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I’m actually okay with semi-centralized. Most people need that to trust a platform, but it still gives you the option to self host if you really care.

It was crazy to see the engines glowing but the nozzles cool, such an unexpected scene!

I use single window mode but it still does not stop modal dialogs from popping up in the stupidest places on my dual monitor setup.

Maybe? It looks like it’s tuned towards generative use cases. Sometimes you need to just edit a photo really quickly and setting up a bunch of nondestructive nodes seems like more of a hassle than help.

But hopefully I’m wrong! This is the first I’ve heard of the project.

I’d really love if somebody would give GIMP the Blender treatment. It’s very good software but some of the UI paradigms are quite outdated. All their floating windows and dialogs do not work well on multiple screens.

Would make a cool movie, but I see no evidence of that whatsoever.

I wonder if this is related to that mercury dumping report that ended up being due to someone at the government misplacing a decimal point.

I see you just printed a bonchee.

Yes, but the microgravity plus radiation environment makes for a fundamentally different thing than testing in a lab!

I believe that’s correct. This allows the astronauts to adjust to the pressure changes (they operate far, far below 1 atm) as well as abort if anything goes wrong with the suits. This is the first test of these suits after all.

And Polaris Dawn is actually going to be doing something interesting - testing brand new EVA suits, possibly in preparation for future service missions.

The other mission is only interesting because no humans have flown a polar orbit yet. That’s more of a tourism first than an engineering/science benefit.

You’re getting downvoted but you’re right. If they joined the fediverse that means you can have an account on any other platform you choose, including one you own. And that one account can access all the content everywhere. So basically you’d get all the perks of YouTube but few if any of the problems.

If I recall correctly, there will be a several hour long prebreathing phase then several more hours for depressurization phase during this spacewalk.

As far as electronics are concerned, I think Dragon uses redundant consumer grade computers with consensus algorithms. That might not be enough for high radiation environments like high earth orbit though. I’d be curious to hear official word on if that’s still the case.

No certifications, no degrees, just good, old fashioned 15 years of experience.

They ran the calculations and while it’s not great, a few orbits is a very manageable risk. Wouldn’t want to be in a permanent space station up there though.

The CNBC article also stated that SpaceX, in its permit application to Texas regulators, said that mercury concentrations in one outfall location were more than 50 times limits set by the state for “acute aquatic toxicity.” The company, in its post, instead claimed that “all samples to-date have in fact shown either no detectable levels of mercury whatsoever or found in very few cases levels significantly below the limit the EPA maintains for drinking water.”

Gonna have to side with the EPA on this one, they have no incentive to lie about it. Maybe it’s not the deluge system causing it, but SpaceX really needs to find out what is causing the elevated mercury levels and fix it.

Alts or bots, maybe

Why would anyone pay for that if lemmynsfw is free?

I suspect they have so much thrust that the sea level pressure simply is irrelevant.

Depressurization is also quite slow in order to gradually test the capabilities of the suit. If there are any anomalies, they can simply abort.