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The difference in presentation between the launch of Starliner yesterday vs Starship today was stark.

For most of the Starliner launch, all we got to see was a Windows desktop showing some basic animations that look like they're from the late 90s and unexplained telemetry with about a 1Hz update rate. Perhaps interesting to hardcore space nerds but not very exciting for John and Jane Public. Also, the "timeline" at the bottom of the webcast looked broken most of the time since it only updated when a couple major milestones occurred. Boeing even tried to address some of this in the press conference stating that video of the crew riding up to the station will be available after they download it post-flight (which, at that point, hardly anyone will care about).

Meanwhile, Starship had nearly-continuous live HD-quality feeds of video from multiple cameras from both the booster and spacecraft including all the way through reentry, producing some absolutely incredible views, some of which have probably never been seen before. Also, SpaceX puts very user-friendly telemetry displays on the bottom of their webcast that are easy to understand and seemingly have high update rates.

Maybe in the end it doesn't matter. On the other hand, if you were a potential future aerospace engineer, I think the Starship launch this week was the one that would have created most of the interest and enthusiasm. SpaceX is winning in the public-relations battle and a lot of that is because they've put focus and attention into their webcasts for a long time. Old space needs to learn a thing or 2 from them.
I used to do that, but nowadays I tend to stick with either my distro or developer repositories. Internet is a wild place.
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Related:

Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40596883

Starship made it through re-entry, did its first ever landing burn

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40597434
it seems to me that for that analogy to hold you must be assuming that being inside a car is a form of being outside?

Which is an assumption I would not make, and I suppose most people would not think that being inside their car was being outside, but I haven't surveyed for responses.
Said every tyrant ever.
Just picture how long a mile is, and then imagine a cube where each side is that long.
> Considering how many desokupa services exist I'd say it's a real problem.

How many does exists? I've only heard of one (literally called "Desokupa"), but you're saying there are many companies offering this, not just local chapters of the major one?

Tried searching but could only find that one, and I couldn't find any sources on the number of companies existing offering this service either.
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This article is pretty content-free, but if you're interested in this field, I recommend reading RV Jones' book "Most Secret War". It was one of the first books to be written about work done in secret during WW2 and benefits from being a first-hand account.

https://exhibitions.abdn.ac.uk/university-collections/exhibi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Victor_Jones
About 30km/18 miles per day is a common value used in Europe. On a single day you can easily do twice that if you don't carry too much and are used to walking long distances, but it would be difficult to sustain. Also the number allows for time to set up camp (and tear it down in the morning), prepare meals, etc.
5 factor personality model, one of the factors is "neuroticism" (the others being openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, and agreeableness; the mnemonic OCEAN)

neuroticism measures "the tendency toward negative emotion". Stress in the face of uncertainty is a good example of a negative emotion that can be exaggerated in some people. Negative emotions also correlate to less success in social and job situations.
Such insightful commentary!

I didn't find it a perfect show--especially latterly--but it captured a lot of the era, such as COMDEX, pretty well.
It only affects AeroSpace.

The README links to the Homebrew install script, relevant lines highlighted here: https://github.com/nikitabobko/homebrew-tap/blob/main/Casks/...
It leads to an objectively worse discussion. People posting stuff, some of which people don't like, and some of which is astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like, is a better discussion than all of that plus people accusing everything they disagree with of being astroturfing, shilling, brigading, and foreign agents - especially since the accusations are, at best, imperfectly correlated with the reality.
The initial batches of F-35 rusted to pieces in 3 months of service. The Sikorsky MH-53E has a kapton defect and has been dropping out of the sky for decades. Commercial aircraft aren’t filled with well paid people who signed a waiver saying they’re OK with the risk of dying. It’s a completely different space. A fighter pilot crashing isn’t anything compared with a plane going down with a hundred souls aboard
best tool for 3D math is complex numbers. most languages removed support for them.
I wonder why government bills can have a lower yield than the central bank deposit rate.

For example, the German 3 month bill is below 3.6% now.[1] Shouldn't banks be selling these bills, and putting the money with the ECB instead where they can get a higher risk free yield? Thereby driving the yield of the gov bonds up towards the ECB deposit rate?

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/6-month-bill-yield
We did get a lot of those Starlink views on flight 3 before the ship was destroyed, but yes -- definitely first time we've ever gotten to visualize re-entry live. Crazy stuff.

They are so far ahead if you're paying attention it's not even funny.
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I did cite the source, at least as the dictionary defines those terms.

You're going to have to fill us in with your own personal, non-standard definition that you are using, I guess.
The post you replied to showed a graph of almost 1.2 million migrants in 2023 alone, a roughly 5x jump from historical norms of 10+ years ago. You then said "a significant fraction of those people" would be dead otherwise, but now you're saying we've admitted 1 million refugees since 1980. 1 million since 1980 seems totally reasonable but I just can't square up that number with what you said in response to the original graph.
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1 cubic mile is about 14 billion bathtubs.
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Because the SLS can't do anything close to what the Saturn V did, yup.
I don't doubt the media are prepared to jump on and inflate any problem if it'll drive engagement. That doesn't mean the underlying issue isn't real.

I could offer some anecdotal evidence but that seems pointless. Especially when the stats speak for themselves. It's not just media hype.
There really are many more. I know of 3 in a small area of Somerset not on the list, but 2 of them are ruined, and hence not currently dedicated:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_Michael_and_All_A...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrow_Mump

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Tor

Churches were often dedicated to St. Michael when they were built over pagan sanctuaries, because St. Michael could fight the old heathen devil. Another example would be in Brent Knoll, next to the iron age hill fort:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Michael%27s_Church,_Brent_K...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Knoll_Camp

That is undoubtedly the case for both St. Michael's Mount (Cornwall) and Mont Saint Michel (Normandy) in the list of 7. They are both perfect defensive sites, on islands close to the shore, but accessible by causeways at low tide, and hence certainly occupied from prehistoric times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Michael%27s_Mount

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont-Saint-Michel
> hardcore space nerds

Can confirm. My coworkers are hardcore space nerds and datavis nerds, and they took over our #random slack channel yesterday really digging the Starliner visuals.
Read the Incerto by Nassim Taleb.

Every Answer is in that book.
Yes, but you will find a similar analogy here. Balancing tradeoffs is a central feature of evolution.
Stainless steel is one helluva material.

Already the first launch of Starship a year ago showed how tough the rocket was. It was out of control, spinning wildly in high winds, and yet it still held together and had to be blown up remotely. Anything made of aluminium or aluminium alloys would have been torn to tiny pieces by the sheer aerodynamic force alone.

And now, the melting flap that was still capable of actuation and steering the ship towards a successful landing...

One day, this sturdiness is going to save some lives.
> This is a problem that anyone with more than 1 property might suffer. FTFY

Yes, "lots" = more than one

Spain is still struggling with higher demand than supply, so people end up homeless. At the same time, Spain struggles with properties in high-demand areas being empty because the owner doesn't want to rent or sell it, so no one uses it at all.

Finally, we're getting "upkeep taxes" added to those places, so they can either be utilized, or the owner "penalized" of sorts.

But up until now, there wasn't anything like that, so the alternative for many is to hole up in a empty building no one cares about, or live on the street. And obviously, many take the first choice. It's hard for me to blame them when the other choice is living on the streets.
Yes, It is in Spain:

Article 47 of Spanish Constitution:

All Spaniards are entitled to enjoy decent and adequate housing. The public authorities shall promote the necessary conditions and shall establish appropriate standards in order to make this right effective, regulating land use in accordance with the general interest in order to prevent speculation.
Ok but you shouldn't blast your eyes with the green light either?
We've had people in space for close to a year, so the trip to Mars shouldn't kill them. Once on mars they'll still need shielding. One option for shelter might be to bore some underground tunnels. A smallish electric tunnel boring machine that could fit in a starship might just be the ticket to building sheltered habitats on Mars. Funny that Elon already has another company that makes these.
The problem with illumination is that it’s easy to pick up stray rays from the light source. Hence why infrared is preferred.
> Commercial aircraft aren’t filled with well paid people who signed a waiver saying they’re OK with the risk of dying.

Neither are military aircraft (especially ones that carry more than just a pilot and navigator/RIO), generally, unless “well-paid” is defined broadly enough to be equivalent to just “paid”.
For folks that use the tiling window managers, what applications are you running? And what does a typical desktop look like?

In terms of desktop layout, mind I don't use one, the Oberon vision comes to mind. A single, large pane, with all(?) of the others stacked to one side.

My friend didn't use a tiling window manager, but had this desktop laid out as such, but all of those windows were terminal windows that he kept an eye on (he was our ops guy).

But are folks using these layouts with their web browsers, word processors, IDEs, etc.?
Perhaps, financial damage is real and can have long term consequences that outlive short term inconvenience.

You are probably right in the majority of cases,but I do think it is a mistake to automatically discount financial harm as less.

If I invest 20 years of my income in a property that someone has stolen, that is a significant loss to me in human terms as well as financially.

I would be open to treating the destruction of such property equivalent to the taking of an equivalent amount of one's life.
Unfortunately, I don't think simply having a powerful GPU is enough to make people care. The M1 is almost 5 years old now, and I haven't seen a single major games studio go out of their way to target Apple Silicon. If anything, people are giving up on the platform now that OpenGL is more or less entirely broken and Metal is mandatory. Porting to MacOS is like committing to a console ecosystem where things constantly change and you're expected to pay the price. Windows developers don't like that; they want to push one build out and support it for the next decade.

Hope springs eternal, but there's a reason we want Vulkan. Native gaming on Mac is awful; it is quite literally the worst gaming experience you can have between Linux and Windows, both of which can run DirectX games without issue. If we had functioning Vulkan drivers on Mac, we wouldn't be begging and grovelling for games to work; they just would, like on Steam Deck.
I do see many cyclists blatantly violating traffic rules. But I'm not even sure cyclists are more prone to do so than drivers.

Stand at an intersection and count how many times light turning red does not have a car sneak right after. Or stop with half the car over the stop line. Or motorcycles being in front, in the bike-only area. Or drivers who treat bike lanes as "oh I'll just stop here 10 minutes, who cares?".

My experience with cycling in cities is that you quickly discover that basically nobody obeys any traffic rules. Cyclists are just the ones doing it the most blatantly, because honestly when they do it it's not actually that unsafe.
Not a dumb question, they simply didn't fill the rocket completely up.
Your risk model is kinda perverse. You're saying you trust package maintainers because they sign things. So if I send you a signed script that checksums itself before running will you run that without audit?

It’s trust all the way down and always has been. You just have a different idea of how you formally signal and convey trust than someone else.

I paste commands into the terminal because I can read exactly what they do and they are delivered over a connection where my user agent has verified the TLS certificate of the server. In fact I’m electing to trust directly rather than transitively the source of the software.

The only thing signed files prevents is modification in transit (and at rest on macOS/iOS and Windows, Linux doesn’t do that). Linux is ripe with time of check vs time of use race conditions.
Yes, it's important to start with a clear problem to solve. The ideas are great if they solve a real problem in an innovative or more efficient way than current solutions.
So he rode really fast, reckless and sleep deprived to his brother who’d been injured in a horse riding accident?
lol how can we make d-day about women.
People spreading lies is bad, yes. Most of us learned this when we were 5 years old.
Yeah, I agree with you. Healthy skepticism is generally a good thing but now SpaceX has clearly demonstrated an unprecedented ability to solve a large number of insanely difficult problems. At some point, it becomes unreasonable to "yeah, but..." less difficult things like cargo doors.
I wonder… this isn’t what you want, but maybe just tmux in a full screen, or half-screen terminal (if you need a web browser) would suffice? Plus their built in “spaces” (workspaces) feature.
I’m wondering how to detect that there are no relevant matches in a specialized RAG. Could you add some “ringer” articles that are broadly relevant? If they come up first, there’s no good match.
Hmm -- interesting/fantastic tool. Feels something like avy in Emacs, but for everything on screen.

I think this should be possible in linux with a bit of work (erm, famous last words?) especially because the whole desktop environment is fundamentally open and you don't need to depend on this providing an API.

But I think an even better approach is to have build this functionality using screen parsers backed by recent AI advances. That way, you decouple the source / rendering of content from the sink / consumption of content, and can have more flexible behavior on behalf of the end user. I anticipate (hope) such tools to pop up over the next few years.
They were rebranded as Satsumas but had no sticker, in Southern California at an Arabic grocer.

They were just as large, sweet, seedless, and easy to peel as the Sumos with identical appearance. This is the fourth or fifth year in a row that they've had them at a deep discount and I started eating them when Trader Joes first introduced them at $4/piece so there was definitely a delay before they appeared at other stores. Trader Joes tends to get them a few weeks earlier than the other store so I usually compare them every year.

I don't know if they're actually Sumos or not but they're just as sweet and identical in every other way. It might be a pretty obvious cross so once the farm that made and copyrighted the Sumo name, everyone else figured it out too but they can't sell it as Sumos because that's a registered trademark. I.e. these guys, which don't look like any other Satsuma I've ever seen or found online (real satsumas with stickers are in stock right now at one of my stores): https://paradisenursery.com/product/satsuma-mandarin-trees/

I didn't realize that Sumos were from California. The company that grows them could also just be dumping excess inventory in the local market without stickers to maintain their brand.
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>Already the first launch of Starship a year ago showed how tough the rocket was. >It was out of control, spinning wildly in high winds, and yet it still held >together and had to be blown up remotely.

and even when they blew it up, it just laughed until it depressurized enough to break up.
A lot of science is fake, if not most of it. I learned the hard way in academia that it really seems the majority of PhD level researchers are there because they are willing to stretch the truth to "tell a good story".
For greater insight into how grocery stores are run in America, I highly recommend the gripping book "The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket" by Benjamin Lorr.

The author gets a job at Whole Foods and then works his way through the food chain, reporting every step of the way, and relating it back to what is seen and experienced at the store. Really excellent reporting IMO.
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Well, let's play it out. A squatter steals an owner's property while they're away on a Summer-long vacation. Later, the squatter spends some temporary time away from the property. During this time, another squatter comes along and steals the property from them. And so on. How does this not just lead to an unending string of lawlessness. Further, why would anyone invest in building and maintaining housing when their property can just be stolen from them without consequence? We'll be back to straw huts in no time. Claiming that renting housing is "oppressive" is absurd in the extreme. It is an arrangement of mutual benefit that is done voluntarily. It provides flexibility, mobility, and access that home ownership doesn't. In fact, the ability to invest in housing increases access to housing, not the other way around. No one is arguing that we should eliminate tenant protections against arbitrary eviction or unfair treatment. We should simply have sane protections for property ownership. There is no circumstances in which the theft of property is a smart or sane solution.

> neo-fascist

Your turn. How is pointing out that people have been seduced by a worldview that is neither fact based nor logical "neo-fascist".
They didn't, but food was much less processed then. Of course, a lot of it was also spoiled/rotten, possibly contaminated, diseased, etc.

From the standpoint of the diet that human evolution is adapted to, you have to look back to hunter/gatherer diets. Meat, fruits and vegetables, and frequent periods of near-starvation. I've sometimes wondered what a diet of one or two big meals of meat per week, with the occasional handful of nuts and berries on other days would be like.
I've lived next to squatters (having them above me, below and sharing a wall), what exactly am I suppose to have hated about it? They were never troublesome, but of course I can understand in some other cases they were, but we have laws for those things already.

If they were being loud, you can call the police and complain. If they're ruining stuff on your side, you can also call the police. I'm not sure in what way they could bother me, and I wouldn't have the law on my side if I chose to act on it.
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The eventual plan is to build an orbiting space station, the Lunar Gateway. Astronauts will then launch on SLS/Orion, which will perform a Trans Lunar Injection.

However, before that, a Starship will be launched into LEO. There will then be something like 17 (the actual number is not clear, but it is a lot) Starship tankers that will launch to re-fuel the original Starship.

The Starship then does a Trans Lunar Injection. The Orion docks with the Lunar Gateway, Starship docks with the Lunar Gateway, the astronauts transition to Starship, which does a propulsive landing on the moon.
Well yes, but there is a difference between a signal being accessible on a PCB trace I can see with my eyes, vs it being accessible only on the inside of a 7nm silicon die.

There is a reason why a lot of system integrate the security processor on the same piece of silicon whose state the security processor is meant to protect.

The reason discrete TPMs exist is supposed compliance with crypto standards, and physical protection against key extraction, but they sort of miss the forest before the trees. What matters to users is the protection of their data, not the TPM's secrets, and discrete TPMs arent very good at the former.
Wireshark would likely be unhelpful. Everything runs encrypted.
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The description given is very similar to what I myself have seen.

What part are you saying is not true and if so what area?
Now I get it -- X is like Twitter, but for porn!
Failure of the tanks would undoubtedly have been catastrophic. Partial failure of a flight control surface proved survivable.
There’s also an option to email the mapmaker to receive a pdf. I’m going to ask for one in hopes that it’ll blow up nicely. I think it’d make interesting wall art.
5% is a significant fraction, especially when "death" is the 5%.
The length of a mile varies across jurisdictions though. You'd think the world atlas would be mindful of the gap.
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