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541.
by rst 11y ago
They plan to be producing Falcon family rockets for a long time yet, and those are sized to permit highway shipping. They plan to produce larger rockets for the Mars project, but their current plan for those, per hints they've occasio
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by rst 11y ago
They are currently developing a larger engine, Raptor, which is intended for their Mars project and possibly for an upper stage for the Falcon family. But it's not a plug-and-play replacement for the Russian RD-180. (Nor is Blue Origi
543.
by rst 11y ago
Early Android native UIs were rough enough that manufacturer skins were arguably real improvements. That case has gotten a lot weaker since the Google mothership started getting serious about design.
544.
by rst 11y ago
The NFL got Congress to write them a specific exemption in the anti-trust laws, so it's very, very doubtful.
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by rst 11y ago
More like "avoid these particular, obviously risky constructs, which any good security scanner will call out as high-priority trouble spots". The two particular constructs he warns against ("render params" and permit! f
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Tim O'Reilly on paulg on inequality(medium.com)
13 points by rst 11y ago|1 comments
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by rst 11y ago
The oldest cars in the current NYC subway fleet are R32s built in 1964.
548.
by rst 11y ago
Likewise almost everywhere on Boston's subway -- though it's worth noting that the Boston subway as a whole is smaller and carries less people than New York's Lexington Avenue line.
549.
by rst 11y ago
There are two novels from the 1970s by John Brunner that are astonishingly prescient: The Shockwave Rider (on computer networks and privacy, also introducing the idea of self-propagating malware) and Stand On Zanzibar (on the politics of gl
550.
by rst 11y ago
Huh? The question isn't even about whether it's possible to create a "vast internet property". The question is about how much of the money the creator, heirs and descendants get to control personally.
551.
by rst 11y ago
When the Beatles found themselves taxed at 95%, they wrote a song about it ("Here's one for you, nineteen for me..."), but they didn't hang up their guitars.
552.
by rst 11y ago
Central thesis (hidden a bit): "ending economic inequality would mean ending startups". So, who is the straw man who advocates completely ending economic inequality? Even left wingers in Europe (far to the left of anyone mainstr
553.
by rst 11y ago
You're missing the joke -- the recovered "Unix 0" manual seems to spell it 'create', even though it was 'creat' in subsequent versions.
554.
by rst 11y ago
Firefox's built-in mp4 player is working for me well, for both live streams and recordings (the "re-live" section of streaming, which has all the talks that happened before folks in America woke up). So, they're at: ht
555.
by rst 11y ago
You're misreading the chart -- a bit farther down, there are lines giving a ~$3.8 billion total cost for "command and service modules", and ~$2.2 billion for "lunar module". And those figures don't include spa
556.
by rst 11y ago
FWIW, SpaceX has launched stages after full-length (3 minute plus) burns on the test stand, on a schedule that wouldn't allow time for that kind of teardown. They'll need to do something to clean the engines out eventually, but i
557.
by rst 11y ago
Apparently, the attackers had a different threat model; they were trying to keep the hash from getting noticed in source code or binary dumps, and thought a hash would stick out more (whether ascii-encoded or as random bits with statistical
558.
by rst 11y ago
The string was not opportunistically chosen; it was added at the same time as the backdoor, and shows up in string diffs between backdoored and non-backdoored releases.
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Quantum Physics is Undecidable(i-programmer.info)
3 points by rst 11y ago|0 comments
560.
by rst 11y ago
Blue Origin has announced an orbital booster, and will be using at least the engine from New Shepard for its upper stage (presumably with some tweaks for improved efficiency at high altitude). They've hinted at much grander plans, alt
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by rst 11y ago
For one thing, the trajectories are very different -- New Shepard is pretty much up and down, while the SpaceX booster's velocity is mostly horizontal at stage separation; it requires a substantial amount of maneuvering to cancel that
562.
by rst 11y ago
Here's a writeup of a serious security flaw traced directly to the use of /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random: https://factorable.net/ In brief, wifi routers need to generate unique crypto keys. Th
563.
by rst 11y ago
If using mobile Firefox on Android, there's "request desktop version" on the menu pulldown.
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by rst 11y ago
There's more than just fabrication to consider. The reason they think generated limbs might be useful is that in current hand transplants, pre-existing limb nerves grow into the new hand, giving it sensation. This does not happen wi
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by rst 11y ago
Public transit in Boston is already choked at rush hour, and badly in need of repairs (including complete fleet replacements for two subway lines, now scheduled to start in a couple of years) -- witness the total breakdowns last winter, whi
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by rst 11y ago
Lapcat is a project from the same company that's doing Skylon (Reaction Engines, Ltd.); it's a different application of similar propulsion technology, with an airframe redesigned to suit.
567.
by rst 11y ago
Post World War II, you had a bunch of other things leading to compression of the income distribution, from very high top marginal tax rates (90% through 1960; 70% through 1980) to low cost education (subsidized for just about everyone throu
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by rst 11y ago
FWIW, the operative theory here is that "Extended Random" was designed to work in concert with the DUAL_EC DBRG/RNG, which almost certainly allows "Clyde Frog" to predict all future output on the basis of very few
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by rst 11y ago
They switched the default C compilation mode from --std=gnu89 to --std=gnu11 in a bugfix-only release?
570.
by rst 11y ago
I can believe that a lot of Java devs are not keeping up, but the kerfuffle around that particular Railsconf keynote is a poor example -- I'm pretty sure lots of cutting-edge machine learning researchers, Haskell developers, and so for

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