that happened was on the early versions of the 737. It would cause the rudder to go hard-over to the other direction it was commanded. It happened so hard it was difficult (if not impossible) for a pilot to
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by rrmm 6y ago
On top of that, it wouldn't be like the hospitals would be business as usual if the lockdown didn't occur. Models mostly showed they would have had their hands full with covid cases (and therefore still not handling normal cases
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by rrmm 6y ago
From just the video it didn't look like a very fast burn. I wouldn't be surprised if it was just methane, or at least a non-stoichiometric mixture. (Could also just be poorly mixed).
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by rrmm 6y ago
Yup. but the timing was just too good. It was like the methane wanted to have a say in the conversation: "Acccctuaally,....BOOM"
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by rrmm 6y ago
You're right. But if the excess mirrors the diagnosed rate (rise and fall) one might reasonably infer that it is driven by covid. Compared to deaths resulting from/driven by people staying away from hospitals which would depend
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by rrmm 6y ago
ex-Covid rate is more likely due to undiagnosed covid. Especially when you look at the excess death rate compared to previous annual rates. (at least last time I looked at the graphs). But regardless none of it is any good for anyone.
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by rrmm 6y ago
If you catch the audio on this from the nasa space flight forum (I think?), it was pretty funny. They were speculating if it was a lox purge (vs a methane purge). They assumed lox, since if it were methane, the flare would..... BOOOM. The
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by rrmm 6y ago
Unix haters handbook is fun stuff. If you're into unix, it deserves a read.
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by rrmm 6y ago
WD richly deserves to be raked over the coals for not labeling these drives clearly. Their initial customer-facing reaction was even worse if I recall: One customer escalated his issue and asked WD to identify which drives used SMR, WD said
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by rrmm 6y ago
That's a bit of an understatement.
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by rrmm 6y ago
Some light info on it: https://www.storyofmathematics.com/egyptian.html
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by rrmm 6y ago
This is a very unsolved problem. It doesn't take much foresight to anticipate a Library of Alexandria v2.0 around the corner. Certainly, we can and should individually archive what's important to us, but more generally (archiving
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by rrmm 6y ago
Thanks for the article. That's super interesting from several perspectives (eco, ethical, state response to threats). I'm curious if there was any expert speculation on the identity of the attackers and what they would have likel
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by rrmm 6y ago
I think you're correct about the importance of the context in which the expertise exists in. But even so, I think it's clear that with more broad documentation, we are in a better position to pick up the expertise of the past. So
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by rrmm 6y ago
Conceptually I think the nice thing about OpenFirmware was that it was basically a Forth shell and had a bit more utility in bringing up systems and testing bare metal systems. But my interaction with it was mostly like yours.
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by rrmm 6y ago
Man, every time any one does an article on this area, same deal.
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by rrmm 6y ago
Well yeah, besides the people it happens to, it doesn't happen at all.

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