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by xorxornop 1y ago
I wouldn't be concerned about this, personally, for the precise reason that it is a fusion device - not fission! Fusion is incredibly difficult just to start, let alone keep burning - unlike fission, which is only too happy to enter
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by xorxornop 9y ago
Quite intentionally, too. One of their parties is looking jealously at the cashflow that a US-style system might provide them. At the cost of everyone else, sure, but what's that to the allure of profit?
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by xorxornop 9y ago
I mean, they are being systematically under-funded by one of the UK parties such that it will fail, so they can then point at it saying "I told you so", and so then get to adopt a US-like system, so they too can get in on that swe
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by xorxornop 9y ago
Haha, yep. At least they're honest about screwing you.
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by xorxornop 9y ago
Depends if you're using it with ORMs or not. It's equally as useful with data in memory. Definitely slower for some things though (yes, it's always slower in one sense... But its also easier to make parallel, so it can even o
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by xorxornop 9y ago
Yes, it does. Also a C# programmer. I really like Rust. About as easy to use to transform, filter, group etc, but considerably faster.
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by xorxornop 9y ago
Oh, it is, it just makes them a lot easier to use. The compiler does method restructuring magic behind the scenes to build the necessary state machines. Everything gets a lot easier to understand.
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by xorxornop 9y ago
Yup. Even carbon composites don't really work out (minimal payload) until the rocket is very large (see: ITS)
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by xorxornop 9y ago
Running a vacuum-optimised engine in atmosphere means the exhaust is overexpanded, which causes severe flow seperation and chaotic flow. Even small amounts of overexpansion are harmful to the nozzle; overexpansion to vacuum-type ratios is
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by xorxornop 10y ago
It just got covered in soot from the ablative protection (okay, probably some Al2O3 too, from the subsequently burning grid fin) on the grid fins burning off. GTO/GEO missions come in _really_ hot!
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by xorxornop 10y ago
True enough, but it's going an awful lot faster since it's aimed for orbital trajectory to inject the 2nd stage. So, it has tremendous horizontal velocity. Shepard, by comparison, just goes straight up (vertical only), so it'
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by xorxornop 10y ago
Ya. I imagine they'll simply swap out the Merlin engines for scaled-down Raptor engines once those are fully ready.
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by xorxornop 10y ago
Because its historic. Latter ones will not "suffer" this fate.
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by xorxornop 10y ago
No doubt it was hefty, because of first-mover advantage - SpaceX badly needed an entity willing to take the _perceived_ risk, and SES was not only willing but eager to do it. I bet they got a great discount.
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by xorxornop 10y ago
It's simply not possible to test that. This much is obvious if you've thought deeply about the nature of rocket testing. You MUST fly to _really_ test.
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by xorxornop 10y ago
Nope, it works. I've even run C# ARM native code on my Raspberry Pi (Windows IoT)
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by xorxornop 10y ago
* reducing family harms like breaking them up through imprisonment over paraphernalia, or harms to health (including death, obv.)
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by xorxornop 10y ago
Suboxone and buprenorphine are the same thing. Yes, I know the manufacturer claims they're different, and the naloxone in Suboxone performs a function, but it really doesn't other than extending the patent lifetime. Buprenorphine
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by xorxornop 10y ago
I've met plenty of addicts, and they're perfectly fine people when they haven't been pushed to the brink by restricting their access. People can end up pretty nasty this way, the same way that people can end up career crimina
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by xorxornop 10y ago
They most certainly can - but the majority of the harms actually result from our treatment of the issue, not the issue itself. I think we simply have to accept that people are going to want to use these substances, and make it as safe as po
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by xorxornop 10y ago
New Zealand, where I live, also has a harm reduction program. Needles are cheap and easily available. It's been a huge success. MASSIVE drops in HIV/AIDS, Hep C, etc, as well as related things like infection and so on, in combinat
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by xorxornop 10y ago
Presumably because it packs to a higher density and is purer, and since sentencing is done by weight irrespective of how much active drug it actually contains, it winds up being essentially a forcing function toward making the strongest sub
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by xorxornop 10y ago
No, because it's completely true. Repeated use of either tobacco or alcohol cause definite harm - cancer for tobacco (note, not nicotine...), brain and liver damage for alcohol. Heroin doesn't. Long term opioid use can cause hyper
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by xorxornop 10y ago
Exactly. In fact, you'll seem to meet only extroverts, because half of them are introverts pretending to be extroverts, because society tells them they're otherwise worthless (to varying degrees, but it's always there... in t
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by xorxornop 10y ago
Those same drivers are, unfortunately, also likely to be those least amenable to actually using it. Some people I know have expressed disgust toward the idea of autonomous driving; coincidentally, almost all are horrible drivers that I woul
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by xorxornop 10y ago
Besides, it's perfectly possible to fall asleep but with your hands still touching (even gripping!) the steering wheel.
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by xorxornop 10y ago
You wouldn't be saying that as a chronic pain sufferer. They are the only thing that makes my life livable. With them, I'm a competent member of society. Without... well, I'd be dead, thus negating my entire social and econo
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by xorxornop 10y ago
When you want to go as fast as C or C++, but you don't want memory or data race errors, and you want a package manager and integrated, very easy to use build tool set.
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by xorxornop 10y ago
Not to mention cheesecake is not pumped into the surrounding atmosphere as a gas where you breathe it involuntarily!
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by xorxornop 10y ago
Wat? Android Beam works beautifully. Has done for years, is very fast, and triggered simply by tapping the phones together.

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