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by trothamel 8mo ago
SpaceX tends to expend cores they've gotten significant use out of, rather than new ones - so the core would have been "paid off" by then.
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by trothamel 8mo ago
On the other hand, Tesla vehicles have similar hardware built into them, and don't require such hands-on intervention. (And that's the hardware that will be going up.)
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by trothamel 8mo ago
If I remember correctly, the original version of wordle used a word list that was run past the creator's wife, who had learned English later in life. The result was a really accessible game - none of the words felt like ones you wouldn
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The Spacecraft That Wouldn't Die(corememory.com)
50 points by trothamel 8mo ago|11 comments
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by trothamel 9mo ago
In a lot of places, it's a photo ID. Usually that required a birth certificate to get, and often a few more pieces of corroborating information to make it harder.
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by trothamel 9mo ago
It would not surprise me if it was a mix of both. (Portions of the military stood down, and the more loyal aspects were suppressed.)
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by trothamel 9mo ago
If you look at the Wikipedia article on the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election, it seems to be unlikely that the outcome of that election was that Maduro won. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_presidentia
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by trothamel 10mo ago
Some context: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5636278-trump-s... It appears to be an open question as to if independent agencies are allowed under the constitution. The most recent round of articles s
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by trothamel 10mo ago
If you don't have a presence in the EU, then the EU can't require anything of you.
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by trothamel 10mo ago
They also did a recall on speakers (under their soundcore subbrand) for the same thing. I'm not sure if this is good or bad - they proactively contacted me to let me know about the recall.
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by trothamel 11mo ago
For context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathfinder_Technology_Demonstr... NASA's TBIRD mission demonstrated 200Gbps laser communications (in a tiny 6U form factor) to earth. The Starlink inter-satellite laser l
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NASA is kind of a mess: Here are the top priorities for a new administrator(arstechnica.com)
4 points by trothamel 11mo ago|0 comments
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by trothamel 11mo ago
Sorry about that, thanks for the fix.
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by trothamel 11mo ago
From https://x.com/rookisaacman/status/1985796145017471442 , Isaacman's plan for NASA: - Reorganize and Empower Pivot from the drawn-out, multi-phase RIF “death by a thousand cuts” to a single, data-driven
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by trothamel 1y ago
If I'm remembering correctly, the community jailbroke the iPhone OS and produced a toolchain and app installer before the App Store's original release.
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by trothamel 1y ago
I believe it was night out, so you wouldn't really have any light to illuminate it externally.
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by trothamel 1y ago
It sure looks like the Rogan thing was a one-off, though. I believe that the bit was that Musk hadn't done it before, and I don't see much evidence he's used marijuana since.
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by trothamel 1y ago
So, my original point was that a business is not under the jurisdiction of the UK just because it offers a service to UK citizen - I probably should have mentioned I'm not in the UK. Whether the website is illegal or not would depend o
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by trothamel 1y ago
Simply offering a service to UK citizens isn't enough to provide jurisdiction. If I run a lemonade stand, and a UK citizen walks up a pays a dollar for a glass of lemonade, then that doesn't give the UK jurisdiction over the lemon
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4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act(arstechnica.com)
5 points by trothamel 1y ago|1 comments
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by trothamel 1y ago
It seems odd that Apple could release an update that breaks common software, and not go to the trouble of at least contacting the developers of the software and discussing the issue.
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Trump Card – Pathway to American Citizenship(trumpcard.gov)
16 points by trothamel 1y ago|3 comments
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by trothamel 1y ago
A bagel shop in Manhattan also accepts money from UK citizens, but that doesn't mean it's subject to UK law.
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by trothamel 1y ago
Lots of things interfere with astronomical observations - if someone builds a house, it'll interfere with their neighbors observing a star close to the horizon. Especially since the observations appear to be outside the protected spect
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by trothamel 1y ago
Huh? How does radio astronomy affect space or terrestrial weather forecasting?
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by trothamel 1y ago
That, plus the way the scene is set, you cut to the family not knowing if the astronauts survived. And then the movie cuts out about 4 minutes of waiting between when Apollo 13 regains contact, and when the main chutes are deployed and unre
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by trothamel 1y ago
38M is the number of accounts registered. It seems like the number of users is lower and falling.
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by trothamel 1y ago
I wonder if at least part of this is to ensure that the gambling is run by the military, rather than the service members going off base to gamble at places that could be connected to organized crime. Does anyone know if in the countries whe
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by trothamel 1y ago
Murder is illegal, but games and stories about murder are protected free expression. None of the games in question involve actual people, let alone people being harmed, and so why wouldn't they be treated the same way?
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by trothamel 1y ago
Two arguments I can think of: The first is that you're banning free expression, and banning free expression is inherently harmful. There's also the displacement theory - with the legal content being much more accessible and regula

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