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Starship cans are pathetically inadequate to support even a Mars base, never mind a Mars colony.

Translating it back to C or C++ afterward, it would be equally as safe, and easier to deploy.

Curiously, though, we don't really know it is coded in DNA.

Michael Levin has been discovering lately that biology is more complicated than we thought. His YT videos are mind-boggling. Flatworm genetics are a dog's breakfast that the cells work around by means nobody understands.

Strontium-90 has advantages. At density 2.6 vs 12, you can afford to loft more of it to compensate for its 28y half-life, and still come out ahead provided you can dispose of the extra heat at first. Few missions need to run decades.

Arrayed as a thin film on a substrate, you can use the kinetic energy of the alpha particles directly for thrust. The substrate will need to dissipate some heat from nuclei emitted in the wrong direction.

Those use strontium-90, which decays much faster than americium-241. That makes it hotter, at first, but its useful life is less. Being more than 4x less dense, you might carry enough more to make up the difference (and discard the extra heat, at first) if you have the room.

Strontium-90 decays by beta emission, ending up as stable zirconium, meaning you don't have to vent helium.

Which C compiler doesn't pack bitfields? Anything on x86 or ARM is bound by the ABI to pack in a standard and link-compatible way.

Seems there would only be a problem on some proprietary compiler for an embedded, bespoke target.

It is much worse than just the three extra test-and-branch operations, because they will be serialized through one ALU.

The doesn't say whether the C-145As built in Poland for the US Air Force still had the fault, or the SkyTrucks built until 2019. We might guess that since the fault wasn't in the plans, they would not get it, but that might depend on whether they were built in the same factory as HA-LAJ, with the same practices.

It seems as if were both engines to fail, either one prop would be feathered and the lift spoiler on that side extended, or neither prop would be feathered. Presumably the pilot could feather the props himself. It is not apparent whether this would extend both lift spoilers too, or if those were controlled separately.

After scrutiny this seems to be "Coroutines and Effects" in, particularly, Rust.

Not if dengue is an urban phenomenon.

I always wonder which of these smaller sauropods are really just juveniles. Why don't we find any juveniles of the big ones?

Doesn't say what it is or how it is imagined to work. Is there an assumption the dust is all negatively-charged? Or positively? Or mixed?

Is the language statically-typed? If not, why not?

Right-wing radio is heavily subsidized by right-wing institutions funded by the billionaires we all know about. It is happy to repeat lies, without shame, at length until they are believed. No non-subsidized radio station can compete, so all AM talk radio is openly right-wing, and is all there is on the dial in most rural settings.

People were navigating out of sight of land, and reached Australia tens of thousands of years before this.

They might have reached North America, too. Anyway we know people got there because they butchered the Hartley mammoth 37kya.

We know Australia was already occupied at least 40kya, and maybe 60kya, and they can only have got there by sailing out of sight of land, even when sea levels were at their lowest (~400ft below current level). Neanderthals were on all east Mediterranean islands except Cyprus ~200kya. (Cyprus is not visible from the mainland or other islands closer to land.) They had to have used boats, although they did not need to navigate.

We have reliable evidence of people in North America 37kya, at the Hartley mammoth butchery site, perhaps from the same rootstock as the Australians. Curiously, they lacked the fancy stone tool industry the Siberians brought in much, much later, which might trace all the way back to Europeans 20kya. Apparently there are plenty of other mammoth sites not excavated because they are dated "too old" to involve people. It took Tim Rowe, a decorated paleontologist whose land it was was found on, to get that one dug up properly. Still it seems like no one will talk about it.

The millennium of 12,000 years ago was also when Gobekli Tepe and related sites were constructed, right at the sudden end of the Younger Dryas cold spell. Maybe innovation was newly acceptable in response to the fast-changing climate.

Poor build quality, unreliability, and extremely high repair costs keep away another group.

If you have a Tesla, get the suspension checked at least twice a year, and after hitting any pothole. A broken suspension can kill you.

They always call these "floating" gardens, but AFAICT they are always firmly attached to the bottom. What they are more like is flooded raised beds. The illustration in the article even seems to show them floating, but the description contradicts it. To make one, you drive in stakes and weave wickerwork in and out between them, and scoop mud from outside into the space. The channels get deeper, and the bed fills up with rich mud, which when high enough becomes dry enough to grow in. They drive in live willow stakes at the corners, which sprout and help hold it all together.

The article says both that the Aztecs developed the method, and that the pre-Aztec Nahuat were already using it.

Chinampas are still in operation in the poorer part of Mexico City, with some effort going into expanding them. They have had to erect filtering dams at the ends of the narrow channels between beds to keep pollution out of the water that feeds them.

This all falls under "it is possible to kill yourself by stupidity", with nothing specific to powering appliances from a battery/inverter. People who take the initiative to set up such a system self-select for attention to detail. It is a lot easier to use the wrong cord with no battery system than with.

There is no hint of passion. It is just formulaic decoration. The only interest for viewers would be in the clothing styles, which would track trends in Rome, and so need to be painted over frequently.

Comparisons to Hummel are more appropriate than to Caravaggio.

The extension cords mentioned are all interior-to-interior. There is no magickal difference between an extension-cord wire and a like-gauge Romex wire. The former bends easier.

The only outdoor wiring mentioned is 48V.

There are languages that have no relative directions. You never "turn left", you only "turn south" or whatever.

People who grow up with one of those as their first language all have absolute direction, even two-year-olds. If their boat overturns at sea in a storm, they will never doubt whether their boat blew away to the north or south. Everybody has to get it right just to be able to speak with comprehensible grammar, just the way you need to know what is past or to come.

Obviously the extension cord you use needs to be rated for the power it carries. Anyone buying extension cords can see there are different sizes. They are well-labeled, and it is easy to look up the gauge needed for its length and what is to be plugged into it. A correctly-rated extension cord is no more hazardous than the same-rated Romex, and often cheaper.

All the appliances mentioned are rated to be used with appropriate extension cords, and cords are sold at retail for such use.

Wires from panels in parallel will all be at, typically, 48VDC. Voltages add only when you wire in series. No "live parts" are exposed in modern systems.

The quoted regulations govern construction. Residents have much greater latitude. All the appliances mentioned are approved for use with rated extension cords.

Incorrectly, if so.

The "load rating" on the cords exceeds the total power delivery capability of the system. It has its own circuit breakers.

The manufacturers are well aware of risks, for liability reasons if nothing else, and have contained them in the uniform-electrical-code mandated manner. The system is no more risky than any other plugged-in appliance. We don't need to invent problems. Extension cords are just extension cords.

Technically, to have been circumcised, King David would first need to have existed. However, even without existing, notional David could be described as having been circumcised. Presenting an image uncircumcised, as Michelangelo did, then ought to suffice to, er, sever any proprietary claim, as it cannot then be the same notional David, but another unspecified stand-in David, perhaps akin to the popularly blond and blue-eyed stand-in Jesus.

Jesus, by the way, is described in Paul as having been constructed, after the manner of Adam and of saved souls' post-resurrection bodies (even now awaiting them in heaven against the fore-ordained apocalypse), from aforesaid David's (implied captured and preserved, or allegorical) "seed". This too does not require actual existence. The waiting bodies, notional or manifest, canonically lack anything for foreskins to be attached to or severed from, perhaps a mercy, and presumably navels as well. No forecast is made about nose hair, either way. Jesus, in contrast, as a fertility totem is necessarily endowed. Who would essay to circumcise Him is an open question; theologically, He doesn't seem to need it.

Report is that shortly before the hole was reported, a PR had been posted requesting to remove the dependency on xz.

Systemd manages daemons. Sshd is a daemon. It knows when sshd has finished starting up, in case something else is waiting on that, and if it dies, and whether it needs to be shut down. If systemd didn't do it, something else would.

That is not to say systemd isn't a hypertrophied pig, but it does do important work.