I’m only still here because account deletion is broken on KBin.
To add on to what everyone else is saying, compared to the Apollo capsules, Starship is fucking HUGE. Apollo 11’s capsule was 10 feet tall by 13 feet in diameter. Starship is 180 feet tall not including the launch vehicle.
Edit to add: Mercury was literally just an ICBM with a dude strapped on top, with Saturn V being based on that design. We’re only now beginning to make designs that are actually made just for space travel.
God, what I wouldn’t give for a standalone VR headset with the Steam Deck’s internals…mostly because I just want them to shove a whole bunch of support behind getting VR to work right on Linux.
Phone screens aren’t 16:9 anymore though, so they’d probably end up having to cut down a really big phone screen (like 9" or so) or just make it custom.
In my time, I’ve encountered edge sharp enough to cut the very universe itself.
Can you imagine anyone saying “it’s a book” to try to say that they don’t matter?
Atheists do it all the time when talking about the Bible
It changes the question from “why not use duck” to “what does duck really add to bing”
Isn’t that alias already present on Fedora by default?
To market its snoopware, Insanet reportedly teamed up with Candiru, an Israel-based spyware maker
Jesus Shotputting Christ, what a name for a malware company.
Being able to modify the engine as necessary is a nice bonus as well.
It doesn’t help OP or the community.
While I agree with most of what you said, I disagree on this point. Could he have worded it better? Been nicer? Tried understanding OP’s extremely warped perception of reality? Sure, but at the same time, OP set the tone by making an extremely smug, ignorant post. An old adage comes to mind: “arguing with an idiot is like playing chess with a chicken - it’s just going to knock all the pieces over, shit all over the board, and strut around like it won.” In cases like that, a stern “fuck off” is not only warranted, but in the best interests of building a healthy community. I want to debate things with people, not play chess against a chicken.
Yeah, but you know what’s really, really important for space travel?
A cheap, efficient, and reliable source of portable food production.
Making an error is one thing. Gloating about something that’s been accounted for and is completely expected as if it’s some major gotcha without an ounce of understanding is, in my opinion, 100% worthy of derision.
Shit, soon we’ll have to put ram in the processor in the ram, which will need its own processor to go in the ram in the processor in the ram…
Apparently, fuck up the environment, so forget I said anything
My parents used to have this problem with dogs (our neighbors loved to let them shit everywhere but their own yard) and had a great amount of success with lining the perimeter of the property with moth balls.
In my world we prioritize one. And that not the one.
Then I’m really glad I don’t live in that world.
If you can’t see that writing readable code is part of the means to that end, I don’t know what to tell you. If nobody can maintain the codebase because it’s a mess of spaghetti logic and 20-deep dependency trees (I’m looking at you, every JavaScript project I’ve ever seen), the end product is going to suffer while also making every single engineer working on it want to leave.
This is not a controversial take in professional software development.
Funny, it sure seems like “maintainability should not be a priority” is a pretty controversial take to me.
What an utterly blind, self-centered view. Write good, readable code so you can actually maintain it and so your coworkers don’t want to kill you.
The US military already has its own private Starlink constellation called Starshield.
Not to mention, it’s a standard now, and the old Supercharger protocol is being phased out in favor of another standardized one (I forget which). Further development done on their chargers from here on out is going to be done by a consortium of companies rather than in-house anyway.