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Starship alone (the orbiter) is 50m. The truss of the ISS is 109m[1] long. While massive, Starship will still be dwarfed by the station (other than planned habitable volume or indi…

I would say there is no simple answer to your question. However, I am not able to give you an authoritative answer to your question anyway. If you are interested, you can start her…

> Annoyingly Firefox is lagging behind in that regard. This has not been true since quite a while. Firefox has employed sandboxing even before the multi-process work (which culmina…

I found this gem: https://www.xltrail.com/ – I have not used it yet but from the looks it‘s a great solution to our vicious circle of (no) maintenance at work :D

Sorry, I had it partially wrong. There‘s the C++ Interpreter and the baseline interpreter (that one was added only recently[1]), and then the two JITs (BaselineJIT and IonMonkey). …

If you talk space, the difference is that all relevant people were and are aware of the risks and do their job despite them. And they do their job in such a way that the risk is al…

Germany swapped nuclear (and coal) for renewables. While I wholeheartedly agree that it would have been better to extend nuclear in favor of decommissioning coal earlier, that‘ll s…

Take a look at history if you need more evidence. At some point, someone always said „now we know better and we can build XXXX to be perfect“, and now we are laughing about them (t…

I don‘t get why you‘d bring up any other means of power generation while my reply solely discussed nuclear, but I‘ll take the bait … > substantially less damaging than business as …

Very nice feature set! I especially like the referencing functionality and ToC. Though I wasn't able to test it out (stuck with Windows at work), here's some feedback: In the examp…

Be aware that this will disable two tiers of JS acceleration (JITting): The lowest level (BaselineJIT, introduced only recently) and the highest level (IonJIT for very hot code).

But this is exactly the point. Catastrophes like Fukushima are practically always a combination of individual deficiencies in design, process, and operator errors. Designs can be i…

I see a huge risk for manipulation and spoofing. You‘ll have to establish some kind of trust if you want to rely on beacon data (from whatever source) for navigation and safety. Ju…

Can you run the baseline interpreter with the costly parts disabled? Even if the code then runs approx. the same speed (and at same cost) of the C++ interpreter, you‘d save maintai…

Because hardly any modern plants are operating, by far most are 70-80ies era. On top of that, consider the cost of currently planned or built plants and their schedule overruns: Th…

WxWidgets is now available & stable(!) for Py3 and available on PyPI for easy installation & distribution. Moreso, the dev pipeline has been streamlined and they are now able to fo…

If the new API get's ported (which is likely to happen), it does not mean the existing API will get crippled. After all, they are different implementations and it's Mozilla who's b…

Apparently not since they resisted implementing WebSQL.

I've never had any issues on my Mac. Then again, I'm using an MBA 2012 sans Retina. If you are using displays with "non-standard" resolution (including Retina), even external ones,…

There is a well-known bug[1] with non-standard resolutions. Try changing the resolution and see if it makes any difference. If not, please file a new bug :). Otherwise you can see …

I‘m pretty sure there is an un-branded release version of Fx on the Mozilla website that allows side-loading and allows disabling the signature verification. I don‘t have a link re…

Their addon tool includes a well documented facility to sign an extension without listing it in the addon store so you can host it somewhere else. This can e.g. be used for company…

„This cool trick gives your Firefix super powers“ articles will appear instantly. This happened before with noobs following instructions to copy & paste code into the developer con…

It‘s the injection vector. People used to sideload malicious addons a lot by „accident“ when a rogue website told them to („You must install X player to see this video. Click here …