towerful

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just ship the tourists up to the ISS. Probably cheaper

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Reason number 75 people should always be well clear of these test.

Yup, except for the really important guage that is installed on the pad, that only Elon musk is smart enough to be able to understand.
He absolutely has to monitor that guage in realtime.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess if the rocket hadn't disassembled itself, then it could be used again.
I think static fire is part of the testing to proceed to a launch? So, now they have to build another and static fire that as well in order to get back to where they should be.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I remember when the first looks at (or poster of) the sonic movie came out, and it was ripped to shreds.
A prominent visual redesign of sonic went viral, and - credit where credits due - the studio reworked the movie to adopt the changes.
https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/sonic-the-hedgehog-design-changed/

Human teeth? I mean, really?

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Yeh, I'd just do early return.
It's not much more typing, and I find it easier to read and navigate specific conditional paths.

Some built in pattern matching would be cool (like the when keyword), but I'm not going to force it into my code

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Except from the cron job part. Which is exactly what that's for

[–] towerful@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

I had an offline windows account on my laptop.
I was freelancing for a company that gave me a Microsoft account.
I logged into teams, but was very careful not to assign my laptop to that account. I had to use teams, but I didn't want my client to manage my device.

Shortly after I installed Linux, which broke windows bitlocker, and I had to get my bitlocker key.
I hadn't set up bitlocker, I wasn't expecting it. As far as I was concerned, I had bricked my device.
On a hunch of "hmm, maybe", I checked my Microsoft account from the client, and it has a bitlocker key which unlocked my windows install.

At which point, I disabled bitlocker and now primary Linux.
But yeh, in my experience bitlocker is transparently applied during windows install and you never know your bitlocker key. If you never log in to a Microsoft account, you will never be able to recover it if you don't save it in advance. And if you don't know its happened, why would you know to save it in advance?!
The fact that I was able to recover my bitlocker key for my offline/local windows account because I had installed & logged-in to teams via a client provided Microsoft account is strange as fuck.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel if it was something like "Swedish Prime Minister launches their own meme coin", it would be world news.
Or maybe a country that pushes for their own produce to have Geographical Indication (like scotch or champagne) then churning out a bourbon.

I get that it's local to the US.
But the US is also currently pissing on global politics with their irrational/misguided/ignorant tariffs, with a strong flavour of "returning jobs to the US".
And the president of the US is now saying they will launch a Made In US phone for $400.
And Made In US has to actually be made in the US (by their own laws), not just assembled there.

So maybe not actual world news, it does contribute to the global opinion/perception of the US government.

Another example would be a country that criticises another country for abuse of its own citizens, then turning around and abusing its own citizens. At least as I see it.


But I get your point. It's the US doing things to the US.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Because the president of the united states is scamming

[–] towerful@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

Pilot type rating is expensive

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeh, but (to me) a hotspot is WiFi with internet access from a mobile device. Whereas tethering is sharing internet access from a mobile device via a cable (USB).
Kinda like how WiFi doesn't mean internet access, despite so many people conflating the meanings.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Computer/laptops WiFi card is dead. Can't connect to an android hotspot if your WiFi isn't working.
Thus, usb tethering. It's a wire, doesn't need a WiFi card. And the android device can then share ITS WiFi/Data connection through the USB cable

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