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by wolf550e 8y ago
I didn't include the Soviet Mars landers because the most successful of the bunch only worked for 20 seconds on the Mars surface. They had better luck with Venus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_3#Entry,_descent
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by wolf550e 8y ago
There have been more successful landings on Mars: Viking 1 Viking 2 Mars Pathfinder Spirit Opportunity Phoenix Curiosity InSight
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by wolf550e 8y ago
On unreliable commodity hardware, you would build a cluster and cluster OS / scheduler that would keep your service and jobs running while individual servers died. With a mainframe, you save costs on software development by just assumi
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by wolf550e 8y ago
People use "stones" for weight of humans. As if 14 pounds is a convenient amount.
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by wolf550e 8y ago
No success yet. They are going to move the fairing catching boat "Mr Steven" from the west coast to the east coast to then try again. And the fairing is ~$6M so they can save ~$5M per launch if it works.
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by wolf550e 8y ago
1. It only takes months if your satellite uses only ion engines. If it has regular hypergolic propellant engines it only takes hours. 2. ULA's (Lockheed Martin and Boeing) Atlas V and Delta IV can make direct-to-GEO insertion, and basi
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by wolf550e 8y ago
Not really Java: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card#Design
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by wolf550e 8y ago
pgp email is basically deprecated by the security community. Security people do not use and do not recommend pgp email. TLS is used by everything, and a version of it will be used for a long time, for example everything that will use IETF Q
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by wolf550e 8y ago
1-RTT TLS 1.3 handshake with small ECC keys and certificate chain optimized for size, and TLS shouldn't be a problem to sync mail over slow connection.
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by wolf550e 8y ago
All pre block 5 boosters are either retired or had been disposed of. https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/wiki/cores
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by wolf550e 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZAZ_Zaporozhets#Second_generat... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskvitch_2140 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lada_Riva https://en.wik
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by wolf550e 8y ago
Even a Volga, which was rare in private hands, was not as good as a Western car of the time, and there was (I think) only one model of each brand and a total of four (4) brands of cars you could buy.
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by wolf550e 8y ago
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab The manufacturing is in New Zealand. I don't know about design, but I understood that design is also done in New Zealand. They received money from the US and they coope
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by wolf550e 8y ago
No, not well, just better than the nobodies in the same system. Plenty of things were unavailable to anyone. For example, you couldn't own a good car, no matter who you were. A party boss could use a luxurious government dacha, but cou
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by wolf550e 8y ago
It's more of a New Zealand company with enough presence in the US to be legal for ITAR purposes.
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by wolf550e 8y ago
They disconnect and dump the battery mid-flight on ascent to not carry the mass of the empty battery, which might be counted as half a stage in rocket terminology (like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM-65_Atlas ) See:
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by wolf550e 8y ago
Some databases let you just set the stats numbers to what you think they are and pin them, so changes to data won't change the stats and the optimizer will always use your stats and not stats calculated from the data. You'll get t
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by wolf550e 8y ago
3 per year, not 30. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–United_States_relations
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by wolf550e 8y ago
Read this and follow links: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/7_nm_lithography_process
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by wolf550e 8y ago
The MySQL default has always been thee safe, not the fast, option. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/innodb-parameters.ht...
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by wolf550e 8y ago
They now run their python code using a transpiler into Go with a Go runtime and Go libraries: https://github.com/google/grumpy
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by wolf550e 8y ago
Boeing decided years ago to certify their in-flight abort using simulation only, and NASA let them. SpaceX probably can't create a simulation in a few months to not need in-flight abort test because developing a simulation that NASA wo
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by wolf550e 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaNKtIY6JpQ&t=289 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJCenuebAa8&t=1089
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by wolf550e 8y ago
They have a single return capsule there. They can't leave anyone without a return/rescue boat, so they all have to return together and leave the station empty. And as you said they can't extend stay for a year because Soyuz h
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by wolf550e 8y ago
The video of the stage maneuvering is great (1 minute): https://twitter.com/RogerCraigSmith/status/10491304561578106... Another longer video (8 minutes): https://youtu.be/TVHAoxyHO9c Official live
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by wolf550e 8y ago
use the print view: https://www.anandtech.com/print/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-r...
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by wolf550e 8y ago
They believe they are engaged in long term thinking - seize power so completely, popular support and laws cease to matter. Then do to the country what has been done to Toys R Us. And Democrats are willing to let them do it because they thin
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by wolf550e 8y ago
The GOP does not have an ideology. Anything you could name as a position of their ideology they will (and did) betray for either "winning" or at the behest of their corporate masters.
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by wolf550e 8y ago
If you also add the ability to micro-target voters at scale using everything facebook knows about them using secret ads and niche content that only those voters will see and no one knows need debunking, and thus changing the government, the
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by wolf550e 8y ago
If everything facebook knows about all its users and their contacts who are not themselves facebook users becomes public, people will get hurt.

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