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The cast I was watching said that during the flip and boost-back the booster is pulling 11 Gs. That's a pretty hard hitting water-hammer for sure.

Summary: almost, but not quite entirely successful. Launch successful. Booster separation and boost back burn looked good. Booster failed to relight some of its engines and hit the…

I'm not sure I understand why even a truly obscure programming language article should ever be deleted; it's not like Wikipedia is running low on paper. If Odin ceased all developm…

Tom Scott did a video a few years ago about New Zealand's attempt to eliminate rats by 2050. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcp1BfPUeOc The program is actually called "Predator Fr…

Ha! This set it designed to take 114 years to construct and for maximum verisimilitude, Lego will run over your foot with a Lego tram after only a few decades of trying to build it…

Oh, cool! I couldn't remember which way Marimo did it so just checked the homepage. The gif there still seems to show it the old way, just FYI. Anyway, keep up the awesome work! I …

Reminds me of one of the more brilliant passages in Snow Crash , describing work in "Fed Land"... ''' Y.T's mom pulls up the new memo, checks the time, and starts reading it. The e…

Pluto is great. I use it all the time. If you like the reactivity/reproducibility but are wedded to Python, you might want to check out Marimo, which is also great. [ https://marim…

The headline is perhaps overstating things a bit but they do discuss how this is different than e.g. rivulets ''' This technology is fundamentally different from the “rivulet (shar…

I wonder what's holding them back from attempting to land...on land (as opposed to another splashdown in the ocean). They must have their reasons but there have got to be engineers…

Allen Downey (author of the above) has a number of books on computer science-y things. You can buy hardcopies but I think all of them are also just freely available. Here's a few: …

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. W.H. Auden

Have you tried Fresh? Has everything you listed and more https://getfresh.dev/

They said that Cobra would never acquire the pieces of the Weather Dominator. Now we’re doomed!

Per Dave Barry "The plug on this device represents the latest thinking of the electrical industry's Plug Mutation Group, which, in a continuing effort to prevent consumers from cau…

Sadly, the article says nothing about how old the fragment is or how it compares to other early copies of the Iliad. Somewhat amazingly, the earliest complete copy of the Iliad is …

Intro code snippet has two buttons ("+" and "-") in an HStack. Expected them to be arranged horizontally but in the accompanying screenshot they're stacked vertically. Is that inte…

The failure of the upper stage is a bummer. If it triggers a months-long review, that will almost certainly bump back the schedule for the prototype Blue Moon lander launch.

Honest question: how do you track stars during daylight? Is it the case that at the operational altitude of the B-52, bright stars are always visible?

What if I like magenta? Or brown?

You can also play it in the browser in Infinite Mac: https://infinitemac.org/1991/System%207.0 (Worked somewhat better for me than the classicreload version)