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by shantara 6y ago
The commentator called them "space lasers" on stream
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by shantara 6y ago
An interesting detail mentioned during the webcast was that SpaceX have already performed initial testing of inter-satellite links on a pair of Starlink satellites.
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by shantara 6y ago
From what I've heard, the reason for the signal loss during the landing was the drone ship losing its satellite data uplink from the shaking and interference caused by the landing booster.
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by shantara 6y ago
The back fan flows the air through a hole in the GPU, past the thermal tubes and carries the hot air above the GPU to the upper part of the motherboard. Which is not in any way a standard design with the hot air going directly outside the P
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by shantara 6y ago
It's worrying to see GPU cooling system dumping the heat directly onto the CPU, RAM and motherboard components. That's the only thing that left me skeptical after watching the presentation.
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by shantara 6y ago
It's not going to happen any time soon, but I'm looking forward to "computronium" as described in sci-fi - a computing substrate optimized at the molecular level to the point that the performance becomes the function of
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by shantara 6y ago
Their license may be reduced to the number of satellites they've already launched. > Failure to meet the milestone requirements of 47 CFR § 25.164(b) may result in Kuiper’s authorization being reduced to the number of satellites in
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by shantara 6y ago
My wording was ambiguous, so to clarify: their full constellation is 3236 satellites, 1618 is the half amount they need to launch until 2026.
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by shantara 6y ago
> ...BO needs to actually launch something to orbit... And they need start launching soon. FCC rules give Amazon until 2026 to launch and start operating at least 50% of the licensed number of satellites - 1618 satellites - or risk their
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New Firefox for Android won't show full URLs in address bar (just like Chrome)(ghacks.net)
3 points by shantara 6y ago|0 comments
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by shantara 6y ago
Option + Command + Spacebar opens a Finder search window. It is a fast way to open a new Finder window from anywhere in the system regardless of your currently active app.
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by shantara 6y ago
>- CMD click it to see a breadcrumb menu showing where it is and navigate to the folder Similarly you can right click the window title (click with two fingers on the touchpad) for this functionality. It's very useful to navigating u
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by shantara 6y ago
One more tip about the screenshot functionality: If you're using a Macbook with a Touch bar, you can press Cmd + Shift + 4 to enter a screenshot selection mode, and then use Touch bar to adjust screenshot mode (full screen, window or s
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by shantara 6y ago
I can't imagine this happening. Emails are the only reliable way to receive notifications about new content coming out, and my main way of interacting with Youtube at all.
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YouTube will stop emailing subscribers about new videos next week(9to5google.com)
5 points by shantara 6y ago|2 comments
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by shantara 6y ago
You can look at the UK as an example of what happens when a country abandons its own space program and decides to buy launches in the US instead.
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by shantara 6y ago
Swipe to switch tabs has recently been added to the nightly releases: https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/07/27/firefox-now-support...
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by shantara 6y ago
Interesting. Was it a regular Android notification or something custom in-app? For me, there was no indication that this update was going to be any different from a minor bugfix they've rolled out a couple of days ago, until I've
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by shantara 6y ago
Android version comes with a completely new design, and empty "What's new" section in Google Play gave no indication it's going be such a major change. Even more importantly, it has overridden data collection preferences
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by shantara 6y ago
That's what I've been thinking about as well. I'm leaning towards "no", but let's wait and see.
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by shantara 6y ago
>If you report a vulnerability affecting Apple products, Apple will provide you with a publication date... Until the publication date, you cannot discuss the vulnerability with others. In addition to the mandatory bug reporting, Apple re
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by shantara 6y ago
This reminds me of Whisper, one of my favorite exotic alien concepts. The alien civilization in question has selected a planet with as stable environment as possible, and planted it full of genetically engineered grass. The sound of wind bl
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12-Pin Power Connector: It's Real and Coming with Nvidia Ampere(techpowerup.com)
1 points by shantara 6y ago|0 comments
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by shantara 6y ago
Chinese government acknowledges outsourcing to countries with cheaper labor as a threat, and works on combating it. For example, their "Made in China 2025" plan is centered around establishing China as the global technological lea
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by shantara 6y ago
One thing people prophetizing about Apple ARM transition changing the industry tend to forget about: Apple is not a leader, but actually a latecomer in the ARM space. macOS is the last major OS getting ARM support. iOS and Android have been
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“Artemis 8” using Dragon(thespacereview.com)
1 points by shantara 6y ago|0 comments
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Xcode 12(developer.apple.com)
1 points by shantara 6y ago|1 comments
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by shantara 6y ago
Summary: >Some motherboard manufacturers intentionally declare an incorrect (too small) motherboard specific reference value in AGESA. Since AM4 Ryzen CPUs rely on telemetry sourced from the motherboard VRM to determine their power consu
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Explaining the AMD Ryzen “Power Reporting Deviation” -metric in HWiNFO(hwinfo.com)
3 points by shantara 6y ago|1 comments
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by shantara 6y ago
Same with "refactoring" https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/refactoring/eyJ3IjogI...

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