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mzkply··on Companies are buying washing machines to take the chips out and repurpose them
The OLD machines from ASML (and others) make these chips.
mzkply··on Companies are buying washing machines to take the chips out and repurpose them
or... maybe there's so much volume at the top of washing machines (above the water, where the controls are) that you could place the board there, where chips: - don't need waterproofing - don't need to be tightly integrated - can be fully COTS since the logic is relatively dead simple
mzkply··on Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4
Yeah, even with the buses into Mountain View.
mzkply··on Polaris Program
It's basically assured that Anna will fly before Anil. Anil's got to do 2 years of astronaut candidate training, then become an astronaut and wait for a flight slot.

Remember the epic "Navy Seal + Harvard Doctor + Astronaut" guy still hasn't flown.

mzkply··on Video of Tesla on Autopilot Crashing into Stopped Truck at 75mph
man, until you said that, it wasn't something i had noticed, and I was staring straight at it with full attention. I can't imagine someone driving for hours picking that up. After all it could an obstruction in the median.
mzkply··on NASA returns Hubble to full science operations
It'll be a Starship mission with astronauts to go work on it at L2 in 2023/4 then.
mzkply··on Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia
I was also confused, but it's actually a setting in the top-right menu, you can make it full width. Not sure why it's not the default.
mzkply··on Metallurgist admits faking steel test results for US Navy subs
All it takes is an auditor that can't see the minute discrepancies and on it goes for years.
mzkply··on Apple's Power Move to Kneecap Facebook Advertising Is Working
Apple gets a cut of a Google ad in an iOS app?
mzkply··on Apple Will Not Reinstate Epic’s Fortnite Developer Account
I mean, for a company eagerly (and correctly) removing the headphone jack for phones, it's the least surprising thing to remove GPU options. All that's left is RAM and HDD.
mzkply··on Leaving the Apple ecosystem behind
California, a sea of Macs, all people switching from laptops running Linux
mzkply··on iOS 15
The go-to-market for games without an app store (ios or android) is so bad that most game devs were rather get 70% of something rather than 100% of almost nothing... and that's probably why more people aren't talking about it.

It'll make it easier to make cool sites, but I wouldn't expect any change in the games landscape. Plus it really looks like the 30% isn't here to stay.

mzkply··on Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Far-Side of the Moon (2020)
I'll assume Starlink will be deployed around the moon if this telescope ever makes it past the proposal stage.
mzkply··on Facebook tried to make its platform a healthier place, but it got angrier
Am I in the super-minority if I say I've unfollowed about 80% of my FB friends? I've never seen a political or outrage post in the last 3 years since I just unfollowed everyone but my closest friends and family.
mzkply··on OnlyFans drops planned porn ban
I doubt it. With all this PR and every boomer on the planet now knowing exactly what OnlyFans is... their user base will explode, and models will come right back. They couldn't have hoped for more free marketing if they tried... genius.
mzkply··on Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”
talk to congress. it's a policy problem.
mzkply··on Tesla Autopilot thinks the moon is a yellow traffic light
the software isn't using the radar even if the cars are still shipping with it.
mzkply··on Starlink review, four months in
North is where all the satellites cluster as they reach the peak latitude of their orbit period: https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/190208-s...
mzkply··on Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers are panicking
Most people will be more annoyed than anything else at seeing a "random" ad, in the same way it's just more painful, for example, for a guy to sit through a 30 second women's shampoo TV commercial than a car commercial.

I'd say most people don't even realize they may or may not be triggered, they simply don't want to suffer through a completely irrelevant ad.

mzkply··on Bumble closes to give 'burnt-out' staff a week's break
As a newly single guy in Jan 2020, I went on Bumble for the first time... She moves in July 1st. Try it out, I had sworn I'd never do it.
mzkply··on Astronauts with disabilities can apply to Europe's space agency for first time
I’d wouldn’t frame this debate as being about preventing people from entering a store, or going up stairs, or running in a straight line fast, or living a normal life.

This about a government choosing to spend many millions of dollars over 10 years to train this one person to do an insanely difficult job. So you can bet that any disability of any kind is going to be intolerable. They will pick people with 0 physical, mental, behavioural or cognitive disability. Bum kidneys? Out. Don’t react well to a fire or spiders or smoke? Out. Can’t solve the orbits question in less than 63 seconds? Out. Argumentative and not the best team player? Out. Sadly, this will also apply to any sort of physical limitation as well. It would be trivial to add some Velcro here and there, yes, but making the entire astronaut training circuit itself accessible, from everything like the 0g sim harnesses, which expect the weight of legs, to flight training, to the Russian centers, is sadly not gonna happen.

mzkply··on Astronauts with disabilities can apply to Europe's space agency for first time
I'm frankly not sure how this is relevant to a survival scenario where people may or may not be injured.

Anyway, the entire ISS is built around astronauts using their feet as anchors, allowing them to use their hands for work. Without legs, you wouldn't be able to do maintain your position while working in 0g, hence the challenges of spacewalking. There's plenty of videos where astros show how the top of their feet become calloused as they use them to lock in their bodies to the structure.

mzkply··on Astronauts with disabilities can apply to Europe's space agency for first time
What if there's a launch abort and they need to run out from the capsule? What if there's an in-flight abort and the capsule lands in Siberian wildlife? What if..............
mzkply··on Astronauts with disabilities can apply to Europe's space agency for first time
Sure it does, and it has nothing to do with another country.

They will take 10 years teaching astronauts about everything from orbital dynamics to spacewalking to Siberian survival.

It's literally millions of dollars spent on one person, so you need to maximize the probability of success. It's why they go for perfectly healthy people, both physically and mentally. Can't have someone quickly out of breath, or someone who breaks down in a stressful situation.

mzkply··on Prank Windows XP simulator
site's already dead
mzkply··on SpaceX loses another Starship prototype as landing sequence fails
And neither will Starship when it lands on the moon... it'll do the exact same thing as the LEM. The flip is due to Earth's atmosphere. And there are no runways on Mars, so you can't make a shuttle for it, so you don't have any options left.
mzkply··on Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account
They're a large organization like any other and need HR, finance... and comms teams to announce decisions, policy changes, etc.
mzkply··on Cyberpunk 2077 Patch 1.2
At the end of the truly enormous list of fixes...

"And many more."

mzkply··on Tesla Admits Current ‘Full Self-Driving Beta’ Will Always Be Level 2
But they haven’t financially recognized the full amount paid for FSD as revenue...

They’re basically long-term 0% loans like the Cybertruck deposits. They keep it in escrow and slowly recognize it feature by feature.

mzkply··on Utah bill would require activated porn filter software on new phones, tablets
Growing up in Europe and Quebec, there was (is) softcore on public broadcast TV.
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