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by sq_ 6y ago
Eventually we're gonna run out of funny three letter acronyms to describe the different explosion types. We've already got RUD for rapid unscheduled disassembly and SRD for scheduled rapid disassembly (Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort
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by sq_ 6y ago
Kinda hoping that we get an updated "How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster" video [0] covering Starship development eventually... [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ
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by sq_ 6y ago
It's tough to tell what they're doing, as they're way less open about things than SpaceX and some of the other new commercial launchers (e.g. Rocket Lab). Seems to me that they may be trying to pivot away from having orbital
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by sq_ 6y ago
It sounds like they've got SN9 just about ready to go, too, so they should be able to put the data that they gathered to good use quite soon. Seems to be a great benefit of this method that SpaceX is following with Starship: if you bui
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by sq_ 6y ago
Aside from what a sibling comment mentioned about fuel sloshing from the flip maneuver, Raptor/Starship use autogenous pressurization (i.e. some of the gas produced by the engines is tapped off to pressurize the tanks), so there could
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by sq_ 6y ago
If I remember correctly, green from Raptors has always been the result of “engine-rich combustion” of copper in the combustion chamber/nozzle.
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by sq_ 6y ago
What’s the current state of alacritty? Does anyone use it as their main terminal application? I tried it a few years ago but stopped using it for reasons I don’t exactly remember at this point, and I see that it’s still pre-1.0. Wondering w
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by sq_ 6y ago
> AMD might not even mind this arrangement. Apple is essentially funding these die shrinks and AMD benefits down the road. Agree with that. AMD is doing amazingly well with just architectural improvements for Zen 3, so I’d bet they’re pl
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by sq_ 6y ago
Hasn’t Samsung been having serious yield issues with their newer processes? I think I remember reading the their 8nm yields were horrible around the time of the RTX 3000 series launch.
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by sq_ 6y ago
It still absolutely blows my mind that Arecibo was able to be used as an active radar to survey planets and other objects in the solar system.
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by sq_ 6y ago
> SLS from ULA Just one note on that: Boeing is the company building the SLS core stage, not ULA. While ULA is partially owned by Boeing (joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin), they operate independently. ULA can't quite
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by sq_ 6y ago
I'll second that Gamers' Nexus recommendation. They do insanely rigorous reviewing and take all the ethics of being a trusted review source extremely seriously. Aside from CPUs and GPUs, they're also about the only people I k
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by sq_ 6y ago
Can confirm that they do. At least at the schools I’ve been at, “Paul’s Online Math Notes” is an instantly recognizable name for most STEM students.
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by sq_ 6y ago
I'm honestly surprised that the Wisdom of the Ancients xkcd [0] isn't on the list... [0] https://xkcd.com/979/
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by sq_ 6y ago
Great for GitHub and Twitter for sure. Much nicer to be able to see the username the repo/tweet is from rather than just "github.com" or "twitter.com".
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by sq_ 6y ago
Getting into anecdotal evidence here, but, as a consumer, I've seen what happens to the hyper-cheap cables after a few weeks to months of use: they tend to fall apart or fail in fun and interesting ways. On the other hand, I have never
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by sq_ 6y ago
I wouldn't say that they're in the wrong, but I would expect people to have some expectations about the quality, durability, and capabilities of a super cheap cable. Overall, I don't think it's entirely unfair to expect
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by sq_ 6y ago
Yeah, I definitely understand the complaint. As I said in another comment, I think we're slowly approaching the point where you can mostly expect them to work the same. When the first Macbooks and other laptops with USB-C arrived, comp
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by sq_ 6y ago
Part of me thinks we're just in a very long, drawn-out adoption process for all of this. Things seem to have gotten much better since the first USB-C only Macbooks and other devices started to arrive, so my hope is that we'll re
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by sq_ 6y ago
> I have a Lenovo monitor that delivers power+HDMI+usbhub to my laptop, and having to only plug one thing in to access all my peripherals is amazing. I've been all-in on USB-C for a while now, and I just finally got to use a friend&
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by sq_ 6y ago
100% agree with you on how convenient USB-C can make things. Being able to carry one 60-90w brick with multiple USB-C PD outputs and charge pretty much all of my devices off of it is amazing. On the other hand, I would say that all of us he
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by sq_ 6y ago
Good point. Looking back at my comment, that's basically what I meant. I just used a lot of extra words to say it, I guess...
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by sq_ 6y ago
I think the difference is probably that markdown is a pretty transparent and versatile way to format things, while still being simpler than many other markup/formatting languages. With Word, you might insert an image or try to add bull
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by sq_ 6y ago
https://righto.com Don't understand anywhere near as much of what Ken writes as I would like to, but seeing the die shots he gets and his analysis of awesome old devices is super fun.
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by sq_ 6y ago
That's a great resource! Thank you for sharing.
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by sq_ 6y ago
I always wish that it was a little easier to find the pages with high resolution downloads of all these amazing NASA telescope and rover images. It'd be great if they could create one central repository that all of them would go to for
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by sq_ 6y ago
Same, I love it for hacking together a quick prototype or testing some small bit of library functionality I need for a larger project. Along with language and library docs, it’s usually one of the tabs I’ve got open when working on a projec
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by sq_ 6y ago
Fair point. What I was mostly trying to get across is that native mobile apps can leverage UX/UI features not available to mobile web apps (hence the comparison to the Reddit mobile web client). Being/having a good designer defini
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by sq_ 6y ago
I think that there are still certain classes of app that benefit strongly from being native rather than just a web app. To give an example, Christian Selig's Apollo iOS client for Reddit is lightyears ahead of both the Reddit mobile we
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by sq_ 6y ago
Thank you for that post last year! It inspired my friend and I to spend a day having fun modding a few we picked up. Still no water intrusion after over a year of near-daily wear...

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