Posts by Gene Cash 5744 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Mar 2007
So would you prefer the NASA approach of spending $50 billion and they've only been able the light the engines 1 and a half times after 10 years of work?
How about the NASA approach of "no, it's impossible to recover a booster, it takes too much fuel, that's just common sense"?
Considering he's the only person/company/entity to reliably land rockets on a small barge in the middle of the ocean... I do not feel qualified to throw stones.
It's amazing how quickly people forget how many boosters crashed before that feat was accomplished.
("Tall poppy syndrome" and "I can't do it, so nobody else should even try" is a pet peeve of mine)
https://twitter.com/thatkimparker/status/1375981283487064065
To summarize a very good tweet about the situation:
The blockchain just points to a URI, which points to some JSON on a server, which points to the actual JPG (or whatever) on yet another server.
So of any of these servers go down, or the companies hosting them go out of business or just plain decide to not host them any more... your NFT is gone and there's nothing you can do about it.
And something the tweet doesn't cover: if I go to that URI, then I can simply download your NFT.
If you'd actually read the article, you would have noticed it saying:
Hayden, "was also told that he should disclose generally any trade secret or other intellectual property that he had developed prior to coming to IBM, and that IBM would protect it and ensure that no other employee would use it without his permission."
I wish there was a way to get feedback to manufacturers... like "I bought your absurdly expensive laptop solely because of the keyboard" to encourage them to keep that feature around.
Now, it's not going to sell because of the price, and Dell is going to go "oh well, people don't want decent keyboards"
> Assuming SpaceX can nail the landings, it's still got to integrate it's second stage. And re-design the second stage, ie Starship to be human rated, or just carry any useful payload
That *IS* the second stage, and it *IS* going to be human rated. There is a very large payload section at the top. They have not even started on the booster.
Actually, I read the BBC as an antidote to the shite American news, but I've been noticing BBC stories with mutating clickbait headlines.
For example: "The Jamaican fruit that could kill you" links to an article titled "Ackee and saltfish: Jamaica’s breakfast of champions"
Then there's more BBC "news" stories such as "How the 'nice guy' penalty hurts us all", "Is the nude selfie a new art form?", and "We went troll hunting in Iceland"
Is this the BBC or The Sun?
I would love to, but I can't. Apple devices suck galaxies through a millipore filter, and there isn't much of anything else.
I also need Google Maps because if you sent me into a 2-acre wood, in a week you'd have to send in a rescue party.
I have, however, abandoned Google Mail and pay for a mail provider, so tomorrow if my Google account crapped out for whatever reason (entirely possible) I'd just have to create a new account.
Their "policies and practices regarding content moderation" should not be “highly confidential”
They're the rules by which people are expected to behave on their system.
These should be public so people know how they're expected to behave.
Obviously Twitter is trying to reserve the right to ban people "just because" and "special circumstances" and the AG is calling them on it.
It's like when Apple or Google pull people's apps and the developer goes "well I know my app isn't malware and as far as I can tell doesn't break any of the rules... so what gives?" and they just get a stony silence.
The NYT are classic idiots. They shit on Robert Goddard's plans to go to the Moon, saying rockets didn't work in a vacuum and any slack jawed idiot with the most basic understanding of physics would understand that.
They only "kinda sorta" published a retraction during Apollo 11.
They published a story on December 8th, 1903 that "Man won't fly for a million years".
9 days later the Wright Brothers said "surprise motherfucker!"
In short, if the New York Times said water was wet, I'd dip my toe in the Atlantic to make sure.
They make The Sun and National Enquirer look good.
"The European Space Agency is investigating sending an army of autonomous rovers into underground caves and lava tubes on the Moon."
That's the sort of shit I'd work on almost for free, if they're serious about it. I doubt they are though. This will be another powerpoint project forgotten by next year.
To quote my high level math prof: "you can use anything you want on the test, except another student, since it's your knowledge and cleverness I'm trying to measure"
He was famous for his extra-credit questions being derived from the very next chapter in the textbook. He did get us to read ahead, which was his goal.
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