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by fbender 6y ago
Starship alone (the orbiter) is 50m. The truss of the ISS is 109m[1] long. While massive, Starship will still be dwarfed by the station (other than planned habitable volume or individual modules/elements). [1] https://www.na
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by fbender 6y ago
I would say there is no simple answer to your question. However, I am not able to give you an authoritative answer to your question anyway. If you are interested, you can start here[1] or try and ping the moz-security people [1] https:&#x2
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by fbender 6y ago
> Annoyingly Firefox is lagging behind in that regard. This has not been true since quite a while. Firefox has employed sandboxing even before the multi-process work (which culminated in the Quantum branches of Fx releases that added mor
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by fbender 7y ago
I found this gem: https://www.xltrail.com/ – I have not used it yet but from the looks it‘s a great solution to our vicious circle of (no) maintenance at work :D
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by fbender 7y ago
Sorry, I had it partially wrong. There‘s the C++ Interpreter and the baseline interpreter (that one was added only recently[1]), and then the two JITs (BaselineJIT and IonMonkey). I understand that IonMonkey itself has two levels chosen dep
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by fbender 7y ago
If you talk space, the difference is that all relevant people were and are aware of the risks and do their job despite them. And they do their job in such a way that the risk is always minimized (through extensive preparation, Monitoring, …
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by fbender 7y ago
Germany swapped nuclear (and coal) for renewables. While I wholeheartedly agree that it would have been better to extend nuclear in favor of decommissioning coal earlier, that‘ll still not make your argument valid.
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by fbender 7y ago
Take a look at history if you need more evidence. At some point, someone always said „now we know better and we can build XXXX to be perfect“, and now we are laughing about them (to give a bad but simple example: Titanic). You are naïve if
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by fbender 7y ago
I don‘t get why you‘d bring up any other means of power generation while my reply solely discussed nuclear, but I‘ll take the bait … > substantially less damaging than business as usual in coal. Never doubted that and never will. Though
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by fbender 7y ago
Very nice feature set! I especially like the referencing functionality and ToC. Though I wasn't able to test it out (stuck with Windows at work), here's some feedback: In the example images, you write that you eliminated all toolb
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by fbender 7y ago
Be aware that this will disable two tiers of JS acceleration (JITting): The lowest level (BaselineJIT, introduced only recently) and the highest level (IonJIT for very hot code).
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by fbender 7y ago
But this is exactly the point. Catastrophes like Fukushima are practically always a combination of individual deficiencies in design, process, and operator errors. Designs can be improved, processes adapted, and people trained better, but t
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by fbender 7y ago
I see a huge risk for manipulation and spoofing. You‘ll have to establish some kind of trust if you want to rely on beacon data (from whatever source) for navigation and safety. Just imagine that someone spoofs a signal that triggers autono
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by fbender 7y ago
Can you run the baseline interpreter with the costly parts disabled? Even if the code then runs approx. the same speed (and at same cost) of the C++ interpreter, you‘d save maintaining a bunch of code. I assume implementing the missing back
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by fbender 7y ago
Because hardly any modern plants are operating, by far most are 70-80ies era. On top of that, consider the cost of currently planned or built plants and their schedule overruns: They may be less terrifying (if you manage to cancel out the p
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by fbender 8y ago
WxWidgets is now available & stable(!) for Py3 and available on PyPI for easy installation & distribution. Moreso, the dev pipeline has been streamlined and they are now able to follow upstream much more closely! Maybe this is sth f
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by fbender 8y ago
If the new API get's ported (which is likely to happen), it does not mean the existing API will get crippled. After all, they are different implementations and it's Mozilla who's behind that. I trust them to not deprecate the
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by fbender 8y ago
Apparently not since they resisted implementing WebSQL.
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by fbender 8y ago
I've never had any issues on my Mac. Then again, I'm using an MBA 2012 sans Retina. If you are using displays with "non-standard" resolution (including Retina), even external ones, then you can refer to my other post[1]
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by fbender 8y ago
There is a well-known bug[1] with non-standard resolutions. Try changing the resolution and see if it makes any difference. If not, please file a new bug :). Otherwise you can see if you can help fixing the issue. Unfortunately, it requires
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by fbender 8y ago
I‘m pretty sure there is an un-branded release version of Fx on the Mozilla website that allows side-loading and allows disabling the signature verification. I don‘t have a link ready and on mobile so I cannot easily check.
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by fbender 8y ago
Their addon tool includes a well documented facility to sign an extension without listing it in the addon store so you can host it somewhere else. This can e.g. be used for company-internal extensions.
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by fbender 8y ago
„This cool trick gives your Firefix super powers“ articles will appear instantly. This happened before with noobs following instructions to copy & paste code into the developer console(!), which pwned quite a few Facebook (and other) ac
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by fbender 8y ago
It‘s the injection vector. People used to sideload malicious addons a lot by „accident“ when a rogue website told them to („You must install X player to see this video. Click here …“).
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by fbender 8y ago
Aurora is no more because it was not necessary for stability (when nightly merges to beta it is already very stable, this improved a lot over time) and incurred a cost on speed of development (one less stop for the train to ride). DevEditio
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by fbender 8y ago
The topic here is phasing. The two orbit approach requires exact alignment of orbital path and correct phasing, which both translate to an exact point in time when you need to launch the rocket (instantaneous launch window, i.e. when you de
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by fbender 8y ago
Previous link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18498121
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by fbender 8y ago
Check out the AstroPi challenge [1] for a similar idea on the ISS. Including support for multiple sensor and cameras. [1] https://astro-pi.org/
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by fbender 8y ago
How about providing a WebExtension that exposes the bits that require a binary (e.g. P2P and possibly proof-of-work part if WASM does not work for you) or are provided by the platform, then you can waive the Electron requirement for those w
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by fbender 8y ago
There‘s still a huge difference between „certain people are not allowed to live“ vs. „I want to be allowed to love whomever I chose“. That former group should still not be excluded from certain basic „rights“, at least until they act on the

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