Reminds me of the flash player hack that would trick people into enabling system storage while hiding the menus. Vectors just can't help themselves

It seems like big cities get congested, on marginal systems the chances of only getting half the messages is very high. It really dosnt integrate with much else, the mqtt stuff seems unreliable.

It does seem like the RNode radios are a lot less mature but they seem to be aiming to be less of a toy.

Because they killed dozens of people and destroyed a town though lack of re-investment and monitoring their infrastructure.

I had a little page that would encode Unix time of the event in the url, then just count down.

Super reliable.

Doesn't really solve the problem mentioned, does it? I decide to generate a link which counts down to doctor's appointment 8 months from now, and in 6 months my country decides to change DST rules. The countdown is now wrong.

They are artificially suppressing the api value by banning uses people want. If people want to opt out of the recommendation engine and ads that makes hosting cheaper and easier for YouTube. They only do it to leverage market position and imo that's bad.

What factors do you think drives their cost? I doubt it’s recommends. The ads help fund payments to top creators which in turn drives usage.

What is with the sudden surge of hypersonics? Surely this is military funding on some level?

it's just supersonic, hypersonics is not involved

I asked this of the Stratolaunch people several years ago. They said there's an advantage to simply lifting the vehicle that high, it's already starting with more potential energy than it would at sea level. However, it hasn't seem to have made them competitive...

> there's an advantage to simply lifting the vehicle that high, it's already starting with more potential energy than it would at sea level

This implies dropping to presumably start a scramjet? Otherwise, all you're getting is a bit of altitude and softer max Q.

The surprise advantage of air-launched vehicles is you can launch from any airfield. The surprise disadvantage is you need strength two directions; vertically, when it's thrusting, and horizontally, when it's hung underwing.

Virgin Orbit anyone?

Worth noting that flying to the equator can provide a pretty significant increase of payload mass. Just a quick layover to orbit.

The 1980s chip Doc Brown made on the hood of a car in Back to the Future 2 was about 6 square feet, modern chip would need to be the size of the Pentagon.

If we ignore the law of universal gravitation the ambulance can hover over the park.

Rules are a part of how the world works as is the violation of them. Thought problems that deviate so far from reality are more a test of abstract thinking.

Rules implicitly exist for terminal goals (don't kill the grass in the park so people can enjoy it) but get abstracted into actionable decrees that are not necessarily aligned (Becky can't enjoy the grass if she's dead.)