It wasn't lack of preparation. It isn't possible to do an exact fit of suit on earth as body proportions change in weightlessness, and the ISS doesn't have a ton of room for full spare suits. So they keep two full suits and some spare parts.
After using both the large and medium torso in training exercises on earth, McClain believed that the large torso would work better. Your spine elongates and your internal organs shift further up in your torso when weightless, so erring on the side of larger torso make sense. However, after her first real spacewalk, she determined that the large torso was too bulky and made an already laborious activity even harder, and that she should use medium torso for future spacewalks.
But people need lines to govern things like jurisdiction. The usual line is the Karman Line at roughly 100km. That's where the minimum speed needed to maintain aerodynamic lift equals orbital velocity.
It's also worth pointing out that the exact atltitude where that occurs depends on the the thickness of the atmosphere (which varies significantly spatially and seasonally), and even the design of the aircraft. Most people who have estimated average values have gotten numbers between 80 and 90 km. The 100km number is a political definition found my rounding to a nice even number, as is the 50mi the USAF uses. Flying to the edge of space is a t perfectly reasonable description of what both Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin are doing whether they get to 80km or 100km, or anywhere close.
You have a good point about battery longevity. We have a slow charger in the bedroom, and a fast one in the car (which is only used when needed), for that same reason. But this seems like something that Apple could address in software. It might need tighter integration between the USB controller and the OS, but Apple controls all of that.
I'm not too familiar with how Apple lighting chargers work, but with USB the device negotiates the voltage and current with the charger. It seems possible that iOS could notice that you plugged in the phone, and set an alarm for X hours from now, and negotiate a charging speed that will have the phone ready to go at that time.
Electric cars do just that, charge up to y% right away to give you a quick boost when you need it, then slowly charge the rest of the way targeting a (user configurable) completion time the next morning.
How did they get all this data of yours. Oh, because of a complete lack of privacy in modern computing that allows companies to scoop up every little detail about you and what you do.
Before the days of cell phones, there were many more pay-phones around, and many businesses were fine with letting you use their phone to make a (local) call if there wasn't a pay-phone nearby. It is only because everyone else has adopted cellphones that these other options have gone away. Therefore, I don't see his approach as hypocritical; just living in the world we are in.
I understand the need/desire for separate school buses for special need students and young children, but I have long felt that in urban areas school buses for middle and high school should be eliminated and replaced with general purpose public transit buses, whose routes are boosted to accommodate school start/end times.
It should decrease costs of running both services in parallel, and increase usage of public transit during those peak hours helping to solve the chicken/egg problem of nobody wanting to use public transit if the routes are too infrequent or far away on one hand, and not wanting to fund improvements in public transit if people aren't using them. It would also make transit easier for zero-hour and after-school extra-circular activities, which frequently don't get any bus service, making it harder for low-income families to participate.
I also think it would be beneficial to give teens the extra freedom and responsibility that comes with using public transit vs a school bus. Yes, some will abuse it, but you can't expect young adults to take responsibility for themselves if you never give them responsibility.
I find it frustrating how many books I can only find as trade paperbacks rather than mass market paperbacks. They are less convenient and more expensive. The ability to shove a book in my back pocket is a big factor in whether I have it with me. Front pocket might be a nice improvement, I'd have to try it out, although the thin paper makes it sound like it will be sold at a premium.
SpaceX isn't planning on dropping their Falcon 9 launch prices any more (unless New Glenn pricing forces their hand), because they want to funnel that profit into BFR and Starlink.
There may be some increase in market as a delayed response to the drop in launch costs that SpaceX has already delivered. Furthermore, I do expect Falcon Heavy to take much of Ariane's commercial launches.
But things like >10x growth in market aren't likely to happen with the current generation of rockets.
Sure, if a device has to be connected to the internet to perform its job, then it must have OTA updates. But taking a critical safety device that has no reason to be connected to the internet whatsoever, and connecting just to receive OTA updates is asking for trouble. You are massively increasing your attack surface for a small convenience.
Yes stupid posts like this, and others are posted in every discussion, but they are quickly moderated down to -1, hence becoming hidden with default settings, and thus mostly harmless.
Slashdot has long operated on the policy that it only deletes posts in very limiting circumstances, like they a court order or valid take down request. Other than that all moderation happens in the open. Any user can see all the posts by setting their viewing thresholds to -1, allowing them to notice abuse in the moderation system and correct it. People who don't want to see all the garbage can leave their settings at the default. This transparency is a wonderful feature of slashdot, one that I would really hate to see changed.
If you can't read an article because some of the text is tinted blue you have bigger problems. I hope you never have to read a scholarly article with all those distracting footnotes. Providing links to enable people to get more information is a huge boon, and you can easily ignore the links if the summary in the article was sufficient for your level of interest, or you are already steeped in the previous writings on the subject. In the later case it is much easier to skip over a single blue link than to have to skim paragraphs and paragraphs of information you already read the last time the issue was reported on to get to the kernel of new information, which is what reading the news used to be like (and don't get me started on inverted pyramid writing style - thank god that has all but died).
I thought that the problem with the Facebook BSD+Patent license was that they granted you a patent license, but would revoke it if you sued them for patent infringement (even if completely unrelated to the software in question). This new license doesn't grant any patent license at all, so how is that better?
This is a great one. I had started working a a mp3 player for my car that used those libraries, and then let it wither when they stopped making it available. At the time the free libraries from universities weren't nearly as good. I haven't looked around to see if there are any better open source packages now with the recent renaissance of machine learning.
Its fine for me (I actually prefer vim & gpg encrypted file), but non-computer geeks (eg every family member I have tried to get to use KeePass) hate having to: * Stop what they are doing * Open another program * Type in an unlock password * Search for the site they want, * Copy the password * Go back to the browser * Paste the password It takes more like 10-15 seconds for most people I've watched, and adding new passwords is takes longer.
Furthermore, synchronizing an entire encrypted database as a blob using another tool can be extremely error prone if the clients don't all have constant connectivity with the server, which can result in lost passwords. Some cloud sync tools don't even notify the user when a conflict occurs, and even if you are notified manually resolving the conflict is a pain in the ass. The synchronization feature KeePass 2 made it a little better, but it is still a manual process that you have to teach people to recognize, and how to perform.
I tried for years to cobble shit together with KeePass & bittorrent sync (before syncthing was stable) and the end result was my family hated it so much they only used it for bank passwords and others that I absolutely insisted on. I don't like some of the security compromises LastPass makes but it is more secure than a password manager that isn't used.
If there is any piece of software that needs to be auditable and have options for self-hosting it is password managers. Especially now that 1Password is backing off of their support for hosting your database file somewhere other than their servers.
Unfortunately, I haven't found any open source password managers that pass the WAF, which requires seamless browser integration and syncing on all major platforms.
It's not just about money, either. The licensing situation for H.265 a cluster-fuck, with patent holders having split into 2 licensing pools and several other patent holders that aren't participating in either pool. So even if companies were content with paying the licensing fees (which are significantly higher than H.264), they don't have any easy way of doing so that will cover all the patent holders. Most big players would prefer to pay and use H.265, but the patent holders have gotten too greedy and too splintered.
Most of the major players have gotten fed up with this shit, and committed to pool their patents and expertise create a royalty free format AV1, in place of H.265. Alliance for Open Media includes: Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, Netfix, Amazon, BBC, ARM, Intel, AMD, nVidia, Broadcom, Cisco, Polycom, and more. The only companies that haven't signed on yet and are big enough to prevent wide adoption are Apple and Qualcomm, and Qualcomm has previously supported VP9, so I don't know why they wouldn't support AV1 once it is ready.
All upscaling algorithms are making up data based on assumptions on what "typical" hi-res images should look like given their low-res counterparts. That doesn't mean they are lying or misrepresenting. Furthermore, some assumptions are most statistically valid than others, and some produce more aesthetically pleasing results than others, actually resulting in images that are genuinely more likely to be closer to the true image than nearest neighbor.
Nowhere in google's paper are they suggesting that these images be used for forensic purposes, nor claiming that they are finding "deeper truth" or additional information in the images than what actually exists. They developed an approach that produces better results for common classes of images than previous algorithms, which is useful for a large number of applications that don't require the same level of rigor that forensics do.
Yes and No. It is an effort to make a new browser engine, starting with Gecko and slowly replacing parts of it until none of Gecko remains. In the sort term it can be considered an improvement of Gecko, but in the long run will be a whole new engine.
The Servo engine as a whole is alpha, and still has a lot of catching up to do to implement an entire modern browser engine. However, some of it's components are more mature than others, and the code that is there is faster and more robust than the old Gecko code. The idea with Quantum is that rather than waiting for an entire brand new engine to be reimplemented from scratch (Servo) they will be keeping most of Gecko and slowly replacing components of it with new code from Servo, doing the necessary work to bring those components to production quality in the process.
This is for successful Kickstarter products, that is ones that have already shipped to their backers and are ready to start selling the product to others.
All startups who participate in Launchpad receive custom product pages, a comprehensive marketing package, and access to Amazon's global fulfillment network, the retailer notes.
Given that I see no reason why they couldn't be included in prime, and browsing through the page, most of them are.
Unless your post was a joke, in which case:/swoosh.
The gas mileage numbers that the EPA requires on new car window stickers are not determined the same way as the gas mileage used for CAFE fleet efficiency regulations. The former isn't perfect, but is a lot closer to real world performance than CAFE is.
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It wasn't lack of preparation. It isn't possible to do an exact fit of suit on earth as body proportions change in weightlessness, and the ISS doesn't have a ton of room for full spare suits. So they keep two full suits and some spare parts.
After using both the large and medium torso in training exercises on earth, McClain believed that the large torso would work better. Your spine elongates and your internal organs shift further up in your torso when weightless, so erring on the side of larger torso make sense. However, after her first real spacewalk, she determined that the large torso was too bulky and made an already laborious activity even harder, and that she should use medium torso for future spacewalks.
It is worth mentioning that these pictures were just a test of their improved imaging system, and not intended to provide any new information yet.
But people need lines to govern things like jurisdiction. The usual line is the Karman Line at roughly 100km. That's where the minimum speed needed to maintain aerodynamic lift equals orbital velocity.
It's also worth pointing out that the exact atltitude where that occurs depends on the the thickness of the atmosphere (which varies significantly spatially and seasonally), and even the design of the aircraft. Most people who have estimated average values have gotten numbers between 80 and 90 km. The 100km number is a political definition found my rounding to a nice even number, as is the 50mi the USAF uses. Flying to the edge of space is a t perfectly reasonable description of what both Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin are doing whether they get to 80km or 100km, or anywhere close.
You have a good point about battery longevity. We have a slow charger in the bedroom, and a fast one in the car (which is only used when needed), for that same reason. But this seems like something that Apple could address in software. It might need tighter integration between the USB controller and the OS, but Apple controls all of that.
I'm not too familiar with how Apple lighting chargers work, but with USB the device negotiates the voltage and current with the charger. It seems possible that iOS could notice that you plugged in the phone, and set an alarm for X hours from now, and negotiate a charging speed that will have the phone ready to go at that time.
Electric cars do just that, charge up to y% right away to give you a quick boost when you need it, then slowly charge the rest of the way targeting a (user configurable) completion time the next morning.
How did they get all this data of yours. Oh, because of a complete lack of privacy in modern computing that allows companies to scoop up every little detail about you and what you do.
Before the days of cell phones, there were many more pay-phones around, and many businesses were fine with letting you use their phone to make a (local) call if there wasn't a pay-phone nearby. It is only because everyone else has adopted cellphones that these other options have gone away. Therefore, I don't see his approach as hypocritical; just living in the world we are in.
It's a suppository!
I understand the need/desire for separate school buses for special need students and young children, but I have long felt that in urban areas school buses for middle and high school should be eliminated and replaced with general purpose public transit buses, whose routes are boosted to accommodate school start/end times.
It should decrease costs of running both services in parallel, and increase usage of public transit during those peak hours helping to solve the chicken/egg problem of nobody wanting to use public transit if the routes are too infrequent or far away on one hand, and not wanting to fund improvements in public transit if people aren't using them. It would also make transit easier for zero-hour and after-school extra-circular activities, which frequently don't get any bus service, making it harder for low-income families to participate.
I also think it would be beneficial to give teens the extra freedom and responsibility that comes with using public transit vs a school bus. Yes, some will abuse it, but you can't expect young adults to take responsibility for themselves if you never give them responsibility.
I find it frustrating how many books I can only find as trade paperbacks rather than mass market paperbacks. They are less convenient and more expensive. The ability to shove a book in my back pocket is a big factor in whether I have it with me. Front pocket might be a nice improvement, I'd have to try it out, although the thin paper makes it sound like it will be sold at a premium.
SpaceX isn't planning on dropping their Falcon 9 launch prices any more (unless New Glenn pricing forces their hand), because they want to funnel that profit into BFR and Starlink.
There may be some increase in market as a delayed response to the drop in launch costs that SpaceX has already delivered. Furthermore, I do expect Falcon Heavy to take much of Ariane's commercial launches.
But things like >10x growth in market aren't likely to happen with the current generation of rockets.
ProtonVPN is $8/month for a yearly subscription, but $10/month month-to-month. Mozilla referred customers get the same pricing.
Sure, if a device has to be connected to the internet to perform its job, then it must have OTA updates. But taking a critical safety device that has no reason to be connected to the internet whatsoever, and connecting just to receive OTA updates is asking for trouble. You are massively increasing your attack surface for a small convenience.
Yes stupid posts like this, and others are posted in every discussion, but they are quickly moderated down to -1, hence becoming hidden with default settings, and thus mostly harmless.
Slashdot has long operated on the policy that it only deletes posts in very limiting circumstances, like they a court order or valid take down request. Other than that all moderation happens in the open. Any user can see all the posts by setting their viewing thresholds to -1, allowing them to notice abuse in the moderation system and correct it. People who don't want to see all the garbage can leave their settings at the default. This transparency is a wonderful feature of slashdot, one that I would really hate to see changed.
For comparison in the other direction.
If you can't read an article because some of the text is tinted blue you have bigger problems. I hope you never have to read a scholarly article with all those distracting footnotes. Providing links to enable people to get more information is a huge boon, and you can easily ignore the links if the summary in the article was sufficient for your level of interest, or you are already steeped in the previous writings on the subject. In the later case it is much easier to skip over a single blue link than to have to skim paragraphs and paragraphs of information you already read the last time the issue was reported on to get to the kernel of new information, which is what reading the news used to be like (and don't get me started on inverted pyramid writing style - thank god that has all but died).
I thought that the problem with the Facebook BSD+Patent license was that they granted you a patent license, but would revoke it if you sued them for patent infringement (even if completely unrelated to the software in question). This new license doesn't grant any patent license at all, so how is that better?
This is a great one. I had started working a a mp3 player for my car that used those libraries, and then let it wither when they stopped making it available. At the time the free libraries from universities weren't nearly as good. I haven't looked around to see if there are any better open source packages now with the recent renaissance of machine learning.
Its fine for me (I actually prefer vim & gpg encrypted file), but non-computer geeks (eg every family member I have tried to get to use KeePass) hate having to:
* Stop what they are doing
* Open another program
* Type in an unlock password
* Search for the site they want,
* Copy the password
* Go back to the browser
* Paste the password
It takes more like 10-15 seconds for most people I've watched, and adding new passwords is takes longer.
Furthermore, synchronizing an entire encrypted database as a blob using another tool can be extremely error prone if the clients don't all have constant connectivity with the server, which can result in lost passwords. Some cloud sync tools don't even notify the user when a conflict occurs, and even if you are notified manually resolving the conflict is a pain in the ass. The synchronization feature KeePass 2 made it a little better, but it is still a manual process that you have to teach people to recognize, and how to perform.
I tried for years to cobble shit together with KeePass & bittorrent sync (before syncthing was stable) and the end result was my family hated it so much they only used it for bank passwords and others that I absolutely insisted on. I don't like some of the security compromises LastPass makes but it is more secure than a password manager that isn't used.
If there is any piece of software that needs to be auditable and have options for self-hosting it is password managers. Especially now that 1Password is backing off of their support for hosting your database file somewhere other than their servers.
Unfortunately, I haven't found any open source password managers that pass the WAF, which requires seamless browser integration and syncing on all major platforms.
It's not just about money, either. The licensing situation for H.265 a cluster-fuck, with patent holders having split into 2 licensing pools and several other patent holders that aren't participating in either pool. So even if companies were content with paying the licensing fees (which are significantly higher than H.264), they don't have any easy way of doing so that will cover all the patent holders. Most big players would prefer to pay and use H.265, but the patent holders have gotten too greedy and too splintered.
Most of the major players have gotten fed up with this shit, and committed to pool their patents and expertise create a royalty free format AV1, in place of H.265. Alliance for Open Media includes: Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, Netfix, Amazon, BBC, ARM, Intel, AMD, nVidia, Broadcom, Cisco, Polycom, and more. The only companies that haven't signed on yet and are big enough to prevent wide adoption are Apple and Qualcomm, and Qualcomm has previously supported VP9, so I don't know why they wouldn't support AV1 once it is ready.
All upscaling algorithms are making up data based on assumptions on what "typical" hi-res images should look like given their low-res counterparts. That doesn't mean they are lying or misrepresenting. Furthermore, some assumptions are most statistically valid than others, and some produce more aesthetically pleasing results than others, actually resulting in images that are genuinely more likely to be closer to the true image than nearest neighbor.
Nowhere in google's paper are they suggesting that these images be used for forensic purposes, nor claiming that they are finding "deeper truth" or additional information in the images than what actually exists. They developed an approach that produces better results for common classes of images than previous algorithms, which is useful for a large number of applications that don't require the same level of rigor that forensics do.
Yes and No. It is an effort to make a new browser engine, starting with Gecko and slowly replacing parts of it until none of Gecko remains. In the sort term it can be considered an improvement of Gecko, but in the long run will be a whole new engine.
The Servo engine as a whole is alpha, and still has a lot of catching up to do to implement an entire modern browser engine. However, some of it's components are more mature than others, and the code that is there is faster and more robust than the old Gecko code. The idea with Quantum is that rather than waiting for an entire brand new engine to be reimplemented from scratch (Servo) they will be keeping most of Gecko and slowly replacing components of it with new code from Servo, doing the necessary work to bring those components to production quality in the process.
This is for successful Kickstarter products, that is ones that have already shipped to their backers and are ready to start selling the product to others.
All startups who participate in Launchpad receive custom product pages, a comprehensive marketing package, and access to Amazon's global fulfillment network, the retailer notes.
Given that I see no reason why they couldn't be included in prime, and browsing through the page, most of them are.
Unless your post was a joke, in which case: /swoosh.
The gas mileage numbers that the EPA requires on new car window stickers are not determined the same way as the gas mileage used for CAFE fleet efficiency regulations. The former isn't perfect, but is a lot closer to real world performance than CAFE is.