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blog.recroom.com 3mo ago

Rec Room announces upcoming shutdown

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theconversation.com 11y ago

Safe, zero-carbon and proven: is fourth-generation nuclear the energy solution?

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www.nasaspaceflight.com 13y ago

Testing times for SpaceX’s new Falcon 9 v.1.1

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www.northwestern.edu 13y ago

Rocket Ma'am: SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell

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www.parabolicarc.com 13y ago

Musk: SpaceX to Attempt Falcon 9 First Stage Water Landing

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www.parabolicarc.com 13y ago

Musk: SpaceX to Attempt Falcon 9 First Stage Water Landing

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lwn.net 13y ago

Lessons Learned Developing Software for Space Vehicles

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ngm.nationalgeographic.com 13y ago

Ice Baby — A near-perfect frozen mammoth resurfaces after 40,000 years [2009]

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news.nationalgeographic.com 13y ago

Return of the Neanderthals

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www.youtube.com 13y ago

Solve for X: Peter Diamandis and Eric Anderson on Asteroid Mining

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www.theverge.com 13y ago

President Obama reportedly set to enact cybersecurity order

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www.tested.com 13y ago

SimCity vs. The Suburban Sprawl

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www.youtube.com 13y ago

SpaceX's Latest re-usable rocket (Grasshopper) test launch (12 stories)

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www.jpl.nasa.gov 13y ago

Panoramic View From 'Rocknest' Position of Curiosity Mars Rover

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www.jpl.nasa.gov 13y ago

New Panoramic View From 'Rocknest' Position of Curiosity Mars Rover

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www.youtube.com 13y ago

SpaceX VTOL rocket Grasshopper hops 5.4m

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www.youtube.com 13y ago

SpaceX VTOL rocket "Grasshopper" hops 5.4m

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www.flightglobal.com 13y ago

SpaceX aims big with massive new rocket

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spaceflightnow.com 13y ago

Orbcomm satellite in wrong orbit after Falcon 9 launch

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www.itnews.com.au 13y ago

US Congress opposes revised UN telecommunications treaty

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www.wired.com 14y ago

How One Faulty Nitrogen-Purge Valve Forced SpaceX to Abort

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www.cringely.com 14y ago

Lost "Triumph of the Nerds" Steve Job's interview to screen in cinemas

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www.independent.co.uk 15y ago

Scientists ask for escort in Indian Ocean due to pirates

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lanyrd.com 15y ago

Archive of PG Talks

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www.nytimes.com 15y ago

The Claim: Gargling With Salt Water Can Ease Cold Symptoms

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en.wikipedia.org 16y ago

Kryptos: The CIA's cryptographic sculpture

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www.abc.net.au 16y ago

Mystery of AIDS-resistant monkeys revealed

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www.salon.com 16y ago

Why Johnny can't code

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www.fourmilab.ch 16y ago

The Use of the Apostrophe in the English Language

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euler.slu.edu 16y ago

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf]

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A better designed system could be driven by warrants issued by courts, without (or at least minimal) access to individual officers.

It requires better access controls.

Even invasive ideas like automated license plate scanning city-wide can have its data only accessible to an API to eg, track a stolen car across the city to avoid a dangerous high-speed chase in populated areas.

I think to throw the baby out with the bathwater around networked security cameras is failure around designing robust and secure APIs and systems (including audit trails).

Sounds like the second stage delivered a payload to orbit (of unknown mass).

Recovery of first stage is therefore very impressive.

Though in context it's 11.5 years after SpaceX achieved a similar feat with their Orbcomm OG2 mission in December 2015.

The EV supply chain in the US back in say 2007 certainly had far fewer key parts sourced from China than recent years.

As far as US EVs being subsidized early, if you take state and federal tax incentives, DoE grants and loan guarantees as subsidizes then that's true.

It's debatable (I think incentives applied to all suppliers not just US ones) but a reasonable statement.

I mean the communist dictatorships of the 20th century (including those still around today) had their roots in labor movements.

Follows from the article, those who had little to lose who stand to benefit from overturning the system

Philosophically opposed.

I'd like to see indefinite support powered through emulation under a modern CI server hardware with rigorous automated test-suites, with maintenance potentially supported in part with AI.

But someone else should do this, of course.

I'm heartened that recent Linux kernels in 2026 can still target i386 systems!

Between i486, i586 and i686 there's been a steady drumbeat of Linux distros and kernel itself deprecating support

The hard part of building a nuclear bomb is not designing a device to shoot two pieces of weapons-grade uranium together at high speeds using eg gunpowder.

It's enriching and maintaining the stockpile of weapons-grade uranium that's the harder part, as Iran has found out.