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by plugger 11d ago
In May SMILE was launched. It's a collaboration between ESA and CSA. I expect more of this to develop given the US trajectory currently.
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by plugger 14d ago
ITAR is for US persons ONLY. SpaceX services the global market, as does China. Sure, NRO won't be launching on a Chinese stack but it'd be a bit foolish to think commercial launch consumers wouldn't look at the top two launch
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by plugger 18d ago
China's emissions peaked in 2025 and have been declining since. They have rolled out massive amounts of renewables, unlike the US.
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by plugger 21d ago
It legitimately cooks my brain that the son of Nimarata Randhawa is arguing with Ankit Gupta about whether prioritising hiring of American workers is DEI.
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by plugger 1mo ago
Food maybe, but morale on the Ford was reportedly quite low and there has been some conjecture that the fire that has knocked it out of service was not accidental.
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by plugger 1mo ago
yes, but it was still a bubble as 99 of those companies went bust. AI is an obvious bubble, and it will soon burst. The question is what survives. If you can predict that, you can also make bank.
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by plugger 3mo ago
Obviously I would have forgotten most of this given the change was 20 years ago but IIRC DST config on Solaris at the time was statically coded. You could modify the timezone config as a hacky fix on Solaris 8 but the permanent fix involved
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by plugger 3mo ago
I live in Western Australia. for 3 years we trialed DST from 2006 to 2009. It was a nightmare personally, I was a sysadmin at the time and enterprise management tools were expensive and crap so we had to roll out DST file changes across our
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by plugger 4mo ago
This is where I land as well, except I'd go higher. Ukraine has caused the pricing of any FPGA equipped SDR to skyrocket. Plus incredibly high sample rates that the sSDR supports would likely result in a lot of drops in sampling due to
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by plugger 4mo ago
3x higher than other rocket builders. Comparing a rocket factory to a construction site it borderline laughable.
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by plugger 4mo ago
Iran currently has tasking control of a single Chinese military spy satellite with sub meter resolution. They struck this arrangement before the war. This capability has provided them targeting/tasking info as well as post attack BDA c
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by plugger 4mo ago
THAAD is the radar systems + missiles. The radar stayed, it was the interceptors that were pulled from Korea. I assume you can accept that to intercept a missile you need tracking and another missile in that system.
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by plugger 5mo ago
You've got to disassemble the boiler and remove the scale from there. I run a Gaggia Classic at home with really hard water and my machine literally stopped flowing due to scale buildup. Once I fully pulled it apart and scraped all the
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by plugger 5mo ago
BO has entered the chat New Glenn and are arguably equal to Super Heavy given they've also recovered and reused their heavy booster. I think you're going to be surprised at the level of competition BO provides SpaceX in the Artemi
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by plugger 5mo ago
I think the initial catalyst for this was when the US/Biden arbitrarily removed Russia from SWIFT post Ukraine invasion. Whether people agreed or disagreed with that decision isn't really material to the discussion, the fact remai
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by plugger 6mo ago
Cool. Thanks for demonstrating you have no idea of my usage. I charge every second day as I don't drive far or often. Sometimes I go 3 or more days as I'm actually trying to burn petrol to seat the seals on the pistons of my engin
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by plugger 6mo ago
Yep, providing front line comms to Russia in the Ukraine war as well as being gifted a virtual oligopoly by the US government is quite the win for their profits.
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by plugger 6mo ago
For the vast majority of entire life Iran has been weeks away from having a nuke. I'm nearly 50. And yet you believe that they're now "two weeks away" because that's what politicians told you. Who's being naive
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by plugger 6mo ago
Not really applicable here imho. Most high power high performance rockets aren't cardboard. The majority are either fibreglass or carbon fibre. Flex doesn't really become a concern with carbon fibre until you approach Mach 3. I sa
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by plugger 6mo ago
Contrast this with the United States, which does a huge amount of trade with the world and then funnels all of that profit to the poor... /s
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by plugger 6mo ago
I'm not sure where you're getting this idea from, but my PHEV (BYD Shark 6) doesn't drop below 22% battery as the engine is there to charge the battery, not propel the vehicle. I also believe that most pure BEV drivers would
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by plugger 6mo ago
We destroyed the nuclear capability of Iran last year during the 12 day war. Trump said so himself. Now we're engaged in a full regional conflict to destroy Iran's nuclear capability that was destroyed last year. The same capabili
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by plugger 6mo ago
> we found the maximum altitude estimates were about 15% too high. this often happens when the wrong rocket finish is selected. Everyone chooses a polished finish when in actuality they've just sprayed the thing with paint. Skin dra
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by plugger 7mo ago
Thank you! I'm in WA, so in some respects if I'm not driving a landie or hilux my bogan creds are still somewhat lacking, but at least I'm looking down on Ranger drivers now lol.
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by plugger 7mo ago
> colonising Mars
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by plugger 7mo ago
You're definitely not alone! I just took delivery of a new BYD Shark 6 on Monday. It's amazing and I paid $41k USD ($57,900 AUD) for it. Before that was available I was planning on punting on a used Hilux. I'm charging my Sha
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by plugger 7mo ago
No it's not, it's a car company. It may be moving to robots, but for companies to survive they require products and profits, neither of which seem to be real when it comes to Optimus. According to Musk commercial sales may begin i
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by plugger 7mo ago
Especially a platform like this which has most likely seen little security assurance given its classification.
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by plugger 7mo ago
It's the best of both worlds as you can drive it EV only for short distances but still have the ability to drive longer distances. As said above, the engine is only to charge the battery.
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by plugger 7mo ago
It's a HEV, not a BEV. But it's an EV none the less. It has the ability to drive ~100km on battery only, and the engine doesn't drive the wheels, it's used to recharge the battery.

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