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by smackfu 12y ago
>granted, those were not official SpaceX statements From the Elon Musk AMA: Q: How will you secure the first stage of the Falcon 9 to the barge when it lands? Gravity or some mechanism? A: Mostly gravity. The center of gravity is pretty
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by smackfu 12y ago
The adapters don't need to be that chunky. The best ones use a design where it plugs into the Lightning / Micro USB port, and then the pad tucks behind the phone and is hidden by your existing case. http://www.amazon.c
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by smackfu 12y ago
The pad looks nicer than a wire.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Yeah, Emirates flies a lot of A380s, but the problem is they are the only ones who really embraced it. Other airlines bought a few to cover specific high volume routes, but went with other models for their bulk buys. https://en.w
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by smackfu 12y ago
What do you do with the terminal that you can't do with your IDE? I think you underestimate the number of developers who basically use IDE plugins to do everything.
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by smackfu 12y ago
It's not really Internet access, it's wifi. And wifi for a one-to-one deployment in existing schools gets pretty involved and expensive if you are doing it right.
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by smackfu 12y ago
>But, as I understand it, they will always need to land some rockets at sea. Yeah, this is something I didn't realize. Flying back to land requires fuel, which cuts into the payload capacity. If a payload is too close to capacity,
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by smackfu 12y ago
And the vine stops before the explosion.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Since it's empty of fuel, and has big metal engines at the very bottom, the center of gravity is surprisingly low. So it should be fairly stable immediately after landing. And then they plan to secure it so it stays upright.
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by smackfu 12y ago
>The United States was founded on the idea of "freedom" I'd argue that the United States was founded on particular freedoms, not the general idea of it. Like the original settlers just wanted the freedom to practice their
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by smackfu 12y ago
And the US is actually pretty good about not requiring you to always have Federal ID on you, compared to European countries.
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by smackfu 12y ago
OTOH, by definition, most cars are going to be 5-20 years old.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Generally around 30-35% of taxpayers itemize. So a minority, but not an insignificant one.
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by smackfu 12y ago
I feel like a truer estimate would be "100% chance of success unless some unknown factor causes failure." It's saying that the unknown factor subtracts 20% that makes me go hmmm.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Well, no such thing as an internal all-hands memo. Sending something to "everyone at Google" is basically the same as sending it in public.
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by smackfu 12y ago
When the parent comment is asking "how much does it REALLY cost to run the site", I don't see how them having to pay for swanky offices is much of a rebuttal.
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by smackfu 12y ago
I think Musk said he just made up the original 50% odds.
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by smackfu 12y ago
They have WebKit on self-hosted git, but not GitHub.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Is it a herd mentality if smart people on file systems say HFS+ sucks, and other people believe them? Because that's pretty much the case. If the herd follows the experts, that's a good thing, right?
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by smackfu 12y ago
Also, your bug is going to be with the stuff they announced at the last WWDC, and there's a fair chance that they just came out with a bunch of new stuff that obsoletes it.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Same thing happens in Reamde.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Once the fix is out there, attackers can compare the new and old code and home in on the vulnerability very quickly.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Isn't the "hidden" part related to them being a private API/Framework?
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by smackfu 12y ago
General aviation crashes tend to have completely different causes than airliner accidents. Pilot error and maintenance issues are the biggies.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Weren't they already a viable business competing with free online courses?
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by smackfu 12y ago
Wonder if they will cut their podcast ad budget... they are one of the big advertisers on tech podcasts.
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by smackfu 12y ago
But I have thousands of photos? I just take them one or two at a time.
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by smackfu 12y ago
To be clear, I'm not complaining about the marketing. I'm complaining about how it is to actually use, in contrast to the marketing.
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by smackfu 12y ago
There's a big gap between unlimited and what Apple gives away.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Notice how the Apple screenshots are always full of photos? That only happens if you take a lot of shots everytime you take photos, like when you are on vacation. If not, if you only take occasional random shots, your screen looks like mi

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