Isn't an exploding rocket in space a bad thing - ie debris everywhere? I know space is big but aren't there now a few thousand more pieces of space junk to track. I suppose they're worried about a starship landing on someone's home - but still seems a tad premature.
As long as it hasn't achieved orbit, all the pieces will end up on an elliptical track with the lowest point inside the atmosphere. Some stuff might get flung way up, but it would still need another maneuver (requiring working engines) near the highest point to circularize the track to prevent it from coming back down.
There's not much ambiguity for when to destruct. It's just: has it gone far enough off course that it could free-fall outside the predetermined borders where it's acceptable to crash? Then it's time to blow it up so it doesn't fly any farther.
It's more of an issue when the thing exploding is in orbit. This was a (just) suborbital launch, and I think the first stage was quite a bit slower/ lower than orbital at the point that it exploded, meaning it'll all just fall to Earth
Take a 1M view clip on youtube, say 4 ads, $0.15/view; Revenue 600k, Creator: 3k
That's a money fire hydrant only a monopoly can have. Advertisers are desperate to reach consumers, and right now they have to go through Youtube. What Youtube is actually selling is our attention without paying us our cut.
That's why we end up with this false dilemma between being force fed ads, or paying a hefty subscription. Tbh google don't want you to buy a subscription, they make more off the ads. No wonder we're all pissed.
The vintage Google thing about this is right in the middle of anti-trust hearings they start this fight with ad blockers/consumers - are we really that dumb?
I file this one under memories are short, and dust masks are a pain in the arse. Sure labour laws are wanting for your Appalachian thin seam coal miner, but the union strong Australian industry had had a similar revelation, albeit with reportable cases in the tens, not thousands).
Dust masks are totally effective. The main problem is convincing miners to wear them, all shift, in the heat, and the humidity. The only effective motivator I've seen for the industry are miners getting sick.
In my fifteen years of underground coal I've seen it go from crews where none wore dust masks, to everyone wears them, and it's not like black lung or silicosis are new to mining. And what's interesting is most wear them purely out of self concern, the minority due to workplace health and safety rules.
Agree about the bounding box, best seen when editing, rest of the time just a distraction.
I've been chasing a onenote alternative for some time, this looks promising. I have to add, I loved the old Onenote heirachy, notebooks down the left (rotated labels), sections across the top, pages down the right.
And more screen shots always help for those too lazy to trial. And add some default notebook/section/note naming, so people can just click and start adding notes.
Thanks, the reason I made this was because of how big of a fan I was of OneNote, but all the little things that I wanted to change (and first-class linux support) drove me to write this.
AFAIK The radar is tuned to explicitly ignore non-moving objects because it has to be able to ignore overhead road signs and other such stuff[1]. It is more tuned to changes in speed of the vehicles in front of the car.
Tesla was working with their supplier (Bosch?) to get the radar to work as a six-field array, providing more resolution than “the nearest return is 100m away”. The discussion at the time was tht higher resolution radar would remove the last advantages that lidar supposedly has over cameras.
Don't be evil? Kind of hard to build robots to help kill people and spruik this motto at the same time. I don't buy the money pit argument, rarely been Google's sole yardstick.
Kicker is in the US, government funded research is primarily through defense spending. If you're going to turn your nose up at that, you're on a long expensive path to monetisation in this space.
> Kicker is in the US, government funded research is primarily through defense spending
Agreed. There are serious consequences to shifting government spending to mostly defense and reducing everything else. Also, it creates a large group with vested interests in continued and increasing defense spending, which includes favoring use of the military over other tools of state power.
You joke, but I believe police in the US is already installing advanced microphones along with CCTV cameras to hear what people are talking about from a distance.
