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That’s interesting. In the article it says: > According to De Telegraaf, no signal would have come through in the cockpit before departure that the door was not closed properly.

Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397510

One of Amazon’s buildings in Seattle (Doppler) uses a data center next door to reduce their overall heating costs during the winter. Source: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/sustai…

Earlier discussion regarding "I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30039597

Based on the “How it Works” section of their website, it looks like both the screenshot and the text are saved.

Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27374840

According to the Verge, 18 employees (out of 57 total) have tweeted that they are going to leave. Source: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/30/22412714/basecamp-employe...

For those that haven't seen the video, he consulted on the Netflix film 'Stowaway' (that comes out later this month). He whipped up a design for the proposed spacecraft in a few mi…

I assume they meant 512kbps... or they just have strangely great upload speeds.

The first green run was on January 16th, so only about 2 months between the issue popping up and the fix being implemented and verified.

If anyone else was wondering what percent of drivers in the US have a suspended license it's 2.59% [1]. Which honestly surprised me because it seems lower than I was expecting. Fun…

Yes, but herd immunity makes it possible to protect the total population from a disease including the ones that cannot get vaccinated, such as children or those with contraindicati…

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/ Would be the best place to get images/videos from Perseverance.

This sort of reminds me, at least the Adidas example, of the Nike and Apple activity tracker that would be embedded into shoes in order to track distances and number of steps.

The 3,034 days refers to how many sols (Martian days) it has lasted. The discrepancy is due to the fact that a Martian day is roughly 24 hours 40 minutes long. That extra 40 minute…