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> EC is about the same size as the current Artemis program.

EC cost estimates are currently about 4-5 billion for the whole program while a single SLS launch is ~2 billion.

The whole SLS/Orion program runs at few billion each year and it's already spent more than 10x the entire cost of Europa Clipper.

Yes. If you send stuff to orbit you can probably also send stuff to the Moon, it's just a payload penalty.

Several Moon missions were launched on commercial rockets. Even tiny RocketLab launched one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPSTONE

I don't know where you're getting "4000ish non starlink satellites". This seems to be the current number at the start of the year inclusive of starlink. It's growing fast!

Many sources on the web seem to quote the Union of Concerned Scientists and here is their database: https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/satellite-database

It's currently at 2219 starlinks and 5465 total, but Starlink has launched more since then.

So when is everybody transitioning to QUIC?

> When you're terrified of Covid, so you suspend most of your activities and spend two years mostly staying home, gaining 50 pounds and decimating your fitness which drastically increases your risk of cardiovascular disease and overall significantly increasing your likelihood of dying young far in excess of the acute risk that Covid actually posed to your demographic.

It's funny because I was actually able to lose 50 pounds by establishing an exercise routine at home.

I understand your argument but it doesn't work for COVID: if anything lockdowns gives people more time to exercise instead of commuting via car.

Place names get translated when they become widely used in another language, this is because most "native" names often don't fit with the phonology of another language or the character set. It's particularly awkward for Turkey to insist on this name change because most languages don't actually have an "ü" letter so foreigners don't know how to pronounce it or type it on a computer.

Imagine if Bavarians insisted that everybody refer to their capital as "München".

Some people do translate their personal names. In china it's common for people to pick "english names" for interactions with foreigners in part because foreigners have huge problems pronouncing native names.

> Very honestly, it might have worked out fine - organic produce fetches a much higher price overseas.

This also affected staple crops like rice which are eaten domestically, effectively forcing the country to start importing food instead of fertilizer.

It's not plausible to move the entire agricultural sector towards luxury exports by government fiat.

> This vulnerability doesn’t break the anonymity and encryption of Tor connections.

> The Safest security level of Tor Browser is not affected because JavaScript is disabled at this security level.

> For example, after you visit a malicious website, an attacker controlling this website might access the password or other sensitive information that you send to other websites afterwards during the same Tails session.

This makes it relatively tame.

Possibly a stupid question but can any of these public CI services support the following:

1) Build containers easily, for each commit?

2) Provide hypervisor access for custom VMs?

3) Secure support for 1/2 for possibly hostile PRs?

I'm currently using self-hosted gitlab runners for 1/2 but not 3 and interested in alternatives.

I recently bought a laptop which came with Windows 10 preinstalled and I was shocked to find that not only does Ubuntu feel much faster but it has better support for Intel Xe graphics hardware.

Windows frequently with 4K HDMI plugged in, the "System" process gets stuck at 10% and machine becomes unusable.

I've recently began to take life tracking semi-seriously and mostly use "off the shelf" tools. A good all-around dashboard is https://exist.io/, capable of pulling data from multiple sources like RescueTime and various health-monitoring applications that come with smart watches.

> Self rule, just like you'd think.

Is Vietnam in any way "more independent" today than if the north had lost? It makes sense if you claim to fight the Americans because they're evil capitalists but Vietnam turned around to adopt chinese-style reforms and is now mostly friendly towards the US.

> The CCP's primary claim to legitimacy is that they kicked out the Japanese.

The CCP is in power because they defeated the KMT, but decades later they adopted capitalism and today justify their rule through nationalism.

What's the point of a civil war if you eventually end up adopting most of the other side's policies?

Defending a communist regime purely on nationalist grounds ignores the whole point of communism.

Today Vietnam and China having mostly-capitalist economies so what was really the purpose of their revolutions?

Doing fork/exec for the mkdir tool is still many times slower that calling a good library function.

This is terrifying.

> My "Tor 0day" blog series focused on one specific scenario: Can someone watching the network traffic determine if you (specifically you) were using Tor?

Tor never claimed that it can hide if somebody is using tor. It only claims that it can hide what you're using tor for.

This "specific scenario" is very explicitly out of scope so claiming "0-days" seems extremely dishonest marketing.

What am I missing?

You seem to be assuming that a base on Mars or the Moon would have to be a closed system but that is not true.

There are plenty of useful materials on a planetary surface, for example water. There are also many ways to take advantage of a CO2 atmosphere or oxygen from lunar rocks.

Even space stations don't need to be fully closed, for example the ISS is constantly being resupplied.

> Instead of becoming an instrument to strengthen freedom, it actually weakens it and promotes domination and inequality.

I don't agree with this, other communication mechanisms can be more easily controlled for propaganda purposes and can completely exclude contrary information.

The idea that "access to information is bad because some information is wrong" is very popular but there's not much to it other than elitism and a desire for control over others.

Anyone surprised that the title is not a metaphor?

The article is about the literal sale of substances which are harmful when ingested by rodents.

Is there any good way to cache a built container and use it as the image for later steps?

I think that caching files is much less effective than caching a built container which already has dependencies installed. For tools like apt and pip the time it takes to "install" can be longer that the time it takes to "download".

Yes, writing maintainable code requires the ability to explain.

There is far far more to "communication skills" than explaining yourself very well, stuff like negotiation and persuasion and conflict resolution. Most of those are less relevant to writing code as much as to getting it accepted.

Is it even possible to make a CO2 tax that is not regressive?

The purpose of a CO2 tax is reduce emissions and a lot of emissions are not caused by luxury products and services but simple stuff like growing food or driving to work.

Increasing the price of fuel to the point where people switch to biking to work would be very successful from a climate standpoint but extremely unpopular.

Small communities will literally lynch you and after the fact they will all agree you were a rapist.

It's not clear why you brought up feudalism but systems in which a local lord is responsible for dispensing justice allow for far more abuse that those with centralized legal systems. It is always better for judges to be as far removed from the outcome of the case as possible.

This is easy to disable. I enabled it after covid struck and found that nowadays the data has extremely low granularity.

> > Large impersonal institutions are much easier to hold accountable than local communities.

> I think this is exactly backwards.

No it is not. States and corporations are bound by law and to a great extent by public opinion while smaller communities are much freer to tyrannize their members.

Being part of the same "community" didn't stop school segregation in the south, the federal government did.

The idea that shifting "norm enforcement" from local communities towards impersonal institutions is somehow "bad" is extremely wrong and harmful.

Large impersonal institutions are much easier to hold accountable than local communities. In small groups all sorts of abuse can be hidden and sometimes even outright accepted in the name of "cohesion".

Small communities with informal power dynamics can be extremely toxic in a way that is far more harmful than google knowing what videos you watch. Small town may seem idyllic but they are often hell for that one gay resident.

How would switching to GPL affect support questions?

Doom is less that 30 years old and was resource-intensive for the time.

I'm happy to see everybody hate Russia. They truly deserve it.

Python libraries shipped by distributions are so old that this mechanism is mostly useless for python development.

This also applies to many others programming languages which have their own packaging systems.

While python packaging is indeed messy the needs of traditional linux distributions are by far the least important. Python packaging needs to better serve the needs of python developers, not those of sysadmins.

Having a "linux distro" interpose itself between you and your libraries is a fundamentally broken system not worth fixing. All decisions related to dependency choices fundamentally belongs with upstream.