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by pp19dd 5y ago
Best I can figure is companies not eating their own dog food. Clever engineers forced in directions the clueless set and enforced. IMO, we lost the TV and car entertainment system battle long ago. It all just went south. And those two are
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by pp19dd 5y ago
That's a subtle throwback to visual basic, I think, but not in a negative way.
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by pp19dd 5y ago
High-res of that 'spiral' detail: https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/elcome... Unfortunately it seems like all that's available is the 3 pictures disseminated by Reuters. The third is an i
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by pp19dd 5y ago
My apologies, did not mean to rename the man. I'm an ignorant hick from USA. Though to be fair I think that's his legal name.
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by pp19dd 5y ago
Hard sci fi is hard to define for me personally. But, Children of Time by Adrian Czajkowski is worth a look, and maybe Saturn Run by Ctein and John Sanford.
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by pp19dd 5y ago
Re: JH APL, also, there's the Space Telescope Institute, which will be running the James Webb Space Telescope.
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by pp19dd 5y ago
Like the Queen's English, but in space in the far future. As in, there's still royalty.
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by pp19dd 5y ago
Yes. And they're not bad. Worth reading. But they don't make it anywhere near the top of my personal top 10 first contact books, which I discovered was my favorite sub-genre. Five that I would I consider absolutely masterpieces
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by pp19dd 5y ago
Sure. Guess my actual point was the lead time- it takes years to attract potential students, train them into engineers, give them some experience under the belt. Years to build up an effective workforce to fill this gap. Decade? Perhaps
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by pp19dd 5y ago
The freakiest thing about Mars, IMO, is its rotation speed. 25 hour day. Roughly just one hour away from Earth's. Is that not remarkable?
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by pp19dd 5y ago
Yep, in the ideal world. But: A- major proportion of civil/structy engineers are going into retirement, their numbers not supplanted by new blood. It's just not a calling anymore. B- USACE redacts their dam and bridge inspection
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by pp19dd 5y ago
To be fair, there's definitely plenty of coverage of both rovers. These and all science stories are particularly easy to cover [read: labor-cheap] since everything is spoon-fed on the account of not being able to get boots on the grou
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by pp19dd 5y ago
Yes, but the accounting is not as clear as you'd think. It's a complicated relationship between understrength departments with unfilled vacancies, and overtime budgets. Police officers throughout the country, but especially in ci
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by pp19dd 5y ago
Haaretz (deep-linked) has more details that some have brought up. "Asked what it’s like to excavate a thousand-year-old toilet, Nagorsky explains that in the interim, the waste became dirt. They’re simply digging in dirt. It’s fine.&qu
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by pp19dd 5y ago
For what it's worth, we at least know the videos are official: https://www.navair.navy.mil/foia/documents
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by pp19dd 5y ago
Bluecruise - "driver-facing camera and radar-sensing technologies allowing for hands-free driving on prequalified sections of divided highways called hands-free Blue Zones" Struck me as a far different way of easing into the auton
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by pp19dd 5y ago
It's just amazing how satisfying these little incremental observations are, and equally amazing how much work goes into it. What I found similarly fascinating was this interactive of our neighborhood - 33 light-year field, green are de
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by pp19dd 5y ago
Mikael, my hats off to you and your fine product and sweat you poured into it. My apologies if in any way I seemed to criticize performance of your craft, far from it. I know nothing of it, and electric is going to be the only way in the
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by pp19dd 5y ago
Water under all those videos on their homepage is what we'd basically call smooth as glass. That's definitely a calm +/- 5 cm wave range. Here is what a 1.2 meter one looks like, just exiting an inlet: https://www.
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by pp19dd 5y ago
Check out the electric co's site, and maybe it'll explain it better than I could have at a broad pass. But that inboard was their entry-level motor that actually existed. I suspect their power declaration is marketing language cl
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by pp19dd 5y ago
Imagine cruising at 30-40 mph, angled so you cut through waves perpendicularly. Mostly you head straight, but you do need to lazily avoid some crests and troughs, aiming for that sweet middle. You then see a mostly submerged log 30 feet a
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by pp19dd 5y ago
Engine lost compression in two cylinders on my 5.7 GL Volvo Penta. ~ 300 HP, leaky exhaust riser. Took the opportunity to look into an electric option that can bring a 4,700 lb boat on plane, comparable power that is in production and ava
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The Guns of the South(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by pp19dd 5y ago|0 comments
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by pp19dd 5y ago
Our 33-LY neighborhood, green are detected planets: https://gruze.org/fly_10pc/
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by pp19dd 5y ago
Never seen it! But not surprised to see that it existed. Was familiarizing myself with matter.js (phys library) and made this as a first test.
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Physics Tetris(pp19dd.com)
5 points by pp19dd 5y ago|3 comments
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by pp19dd 5y ago
Didn't go into it because I have nothing to contribute being an amateur, but yep, anyone working with shipping pallets should read authoritative sources on safety first. If you don't see that HT stamp, move on. And luckily they&
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by pp19dd 5y ago
Like others said, reclaiming wood - even mediocre to bad wood - can be a satisfying part of that hobby. I took a beat up pallet and turned it into a storage chest. It filled up my summer and fall and half of winter. The reclaiming labor
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by pp19dd 5y ago
"elections" - this is an outdated graphic (hasn't been updated since 2015) but scroll down to see the length of terms graph: https://projects.voanews.com/african-presidents/ Chad is near top of the list.
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by pp19dd 5y ago
And ... it's in Sub Rosa, the obscure cult-like game stuck in the 80s universe of shady business dealings: https://twitter.com/crypticsea/status/1377433014674714624 For those of you who don't know it, it

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