Yes, but for it to function you have to solder them. I meant hot-swappable switches. On the ergodox, I have kept the same base and I just keep on replacing the switches as needed.
I have been using ergodox keyboards for a long while, I did not like the kinesis advantage much (not split). The glove 80 looks interesting and I would try it were it not for the fact that switches are soldered.
1.6k+ computers, high but understandable . 1.6k phones, way to high. 1.6k+margin (3k?) for a AR/VR headset, seems like something most people would never buy.
The pirate bay is just about my favorite torrent site. Kickass torrents used to be good as well. For anything anything anime related, there is still the good ol https://nyaa.si/
Unfortunately, none of this is actually surprising. When was the last time such crime was actually prosecuted? It is very hard to have any trust in the legal system when there are many that curtail ot through sheer influence.
It seems like no matter how many times a bill gets shut down, it can just be re-introduced until it passes. I guess pretty soon the mode of operation of Congress will be the "we need to pass it to find out what’s in it" and not even bother with public opinion.
Yes, new seal designs have been proposed and prototyped over the years. As far as I know, so take it with a huge grain of salt, no particular design is as of yet hailed as the solution to this problem. There have been multiple NASA technical briefings on the subject since Apollo, with the last one I have seen just a few years ago. These take into account all known solutions proposed by industry and NASA, and the problem just seems to get worse the more we learn about lunar regolith and the lunar environment.
Yes. The NASA reports that study the potential effects on health do conclude that due to its particle shape, size, and composition, the fine regolith particles pose a significant danger to human health in prolonged exposure.
I work on the field. Moon dust presents quite unique challenges that have been and continue to be studied at NASA and private industry. Regolith gets charge/discharge cycle that naturally pushes the smallest particles upwards. This plus whatever material is forced during landing, regolith will be around any potential structures and equipment that we bring to the moon. The problem is that it gets through seals, it attaches to equipment like sensors and communication, all causing failures. There are many potential solutions, all that are actively being explored at NASA and industry that include active and passive methods. Active include using electromagnetic fields to remove particles. Passive are using materials and/or manual mechanism. It is a very interesting problem that likely requires very radical active solutions.
There are many projects looking into building landing pads before any large vehicles, from both private and government. [0] is one I know. Interesting approaches but I have not seen anything yet that can withstand human class landers. These also pose significantly higher risks if the pads break up.
Why is it so hard? Plume-surface interaction plays a major role during the landing sequence. Most projects "test,test and more test" like the ones mentioned in the article, but they clearly have no idea how unforgiving the environment is. When the vehicle gets closer to the surface, the engine exhaust gets redirected upwards, accelerating regolith to ~ 1km/s speeds. Any sensitive hardware that is hit can easily be taken out. Additionally, the closer the vehicle gets to the surface the more difficulty landing sensors will have in looking through the induced regolith cloud.[0] NASA has been studying the problem through experimental and computational campaigns for a long time, but just recently has put significant resources into understanding PSI on extreme environments.
That's how I use emacs every day. Once it is open, I rarely need to do anything outside of it. Code, compile, debug, web search, etc. It can handle everything I have thrown at it.
Software engineering is. The problem is most people think they are software engineers simply because a company makes such title for a job. If that is accepted, then why not call janitors as senior principal custodial enginner.
Plume-surface interaction is no joke. Even for these relatively small landers, the induced environment and surface degradation can cause significant damage to sensors and sensitive equipment on the lander.
I have done work for NASA on this problem through SBIRs. The risks have been known for a long time, and to my team the extent of the damage was not surprising. NASA/SpaceX just don't have the computational tools to assess these types of risks at this time.