Oh god that’s terrifying. I’ve heard of HOAs technically owning the roads and local infrastructure and then residents still get nailed on paying full property tax anyways

Yup, sometimes it’s too easy for me to just slip into work mode when talking about this kind of stuff and I don’t elaborate enough. Thanks for stepping in.

Based on industry rumors I believe the Orion capsule control computers are running VxWorks (I’ve heard that maybe a few boxes are using RTEMS?) All of that source code would have been reviewed, audited, and tested to hell and back.

The day-in-the-life stuff for the astronauts is entirely believable to be Windows. The risk of it failing is so low (medium probability, low impact), it’s what they’d be familiar with, and it’s part of daily life at NASA anyways. Linux is no better when it comes to safety critical components and the astronauts almost certainly wouldn’t want to be dealing with Gnome’s… uniqueness…

I have not worked on human rated launch vehicles, but I’ve been adjacent to them, saw what went into them, and a few close personal friends have worked it.

Anything that can jeapordize the safety of the crew must go through a rigorous independent validation and verification process that takes years, software included. No shot a Microsoft product was even in consideration for those systems.

Being in industry I find it crazy that so many people are freaked out by this. Astronauts have email, they have tasks and schedules and reports to make. Why would NASA reinvent the wheel on a task/schedule manager when the ground operators and astronauts are already used to using Outlook.

I think the reason for the mass adoption is the surface selling point (higher resale property value) plus the usual minor fee lull people into a false understanding of just how dangerous they can become once a person on a power trip gets into the board

Distributed vs centralized has no impact here. It’s all about excess power across the entire grid.

Sure, the solar system I own generates a few kilowatts and if I’m home cooking or running AC, I use almost all of it. But if I’m not home, my AC is off, fridge isn’t running at that moment, all of that power gets dumped onto the grid. My neighbor’s down the street do the same thing, their next door neighbor, the houses all in my neighborhood, and across the entire city, we’re all doing this. A hundred or thousand homes generating excess few kilowatts adds up to megawatts

Sure, the energy company pays a pittance for the energy I put onto the grid, but it’s still payment. I’m not gonna put a dummy load on my house to not export power

I too came in here thinking about outer wilds.

The controls are less realistic than you think, because they attempted to have the ship correct itself but it constantly fought me. I program spacecraft for a living, I know how the orbital mechanics and movement in 3D space works, and they made it super frustrating it made me rage quit the game for years. I only finished it because a close friend wanted me to experience the story.

For me, the story >!was the games weakest point. Putting together the history and the question of “what happened” was cool, but the dialogue was insufferable, I hated reading the story walls and having to string together the order things were said. Then to finally put everything together, get a half baked story about being marooned on effectively a desert island and it ends with a shrug and “yup, everyone died, you too”… Man fuck that.!<

Spacecraft software engineer here:

They are and they aren’t. Radiation causes problems in terms of Single Event Upsets where a 0 turns to 1 and a 1 turns to 0 for a super tiny second. CPUs take some amount of time to let the transistor circuit stabilize before moving onto the next instruction so if an SEU happens in the beginning of this period it won’t have any downstream effects. Like a bump on the road.

Memory however is vulnerable to this tiny amount of time and can flip a bit to a different state than it’s supposed to be, but both are solvable problems with hardware and software based solutions, with ECC being the most common.

The other major problem is Total Ionizing Dose. Put silicon based semiconductors in radiation long enough and they will break down, and there’s no real hardware or software based solution to that. But it takes a long time

Your math is right but scales are off.

Dollar raise a year? Yeah, $1 * 100 * 80 = $8000, and to a lot of businesses that’s peanuts. It’s also peanuts to the individual employees, if you work full time federal minimum wage you make $15600, an extra dollar wont make a difference there.

Increase hourly wage by a dollar, to the employee that’s an extra 1 * 40 * 52 = $2080, and to the business that becomes $1 * 40 * 52 * 100, that’s $208,000 annually they’re paying out.

That’s what they aim to stop

I hope this meme never dies, but I fear it’s already reaching obscurity

I thought that AMDs move with Ryzen being heavily multi core architecture was dumb, and that they’d fail like bulldozer

Trump keeps getting away with shit on the federal level because no one is stopping him and people comply with his demands. Despite Trump repeatedly “pardoning” Tina Peters, the prison guards in Colorado are keeping her locked up and are ignoring him. Minnesota could do the same

The YouTube channel Red Letter Media has a series of videos on Star Trek and Star Wars. Mostly review/satire/comedy stuff. If I recall correctly, it was in the one of the Star Wars videos was criticizing a part of Star Wars credit to a guy named Rick, but on screen they showed a picture of Rick Berman.

Cue dramatic pause, then the lines “That’s the wrong one. What is it with these Ricks”

I think it’s a perception and noticeability problem.

I’ve been around a lot of guys who cc, and I only knew because it happened or come up in conversation or someone else told me. If I walked by them on the street, never would have noticed.

Former friend from highschool, his whole family was military, gun nuts, who all cc and they made sure you knew it. The dude went into national guard and was ecstatic about getting deployed to the local large city during a police brutality protest.

For a lot of people, I feel like the later is the more common experience with cc than the former, despite the former being the truly more common one

Kind of

The vast majority of the time we use our social security numbers as a personal ID number. Drivers licenses also will have unique numbers on them which you can query off of, so too do passports.

By law, no one is required to have any of those three. People having a social security number is pretty common, but getting one of those is the easiest of the three.

Because none of them are a legal requirement to be a citizen, each one has multiple document set requirements, and if you have the other two, the third is trivial to obtain.

The documents you need if you’re not leveraging another form of ID are basically a set of documents that aren’t that difficult for your average person to get their own copies of but harder for some one else to forge and claim to be another person

I think it’s that a large pool of stocks going up for sale with no context seems suspicious. Stocks are inherently a gamble on the future price will be higher than current price, so by selling you’re withdrawing your bet which could be interpreted as you knowing that the bet won’t pay off and that other gamblers owners paying attention might panic and try and sell too, which then could trigger a feedback loop. New buyers might see a bunch of people trying to sell and then think to themselves the bet isn’t a good one and won’t buy, making the current sellers reduce the price in the hopes of actually selling off and not left holding the bag

A lot of “could” and "might* in that scenario, and it does play out from time to time (see NFTs, 2008 housing market). It also won’t play out if the reason for the sale is known and isn’t based on lost faith of the bet

I have one heavily downvoted and removed comment because I sarcastically said something like

“Get the fuck out of here with your well thought through and reasoned opinion. This is the Internet, nuance isn’t allowed here”

Oh the irony

I don’t think it’s that oligarchs want the US society to collapse, it’s more that they’re seen as reckless in their pursuit of getting that seat at the table of those in power. They’re probably smart enough to know that eventually this path will lead to someone’s destruction, but they’re either confident or arrogant in their belief they’ll be unaffected. Only time tell which it is

I think there’s a difference here on viable product vs practical product.

The human form is so powerful in a labor setting not because the human form is the absolute best, it’s because a person can be autonomous with very little direction. With robots you have to meticulously program them for every single movement and timing, and coordinating the dozens of joints a humanoid robot would have just isn’t worth the practical effort. Far cheaper, easier, and faster to build a robot with the exact number of joints you need for the job at hand.

It’s because y’all lie about how many lakes you have, you dishonest bastards. 15k != 10k

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In all seriousness going to LEO gets the job done the vast majority of the time, medium and high earth orbit have very few use cases with the exception of geostationary which SpaceX has gone to.

Going to the moon is very energy intensive and you don’t get a ton of benefit for it so there’s no real point to going there. Apollo was a jobs program and a dick waving contest with Soviet Russia to prove who could put the biggest nuke anywhere on Earth. Going to the moon has very little scientific/practical value outside of political stunts which Apollo and Artemis programs definitely are