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for those wanting to learn more, here is a Q&A from NASA and they delve into some specs on the STS-111 main engines [1]

>Darrel from Ft. Payne
>How much horsepower do the shuttle's main engines produce at the time of lift off?

>NASA: The three space shuttle main engines generate the maximum equivalent of about 37 million horsepower. The fuel pump alone delivers as much as 71,000 horsepower, the oxygen pump delivers about 23,000. Just as a basis of comparison, the fuel pump alone is probably the equivalent horsepower of 28 locomotives. And with the horsepower of the oxygen pump, that's probably the equivalent of 11 more locomotives.

[1]: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/highlights/webcasts/shuttle/st...
Do you have a source on this?
I have seen a contactor SCADA controller (high voltage physical relay) for a high voltage transmission line at a Florida substation on the public internet (no airgap, no vpn) during an audit.

Apply brakes while we work on the steering. This is good policy. “Internet Of Shit” is no joke.
I take sleeper trains occasionally between Germany and Austria. A plane ticket would be 30-50 EUR, a basic six-person sleeper cabin is 90 EUR, a private 2 person sleeper cabin is 160 EUR (x2, obviously). It's a great way to travel, but competitively priced it ain't.
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Your logic and reason have no place in VC land.

They need more users!
I'm curious why you think Instagram has failed in this space. Do you have some metrics showing Instagram Checkout to be a flop? It may be too early to call.
Seriously. Just keep piling more bullshit on top of the bullshit
Please don't do this. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
If throwing a burrito is an act of violence then throwing a milkshake is too - yet the left openly advocates for this and has yet to face any consequences. A journalist, Andy Ngo, was suffered a brain hemorrhage because antifa terrorists in Portland are mixing quick dry cement into their "milkshakes". How far are we going to let this go before we return to civility?
Evolutionary imperative would be a very simple explanation. The Sentinelese [1] are probably the best example here. They are a group of people that "we" have tried to make contact with numerous times, including with the offering of gifts. The Sentinelese have responded by, for the most part, trying to kill the visitors and occasionally succeeding. But the most interesting thing about this people is how incredibly primitive they are in other ways. They literally have not yet learned how to make fire. Instead when a lightning bolt catches something on fire, they have been observed guarding and trying to keep the fire going for as long as possible. And they have no knowledge of agriculture either.

The point of this is that if at some point people were sufficiently awed or contented by discovered technology your society would start to reach a point where it would simply freeze in time. Instead this instinct we have to assimilate, absorb, bore, and repeat - to no end, is something that seems likely a factor in our (as of yet) never ending drive to develop, expand, and grow.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese
> Facebook runs all of its mail and packages through a machine that can detect dangerous substances, according to the fire district. That machine notified workers that the package in question might contain sarin.

This is very interesting. Is this normal practice at companies of that size? I've worked for medium-large orgs (3,000 people) and never seen anything like this.
No they didn't. People left in droves to Canada then.
"The kilogram is the mass of a body at rest whose equivalent energy equals the energy of a collection of photons whose frequencies sum to [1.356392489652×10^50] hertz."
German people break into the German parliament?
Because I did not want to blame the whole people for it. But those in charge.
Im pretty sure, china is already planting some story to justify a "intervention".
Customs stick around for a long time, but I think metric will gradually find its way in, it will just take generations. When I for example look into discussions about hiking and outdoor life right now, there is a mix of units being used conventionally - US customary and metric depending on what quantity is being measured. And this is a good thing, it mean the metric units are creeping in, and some people are getting used to them. Even if it's not a full conversion.

If I'm placing bets, the liter will be the metric unit to take over next in the USA (winning out over gallon and fl. oz), maybe just because the gallon has a good size, not too small or too large - stuff you buy liquid is often around 0.5 - 2 liters.
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The Ory suite is missing the user database component. Is this still on the roadmap? The Hive project looks empty: https://github.com/ory/hive
I mentioned London, because it's a job market I know a bit better. The contractors I know in London they all told me they have 6 months / 1 year contract renew with the same rate. In some cases the rate can actually increase.
USB-C charging relies on negotiation between both sides. A laptop charger can supply 20+V if it determines there's a high-power device on the other end. I'm not particularly trusting that a cheaply-made power supply won't hit the wrong condition on a case statement and supply 20V to my phone.

Implementing USB-C wrong seems to be a passtime of all major manufacturers now. Nintendo got it almost completely wrong with the Switch. The RPi 4 is also wrong, as it bridges two connectors that shouldn't be and identifies itself as an audio device to some adapters. The whole ecosystem is a farce and I wouldn't trust it as far as I could throw it.
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You're right in general, except there are outliers. (Or outliars ;)

Unfortunately SimCity has actually inspired some weak minded, incompetent, deeply ignorant, anti-intellectual politicians. "We need a leader, not a reader."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/herman-cain-999-sim-city_n_10...

>“We encourage politicians to continue to look to innovative games like SimCity for inspiration for social and economic change,” said Katsarelis. “While we at Maxis and Electronic Arts do not endorse any political candidates or their platforms, it’s interesting to see GOP candidate Herman Cain propose a simplified tax system like one we designed for the video game SimCity 4.” -Kip Katsarelis, a senior producer for Maxis

https://theweek.com/articles/480983/herman-cains-999-plan-in...

>How well did the 9-9-9 plan work in SimCity?
"Running SimCity 4 on its default tax setting was a disaster waiting to happen," says Bridgette P. LaVictoire in Lez Get Real. Unless you used a cheat code, "you ran out of money pretty fast, in fact, and had to go deep into debt." But even if it had worked, there's a pretty huge difference between running a fake city and the most powerful nation on earth. Also, notes TIME's Newman, "Sim City 4 features meteors, UFOs, and robot attacks, which would probably mess up most attempts at realistic modeling."

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/fjelstud/herman-cain-st...

>According to the Republican presidential candidate's revolutionary plan, corporate income taxes, personal income taxes, and national sales tax rates would each be 9%. Seems smart and original, right? Wrong. Reporters have unearthed an astonishing similarity between Cain's 9-9-9 Plan and SimCity 4's default tax scheme.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/10/herman-...

>So while most have likened Cain's 9-9-9 plan to a pizza commercial promotion, they now have a new origin story. And as DealBook's Will Alden (formerly of HuffPost), tweets, "If you're gonna rip a tax plan from a video game you could definitely do worse than SimCity."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2011/10/14/herman-ca...

>The Cain camp remains resolute however responding to the SimCity comparisons by saying “everyone likes 9-9-9.” While that might be true for some, unfortunately there aren’t any cheat codes to make the math work in real life.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/438561-trump-jok...

>Trump joked military should come up with a Herman Cain-style '9-9-9 plan' for border: report

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/pelosi-slams-trumps...

>Trump summoned Cain to the meeting, and then told the military brass that they needed to come up with a “9-9-9” plan for the border. The joke fell flat.
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There is a similar problem in the research world; the work must be genuinely novel (and fundamentally unpredictable), but funding organizations such as NSF/NIH/etc. demand a timetable and specific deliverables.

The problem is usually solved in three important ways:

1) making the deliverables as vague as humanly possible

2) promising experiments and not results

3) applying for grants for work that you have already completed, and using the money to work on the next grant's project

The problem of having deadlines that are too far out is mitigated somewhat by the pressure to publish. Publishing has fixed deadlines but somewhat flexible deliverables.
Georgia court system hit by malware attack
Of course there's an "element of luck" to everything, just like there's a level of variance to everything, but the dominating factor is skill.

Even if all you do is copy-paste code by trial and error, there's a level of skill to that too.
This is a perfect analogy that shows the stupidity of the idea!!!
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It is actually quite a bit more than that, as the figure above only accounts for sales of the first 200k units. The phaseout after that is time-based rather than unit based. The real figure for Tesla (for example) will probably be closer to 2.25 billion.

But all of this goes to the consumer in the form of a demand side tax non-refundable tax credit. It will not help if they fail to get into production due to liquidity problems. Many businesses have failed trying to get to that point.
>I'd be much more worried about the prospects of a nuclear war than about climate change

Climate change seems like just the sort of thing that might start wars.
Even that (1:1 mapping) is pretty far the OO Alan Kay intended. Even relations (AKA the foundation of many databases) are built out of rigorous math. I'm not aware of any such derivation for objects, other than "let's keep the methods with the data they act on." I'm sure I'm oversimplifying that, but I do reasonably fail to find something deeper.
Reading the source code (which is available on archive.org) you can see exactly this. Lots of IFDEF statements for compiling MSDOS and PCDOS differences. When I first saw that, I was really surprised.
I didn't say your ideology was clear. I said it's clear from your account history that you're using the site for ideological battle. That's the obvious conclusion when I see someone commenting about 8Chan, Gab, Voat, The_Donald, AOC, the Christchurch shooting, Fox vs. CNN, transgender in the military, Soros, and precious little else. This is not using the site for intellectual curiosity, HN's intended purpose; this is agenda driven. That's breaking the site guidelines regardless of what your agenda is.

Please stop doing this. We don't want HN to be taken over by flamewars, and we ban accounts that are pushing it in that direction. There are other places on the internet for this sort of thing; please do it at one of those instead.
TBF, GP said they were doing research, so it’s entirely possible that they’re working in a space with little to no prior art.
I don't know the answer to your questions, but I recently read this and thought you may find it interesting, given your first question, as at some point Kurt Petersen developed devices that scan US mail for anthrax: https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/kurt-petersen-2...
I find that open back headphones are better for this if you are in a relatively controlled environment without too much background noise. I can hear basically everything on the map with my sennheisers even compared to my friends who have the same closed backs pros use in tournaments (which they only do because they need full noise isolation for the competition).
Use a random number generator to generate your estimates and slowly modify the mean until it matches expectations.

I bet your estimates won't be as far off as your colleagues'.
Thank you for posting that. I’m not sure I ever fully grok’d the “outrageousness” standard.

So if you say something horrible about a public figure, knowing that it is false, and presenting it as true, if it’s outrageous enough to be obvious parody then it’s permitted. But if it’s stated as truth and emphatically presented as truthful and not as parody, then the public figure exception is lost?

Very hard not to wade into the quagmire of horrible statements people make about a certain politician which a large portion of the country accept as truly factual in this context...
They shouldn't buy them because of bogus CO2 efficiency reasons either.
Maybe there are still benefits to have a network, but not using internet. Couldn't we build a network with a subset of internet features but which are all formally proved, and let humans take care of the rest ?
Base-12 is a wonderful number system. 12 is divisible 2,3,4 and 6. What's 10 divisible by? 2 and 5. In an ideal society, maybe they'd use a kind of metric base-12 system.

That'd offer the best of both inches/feet and the simplicity of the metric system's scaling.
Most organizations don't profit from creating news bubbles that incubate hate.
I think most of the people who wrote the agile manifesto said "Agile" been warped into something they don't agree with. Its supposed to empower teams, not enforced from on high to increase pressure on teams.

Heres's a good one by Dave Thomas. A quote: "Agile is an adjective not a noun".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M
You just made a mistaek. :)
I'd bet a Troy ounce of feathers we just end up dual-stack forever.
Does anyone have the d hn threads about her? Got banned for sexism back in the day for calling her our for being a fraud and not being civil.

Hi Doug.
I agree. My theory now it's due the fractal nature of the tasks in software development. To design at a high level and break out the work, you have to make some assumptions about the ground-level designs (i.e. how individual components talk to each other). As you start implementing those, you'll have often encounter unexpected constraints that require you to rework the high-level design. As you progress through implementation, you find more and more tasks that need to be done and eventually the number of tasks generated levels off and starts to decay and it's only then that you really have an idea of how long you need (assuming no large bugs surprise you at that point).

I find even heuristics like double your estimate or padding it aren't useful because there's so much variance.
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That is a mightily depressing thought, if true. Power imbalances suck; is there truly no way to be rid of them?
>If you backup etc and home, you can pretty much restore a linux machine back to working order.

Hmm, I've never done this. In terms of config files, are there never any breaking changes between versions? Like ..is a v1.0 config file always guaranteed to work with v2.0 and vice versa? I guess and a related question - what is the best way to determine if an /etc/ config file isn't required?
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I'd like to read an article about (self-)organization that doesn't refer, rehash, or otherwise revolve around The Tyranny of Structurelessness, just as an intellectual exercise.

I mean I get it, it really is a razor-sharp depiction of the process in which a bunch of people slowly form an organizational semi-structure whose very existence is denied. But I sometimes wonder if there are additional observations one can make.
My argument is mostly for things like day-to-day practical measurements, there's no difference between the two units, so it doesn't affect people.

Temperature – absolutely no difference in _practicality_ in communicating about the daily weather in C or F. People that claim otherwise are usually just arguing for the system they grew up with.

Weight – no difference in measuring most larger weights in pounds vs kgs. (weighing people, furniture, cars, trucks, comparing the weight of laptops, etc)

Distance – Whether DC to NY is 220 miles or 352 kilometers makes no difference.

In most daily use, the differences in units probably don't make any difference to most people, which is why the cost of switching (so that it looks good on paper) just hasn't caught on.

However, in the sciences, in cooking, areas where you need precise measurements, grams, KG, etc all give you nicer units to work with.

When measuring things for DIY and home improvement, God, I wish I could do everything in meters and centimeters than 1/8 or 1/6 of an inch (mainly for doing calculations).

And when cooking, I cringe with "cups" and "tbsp" – I wish it were all grams and ml.
I think it depends on how you define major part...

Burma, Liberia, and the US are the only countries in the world that have not adopted the International System of Units