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zhunk,

They’ve actually done 2!

The 1st, in 2019, didn’t get to the ISS. Bad clock code made thrusters fire like crazy and run out of fuel.

The 2nd was on the launch pad in '21, but Florida air made valves seize. It launched in '22, had 2 thrusters fail, but still got to the ISS and back.

Before this crewed flight test, they’ve been replacing parachute harnessing and flammable tape.

zhunk,

I’m rooting for Stoke and Radian to pull off full launch vehicle reuse.

I really want to see space agencies put out orbital debris cleanup bounties, especially for big things like spent upper stages and dead satellites.

zhunk,

Because it’s the only realistic option on a federal level until we have ranked choice voting.

zhunk,

VW must be running them

After the fall of Small Press Distribution, is it time for “Bandcamp for Small Presses?”

[Dear Friends, before I post this somewhere, probably Medium, in the hopes of getting as many eyeballs as possible to look at this, would you be so kind as to look this over and offer some constructive criticism before I post it? And is there some way that the folks on BookWyrm have the option to see this?]...

zhunk,

What about Substack?

zhunk,

So now they’ll threaten to move the teams to LA, right?

zhunk,

I voted 3rd party in 2016. I regret it all the time.

On the issue of genocide, the vote is between more or less. Voting 3rd party, Republican, or abstaining is a vote for more genocide.

The moral high ground and smugness is worthless compared to less genocide, abortion, education, trans lives, healthcare, etc.

zhunk,

SpaceX, in a perfect world, just wants to be the railroad to facilitate others who want to build stations, bases, mining, recycling, etc.

As far as the greenness of rockets, recycling would be 5th in the 5 R’s:

  • Refuse: refuse to use wasteful rockets? I don’t really know how to apply this one.
  • Reduce: I suppose rideshares and vehicles with multiple hosted payloads are good
  • Reuse: See: SpaceX
  • Repurpose: Wet workshops?
  • Recycle: energy intensive and would need tons of infrastructure to process and use on orbit

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zhunk,

For the rest of us who aren’t in states with the trial this year, I’ve been using Freetaxusa for a few years. Free federal, $15 state.

zhunk,

Front Range Rail would be pretty great

zhunk,

Wirecutter and RTINGS both do a lot of testing and reviews, including for headphones.

zhunk,

The mass application boom is so annoying. Seeing a sankey diagram of someone who applied to hundreds of jobs always bothers me.

zhunk,

They also elected Ron Johnson

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What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?

A recent YouGov survey asked Americans what they think they should be able to get to within a 15-minute walk of their house.

Of these choices, I can currently walk to all of them from my apartment, aside from a university (no biggie, I'm not currently studying, although there is a Tafe within walking distance), a hospital, and a sports arena.

How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?

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zhunk,

You would carry a gas can

zhunk,

I set my phone to auto download playlists and podcasts on WiFi, so it isn’t really a problem. I think there was one month when I had to buy extra data so far, and that still ends up being cheaper than being on a plan with more data.

zhunk,

Getting paid for on-call hours would be cool. If only.

zhunk,

I got mine a little over 4 years ago and am still on the original toner. It gives low toner warnings but just keeps on printing.

zhunk,

Have you heard of Dragonfly? It’s a thousand pound, nuclear powered drone that’ll fly around Titan. Ingenuity has been a great first step (hop?) with these rotorcraft, and I’m really looking forward to seeing what else comes next.

zhunk,

I can echo almost all of this, to the point that I was wondering if we used to work at the same company.

(I fully believe on purpose, to milk more money out of NASA)

I remember a pretty absurd situation along these lines. We ended up delivering faulty hardware to the prime contractor, who said there wasn’t a specific requirement for this failure mode, so they wanted to ship it, get paid, then have NASA fail it, write a new requirement, and buy another. The world of contract modifications and requirement lawyering always left a bad taste in my mouth. There are a handful of companies that I really want to see get banned from NASA contracting.

zhunk,

I’m surprised to learn that he had a heart

zhunk,

Twitch having 1400ish employees before the layoffs doesn’t seem too crazy, right? Cutting 35% is insane, though.

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