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It's similar to last time if you saw that, the first stage will come back towards the launch site and they will try to catch it with the landing tower chopsticks, while the second stage does a soft landing in the ocean after going halfway around the earth.

As far as new stuff, they are trying to deploy some simulated satellites from the second stage and will try to relight one of the engines.

I'm not an expert, but from what I can find it looks to me like hydrogen has a higher specific energy (energy/mass) than gasoline, but a lower volumetric energy density (energy/volume).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Table_of_materi...

IMO the best way is always to explain as much as you can while actually playing the game. Just accept that there's no way anybody is going to fully learn the game on their first try. Even in a simple game like Hearts there is enough strategy that nobody is going to play very well their first time, so there's no point in trying to make them understand everything

Once people are actually playing the game then 1) They will be having fun, which is the whole point of board games 2) They can ask you anything they don't get, and you can make sure that they actually understand 3) It will force you to explain mechanics in a logical order that gives people information only when they need it and can actually use it

For Hearts I would probably just deal a hand to each player, maybe face up, and go from there

Maybe the author's friend is just way better than me at this, but I tried applying her advice to some of the other images and I don't feel like it would have helped me.

Looking at the human impressionist painting "Entrance to the Village of Osny" that lots of people (including me) thought was AI, it seems like there's lots of details which don't really make sense. The road seems to seamlessly become the wall of a house on the right side for instance. On the other hand, even looking at the details, there's no details in the cherub image that I could see which would give anything away.

I think a big part of the motivation to have many launches within hours is because in order for Starship to deliver anything beyond low earth orbit it will need refueling by many other Starships acting as tankers.

This means that for one mission to the Moon for example you might need >10 Starships to launch, and it's better to have them closer together so that you don't have fuel in space being heated by the sun for days.

It remains to be seen if they will actually reuse a booster on the same day, but there is a use case for it.

The ranking is still strange to me though. The model S is lower than the model Y even though it is smaller and faster, both of which should make it less safe, and the model 3 didn't even make the list.

I don't have any special insider information, but from what I know about spaceflight I think we should be glad they used the Falcon Heavy instead of SLS.

SLS has been consistently delayed pretty much every year since its conception, most recently the Artemis 2 mission which was supposed to fly this year is now delayed to next. It has only flown one time, now two years ago. It's also an order of magnitude more expensive than the Falcon Heavy with each flight costing upwards of $2 billion.

My guess is if they had been stuck with SLS this mission would not get to Europa until significantly later, if at all.

One thing I find interesting about playing video games in modern day is that with the proliferation of Wikis, there is assumed to be some kind of third party guide for every game. Especially in smaller/newer games it seems like developers sometimes don't bother putting necessary information in the game at all because they don't have the person-hours for it.

For instance, back when I first played Minecraft in Alpha the only ways to find the crafting recipes was through a wiki, or trial and error.

It's nice that it makes development easier, but I wonder if this trend is making it harder for new people to get into video games, since it's hardly obvious if you're not used to it.

I've always thought seaplanes were very cool, yet they've almost completely gone away from commercial air transportation.

What's the reason for this? Are they just too hard to maintain because of salt water etc.?

>This would simply create a digital divide further increasing inequality in rural areas.

Not sure what you mean? The more remote you get the better your bandwidth gets because you are sharing it with fewer people. This is the opposite of most ISPs which tend to ignore rural areas.

There is a corporation registered under "Black Mesa Technologies" with the same executives btw

https://corp.sec.state.ma.us/CorpWeb/CorpSearch/CorpSummary....

It's not clear to me if this is a joke/game/whatever or a real company founded by people who are really big fans of half life as they claim.

You can search for corporations in massachusetts where they claim they are located.[1]

Surprisingly to me, there are 4 results for "Black Mesa"

[1]https://corp.sec.state.ma.us/corpweb/CorpSearch/CorpSearch.a...

I agree it seems pretty unfocused. To be fair I read it quickly so I might be missing something, but I'm struggling to pull a thesis out of this piece.

At the beginning it seems like it's trying to make a point about society becoming better after eliminating superstition, but then it mostly just goes through a history of Faustian bargains in literature before ending with one paragraph that implies that the modern equivalent is EULAs in software.

EDIT: I just realized from the URL that this is supposed to be a book review? I probably didn't notice because the book isn't mentioned in the title or even in the article until four paragraphs in.

For those who are worried about radiation from X-rays I always recommend:

https://xkcd.com/radiation/

Haha yeah I was thinking about that. Either way my decision will work as evidence for itself.

Either I stop believing in the backfire effect due to the new evidence, or I ignore the new evidence and keep believing in the backfire effect :)

This led me down a bit of a rabbit hole. Related to this is what is sometimes known as the "Backfire Effect" which is the idea that a person's belief in something untrue will only be strengthened when presented with evidence to the contrary.

I had thought this was well established by experimental psychology, but now that I am looking into it it seems like the evidence is not nearly as strong as I thought and the effect may be very small or nonexistent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief_perseverance#Backfire_e...

Curious if anyone knows of any more recent descriptions about what life is like in North Korea, like in the last 5-10 years. Most things I've read including this article are decades old.

How much have things changed there in terms of technology, food security etc?

>Say I am choosing between two types of ham.

I'm having trouble imagining a situation where this would help you with ham though. Probably either all ham counts as ultra processed, or none of it does. (My money is on the former)

If it was based on the number of ingredients, maybe there would be some case where one ham has an additional flavoring or something that puts it over the limit. But how likely is it that the extra ingredients would have a significant effect? Probably not much compared to the ham itself, plus the salt or whatever that's in it.

I agree that this proposed regulation seems like it probably won't help. Defining what counts as an ultra-processed food is challenging, and the actual causal link to health outcomes is far from clear. This article from Science-Based Medicine makes a good case against this kind of thing.[0]

What can we actually do to make people eat healthier though? Rising obesity rates are one of those societal problems where I'm not sure what the solution is. The best strategy I can think of is something like "do our best to solve poverty and hope that this helps with obesity as well".

[0] https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/ultraprocessed-foods/

They've been pretty reliable and cost effective for delivering people/cargo to the ISS so far. Even without Starship they can probably pull this mission off.

FWIW that image also shows Artemis III launching early 2025, but NASA has delayed that to 2026 at the earliest (unlikely), so it's not like SpaceX is holding up the mission.

I think a big part of it is that we have so many more cattle than the earth could naturally support, and the number is only increasing as the world gets more developed. As it stands, even without any other sources of carbon emissions cattle would be enough to cause significant climate change on their own. [0]

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/food-emissions-carbon-budget

I always thought Bouba/Kiki would make cool "matching" tattoos.

Strangely, everyone I've asked says they would want to be Bouba. No one wants to be Kiki.

Maybe my previous comment wasn't clear enough, since I agree with you. I think both versions make sense in their own context:

In the short story she sees all of her life "simultaneously" but it all still works with our typical notions of causality. The future can't influence the past, and so she can't use knowledge of the future in the present.

In the movie, she gets glimpses of the future which she then uses in the present. She learns the Chinese general's phone number from a memory of the future and then calls him. In the movie it wouldn't have made sense for her to see her daughter die in an accident and then not act on that information at all, so they changed it to an illness which she couldn't prevent even with foreknowledge.

Yeah I agree. I read the short story after having seen the movie and I thought the language/time stuff was clearly different. That's also why they changed the cause of the daughter's death from a climbing accident to an illness, because it wouldn't make sense for her to be killed by mountain climbing if her mother could have seen it coming.

Unrelated, but what's the best way to read a thread when somebody posts a twitter link like this? I've never really used Twitter but it seems like there's no way to tell if there are any relevant replies or anything more than just this one image unless you login.

I used to use threadreaderapp but now it seems like they are asking for a login too :/

FYI I have owned a model 3 for about a year now and I have always been able to manually set the speed by pushing the button and then using the horizontal part of the scroll wheel to cycle through the settings.

Favorite piece of Riven trivia: If you've played the game you might remember the one spot where there's a giant sword sticking out of the ground. Since this place also appears in one of the game's FMV cutscenes they had to use a real giant sword prop for filming. The person that made the giant sword prop was Adam Savage from Mythbusters.

https://youtu.be/gcDCZ2TmTck?si=8J8A4ja1vRGDC9c6&t=150

Given the number of times I've been kicked in the face by another person's fins while scuba diving, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near someone using one of these.

While this is definitely a possible explanation, I would hesitate to jump to any particular conclusions until further research is done on specific risk factors. The article also mentions air pollution as a possible cause:

>For example, a 2019 study found that Asian Americans breathe in 73% more tiny pollution particles than white Americans, most likely because of greater exposure to construction, industry and vehicle emissions where they live.

As you mention, there is some preliminary research which suggests cooking oil smoke could be related, but this is far from enough to definitively point towards it as the root cause, or even enough to justify your hunch I would argue. Also keep in mind there could be multiple causes of which cooking oil is just one part.

To add to this, I solved the first puzzle but I'm not getting the right sha256sum for the answer. It's unclear to me which part of the deciphered text I should be doing the checksum on.

The text says: "here are the checksums for all the solutions to the eighty-nine puzzles", is the solution only the newly readable part, or the whole new text that has been transformed?