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You are obviously with them in the wrong room.... Once you know them for who/what they are, and you learn to be comfortable enough with not following them closely, or not knowing w…

I'm not entirely convinced this is the argument. From what I've read so far, it seems that ESA was uncomfortable with the possibility of a collision to a degree that SpaceX could p…

Could be "improved" #define SIX 1+8 #define NINE 5+1

That made me wonder about what would happen if google started grouping concepts (eg words for grandmother in other languages will almost certainly give you differing results) rathe…

It always comes in slightly to the side of the barge and as part of the landing burn it does a final sideways correction. I believe it was for this kind of situation - or one where…

Didn't google earth have exactly this in the early days? I can't remember exact details, but pretty sure it was an easter egg - ctrl + alt + a would launch it.

Also reminds me of ethernet over barbed wire. Seems like similar things have been done for a long time... http://www.sigcon.com/Pubs/edn/SoGoodBarbedWire.htm

"The non-powered vest offers protection and support against fatigue and injury by reducing the stress and strain" Would love to see how this works and maintains an adequate range o…

Pretty sure Wernher von Braun isn't available any more though [x], in fact I think you're going to have a real hard time with many of the other principals. Principles though seem t…

I believe that comment is more or less based on the shuttle landing and/or the soyuz capsules (eg parachutes) - but as far as I can tell, SpaceX is the only one currently capable (…

Except for things like volcanoes and earthquakes... Though grantedly that is a different kind of excitement. You're still subject to much the same kind of media merry-go-round, and…

I would say on the whole, yes - that is actually true. Now you only need one "smart" person to program up the machinery, whereas in the past you did need multiple skilled craftsmen…

The way I've come to see it is "The less you know about a subject, the less you think you don't know." In other words, you have no solid grasp on the field and so cannot make an ef…

I'm pretty sure the implication is that the big corporates don't care a hoot about open source, the ethics or the model - they'll just take it, the cheaper the better. The principl…

Is there a middle ground here somewhere? In that the kernel developers create some sort of DB specific hooks that allow some of the kernel bypass mechanisms to be implemented? What…

Genuine question - was he Ukranian when he went up there? I guess customs for space flight isn't such a concern, but that would be a weird thing to have go down while you're off th…

How often do sysadmins actually make the call on what gets bought? For a purchasing dept, they'd probably stop at step 2, get the over-priced product and everyone's happy. The re-s…

There's a relationship management issue there somewhere - supporting one-off small volume sales has a definite cost at some point - someone needs to process and fill the order. Lim…

Easy to implement in an AI as well. Could try various permutations and see which works best fairly trivially then too, eg up down left right / up left down right / up left right do…

I've been enjoying spotting the sunset. Can't actually see the sun setting where I live, but the sudden change in hue (blueish to reddish - I've set it quite red) is quite noticeab…

Is there a noscript type extension that allows you to see the start of the script contents? Or the parts that would be triggered first? Seems like a sensible option might be to hav…

I wonder if it is an instinctive reaction: a large new space has a lot of unknowns -> some of these unknowns could be dangerous -> a very large new space has a lot more unknowns ->…

Wow, that page led me to the fact that there is such a thing as centrifugal force... And all these years spent trying to correct people. Oh well, you live, you learn. http://en.wik…