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bartkmq

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    Comment #41373168

    I watched the NASA press conference, where the decision was announced, and Bill Nelson said that the new Boeing CEO promised him he will work with NASA to keep Starliner flying. It…

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    Comment #33787057

    Well, that didn't work too good. Reword the text below without using the letter a: [text] According to every known law of aviation, there is no way bee should be able to take to th…

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    Comment #32143025

    I mean, building a jet engine from an old car turbocharger is not that difficult, you only have to manufacture the combustion chamber.

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    Comment #32088247

    Likely true, none of the other recipes on that site seem to have a number after the slug.

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    Comment #17632522

    SCMP is an independent newspaper based in Hong Kong and was founded by foreigners. "China" (mainland regime) is probably not a fan of them.

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    Comment #17043019

    Archive.org has it. http://web.archive.org/web/20180510203132/https://blog.ladde...

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    Comment #16387836

    This website doesn't look very reliable to me. Confirmed: Las Vegas Shooter on Benzos During Mass Murder The CDC's Fictional Flu Death Stats and Tamiflu's Lethal Side Effects http:…

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    Comment #16295354

    For comparison with Alpine Linux: base kbd-bkeymaps, xz compressed: 2.8 MB base kbd-bkeymaps busybox-extras, xz compressed: 2.8 MB Just 100 kB more for telnet, no extra deps. I wou…

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    Comment #16278622

    What a terrible website. I first thought my ad blocker broke because the site was so visually overloaded. Turns out those are links to actual "articles" of this site. Seems like th…

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    Comment #16200320

    Worth noting it's also the first rocket using electric fuel pumps instead of turbopumps. To optimize the weight they also drop the batteries once they get empty.

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    Comment #16141937

    You've got good points and I admit I'm split on this issue. In theory i would rather have everything handled by the package manager but container apps provide a few useful advantag…

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    Comment #16141444

    I can think of a few reasons (1) Use of a different libc (alpine linux with musl) (2) most builds are not reproducible, rebuilds are needed for security reasons (3) non-rolling rel…

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    Comment #16141171

    (1) Nat. Gas causes much more deaths per PWh produced (5 vs 0.1 for the US) and still produces quite a lot of CO2. (2) Renewable + pumped hydro is much more expensive that just pro…

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    Comment #16140992

    But how high is the cost of generating the energy _plus_ the cost of storing it? And does the wind always have the same strength or do you need to build additional wind farms for t…

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    Comment #16140965

    Nuclears problem is not accidents but irrational fear. For comparison here are the deaths per PWh produced¹. Coal 100,000 (US: 10,000) Nat. Gas 4,000 Hydro 1,400 (US: 5) Solar 440 …

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    Comment #16138348

    I disagree. Brave is targeted at the average browser user. Only ~10% of Windows users use adblockers, 2% on Android/iOS. And you can't tell me all of these people want to see ads, …

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    Comment #16132261

    Because you need the files to do proof of proof-of-storage and get your coins (back). But as the OP said there's currently no proof-of-will-to-distribute-storage so you can save mo…

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    Comment #16132250

    >You can't just Why not? (Serious Question, I want to learn.)

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    Comment #16120988

    There's also Bocker, a minimalistic Docker implementation in 100 lines of bash¹. [1]: https://github.com/p8952/bocker

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    Comment #15969172

    Have you tried using DNS66 as adblocker? It's implemented as local-running VPN and doesn't require root. I'm using it since a year or so and quite happy with it. https://f-droid.or…

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    Comment #15824503

    Alpine is a nice if you're looking for a really small os with an large number of ported packages. I use it as a rescue system for my main linux os. Only negative thing I can think …

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    Comment #15824459

    What does EFI support mean? I remember booting Alpine on an UEFI system a few months before this update so it can't be support for that. Is it maybe related to efistub?

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    Comment #15807619

    I'm sure the biometric data harvested from these pictures won't be abused by three letters agencies.

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    Comment #15762267

    For Linux users I can recommmend FSearch, which is inspired by Everything Search. http://www.fsearch.org/

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    Comment #15748209

    Does anyone found an alternative to "BackTrack Tab History", an extension that copies the history of the current tab to newly opened tabs? The author thinks he won't be able to por…