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Anyone who’s worked inside the sortation centers has also seen sorters crash and rip packages to shreds. Obviously that’s not “normal” damage to packages, because those things cert…

They might be getting mixed up with the “close door” button, which is something always included because it makes people feel better but when you order the elevator you can choose w…

Pot, kettle

The vacuum is the problem. It might be cold but has terrible heat transfer properties. The area of radiators it would take to dissipate a data center dwarfs absolutely anything we’…

Subjectivity is implied. You’re shadowboxing against a claim that the person you replied to never made. Communication is more than the simple dictionary definitions of the words be…

There’s also the fact that nearly 1/4 US states require no emissions or safety checks whatsoever [1]. So everything is valid by default and realistically the only thing stopping yo…

My understanding was that each satellite broadcasts a coarse ephemeris for the whole network, and that that “almanac” isn’t accurate for very long (on the order of weeks). Without …

This is a great plot for a B movie or a trashy military action book. “The bad guys are jamming GPS uplink and we only have two weeks until the almanacs are out of date and the whol…

The way NASA did it for decades was conference calls. Nowadays it's Teams meetings. The outputs of the meetings are decisions that are later encoded in very many very long document…

Perhaps. Sometimes the scale is "one" - the amount of engineering that goes into bespoke space missions is very large, and very little of that work is re-used for anything other th…

Even then... the reason we use the aero toolbox is because everybody in the aero industry trusts that MATLAB's results are accurate. I don't need to prove that the ECEF Keplerian c…

I can attest to that. I was using Gemini to help with some spherical geometry that I just couldn't figure out myself. This was for an engineering system to define and avoid attitud…

Do you have links where I can read about that? Sounds interesting

As someone totally uninformed, are you saying that all those YouTube ads about e.g. Private Internet Access (et al), which specifically cite getting around geo restrictions in the …

They are either thinking of Vladimir Komarov (who died during Soyuz 1, in 1967 - six years after Gagarin's orbit, for whom Gagarin was the backup crew) or referencing the conspirac…

Just anecdotal, but I've met a few hundred NASA contractors (and am one, and work on the field) and I'm not aware of anyone ever using MacOS as their primary OS. The laptops are al…

My employer (a small space services company) also had issues with our .space TLD. For a while every email from everyone at the company to anyone external was getting caught in thei…

I think your final sentence would be a more specific/more correct to say "five acres away", but in reality I don't think I've ever heard anyone use a furlong as a serious unit in c…

A similar interesting situation is how in some cases murdering a pregnant woman counts as a double homicide because the law includes the unborn child

I must be misunderstanding because that seems like the most common morality basis in the world. People who equate running over a squirrel in the road to vehicular manslaughter (as …

Why so snarky? It's pretty clear cko understands that and is trying to convey your exact point to the person they responded to (who made the opposite assumption)

My read of the thread is that this discussion is specifically about Microsoft Copilot, not GitHub Copilot. Which I guess just goes to show how confusing Microsoft insists on making…

Do you expect coffee from fast food restaurants to be hot enough to send you into shock? That whole incident is a great example of a story confirming peoples' assumptions (frivolou…

>Sorry Apology accepted. If you wrote anything after the apology you'll have to have your AI talk to my AI because I didn

This is very true; I've experienced both extremes. In one neighborhood there was a yearly block party where we closed the street and cooked out, kids played together in the street …