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by xoa 2y ago
They pulled off the landing, absolutely amazing. Looked far smoother on all aspects of the launch as well, zero engine issues this time, everything just felt perfect. What a day! The blue flames and everything else looked like the future.
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by xoa 2y ago
Here is the URL, not sure why other poster didn't link it: https://prod-fastly-us-west-2.video.pscp.tv/Transcoding/v1/h... That will (or at least did for me) open fine in VLC or other favorite player.
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by xoa 2y ago
> What I wonder about is why they never tested catching boosters with the ones they've been using all along. They know these boosters inside out, so it would be a good platform to gain experience with. The Falcon 9 is incapable of
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by xoa 2y ago
It's unfortunate you've chosen to engage in your own anti-speech obfuscation here though. > Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. The reason this line is bad is because it's wrong and misused from multiple d
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by xoa 2y ago
So there's multiple comments already saying this, but I don't understand how what you wrote jives with the paragraph of that post: >" The prompt warns that I "won't be able to use a Bluetooth keyboard or mouse,&q
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In Defense of the Washing Machine(vox.com)
6 points by xoa 2y ago|1 comments
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by xoa 2y ago
> $193K seems like a pittance compared to the money they're making off of this. I don't have any special knowledge of this specific case, but it's important to note as a general principle that often the point of these fin
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by xoa 2y ago
> Well since Yubikey's can't update their firmware everything with a firmware below 5.7 is e-waste I guess? You guess wrong (also "ewaste" is such a stupid term but whatever). As the article says, it's of modera
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by xoa 2y ago
> I stand by my assertion. How many times in your 12 years in school was instant 24/7 communication for everyone in the school been of significant benefit, or would have been if they had it? It's zero in my case. Yeah, there w
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by xoa 2y ago
> How ever did anyone survive before I really, really hate this mindless, lazy line of argument in general. It gets tossed out with absolutely everything, from the internet to vaccines to modern farming. The simple answer in many cases
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by xoa 2y ago
Having used a Palm Pilot to genuine benefit in highschool in the 90s, and having finally just gotten a smart watch in part specifically to reduce smartphone usage, I have mixed feelings about broad restrictions. Networked smart phones absol
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by xoa 2y ago
So fully recognizing upfront my own bias towards this feature, and that lack of immediate interest makes something a business risk regardless of how it might turn out over time. Still, just 2 cents towards the long term: > Regarding PoE,
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by xoa 2y ago
> Which people who are critical of the shuttle love to do because it allows them to ignore all the great research, study, and orbital practice we built up using the shuttle. And people who are defenders of the shuttle both love to straw
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by xoa 2y ago
> could this impact the exemption from liability for user posted content? No, not in the slightest. Section 230 is completely orthogonal from the First Amendment. Section 230 deals with civil liability for speech that is NOT protected b
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by xoa 2y ago
> Now i am starting to think all the great efforts were in vain This doesn't make any sense. The difference here vs a lawless dictatorial country isn't that humans are magically all perfect angels in developed countries, but w
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A Big Decision for Boeing's Next CEO: Is It Time for a New Plane?(nytimes.com)
1 points by xoa 2y ago|0 comments
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by xoa 2y ago
> Carmack made reusable, vertically landing rockets before SpaceX did, albeit on a much smaller scale. No, he didn't, or perhaps more generously "much smaller scale" is doing a LOT of work in your sentence. The core cha
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by xoa 2y ago
So I slogged through this. It feels like a primarily whole bunch of handwaving at SpaceX being paradigm-shiftingly cheaper, higher cadence, and ultra reliable. There is nothing wrong with "dominance" that is well earned . The mov
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by xoa 2y ago
This isn't a consumer car situation. They're not trying to hit some paper efficiency number that matters environmentally in aggregate but is hard for any individual with highly variable driving, pricing etc to really notice. As th
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by xoa 2y ago
HN had a big discussion on this already last week [0]. Frankly it's a nothingburger and "encrypted services" is pretty irrelevant, beyond yet another reminder that technical privacy and security measures are tools that make o
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by xoa 2y ago
No, absolutely not. Have you confused HN for Twitter?
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by xoa 2y ago
> That's really just tribalism. I want to gently push back on this, as I've seen the simple explanation you say itself become a black and white accepted truth meme when reality is more complicated. Yes, tribalism does play a r
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Link Taxes Backfire: Canadian News Outlets Lose Out, Meta Unscathed(techdirt.com)
6 points by xoa 2y ago|0 comments
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by xoa 2y ago
> and the US just forced TikTok to sell based on national security concerns First, worth noting that this is very much TBD. There are grave 1st Amendment concerns with the government's efforts there and it is very much an open ques
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by xoa 2y ago
> In a larger sense, optical illusions mean we can't "trust our eyes" as many exhort us to do. No, that's not what it (necessarily) means. A lot of optical illusions are specifically engineered to exploit biology or
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by xoa 2y ago
> All my passwords are randomly generate and stored in a password manager so I really haven’t felt the need to switch or felt constrained by my existing set up. The basic logic here is pretty clear imo. Passwords are still symmetric fac
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by xoa 3y ago
> And I'm not usually supporting big company using public goods Do you mind if I ask why? I don't see why the size of the entity should matter one bit when it comes to the public domain and human history, nor why some other en
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by xoa 3y ago
This has to be one of the lamest, or if you prefer "silliest", possible responses. > If he wants the materials to be part of a project, he should have spent the time needed to make them into a project. But really, Jason doesn’t
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by xoa 3y ago
> Again, former VCFederation (Mid Atlantic and National) volunteer here. I was only a volunteer when this donation came in and was part of the team that made sure this donation got a good home later on. No one involved at either end of t
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by xoa 3y ago
I'm pretty bummed we've ended up in a place in this country where there is this strict extreme binary dichotomy of "fully legal do whatever you want" on one end vs "criminal, and if a felony you are likely somewhat

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