It will find galaxies, sort of. Gaia doesn't really care what it is looking at, it simply tags every point of light in its field that is bright enough. Things that aren't stars are then to be discarded when the data is processed. There was a recent paper published suggesting that some of these discarded galaxies could be surveyed in order to get even more science value out of Gaia.
Given how long it will take to chew through Gaia data (Essentially, as someone starting out in astrophysics, this mission could define much of my working life) there won't be another powerful astrometry mission for a while.
Why are you fixated on having NASA try to one-up ESA though? NASA has its own top end science missions planned, doing other things. If you are lucky and take care of your space agency, so of them might actually fly in space.
The Bush years were very trying on European patience, but there really isn't widespread animosity to Americans here. Please, don't let it stop you visiting. No, really, we are totally fucked here, bring your precious dollars ASAP. Help us!.
Nobody is demonizing you. You are not the victim of discrimination. You are the victim of mockery, for expressing ridiculous beliefs. Drop the persecution complex and grow up.
Not long ago I was slamming leftie feminists for comparing criticism of their precious ideology to racism. Now it looks like I'm going to have to turn the guns 180. Ahem...
Are you fucking serious? Are you actually comparing criticism your ideas receive to centuries of antisemitism that culminated (but didn't end) with the Holocaust? Are you that self absorbed? Hang on, you are a libertarian, of course you are.
The fact is, libertarianism is a bad idea. That is why its adherents are over-sensitive and paranoid. Such an idea that cannot be contested on a level playing field probably isn't worth hanging on to.
WRT "Schroedinger's rapist", which asserts that women must for their own safety assume men are a threat until they know otherwise, you say:
As for substituting black people, the piece would still work
so basically, you judge people walking towards you on the street by their skin colour? Bloody hell, I've never got that confession so easily out of a social justice warrior before!
This is the narrative that goes around; however the truth is far more complicated. You have (I would guess intentionally) left out the real causes for the ire against Watson - not the video about how she doesn't like to be hit on in lifts, but the use of her platform to call other women gender traitors for not agreeing with her, her use of what initially was a minor controversy as a lever to start a politically motivated purge of the skeptic and atheist communities (one that has largely failed thankfully.) Dishonesty such as yours is to be expected from Watson and her followers.
Linking to "Schroedinger's Rapist" is very telling about where your politics lie. Its a truly awful piece of work (just imagine it wasn't about men, it was about black people...) that treats men as guilty until proven innocent and implies they lack any real agency and are just superpositions waiting to collapse into a state of rapist/non-rapist.
I've shared my observations, been modded up, and had many people in this thread agree with me. Now I know the plural of anecdote is not data, but certainly a mass swell of personal observations is more evidence than nothing at all - which is what you offer.
So why don't YOU produce some evidence, to show this supposed hostile environment against women. Remember, this is the original claim; that the programming community has a specific problem. The sum of evidence for this assertion basically boils down to "Of course it does, stop mansplaining brogrammer!" - do you have anything else to offer? Or are you going to continue to evade and display faux skepticism to cover the fact that you have absolutely NOTHING.
I have no problem with treating people with respect and dignity, but hard experience has taught me that isn't what "safe space" means. The fact that you categorize any dissent as advocating mistreatment of people (rather than ideas) is quite telling. And no, I don't think women are oppressed in this culture. "Oppression" is a word with serious connotations. People in China are oppressed. People in Iran are oppressed. Middle class, educated women in well paid comfortable jobs don't get to use that word, and still be taken seriously.
I said privilege "in that manner". Its clear that people are born with money, natural talent etc. that others lack - but in the feminist context privileges are derived from group statistics (e.g. men are paid more than women) and then applied as personal characteristics to group members. In other words, people like you don't know their prior probabilities from their posteriors.
Then you go on and equate feminism with anti-racism. Another fail on your part. Feminism is not simply opposition to sexism. Once more for the hard-of-thinking: IT IS AN IDEOLOGY - and a bad one at that.
No it isn't. The vast majority of people agree with it. The problem is that feminists make a number of ideological propositions that they (rather poorly) infer from this concept, and then decide that anybody who doesn't make the same dodgy inferences doesn't agree with the concept. This, amongst other reasons, is why feminism has a credibility problem.
I report my observations about the community, you demand "evidence" - and presumably won't accept the legions of people here and elsewhere saying similar things. You then simply deny everything as "crap" and offer no evidence at your own. You believe that you can assert your views and have them accepted but mine require, what, peer reviewed references?
Demanding evidence doesn't make you a skeptic unless you do so in an appropriate manner (i.e. not after just gainsaying everything someone said as 'crap') and in an appropriate circumstances (i.e. not when someone is simply reporting their personal observations.) You are simply using the idea of asking for evidence as window dressing for the true content of your post: "Nuh uh!"
Feminism isn't a sex either. ITS AN IDEOLOGY. Ideas do not get the protection people do, and any attempt to claim that protection is a sign of a bad idea.
Speaking of "privilege" in that manner is also a red flag, that suggests to me irrationality on your part.
Lets say it together one more time, because feminists like you still don't seem to get it.
"An ideology is not a race"
Criticizing feminism is in no way comparable to having a go at someone for their ethic origin. Your ideology gets no such protection, and trying to claim that it does simply advertises the world that you cannot defend it on a level playing field. This is the exact same tactic used by people who try to deflect valid criticism on Islam on the grounds of racism. Ideas that have to shield themselves from criticism so are almost universally bad ideas.
The problem isn't women in the community (they have been here all along...) its feminists. As with other niche communities, feminists have invaded the programming community, and then demanded that the community change its character and become a 'safe space'. In this context, 'safe' means that feminists must be able to unilaterally dictate social norms, and that criticism of feminism is pushed out. You'll forgive me - and many others - for not wanting feminism in programming. Women, as I said, are welcome and have been for a long time.
And you have fallen into the trap that so many feminists do. I make a criticism against an ideology. You tried to show this was a horrifically offensive criticism by transposing into a criticism against a race. A person does not choose their race (or their gender, sexuality etc.) but they do choose to have an ideology. You make the same tragic error as those who believe any criticism of Islam is racism.
Having constructed an absurd straw man, you then top things off with an ad hominem. You know nothing about me - not least the fact that I'm happily married.
Its not in GitHub's mission to be laid into by feminist harpies. The professionally thin-skinned have presence and numbers online now, and many places are simply taking anything that might be denounced as 'offensive' down to avoid trouble.
It means that OOP creates a situation where things are acted upon by actors (programmers), which she claims parallels how woman are treated in society. I think, my Feminist Bullshit is a little rusty.
If you see a microcosm of (mostly imagined) slights against women in programming language structures, as far as I'm concerned you are a paranoid lunatic.
The language there is interesting China is acting "aggressively" in a sea on its own border, according to (I presume) a citizen of a nation on the other side of the planet that wants to ensure its rights there. I wonder what comparable control the US imposes over, say, the Gulf of Mexico. I'm not saying this is objectively right, but complaints from nations who do (or have done) far worse are entirely hypocritical.
If it saves money, why not? I think one of Elon Musk's big money savers was not going for maximum efficiency with liquid hydrogen fuel - kerosene is obviously a lot easier to handle.
The epsilon rocket is a) tiny and b) entirely solid fueled. This kind of high level of automation might not translate well to more complex and larger rockets. Bear in mind also that this is just the launch crew. Manufacturing the rocket is likely still labour intensive.
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It will find galaxies, sort of. Gaia doesn't really care what it is looking at, it simply tags every point of light in its field that is bright enough. Things that aren't stars are then to be discarded when the data is processed. There was a recent paper published suggesting that some of these discarded galaxies could be surveyed in order to get even more science value out of Gaia.
Given how long it will take to chew through Gaia data (Essentially, as someone starting out in astrophysics, this mission could define much of my working life) there won't be another powerful astrometry mission for a while.
Why are you fixated on having NASA try to one-up ESA though? NASA has its own top end science missions planned, doing other things. If you are lucky and take care of your space agency, so of them might actually fly in space.
The Bush years were very trying on European patience, but there really isn't widespread animosity to Americans here. Please, don't let it stop you visiting. No, really, we are totally fucked here, bring your precious dollars ASAP. Help us!.
Nobody is demonizing you. You are not the victim of discrimination. You are the victim of mockery, for expressing ridiculous beliefs. Drop the persecution complex and grow up.
Not long ago I was slamming leftie feminists for comparing criticism of their precious ideology to racism. Now it looks like I'm going to have to turn the guns 180. Ahem...
Are you fucking serious? Are you actually comparing criticism your ideas receive to centuries of antisemitism that culminated (but didn't end) with the Holocaust? Are you that self absorbed? Hang on, you are a libertarian, of course you are.
The fact is, libertarianism is a bad idea. That is why its adherents are over-sensitive and paranoid. Such an idea that cannot be contested on a level playing field probably isn't worth hanging on to.
WRT "Schroedinger's rapist", which asserts that women must for their own safety assume men are a threat until they know otherwise, you say:
so basically, you judge people walking towards you on the street by their skin colour? Bloody hell, I've never got that confession so easily out of a social justice warrior before!
This is the narrative that goes around; however the truth is far more complicated. You have (I would guess intentionally) left out the real causes for the ire against Watson - not the video about how she doesn't like to be hit on in lifts, but the use of her platform to call other women gender traitors for not agreeing with her, her use of what initially was a minor controversy as a lever to start a politically motivated purge of the skeptic and atheist communities (one that has largely failed thankfully.) Dishonesty such as yours is to be expected from Watson and her followers.
Linking to "Schroedinger's Rapist" is very telling about where your politics lie. Its a truly awful piece of work (just imagine it wasn't about men, it was about black people...) that treats men as guilty until proven innocent and implies they lack any real agency and are just superpositions waiting to collapse into a state of rapist/non-rapist.
I've shared my observations, been modded up, and had many people in this thread agree with me. Now I know the plural of anecdote is not data, but certainly a mass swell of personal observations is more evidence than nothing at all - which is what you offer.
So why don't YOU produce some evidence, to show this supposed hostile environment against women. Remember, this is the original claim; that the programming community has a specific problem. The sum of evidence for this assertion basically boils down to "Of course it does, stop mansplaining brogrammer!" - do you have anything else to offer? Or are you going to continue to evade and display faux skepticism to cover the fact that you have absolutely NOTHING.
I have no problem with treating people with respect and dignity, but hard experience has taught me that isn't what "safe space" means. The fact that you categorize any dissent as advocating mistreatment of people (rather than ideas) is quite telling. And no, I don't think women are oppressed in this culture. "Oppression" is a word with serious connotations. People in China are oppressed. People in Iran are oppressed. Middle class, educated women in well paid comfortable jobs don't get to use that word, and still be taken seriously.
Nobody here is mocking women. They are mocking feminists. That kind of argument is exactly why.
More irrationality.
I said privilege "in that manner". Its clear that people are born with money, natural talent etc. that others lack - but in the feminist context privileges are derived from group statistics (e.g. men are paid more than women) and then applied as personal characteristics to group members. In other words, people like you don't know their prior probabilities from their posteriors.
Then you go on and equate feminism with anti-racism. Another fail on your part. Feminism is not simply opposition to sexism. Once more for the hard-of-thinking: IT IS AN IDEOLOGY - and a bad one at that.
No it isn't. The vast majority of people agree with it. The problem is that feminists make a number of ideological propositions that they (rather poorly) infer from this concept, and then decide that anybody who doesn't make the same dodgy inferences doesn't agree with the concept. This, amongst other reasons, is why feminism has a credibility problem.
So, let me get this straight...
I report my observations about the community, you demand "evidence" - and presumably won't accept the legions of people here and elsewhere saying similar things. You then simply deny everything as "crap" and offer no evidence at your own. You believe that you can assert your views and have them accepted but mine require, what, peer reviewed references?
Demanding evidence doesn't make you a skeptic unless you do so in an appropriate manner (i.e. not after just gainsaying everything someone said as 'crap') and in an appropriate circumstances (i.e. not when someone is simply reporting their personal observations.) You are simply using the idea of asking for evidence as window dressing for the true content of your post: "Nuh uh!"
Quite pathetic, really.
Feminism isn't a sex either. ITS AN IDEOLOGY. Ideas do not get the protection people do, and any attempt to claim that protection is a sign of a bad idea.
Speaking of "privilege" in that manner is also a red flag, that suggests to me irrationality on your part.
Lets say it together one more time, because feminists like you still don't seem to get it.
"An ideology is not a race"
Criticizing feminism is in no way comparable to having a go at someone for their ethic origin. Your ideology gets no such protection, and trying to claim that it does simply advertises the world that you cannot defend it on a level playing field. This is the exact same tactic used by people who try to deflect valid criticism on Islam on the grounds of racism. Ideas that have to shield themselves from criticism so are almost universally bad ideas.
The problem isn't women in the community (they have been here all along...) its feminists. As with other niche communities, feminists have invaded the programming community, and then demanded that the community change its character and become a 'safe space'. In this context, 'safe' means that feminists must be able to unilaterally dictate social norms, and that criticism of feminism is pushed out. You'll forgive me - and many others - for not wanting feminism in programming. Women, as I said, are welcome and have been for a long time.
And you have fallen into the trap that so many feminists do. I make a criticism against an ideology. You tried to show this was a horrifically offensive criticism by transposing into a criticism against a race. A person does not choose their race (or their gender, sexuality etc.) but they do choose to have an ideology. You make the same tragic error as those who believe any criticism of Islam is racism.
Having constructed an absurd straw man, you then top things off with an ad hominem. You know nothing about me - not least the fact that I'm happily married.
Its not in GitHub's mission to be laid into by feminist harpies. The professionally thin-skinned have presence and numbers online now, and many places are simply taking anything that might be denounced as 'offensive' down to avoid trouble.
It means that OOP creates a situation where things are acted upon by actors (programmers), which she claims parallels how woman are treated in society. I think, my Feminist Bullshit is a little rusty.
If you see a microcosm of (mostly imagined) slights against women in programming language structures, as far as I'm concerned you are a paranoid lunatic.
Imperative languages are patriarchal - some privileged brogrammer barking orders - so surely a declarative language is the way to go?
In fact, the only feminist program you ever need to write goes:
RADICAL NOTION: women==people
...and then any non-patriarchal machine knows what you want done.
The language there is interesting China is acting "aggressively" in a sea on its own border, according to (I presume) a citizen of a nation on the other side of the planet that wants to ensure its rights there. I wonder what comparable control the US imposes over, say, the Gulf of Mexico. I'm not saying this is objectively right, but complaints from nations who do (or have done) far worse are entirely hypocritical.
If it saves money, why not? I think one of Elon Musk's big money savers was not going for maximum efficiency with liquid hydrogen fuel - kerosene is obviously a lot easier to handle.
The epsilon rocket is a) tiny and b) entirely solid fueled. This kind of high level of automation might not translate well to more complex and larger rockets. Bear in mind also that this is just the launch crew. Manufacturing the rocket is likely still labour intensive.
Placing a satellite in an exact orbit requires more precision than 1960s SLBMs could muster, as well as more power.
The gun was a P90, not an MP5. I watch too much TV.