Cryonicists have been banking on this for decades. They* have a not-entirely unreasonable faith that scientific progress will keep pushing that line far beyond where it is today.
* I am one of them. I'm a life-insurance funded member of the Cryonics institute.
> "Doesn't work. The rockets are not designed to handle heavy horizontal stress."
Nope.
They are assembled horizontally and set upright on the pad. When they get to port they crane them off the boat and lay them horizontally onto a truck. Grabbing it and laying it down is just a matter of engineering.
I'll play. In the last 40 years gas engines have gone from needing the lifters adjusted every thousand miles and the engine completely worn out at 40K to only needing oil changes in the first 100,000 miles.
When was the last time you saw an actual engine failure not related to oil starvation in less than 100k? I've seen hundreds of Crown Vics with 300k+ on the original engine in fleet service. Why? Because fleet service customers force the OEM to build better kit.
This is likely to be a solvable problem. The lifespan of gassers is constrained by 'value engineering'. If fleet buyers demand more longevity, they'll get it.
Simple stuff like bigger oil filters and better bearings in the accessories (Aternator/starter/water pump) can cut the repairs by a third easily.
As a former diesel mechanic, I would greatly prefer not to have large gasoline tanks hanging off the side of semi trucks. Gasoline is much easier to ignite and burns more vigorously than diesel. Fuel tanks are frequently damaged in accidents, by tire failure, or by road debris. A switch to gasoline means that people will die by fire if this change occurs.
No. It's not right because humans lack the intervehicle coordination to do it properly. Instead of generating the neat zipper effect it's named for it generates a series of stop waves in the merge target lane. It would be a zipper merge if it were competently executed by e.g. autonomous vehicles, but with humans driving it is a terribly inefficient way to merge cars.
Remember this comment the next time you see an empty merge source lane next to the merge target lane. You are stopped because you are hung in one of those stop waves.
So they'll more quickly remove support for older versions to force updates?
They've done the opposite, if you've been paying attention. They extended support for 1607-1809 and made the support period longer for the fall releases on a go forward basis.
BTW, this patch Tuesday is the last patch for 1607 Enterprise/EDU. If you haven't upgraded, you need to ASAP or move to LTSC.
Internet slang for "Explain it Like I'm 5". i.e. Dum it down for a layperson.
Thanks to those that responded. Our climate has a big hysteresis factor. Got it. That's a good thing. It gives us time to fix it or colonize that big sexy red rock in the sky.
What crappy airport restaurants are you eating at that don't use real knives? Chili's and O'Charleys had them the last time I ate there. (last month and last year respectively)
I was in a similar pickle in Charlottesville Virginia in ~2002. An ISP had gone out of business dumping me and over 100 other technically skilled workers into a tiny labor pool. Six months of unemployment* and fervent job searching from North of DC all the way down to Richmond yielded nothing. I packed up, moved back to Middle Tennessee, and found a job in under two weeks.
It was crazy hard, but it was the right thing to do. It was obvious that staying in Charlottesville would mean not working in IT anymore, and I wasn't willing to give it up.
* This isn't technically accurate. I was unemployed for three months and then took a job as a welder to keep the lights on while continuing my IT job search. I quit the welding job to move.
With the utmost of respect, your analysis is wrong. When I say I've run the numbers, I've actually run the numbers.
Here's an example. A single parent of 1 kid working 40 hours a week at 10.50 an hour. This is the person that sells me twinkies at my Dollar General store.
With 2 allowances, that paychecks out to 21840 Gross pay 964 FICA 1354.08 Social Security 316.68 Medicare
For Federal taxes they get a 12000 Std deduction A federal income tax of 989 A 2000 child tax credit A 2792 Earned income credit
Total of Federal Tax + Medicare + Social security is what I call "Out of pocket" taxes. That is 2659.76 Subtract the 4792 credits they get and they pay a -2132.24 tax.
But whatabout the employer portion. It's not a better story.
Total of Employee Federal Tax + Medicare + Social security + Employer Fica, Employer Medicare, and Employer Social security = 5294.52 Take away the same 4792 credits and you get a Kitchen sink Tax number of 502.52. That's an all up tax rate of 2.3%
Realistically, is this person going to pay less than $500 in flat taxes?
I've done this a lot. Don't hand wave it away unless you bring numbers to the table.
No, it isn't. Embedded systems manufacturers, specifically POS and self-checkout system makers, would love to have a click-in forward-compatible compute subsystem. They didn't adopt Intel's platform because Intel has a long history of discontinuing embedded systems platforms with very little warning and no off-ramp. This is the rule, not the exception.
It was only two years from the time Intel announced the kit until they will stop supporting them. The customers I work with expect a 5-7 year lifecycle out of this class of machine minimum. There is zero chance they are going to switch to a shiny new platform if a manufacturer isn't committed to it. That's why they still buy NCR's stuff. It's not spectacular, it's not even good in many cases. That said you can trust that they will support it until the cows come home.
I've sketched out a few fair tax scenarios and they don't look good for people making between 15,000-50,000. Most people in that income range pay zero or negative taxes today and would pay substantially more under a fair tax.
Romney was right when he talked about the 49%. It was dumb of him to say it, but he wasn't wrong.
Minimally. The countries which export these workers run investment programs to give better returns from home. Meaning a huge chunk of their salaries get funneled directly out the US. And then of course there are the workers who send money back to their families. We really shouldn't allow visa workers either option.
Respectfully, fuck that. Being able to spend or not spend your money the way you choose is a basic freedom of speech issue. Yes, money is speech.
The pork industry worked on a similar genetic problem not too long ago. Some of the fast growth lean pigs had a gene that caused PSA 'Pale Soft Exudative' meat when they were stressed before slaughter. A combination of genetics and better pre-slaughter handling has largely fixed it.
I respectfully disagree with this action. It is not the place of governments, libraries, or bookstores (including Amazon) to police content. The slippery slope argument is very appropriate here.
My laughter loves RDR2. The open world tedium immerses her and makes her very happy.
For her, it's an escape from the day to day. She doesn't need or want constant adrenaline from this game. She wants to be in it. When she does want Adrenaline she plays Overwatch.
My favorite game is an excruciatingly tedious open world first person shooter, Arma 3. It's not uncommon for a death in a Zeus match to respawn me on the opposite side of the island, a 20 minute boat ride away from my squad. It makes me much more situationally aware, and is one of the reasons I love the game.
I found it fascinating to learn that there are more, nearly an order of magnitude more, un-processed vertebrate fossils sitting wrapped in plaster and straw in wooden crates than there are cleaned and in the hands of collectors and museums.
Instead of choking the trade in these and driving it underground wouldn't it make more sense to work on the supply side issues?
No disrespect, but paleontologists are cheap. $200k for a skull will pay for a whole lot of science.
I agree that it is inevitable. People are going to bring their political, ethical, and religious baggage with them no matter where they go. If that means that there are free range cows in my Mars colony, so be it. What I care about is that we actually get to the Mars colony before we slip up and bump ourselves back to the stone age.
My hope is that working together in the confines and danger of another world to be more unifying than divisive. It seems to have worked on ISS. The earthbound keep trying to shove political division up there. The sky people make the appropriate head nods and then work together to get things done.
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Cryonicists have been banking on this for decades. They* have a not-entirely unreasonable faith that scientific progress will keep pushing that line far beyond where it is today.
* I am one of them. I'm a life-insurance funded member of the Cryonics institute.
⦠but it probably doesn't make sense to do that if you can just grab it and hold it upright instead.
> "Doesn't work. The rockets are not designed to handle heavy horizontal stress."
Nope.
They are assembled horizontally and set upright on the pad. When they get to port they crane them off the boat and lay them horizontally onto a truck. Grabbing it and laying it down is just a matter of engineering.
I'll play. In the last 40 years gas engines have gone from needing the lifters adjusted every thousand miles and the engine completely worn out at 40K to only needing oil changes in the first 100,000 miles.
When was the last time you saw an actual engine failure not related to oil starvation in less than 100k? I've seen hundreds of Crown Vics with 300k+ on the original engine in fleet service. Why? Because fleet service customers force the OEM to build better kit.
This is likely to be a solvable problem. The lifespan of gassers is constrained by 'value engineering'. If fleet buyers demand more longevity, they'll get it.
Simple stuff like bigger oil filters and better bearings in the accessories (Aternator/starter/water pump) can cut the repairs by a third easily.
As a former diesel mechanic, I would greatly prefer not to have large gasoline tanks hanging off the side of semi trucks. Gasoline is much easier to ignite and burns more vigorously than diesel. Fuel tanks are frequently damaged in accidents, by tire failure, or by road debris. A switch to gasoline means that people will die by fire if this change occurs.
LTSB/LTSC has 10 years of support from the date of release, so the 1607 LTSB release runs out in October of 2026.
http://aka.ms/lifecycle is where all of this lives. The search keywords are LTSB (for the old releases) and LTSC (for the new release).
Grumbling about the name change is recommended. I did.
No. It's not right because humans lack the intervehicle coordination to do it properly. Instead of generating the neat zipper effect it's named for it generates a series of stop waves in the merge target lane. It would be a zipper merge if it were competently executed by e.g. autonomous vehicles, but with humans driving it is a terribly inefficient way to merge cars.
Remember this comment the next time you see an empty merge source lane next to the merge target lane. You are stopped because you are hung in one of those stop waves.
They've done the opposite, if you've been paying attention. They extended support for 1607-1809 and made the support period longer for the fall releases on a go forward basis.
BTW, this patch Tuesday is the last patch for 1607 Enterprise/EDU. If you haven't upgraded, you need to ASAP or move to LTSC.
Internet slang for "Explain it Like I'm 5". i.e. Dum it down for a layperson.
Thanks to those that responded. Our climate has a big hysteresis factor. Got it. That's a good thing. It gives us time to fix it or colonize that big sexy red rock in the sky.
If CO2 levels were the same then as now why is the South Pole still a popsicle?
(Not trolling, genuinely asking.)
What crappy airport restaurants are you eating at that don't use real knives? Chili's and O'Charleys had them the last time I ate there. (last month and last year respectively)
It sounds like your bud needs to move.
I was in a similar pickle in Charlottesville Virginia in ~2002. An ISP had gone out of business dumping me and over 100 other technically skilled workers into a tiny labor pool. Six months of unemployment* and fervent job searching from North of DC all the way down to Richmond yielded nothing. I packed up, moved back to Middle Tennessee, and found a job in under two weeks.
It was crazy hard, but it was the right thing to do. It was obvious that staying in Charlottesville would mean not working in IT anymore, and I wasn't willing to give it up.
* This isn't technically accurate. I was unemployed for three months and then took a job as a welder to keep the lights on while continuing my IT job search. I quit the welding job to move.
With the utmost of respect, your analysis is wrong. When I say I've run the numbers, I've actually run the numbers.
Here's an example. A single parent of 1 kid working 40 hours a week at 10.50 an hour. This is the person that sells me twinkies at my Dollar General store.
With 2 allowances, that paychecks out to
21840 Gross pay
964 FICA
1354.08 Social Security
316.68 Medicare
For Federal taxes they get a
12000 Std deduction
A federal income tax of 989
A 2000 child tax credit
A 2792 Earned income credit
Total of Federal Tax + Medicare + Social security is what I call "Out of pocket" taxes. That is 2659.76
Subtract the 4792 credits they get and they pay a -2132.24 tax.
But whatabout the employer portion. It's not a better story.
Total of Employee Federal Tax + Medicare + Social security + Employer Fica, Employer Medicare, and Employer Social security = 5294.52
Take away the same 4792 credits and you get a Kitchen sink Tax number of 502.52. That's an all up tax rate of 2.3%
Realistically, is this person going to pay less than $500 in flat taxes?
I've done this a lot. Don't hand wave it away unless you bring numbers to the table.
No, it isn't. Embedded systems manufacturers, specifically POS and self-checkout system makers, would love to have a click-in forward-compatible compute subsystem. They didn't adopt Intel's platform because Intel has a long history of discontinuing embedded systems platforms with very little warning and no off-ramp. This is the rule, not the exception.
It was only two years from the time Intel announced the kit until they will stop supporting them. The customers I work with expect a 5-7 year lifecycle out of this class of machine minimum. There is zero chance they are going to switch to a shiny new platform if a manufacturer isn't committed to it. That's why they still buy NCR's stuff. It's not spectacular, it's not even good in many cases. That said you can trust that they will support it until the cows come home.
I've sketched out a few fair tax scenarios and they don't look good for people making between 15,000-50,000. Most people in that income range pay zero or negative taxes today and would pay substantially more under a fair tax.
Romney was right when he talked about the 49%. It was dumb of him to say it, but he wasn't wrong.
Respectfully, fuck that. Being able to spend or not spend your money the way you choose is a basic freedom of speech issue. Yes, money is speech.
They have lots of empty space for building antenna arrays. They should look at space based solar power.
The pork industry worked on a similar genetic problem not too long ago. Some of the fast growth lean pigs had a gene that caused PSA 'Pale Soft Exudative' meat when they were stressed before slaughter. A combination of genetics and better pre-slaughter handling has largely fixed it.
I'm on Win10 1809, not insider preview, and I got the notification.
(I work for Microsoft, but this machine isn't on-prem domain joined or using an MSIT image. It is connected to AAD.)
I respectfully disagree with this action. It is not the place of governments, libraries, or bookstores (including Amazon) to police content. The slippery slope argument is very appropriate here.
My laughter loves RDR2. The open world tedium immerses her and makes her very happy.
For her, it's an escape from the day to day. She doesn't need or want constant adrenaline from this game. She wants to be in it. When she does want Adrenaline she plays Overwatch.
My favorite game is an excruciatingly tedious open world first person shooter, Arma 3. It's not uncommon for a death in a Zeus match to respawn me on the opposite side of the island, a 20 minute boat ride away from my squad. It makes me much more situationally aware, and is one of the reasons I love the game.
I found it fascinating to learn that there are more, nearly an order of magnitude more, un-processed vertebrate fossils sitting wrapped in plaster and straw in wooden crates than there are cleaned and in the hands of collectors and museums.
Instead of choking the trade in these and driving it underground wouldn't it make more sense to work on the supply side issues?
No disrespect, but paleontologists are cheap. $200k for a skull will pay for a whole lot of science.
Total mass: 585 kg (1,290 lb)
Dry mass 150 kg (330 lb)
Dimensions Diameter: 2 m (6.6 ft); height: 1.5 m
The trouble with binging the thing is they changed the name. The Wikipedia article is under "SpaceIL".
I agree that it is inevitable. People are going to bring their political, ethical, and religious baggage with them no matter where they go. If that means that there are free range cows in my Mars colony, so be it. What I care about is that we actually get to the Mars colony before we slip up and bump ourselves back to the stone age.
My hope is that working together in the confines and danger of another world to be more unifying than divisive. It seems to have worked on ISS. The earthbound keep trying to shove political division up there. The sky people make the appropriate head nods and then work together to get things done.