I bought a transit pass for Rome but I have only used it once. Turns out that traveling between all the ancient buildings is walkable, because of course they needed to be within walking distance when they were built.
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Making thrusters for moon landers
Ben Brockert"Schedule chicken" is a common aerospace industry term, where you have a schedule and two or more teams working toward it. Every team knows they aren't going to make the schedule, but none will say anything until eventually one is forced and can be blamed for the delay.
Common for the hardware and software team on a rocket to be playing schedule chicken. Or a big payload and a new launch vehicle.
It's named after the "game" of two people driving straight at each other until one chickens out.
Trammell HudsonFound a #cursed Lightning to "wired" headphone jack adapter that requires Bluetooth (to avoid paying Apple's MFI tax)
It's amazing how spray foam can make anything look kinda cheap. This is one of the most expensive adapters in the history of humanity, made out of special alloys machined to better than the thickness of a hair, but once it's covered in spray foam it looks like it might as well be plywood.
aevapetition to rename "width" to "widgth" for monospace consistency with "height" and "length"
Phil PlaitNASA wants to dump the International Space Station into the ocean. Is that really the only choice? Can't we just move it to a higher orbit?
Nope. Here's why.
https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/nasa-wants-dump-iss-ocean-not-boost-higher-orbit
Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️The problem with being a programmer with ADHD is that it's often more fun to build a chainsaw from scratch than it is to chop down a tree by hand with an axe.
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Nick PooleI would like a key on my phone keyboard that says "sic" and it's just a space bar that doesn't apply auto correct.
Like a "I know I typed it wrong and also you don't need to learn it" button
simonbpSo fun fact: SpaceX's initial cadre of engineers drew heavily from ex Boeing (ex McDonnell Douglas) Delta rocket engineers who didn't want to leave LA for Denver or Huntsville after the creation of ULA.
I wonder what future competitor will benefit from this.