Posts by Gene Cash 5740 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Mar 2007
> remarkably as it sounds to users of other distros, wasn't a built-in function of RHEL in the old days
The inability of RedHat Package Manager to sort out dependencies and download them from a repository was what originally forced me to switch to Debian decades ago. I saw someone do "apt dist-upgrade" and my eyeballs fell out.
That's another reason I'm pissed people are slavishly following RedHat's idiocies, like adopting systemd. I know the other distros can do their own thing better, because they have in the past.
Not only have I tossed Debian on the desktop and adopted Devuan, but this weekend I installed Devuan on my Raspberry Pis that perform various functions around here.
Probably... (speculation follows)
They perhaps shaved structural margins a bit too much on the booster. The structure vs weight tradeoff is where a rocket engineer earns his paycheck, especially in the first stage.
Or perhaps the maneuvering was just too sporty and they need to tone it down. Perhaps you can't just flip a SuperHeavy booster as hard as a Falcon 9.
Maybe they turned up an issue in the flight termination system or guidance in the second stage. That could be hardware or software. Maybe the FTS overdid it instead of underdoing it like last flight.
They certainly fixed the pad issue, the issue with not all the first stage engines firing, the flight termination system, and the staging, so I'm sure they'll have some sort of solutions to what broke on this flight.
And then we'll see what breaks next! Wheee!
My money is on the heat shielding. You could see tiles coming off. Of course the Space Shuttle orbiter had the same problem and they lost a bunch of tiles too. Difference there was that the orbiter was manned, so it was a slight bit more critical.
The next one will probably make it to orbit, but we'll have to see how many separate pieces re-enter over Hawaii.
You can sure tell they're big fans of Kerbal Space Program.
Sounds awfully similar to the naysaying that went on when they were first figuring out how to land rockets.
Or all the naysaying when JWST was still being built, costing $10B and years behind schedule. All that is forgotten now with the incredible science that it's doing.
There *IS* a mandatory attachment system. There's a set of tethers, and you're required to attach the tether to the crewlock in the new location, then detach the old tether.
The tethers are actually quite easy to use, so it's not onerous to perform the procedure.
Unfortunately (IMHO) they're all the same color, so I think that results in a non-zero possibility of doing the procedure in the wrong order because you can't easily distinguish which is actually the "old" tether and which is the "new" tether.
"Defendants have weaponized copyright law's notice-and-takedown process and used it not for its intended purpose of expeditiously removing infringing content, but instead to have the legitimate content of their competitors removed based on false allegations"
On YouTube, that's just another Tuesday...
Well, it's either this, or Amazon.
In my experience, people can't set up working shopping carts, inventory, and payment systems by themselves. This is why Amazon was able to steamroller everyone, because in the beginning, their stuff just worked.
I've been able to buy niche stuff from very small vendors that all used Shopify and wouldn't otherwise been able to offer stuff for sale on the internet.
A small bonus is that if you buy from one site using Shopify, then you have your details available on all of them. I don't have to enter my address a hundred separate times.
For those wondering how they were able to take their spacesuits off in that tiny little Gemini spacecraft (and put them back on) here's what the suit looked like:
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/pressure-suit-g5-c-borman-gemini-7-flown/nasm_A19680022000
Personally, I sure wouldn't trust being able to move and manipulate controls in that after a depressurization.
I untar Firefox into /opt or /usr/local and it works just fine. Same with Thunderbird, PrusaSlicer, BlueGriffon, and a bunch of other apps.
I've done this for at least a decade, and I've never had anything have an issue with the versions of libraries I have installed.
People don't seem to have a problem with providing a Debian repository for OpenSCAD and Brave that integrates into the native package manager by adding a line to a config file.
This is "solving" a problem that doesn't actually exist, just like systemd.
On the other hand, this is the first and only decent explanation of how snaps work that I've seen. I think a lot of the FUD might be because it's vague and nebulous and unknown.
"Smartphone OEMs have indicated a preference towards standards-based solutions for satellite connectivity in mobile devices. We expect to continue to collaborate with Iridium on standards-based solutions while discontinuing efforts on the proprietary solution that was introduced earlier this year"
"We didn't want to be locked into Qualcomm's non-standard proprietary crap"
But you're still rewarding Samsung for building such privacy-invading devices by buying the hardware. After you've bought it and they have your money, they don't give a shit.
For me, nothing of theirs "just works" without some sort of issue. A friend bought a 49" monitor and it had major problems waking up from powersave. Another friend has a Samsung dishwasher that doesn't wash dishes.
I just refuse to buy Samsung products.
> a LOT of places wouldn't even take cash
Well then as I see it, it's their own damn fault, and I shed not a tear for them. Taking more than one form of payment is just plain business sense.
It's like all the websites that used to just take Paypal only. Nope, I don't care how unique and great your product is, I'm not touching Paypal with someone else's 3-metre pole.
We've had a couple network outages here, and some of the restaurants even hauled out the old slide receipt embossing machines... the ones where you put the card over carbon paper, slide the wiper and it embosses the card number into the receipt.
When it comes down to your money and your livelihood, you need to be resilient and not a stubborn asshole.
Firefox stopped supporting ALSA and went pulseaudio only, so sound doesn't work now. (actually, I do have "apulse" if I really need sound. or Chrome.)
This has the side effect that I download all my Youtube content and view it with something like mpv, and a side effect of that is no ads, except for the ones the creators put in for their sponsors, which are usually relevant to the point that I have actually bought several things that way.
They've blazed the trail for filament-deposition 3D printers. Their PrusaSlicer code and GUI is one of the best user interfaces I've ever used. (then I weep when I have to go back to GIMP...)
They now have a sea of cheap $100 Chinese clones where some of them have even disabled safety features to the point they spontaneously catch on fire, making people go "oooh 3D printers are dangerous!"
Prusa is seriously starting to question if they're going to have to take a different path. They may not release their XL printer as open source.
"The bifurcation is pretty much the course of action proposed by activist investor Elliott Management last year"
There's all the explanation you need.
What is with the American obsession to kill the geese that lay the golden eggs? The biggest was Sears, and you guys across the pond probably don't know what a tragedy that was.
Alright, that raises a couple questions:
I assume from the discussion that the 32-bit support can't be compiled into a module.
If that's true, then how much does it cost? How much bigger is a kernel with it? I get the feeling it's less than 500K or so, a drop in the bucket when you've got 32GB of storage in a typical PC these days.
> prejudices are fun aren't they.
Well considering KINSOTIN would fit in fine on Amazon with all the cheap Chinese knockoffs made by "companies" with alphabet soup names...
And do you REALLY think a company would misspell it's name that badly? Seriously?
Also see "On MicroSD Problems" http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=918
They sell CDs with everything except SSN.
It's not exactly the voter role, it's the list of everyone with a driver's license, but that's not much different.
They warn you if you email a state agency, your email address becomes public record, and is available for sale.
I am not joking.
Yes. The big one was the USAF. The Air Force insisted on a huge one-orbit cross-range capability, which incurred the large & heavy delta wings, as opposed to smaller straight wings... and of course this capability was never needed.
The other one was President Nixon.
He absolutely insisted on the cheapest, most bare-bone option, which was the SRBs & Orbiter on an expendable tank, and specifically vetoed the flyback booster that would have made it truly reusable, long before SpaceX.
This of course was the configuration that killed 14 people.
So in addition to being a thief and a liar, he was a murderer.
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