rtsil

36 ms·

391.
by rtsil 6y ago
Here's my answer: after several years going bootstrap-free and doing everything by hand, I realized I just ended up writing my own bootstrap equivalent, so now I just use Bootstrap or TailwindCSS. I don't use Bootstrap for the des
392.
by rtsil 6y ago
There's no problem with it, but its 2 main use cases are gone: ensuring a consistent idiom between various browsers, and providing a nicer API. Vanilla js does both now (if you really want to support older non-IE browsers, you can add
393.
by rtsil 6y ago
Maybe a translation confusion of "big country" as in major country to "big country" as in large?
394.
by rtsil 6y ago
Rogozin must have been put under serious pressure following the Crew Dragon launch. Note that he does not mention any budget or how Roscosmos is going to address the loss of resources due to NASA and other countries buying less Soyouz seats
395.
by rtsil 6y ago
Well, your username brought back a flood of memories of its own, so we're even.
396.
by rtsil 6y ago
> Moo TV (if I remember correctly). Meuh Meuh TV. In the earlier version you had to use TV cards with special chips to use it. Good times. I think it pretty much died with the advent of digital TV.
397.
by rtsil 6y ago
That's actually a good remark. Dr. Zubrin argues that a full-sized version of Starship cannot land on the Moon unless it uses a landing pad, as it would create a large crater [1] and thus topple, and would also blow up the lunar rocks
398.
by rtsil 6y ago
Manufacturing fuel in orbit requires sending the plant in orbit, extracting the raw materials, packaging them then bringing them up there and also involves sending a ship every time a maintenance is needed, unlike Mars where the raw materia
399.
by rtsil 6y ago
Since the results are customized anyway, they should also give us a way to assign more or less weight to a result and learn from that for future search queries. Google News does this on every link (Hide stories from XXX, More stories like t
400.
by rtsil 6y ago
Not everything is about "you". By definition, a virus propagates to others.
401.
by rtsil 6y ago
You can look at his twitter account as far back as early March.
402.
by rtsil 6y ago
> considering we may be less than a century from self sustaining space stations The jump between space stations and interstellar travel is huge. I agree that it's improbable that we're the only planet with life, but being visit
403.
by rtsil 6y ago
That supposes Earth is special and deserves a particular treatment. It seems likelier that we are too far from interstellar civilisations to be visited by them, or that there's no interstellar civilisations because of a Great Filter, o
404.
by rtsil 6y ago
> Meanwhile Tesla and SpaceX have continued to succeed beyond expectations for over a decade now. I think people underestimate how essential Gwynne Shotwell is to SpaceX.
405.
by rtsil 7y ago
> 1 million vehicles sold will be a real milestone. They've just passed 1 million vehicles manufactured so that shouldn't take long.
406.
by rtsil 7y ago
You have both on that page.
407.
by rtsil 7y ago
He was a genius and an inspiration for many people, why can't we just admit that he was wrong in one accessory domain (relative to his work and legacy) and not turn him into a romantic Don Quixote fighting against the "bad politic
408.
by rtsil 7y ago
> ISPs can and do sell your information Not in my country, they'll be massively fined if they're caught doing that.
409.
by rtsil 7y ago
Based on the prices I've been hearing, yes. $100/month or less for a GB/s connection shared between dozens of houses or more. Or an astute entrepreneur will create a cybercafe or resell it. The small businessmen can also affo
410.
by rtsil 7y ago
It's a matter of perspective. I know people living in remote and even not so remote areas for whom cheap and easy internet access would literally be a live changer, and who wouldn't care less about astronomers having their work mo
411.
by rtsil 7y ago
I assume that's the cost when taking into account the reuses, not the construction cost.
412.
by rtsil 7y ago
They didn't, following the arrest in Iran and subsequent release of a Crypto AG salesman in 92, they cite the salesman as talking with news organizations, they also cite a Swiss TV broadcast in 1994 and reports from Baltimore Sun in 19
413.
by rtsil 7y ago
Most of the Falcon Heavy delays was because F9 became capable of lifting many of the payloads originally planned for Heavy, which then became (and still is) a solution in search of a problem.
414.
by rtsil 7y ago
That's the point. Separate the "smart" components, which are short-lived and at the whims of the manufacturer, from the "dumb" components that are not at the mercy of constant updates, online accounts and sunsetting
415.
by rtsil 7y ago
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Third-party shopping results are shown on page one and the manufacturer's store is on page two, and people rarely go beyond page one so naturally they will click the Amazon results. This in turn fe
416.
by rtsil 7y ago
Falcon 9's self-destruct is automatic since a couple of years now.
417.
by rtsil 7y ago
Agreed. It's one less account to deal with for me.