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Dr. Charles Buhler, a NASA engineer and the co-founder of Exodus Propulsion Technologies, has revealed that his company’s propellantless propulsion drive, which appears to defy the known laws of physics, has produced enough thrust to counteract Earth’s gravity. He'd show it, but uh, it flew away!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: which appears to defy the known laws of physics
people a couple of decades back wouldn't think some actual things were going to be possible.
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Until he puts it on a rocket that launches from the planet into orbit, I'm not going to hold my breath. We do know there is an anomalous force applied to probes doing gravity slings. They tend to come out faster than expected. However, this isn't the same amount of thrust that is needed to get off the ground.
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obermd wrote: We do know there is an anomalous force applied to probes doing gravity slings.
Not quite.
A "gravity sling" works by energy/momentum transfer. The spacecraft (+propellant) drops into the gravitational well of the planet, gaining kinetic energy at the expense of potential energy. The propellant is burnt close to the planet, leaving it close to the planet. This has the effect of transferring to the spacecraft both the momentum gained due to falling into the gravitational well and the momentum gained due to the burning of the propellant. Handled correctly, this will result in an increase is the spacecraft's speed over and above what it would get from just burning the propellant.
The momentum that the spacecraft picks up is not free; it comes from the momentum of the planet in its orbit. However, as the spacecraft is mauch smaller than the planet, the effect on the planet's orbit isn't measurable.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Sounds pretty cool.
There's been some big news covered (here I think) about the advances people are making in materials science especially as concerns "localized magnetism" because I can't think of what they actually called it.
You guys realize what it almost definitely means?
That's right.
Hoverboards are coming.
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jochance wrote: Hoverboards are coming.
Along with lots of hospitalizations.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Often when reading about the language you'll find all sorts of "performance tips and tricks" or "do this instead because it's more efficient". The not-likely final word
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it is not the language... it is the way you use it.
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It's the final keyword
The final keyword
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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With 30% of US companies at least exploring the idea now, and a small but growing number of companies actually trying it, there's a real possibility it will take hold. Ask me on Friday
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I am working all 5 days, but I reduced the daily load. To be honest... not willing to get back to full week
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We do every other Monday with the general expectation that a day run about 8.75 hrs.
But nobody here clock watches either way afaik.
I love my job, but I'd jump on handing some money back and calling ~32h/wk good in an instant.
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I havw 30h / week (85% salary) and I love it
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I think anyone can be a 10x engineer. It’s not a personal quality; it’s a cumulative effect of all the small decisions you make as a software developer — the tools you choose, the way you debug, the way you act with your team mates. Just remember to set the quantity before sitting your dev on the photocopier
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Kent Sharkey wrote: he tools you choose, the way you debug, the way you act with your team mates.
Then I'll never be one, most of my career I have been a one man show.
And now 190 people depends on my job, but they have almost no interaction with me.
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The first-ever model of Star Trek's USS Enterprise NCC-1701 has been returned to the Roddenberry family, according to an ABC News report. To boldly go...home
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Why did they not beam it?
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They did that, the first time. A transporter malfunction caused it to be lost.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Installing apps through the web-based Microsoft Store now works a bit differently. Why not both?
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That's why I keep a copy of all the offline installers of software I use and use a VM to install new software to be tested.
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While most of the malware-associated activity was based around the Microsoft GitHub URLs, this "flaw" could be abused with any public repository on GitHub or GitLab, allowing threat actors to create very convincing lures. If only there were some way of doing version control inside your firewall?!
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I have no words. It's like an STD.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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And then people wondered why I do not use Git or Nuggets... 
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I came across comments on a recent Reddit post and thought it would be intriguing to analyze the DLLs of Visual Studio 2022 (version 17.9.6) using NDepend. Come for the unlikely headline, stay for the interesting analysis of just what a house of wet, jagged cards we live in.
Well, interesting to me, of course.
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