I love that name and would 100% support that change lol
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Sure, you'll get better telemetry info and the onboard views from the ships that these companies launch in their streams, but the commentary is sub-par at best (they are always sounding so "corporate official" to me) and they just don't provide the best views for watching it live.
I love that these space flight companies have opened up their development process to let the public follow along, I just think they aren't as good at producing live streams as some of these channels that have taken off over the last 5+ years.
Those "independent streamers" provide live launch streams with multiple feeds using their own equipment and to top it off they have numerous very knowledgeable hosts for all their streams. At this point I suspect they are covering every US based launch from all the major players. Hell, today they broadcasted both the New Glenn and Starship launches less than 24h apart.
But yeah, let's get hung up on an organization name that originated as an Internet forum for discussing all things....... NASA!
It really is useful in the right scenarios, sure you shouldn't adopt it as your "official method for provisioning production servers" but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a legitimate use case or is a "crutch".
If I work on my PC or server hardware at the dining room table I will end up with random components/tools/hardware left there after I finish and my brain will tell me "This is fine, we have something else to do right this second!"
If one of my kids leaves something like a bag of chips on the table right next to that pile of stuff I left behind, my brain will blow a gasket and make having the remediation of the chip bags misplacement by the offender as the super most toppest priority to address right this very second.
So under your system I'd end up with all my stuff in my house's doorways and 2 annoyed teenagers who will probably extract revenge by "cleaning up" my doorways and since they are teenagers and share DNA with me, not a single one of those items will find it's way to it's proper place! ADHD is an adventure for sure lol.
$Work is actively merging teams from different companies so I'm going to be juggling having to use different accounts on some SaaS platforms until we've gotten everything combined.
Sidebary has so many very useful and powerful features but I'm trying to be disciplined and mixing them in with my typical workflow 1 at a time and actually using it for a while before moving on to the next. (Ok, I might have gone full ham when I first installed it but it was so different from my normal flow that I quickly realized it was counter productive).
Every time I read about someone with that kind of tab count I immediately wonder:
1) if they have that many persistent tabs and actually need (probably the wrong word here) them, how many tabs do they actually close?
2) Does closing a long standing tab invoke a physiological/emotional response?
I'm only poking a little fun with #2. I have to actively overrule my subconscious when it comes to a few categories of physical things. Small electronics and computer parts/peripherals are a couple of things that if I don't verbally tell myself "you won't ever need this random old PC case panel thumb screw" I could very easily end up in hoarder territory.
https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country-size-comparison/texa...
Fact is, these storms are stupid powerful (even the "little" cat 1's) and big trees are heavy as fuck which is going to be the major cause of our outages.
I can get pictures of some of the 15+ meter trees with trunks over a meter wide that ended up completely uprooted and toppled over. It's impossible to just not build around these trees (best we can do is try to trim the ones around power infra but our area is just so dense it's impractical to keep them completely cut back everywhere) so it's just a fact of life that there will be power infrastructure damage during extreme weather.
Now the response speed definitely needs to be addressed but I cover that in my to level post so I won't rehash it here again.
Not to mention Houston is huge and dense so switching completely to underground would be a massive project that no one is going to enjoy.
> August 25 – Hurricane Katrina moved ashore southeastern Florida as a minimal hurricane, producing a peak wind gust of 97 mph (156 km/h) at Homestead General Aviation Airport. Heavy rainfall accompanied the hurricane, peaking at 16.43 in (417 mm) in Perrine, which caused flooding in the Miami metro area. About 1.4 million people lost power during the storm. Later, when Katrina made its devastating landfall along the northern gulf coast, its large circulation produced high tides, light rainfall, and gusty winds along the western Florida panhandle. The hurricane killed 14 people across the state, and damage was estimated at $623 million.[54][55][56][57]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Florida_hurricanes_(...
Category 1 storm knocked out power for 1.4 million Floridians.
To start, this has little if not nothing to do with Ercot and all the stuff that's been brought up repeatedly since the freak winter storm (which I also went through), we aren't low on light juice, no rolling brown outs, etc.
Onto the the important points, a few things I've seen posted in comments here stuck out to me as being inaccurate:
>> No outage tracker available
No, we don't have a "down to the house" level outage tracker but that's not unreasonable given the large number of circuit level outages. That said we have had the following:
- Published sometime Monday and updated every 5 minutes: https://gisoutagetracker.azurewebsites.net/
- A much more detailed map that shows the status of things down to the circuit level: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/195bcf03ae0c491f9f14bf7...
>> It was just a small category 1, how could it be so bad?
As an outsider, I'd probably be asking the same thing but there were a few things that made this situation worse than it would normally be.
- Lack of preparedness
But not in the way you're probably thinking. Our forecasted tracks when it was coming off the Yucatan started out with this thing staying well South of the Houston area. As of July 6th, 2 days before landfall, it was confidently projected to make landfall around Corpus Christ and Houston would just get a bunch of rain. But that's not what happened, It ended up being a worst case track with the eye going right up the west side of Houston putting the entire city under the "Dirty side" of the storm.
- It's been wet AF the last month!
We probably got lucky that the week before the storm it finally stopped raining for a while. I bring this up because just in my neighborhood alone, I saw at least 5 old and very very large trees that fell and had huge chunks of root system pulled up out of the ground. These are trees that have survived at least 2 major hurricanes in the past that just popped out of the ground and laid over. I suspect, especially in the suburbs on the North and West side, that a bunch of harder to get to lines were damaged which, in my mind, helps explain why there are a ton more complete circuit outages (No traffic lights, major buildings like grocery stores completely disconnected) in our areas.
All that said, it sucks and is uncomfortable but on the bright side, this time last year we were in the middle of a month long heatwave (hitting 100°F+ almost daily) but since the storm blew through it stayed relatively mild and even fairly pleasant. It was actually really nice out just chilling under a pop up tent yesterday afternoon!
Hope this helps give some insight into things from a first person perspective.
Yeah, but just a little though! (Plus, I got the beetus so I get a little slack right? Lol).
But yeah, potatoes are a really fun one. I think French fries are going to be the more common way potatoes get consumed in the US and in my experience it's almost always a side for a high fat main course. I'd wager it's these exact complex scenarios that lead Doctors to just avoid trying to explain the nuance to diabetics and instead just have a blanket policy of "stay away from it".
I mean, after a decade with the disease (I didn't catch it until I was in my mid 20's so I didn't grow up learning the stuff), I have not had a single doctor and had exactly 1 Nurse Practitioner actually bring up fiber and its role in calculating insulin boluses before meals.
All that said, I'm going to break rule 2 for real and declare Pizza to be the most evil food ever from a diabetic standpoint. Starches in the dough, sugars from all the tomato sauce, tons of fats and proteins from the cheese and meats, I honestly don't think I will ever be able to accurately predict how a couple slices of Pizza will decide to break down on a given day lmao.
2. Please be mindful of making declarative statements about the risks associated with diabetics and foods.
A small red potato is ~27g of carbs, a couple of potatoes to non-diabetics may seem harmless but for a T1 diabetic, 54g of carbs from couple of potatoes not being accounted for with insulin can easily result in going into DKA (Diabetic Ketoacidosis) and not so nice stay in the hospital.
Expanding a bit on the reasons why potato is recommended to be avoided:
For type 1 diabetics, we are essentially replacing the functionality our immune system is suppressing by "manually" providing the needed insulin to process the glucose.
Since T2 diabetics do produce insulin (it's way more complex than this but it's correct enough for this post), the focus for their treatments are mostly around fixing this resistance through medications and reducing the need for insulin by limiting carb intake.
While the carb density of starches is a big reason for avoiding them, the specific reason T1 diabetics are advised to avoid them is because of how slowly your body breaks down carbohydrates from these foods after consuming.
Eating 20g of carbs from potatoes will result in those carbs getting processed over the span of hours as opposed to foods like Orange Juice which feel like they skip the stomach and dump glucose straight into the blood stream.
It's that long gap of time between eating and all the carbohydrates being processed that is trying to be avoided.
For T1's, removing those foods from our diet makes predicting a given meal's impact on your BG levels and for how long they're affected much simpler.
Kinda Related Small PSA:
We know you mean well but asking a diabetic the question "Should you be eating that?" can be very irritating and, at least for me, comes off as demeaning. While you may only be asking it once, we hear it frequently and already spend 16 hours a day thinking about the disease so let us have those 20 minutes between injections and finger pricks to forget about it and feel normal, if only for a little bit <3
Sorry for the wall of text, this topic is just so dense and nuanced that it's way too easy to end up writing a book for what seems like something so small lol.
I made it out to South Padre for the first launch attempt but couldn't stay for the 3 day delay so I missed that one too.
Next launch I'm just going to put in for PTO for the whole week and go camp at Isla Blanca, I really want the kids and I to experience a sky scraper being blasted into space up close and personal.
1) They announced the official servers would be shut down months ahead of time with an exact date[0].
2) In that same announcement they also announced that they would be releasing a private server/client build before the shut down happened that would allow people to continue to play using privately hosted servers.
They delivered on the promise to release a private server build[1] and by the time the official servers were shut down, the community had already built out a hosted server solution complete with a custom launcher to support easily connecting to different servers.
Because Velan took the time to plan the games shut down properly and went the extra mile to produce one last release that included everything needed to run the backend, players were able to continue playing the game completely whenever they want.
I really hope that other game studios take similar paths in the future.
Note: On mobile, apologies for any grammar
[0] - https://www.knockoutcity.com/updates/knockout-city-special-a... [1] - https://www.knockoutcity.com/updates/knockout-city-private-h...
My first name is "Ricky" and I very frequently have to correct people (mainly in drive throughs and over the phone) who repeat back to me "Britney" or "Nicky".
Very possible I just suck at enunciating my name and no one has had the heart to tell me all these years.
But I agree, it's a great feature and worked as advertised after following their guide. Doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement but in my experience it's rare for custom CA tooling to Just Work and until now none of them resulted in a fully functional ACME provider to serve up your certs.
It goes away beyond just automating shiny hunting and a bunch of the programs they have run completely on cheap microcontrollers (teensy/pro micro boards) and there's a very active community that's been going strong for years.