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- Comment on NASA and Boeing say Starliner astronauts ‘are not stranded,’ but will be on the ISS for a few more weeks 3 hours ago:
Almost happened to Frank Rubio when the radiator blew on his ride.
- Comment on NASA and Boeing say Starliner astronauts ‘are not stranded,’ but will be on the ISS for a few more weeks 15 hours ago:
You could make a religion out of this.
- Comment on NASA and Boeing say Starliner astronauts ‘are not stranded,’ but will be on the ISS for a few more weeks 1 day ago:
I thought one thruster has been permanently disabled now? Not that that’s a major problem, but it does eat into their redundancy somewhat.
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 5 days ago:
How will they filter it out? If they just don’t mirror anything with ‘forbidden’ terms, we can poison repos to prevent them being mirrored. If they try to tamper with the repo histories then they’ll end up breaking a load of stuff that relies on consistent git hashes.
- Comment on Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died 5 days ago:
That is fun, I didn’t know that was a thing. I imagine that roll-overs are more common than submersion in water, but even so, that doesn’t sound like a great trade-off. Even in a crash, being able to quickly jump out the window is good — especially if the vehicle is on fire.
- Comment on Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died 5 days ago:
The front ones don’t seem to be hidden, but yeah - if they’re not meant to be used regularly, people won’t remember them in an emergency. I guess the rear ones are hidden because they probably bypass child-locks.
I don’t know how child-locks work on mechanical door latches. If the vehicle locks when in motion and the child-locks are on I don’t think there are emergency releases on most vehicles? The only ways out would be to get into the front cabin, break the windows, or find the internal boot release.
- Comment on Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died 5 days ago:
There’s a panel that can be popped out to open the hood with a 12V power supply: tesla.com/…/GUID-34181E3A-B4A7-4658-906A-38C6647B…
- Comment on Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died 5 days ago:
beneath the seat
For the toddler to use?
There is a mechanical door release if you’re trapped inside. To get in from outside obviously needs the vehicle to unlock, so it has to be jump started.
Even if there was some kind of back-up mechanical lock I can’t see anyone carrying around a key only for this specific eventuality. A glass breaker key-ring might be the best option — along with understanding how to use these emergency features in case you need them. A glass breaker might also save you in a fire or ending up underwater.
- Comment on Praise Sheezus 1 month ago:
- Comment on Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail 1 month ago:
Let’s see Paul Allen’s brain scan.
- Comment on ))<>(( 2 months ago:
The one-liner: *parses HTML with a regex*
- Comment on How do I block all meme communities on lemmy? 3 months ago:
- Comment on Yuzu is gone. 3 months ago:
I’m pretty sure my Tamagotchi has decayed back into sand and oil by now.
- Comment on Change tracking ideas 3 months ago:
I would encourage you not to split things up too finely. A single repo for your environment would allow you to see all related changes with git. E.g. if you set up a new VM it might need a playbook to set something up, a script to automate a task, and a DNS entry. With a well put together commit message explaining why you’re making those changes there’s not much need for external documentation.
Maybe if you want some more info organised in a wiki, point to the initial commit where you introduced some set up. That way you can see how something was structured. Or if you have a issue tracker you can comment with research on something and then close the issue when you commit a resolution.
Try not to have info spread out too much or maintaining all the pieces will become a chore. Make it simple and easy to keep up.
- Comment on Modeling shows green roofs can cool cities and save energy 4 months ago:
8% reduction in peak AC usage would be huge. I don’t have a good feel for numbers like that but I’d imagine it would take a lot of maintenance and roof replacements not not make a saving given that kind of energy reduction.
It would be nice if they could estimate some uncertainties and show where the break even is between energy reduction and upkeep energy expenditure.
- Comment on Me after I got fired 4 months ago:
The point being made is that it also depends how often the ‘true’ value gets used in the code. Tests might only evaluate it a few times per run, or they could cause billions of evaluations per run. You can’t know the probability of a test failure without knowing the occurrence rate of that expression.
- Comment on NASA lost contact with its Mars helicopter 5 months ago:
Yeah they were out of contact for 63 days when it flew ahead of perseverance last year: phys.org/…/2023-06-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-home…
The article doesn’t seem to suggest that they’ve given up on it.
- Comment on Open casting alternative (by Amazon?) 5 months ago:
Oh right, that makes sense. I was only thinking of Matter as serving low bandwidth devices but it also runs over WiFi and ethernet so I guess it can do video for security cameras etc. and evidently Casting audio and video also.
- Comment on Open casting alternative (by Amazon?) 5 months ago:
Also Matter is the smart home interop standard. Seems close enough for some confusion in what Matter compatible means on a device.
- Comment on NASA Successfully Tests Revolutionary Rocket That Could Get Us to Mars Faster 5 months ago:
Revolutionary
I see what they did there.
- Comment on TIL - Linux supports tilted monitors... apparently 22° is best 5 months ago:
I just aliased
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to eject the disk drive. - Comment on What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader 6 months ago:
You could just strip out the content with a big regex. Surely nothing could go wrong with ̴̬̮̳͔̬̹͖̩͍̄̈̓̀͋̀̎̊̈́̑͛͊̕t̶̘͇̺̠̗̓̿̆̓͋͗́͑͆̈́̈́͊̉̈̍̚ͅḥ̷̡̛͓̹͕̞͎̃͂̽͠ͅã̸͈̟̩̫̪̣̳̜̑̈́̓͗͘t̴̡̮̹͌́̄̔̂́̒͑͘.
- Comment on aLiEnS!!1 6 months ago:
Yeah, I was hoping someone mentioned that guy. He’s doing great work actually gathering data.
He builds up his photographs a lot in that video, which is totally justified since seemingly no-one in history has ever bothered to (accurately) publish what’s there before, but that’s not his normal style. He’s usually just gathering all the available published accounts and noting what makes sense and what doesn’t.
It’s great to see someone say they don’t have all the answers but that there are answerable questions that can be posed. Even better when they go get the answers themselves - without breaking any rules.
- Comment on aLiEnS!!1 6 months ago:
You should check out the youtube channel in the sibling comment. There’s a good video on why the cap stones were unlikely to be special (and very unlikely to be gold): www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZxmkNESTpM
- Comment on Somebody at W3 Schools dont like Fish 7 months ago:
No, that’s crows. Your thinking of school.
- Comment on Can't catch me coppers!! 7 months ago:
- Comment on Google sues people who “weaponized” DMCA to remove rivals’ search results 7 months ago:
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
- Comment on Enjoy it! 7 months ago:
You are on this paper, but we do not grant you the rank of post-doc.
- Comment on help 7 months ago:
- Comment on Scientists create artificial protein capable of degrading microplastics in bottles 7 months ago:
How would they synthesise this protein then?
I would have thought they’d insert the DNA for it into a bacterium to produce it at scale, even if the protein is extracted and applied to the plastic separately. They could add an artificial environmental dependency to stop it replicating outside, but I’m not sure that’s foolproof.
I don’t think it’s a likely outcome, but without details on usage it’s hard to know. (Also not being a biologist doesn’t help)