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by rst 10y ago
Sounds like Welchia. See, e.g., here: http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3065761/Fri...
512.
by rst 10y ago
Currently regional. Inaccessible from US west coast; seeing responses from web requests from machines on east coast (nyc)
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by rst 10y ago
These are called investors' visas, and already exist, though the prices are much steeper: $1 million investment in a new business for an American EB-5; 2 million pounds for the British equivalent. Payment doesn't go directly to t
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by rst 10y ago
The only other thing I'm aware of is a brief note on Twitter that they're shutting down: https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/771533037666390017 (FWIW, the "more to come" has so far been about the P
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by rst 10y ago
Slides also note that treatment of some state in pre-existing Ruby code, e.g., instance variables of class objects, gets messy. (Class variables are listed as per-Guild, but a fair amount of Ruby code uses instance vars on class objects in
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by rst 10y ago
The point of those systems was to limit damage from vibration and rocket exhaust on a normal launch, not to allow the pad to withstand an explosion. (And SpaceX does have them as well; the pad deluge system is more visible than usual in th
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by rst 10y ago
Do you know of any off-the-shelf that are qualified as reliable at the temperatures of cryogenic fluids? (F9 LOX is believed to be at roughly -200 Centigrade, or around 70 Kelvin.)
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by rst 10y ago
It means that if there's a launch failure, you can't just let the stuff sit there. They clearly can pump it out -- the normal sequence for this sort of test (which SpaceX generally does before every launch) involves filling the t
519.
by rst 10y ago
Test fire for the launch of a commercial satellite (AMOS-6), which had been scheduled for a few days hence (and now presumably delayed, along with the rest of their launch schedule, pending further investigation). It might conceivably have
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by rst 10y ago
It'll take more than a few years for anyone other than SpaceX, and perhaps Blue Origin, to start recovering entire boosters -- it's a lot harder than you might think to retrofit on an existing rocket, and those two companies are t
521.
by rst 10y ago
The delay between landing and relaunch has less to do with refurb on this particular booster, than with the series of tests that they're doing on other returned boosters to convince both the customers and their insurance companies th
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by rst 10y ago
The point of the exercise wouldn't be to intercept the content of emails; it might be to make them switch to another commmunications channel which might be a little more transparent. (Or, failing that, just to disrupt the audit.)
523.
by rst 10y ago
Kossow does collect Univac mainframe stuff, though there are gaps. (Last I checked, bitsavers didn't have any Flow-matic docs, which is frustrating considering that language's historic importance -- though whatever exists would be
524.
by rst 10y ago
They want to do their first relaunch with a paying customer -- meaning the customer's insurance needs to be willing to insure a relaunch. So, now, they're talking to insurance companies to see what will convince them that the ris
525.
by rst 10y ago
Obnoxious, perhaps, but not unprecedented; Google and Facebook have similar structures now, and it's not unprecedented outside the tech industry. (The Ford family used this kind of structure to keep control of their Motor Company.)
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by rst 10y ago
There were inter-borough light rail lines, specifically streetcars between Brooklyn and Queens, which died of malign neglect in the Moses era (though I don't know how much he personally had to do with that).
527.
by rst 10y ago
The particularly high-heat re-entries of manned capsules, the Space Shuttle, and so forth are unpowered; the atmosphere slows the spacecraft down. The Falcon 9 first stage re-entries are powered; three engines light to slow it down. The p
528.
by rst 10y ago
Even if the software never needs an update (possible for isolated process-control systems, less so for central record-keeping at the IRS), there's hardware to consider -- where, nowadays, do you get a replacement 8-inch floppy drive? O
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by rst 10y ago
Nope. If Google being sued by someone else with a similar business, having patents of their own might help with a countersuit -- Google would allege that PlaintiffX was infringing Google's patents in the course of its own business. Bu
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Remote code execution bug in ImageMagick(medium.com)
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by rst 10y ago
Two Broke Girls would have been a better example, but there isn't all that much like it. (Then again, some of this reflects how much scripted shows of all kinds are getting pushed aside by reality shows of one kind or another...)
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by rst 10y ago
There's been no detailed presentation of the whole Mars architecture; Musk has promised to present at least an overview this September at the International Astronautical Conference. In the meantime, it's known that there's a
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by rst 11y ago
If the database roles correspond to departments, and authorizations at a department level, this sort of thing can be quite useful. (e.g., in a hospital, designating certain rows as visible only to the psychiatry department, in a way that d
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by rst 11y ago
A few reasons why a module might be unpublished: 1) Legal -- copyright violation in the code itself, patent infringement, full text of a novel somehow found its way into the docs, etc. 2) Bugs or security holes, particularly if a bug is bei
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by rst 11y ago
The non-controversial part (that even Apple concedes in its briefs) is that the AWA grants courts the power to issue one of several particular forms of writs (court orders) that existed in British Common Law prior to the American Revolution
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by rst 11y ago
Some of Tesla's autonomous vehicle work is in conjunction with an Israeli company called Mobileye which has autonomous highway driving demos of its own, though Elon has been quoted in the press as saying that's not all of it...
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by rst 11y ago
That's, in effect, how they train it -- they've done literally thousands of these. What they haven't done (yet) is published the moves of those games for external review.
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by rst 11y ago
The Bill of Rights is taken to apply with full force only to US Citizens. The kids aren't.
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by rst 11y ago
You may be right, but without references this is just a content-free sneer.
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by rst 11y ago
It also neglects a huge factor in several hot markets, particularly New York: rich out-of-towners buying apartments as investments, and leaving them unoccupied. The owners aren't living there, and the buildings are typically reworkin

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