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byK. S. Kyosuke
r 28, 2025 @10:49AM
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Attached to: Toll Roads Are Spreading in America
What does time-domain reflectometry have to do with this?
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byK. S. Kyosuke
er 11, 2025 @07:29PM
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Attached to: Ubisoft Cancelled a Post-Civil War Assassin's Creed Last Year
I'm pretty sure that intra-group violence is generally more common than inter-group violence and hence the latter is the one that stands out as an intentional decision.
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byK. S. Kyosuke
er 11, 2025 @06:19PM
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Attached to: Australia's Queensland Reverses Policy, Pledges To Keep Using Coal Power At Least Into the 2040s
And yet, Australian National University identified significant pumped hydro storage potential in Australia many years ago. Definitely more than they'd ever need.
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byK. S. Kyosuke
r 24, 2024 @07:41PM
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Attached to: C++ Standards Contributor Expelled For 'The Undefined Behavior Question'
Did changing the master/slave terminology have any negative effects?
Yes.
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byK. S. Kyosuke
r 08, 2024 @01:17PM
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Attached to: Trump Wins US Presidency For Second Time
Why would it be "a wet dream" when they're now free to implement it?
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byK. S. Kyosuke
ber 24, 2024 @12:26PM
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Attached to: As Companies Try 'Open Source Rug Pull', Open Source Foundations Considered Helpful
Well Eastern Bloc socialism famously didn't have free enterprise, so you can see how that's an easy connection to make.
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byK. S. Kyosuke
ber 24, 2024 @12:20PM
(#64813451)
Attached to: Tugboat Powered By Ammonia Sails For the First Time
Rockets only need to store hydrogen for minutes to hours. Not days to weeks. That makes a crucial design difference in the tanks for both.
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byK. S. Kyosuke
ber 24, 2024 @06:21AM
(#64812215)
Attached to: Tugboat Powered By Ammonia Sails For the First Time
The point you obviously missed: hydrogen would be created by means of electrolysis taking advantage of low or negative spot prices of electricity, not using methane.
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byK. S. Kyosuke
ber 24, 2024 @06:17AM
(#64812203)
Attached to: Tugboat Powered By Ammonia Sails For the First Time
141,86 vs. 18,6...Isn't that *less* than an order of magnitude, not "over"? Anyway, raw gravimetric energy density isn't all that favourable but hydrogen storage incurs its own costs in terms of weight, so I wonder how large-scale storage fares with both. Storing ammonia in a tank is "slightly" easier.
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byK. S. Kyosuke
er 20, 2024 @03:24PM
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Attached to: CERN To Expel Hundreds of Russian Scientists
They might get killed, or worse, expelled...
...oh, wait.
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byK. S. Kyosuke
mber 19, 2024 @02:46PM
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Attached to: FAA Fines SpaceX for Launch Violations, Company Fires Back with Lawsuit
Sure, if you launch once a month, something like Sea Launch's platform would work. If you launch thrice a week? Logistically, probably not.
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byK. S. Kyosuke
er 09, 2024 @06:44AM
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Attached to: Elon Musk: Starships Launch for Mars in 2026. Crewed Flights Possible By 2028
Also, it was the E1, not the F1. The F1 didn't fire until years later.
I was talking about the F-1 though, not the E-1, since that's what Saturn V used.
When they built the Saturn V, they essentially picked an "off the shelf" engine
...and there it is. You can't compare the two timelines if one of them contains things the other one doesn't. Especially if you consider that Raptor has *already* undergone two major redesigns since 2016. In light of the fact that engines like F-1, RS-25 received *zero* major redesigns (RS-25 in decades, in fact), it's pretty hard to argue that SpaceX's timelines for development aren't vastly shorter than their competitors'.
So, I'm still pretty convinced that SpaceX has no magic sauce that lets them do things faster than traditional rocket companies.
I have no idea how you can say this with straight face if you look at what Blue Origin, ULA, and Arianespace have been doing for the past 15 years.
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byK. S. Kyosuke
er 09, 2024 @02:39AM
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Attached to: Elon Musk: Starships Launch for Mars in 2026. Crewed Flights Possible By 2028
Trouble is, if you look at Starship, they've been developing it for 12 years already.
The Saturn V development process started in 1961.
By your own standards, you're being hypocritical here. Test firings of the F-1 engine used on Saturn V started in 1957. Test firings of Raptor 1 started in 2016. By what logic do you justify the "the start of Saturn V's development process" POST-dating its own engine's test firing by 4 years but the Starship's one PRE-dating the first test firing by 4 years?
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byK. S. Kyosuke
er 08, 2024 @03:10AM
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Attached to: Two Android Engineers Explain How They Extended Rust In Android's Firmware
...or more expressive?
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byK. S. Kyosuke
mber 07, 2024 @08:18AM
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Attached to: Boeing's Starliner Makes 'Picture Perfect' Landing - Without Its Crew
STS had *many* "perfect landings". Still was a deathtrap, so your single "perfect landing" isn't the argument you seem to think it is. And as for your comparison, the developmental prototypes currently tested by SpaceX have no people on board. That's why sane people aren't anywhere as concerned about them as they are with Starliner, which was supposed to be already fully operational and problem-free.
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