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That's an oddly narrow focus! Nintendo appears to make the musical elements of its work a priority and it's good to see it escaping the game console into live performance -- follow…

Most of the big TLDs have already converted to algo 13 -- .org is still lingering on algo 8, but .com, .net, .edu, .gov have all converted, so a lot of the DNS traffic is using sma…

Well, my reading is that the corrective action was less "add redundant safeties" and more "have sufficient process controls in place to ensure you don't break the feedback loop dur…

As performed on the David Letterman show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLQ7xYnyIBQ You can see a few shots of the Cuica -- the drum(!) that makes the high-pitched squeaky monkey…

Huh. I've owned a few manual-transmission cars over the years and they all disallowed this trick -- pressing the clutch would disengage cruise control just like a tap on the brakes…

The NTSB final report on this accident is here: https://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/Pages/2019-PLD18MR003-BMG.a... Unfortunately the shutdown of go.usa.gov broke a bunch of links from…

Something similar was at work in the 2018 natural gas explosions in and around Andover, MA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrimack_Valley_gas_explosion... "According to the NTSB's…

It's more likely that something energetic happened with an onboard system (propulsion or batteries). Could just be leaky valves causing propellant and oxidizer to meet somewhere th…

Odd that the article makes no mention of intel's APX extensions (which add more integer registers, 3-operand variants of most 2-operand instructions, and assorted other tweaks).

According to their web site at https://kairospower.com/technology/ it uses a molten fluoride salt based coolant but unlike the MSR/LFTR designs the fissionable fuel is not dissolve…

Main difference (besides scale) is that the booster is cooperating with the chopsticks, navigating to hover at a point between the arms.

In August, they said the rocket was ready to fly .. but they were quite visibly still doing significant work to the catch mechanism on the launch tower.

The water deluge system has been in operation for all launches save the first and has been functioning well, protecting the pad from damage. It uses drinking-quality water and outf…

First attempt to catch the booster back at the launch site. The "mechazilla" launch tower has two "chopstick" arms which are used to pick up and stack both stages and which are int…

Not much different from the prior flights. Flight 4 was licensed on June 4th, was originally scheduled to launch on June 5th, and actually launched on the 6th. Flight 3 received it…

I've seen multiple reports that the equipment was in stock and for sale in Home Depot stores in the surrounding area.

Wasn't always this way -- see this historic reconstruction of a Baroque orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNqJ8mED1VE (Handel, Music for the Royal Fireworks on period instr…

If you transmit, you can be tracked. If you could modify a device to include an explosive, you could also modify it to include an undisclosed transmitter.

> B&H Photo Okay, that pretty much guarantees that somebody at the Goa Chronicle fell hook, line, and sinker for a bit of internet satire. EDIT: It would also appear that the good …

Pagers are immune to a number of threats that two-way communications devices enable.

Hezbollah reportedly bans its members from carrying cell phones and has them carry pagers instead: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/pagers-drones-how-...

I've not seen it used this way before but it is similar enough to the dagger and double-dagger symbols that the intent to use it as a footnote marker is clear.

PG wrote: "Whatever founder mode consists of, it's pretty clear that it's going to break the principle that the CEO should engage with the company only via his or her direct report…

No need for a new one; the two they built for the Apollo program still work just fine. Note that the crawler-transporter doesn't hang around at the pad during the launch - after se…

It's tower on a large steel platform but it also includes significant GSE (ground support equipment) - cabling and cryogenic plumbing to connect to the rocket to let it be fueled a…