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Ship reuse isn't required for HLS at all. It is transferring crew back to Orion in lunar orbit, and then likely moving to some graveyard orbit because it won't have enough fuel to get back to Earth. They aren't planning on putting any heat shields on it to save weight and thus require fewer...

Yeah, streaming asset loading is one of those boring background details that you only think about when it doesn't work, but really requires a lot of effort on the developer to get right. Making developers handle variable speed media by dynamically varying pop-in distance or adding optional...

The GameCube controller is still my favorite controller of all time! I use the originals on my switch with an adapter, but the fact that it only has 3 shoulder buttons and buttons can't be remaped make it not suitable for all switch games. I'm hoping this first party controller will improve that...

Note that Cygnus uses the Common Berthing Mechanism, while Starliner and Dragon 2 use the International Docking Adapter, which is why adding a Starliner or Dragon mission will have more scheduling conflicts that the Cygnus didn't have.

There is an unstated assumption that many of these companies will fail, and oversupply will take care of itself. There are no more launcher startups in Europe today than there were in the US a few years ago when investment was at its peak.

No, AI is used to do the 2D to 3D conversion. For input data like this where you don't have a full set of images of the object from every direction, the conversion algorithm has to make some sort of assumptions about the parts of the object it can't see, and the depth of the parts it can see...

I'll attempt a quick background primer. There are different ways to represent 3D data. The most common, as seen in games, are polygon meshes, but you also have voxels which are a regular sampled 3D grid of data (think MRI data, not minecraft), and point clouds which are a bunch of individually...

Texas is pretty far down my list of places I would want to live right now, but I would still chose Houston over Florida or other gulf coast states. Better schools, better work opportunities for my spouse, more sane people to balance out the crazies.

If they are testing at Stennis, then it makes more logistical sense to locate manufacturing along the Gulf than near the Cape.

Oof, why do these studies always focus on such high levels of drinking? It seems like every time I read a study on alcohol consumption, the lowest group is one drink a day, and then it just goes up from there. I get that you will have higher effect sizes with higher consumption which makes it...

Thanks for sharing that. Over the years I've had two Roomba's, an original Roomba Red, and a Roomba 685 - the last model they made without internet connectivity. I like how repairable they have been, lasting longer than our upright Shark vacuum. When I've looked at newer robotic vacuums they...

I will second this. Natural language searching of old scanned PDFs is the killer feature of LLMs for me right now. By using it as a search instead of an answer generator side-steps all the limitations with accuracy and hallucinating, and even with mistakes it saves so much time compared to...

Yes, per Eric's book Reentry, 80-100 hours a week was normal at SpaceX across all parts of the company engineering and manufacturing alike, at least up through five years ago. Doing that for short bursts, or longer when a startup is facing existential crisis is one thing. Surviving that push and...

Even apart from politics, it is hard to maintain that level of motivation and focus working 80+ hours a week, with high turnover for so long. It is one thing to reach down and find that motivation in the early days of SpaceX when they were pushing the limits to do things that no one has ever...

Yeah the perspective of that picture doesn't show the overall shape very well. It is basically a big hexagonal prism, with everything wrapped around the optics:

Clarity-1 is using electric propulsion for efficiency and Albedo has talked about potentially refilling propellant in the future. There are several other companies looking at VLEO, some of which are looking at air breathing electric propulsion, so they don't have to carry a finite amount of...

The study did restrict human data to the same general area as Waymo operates, so it should mostly represent the same sort of weather, driving habits and peers, but it did not differentiate between highway and surface street driving. However, this largely biases the study in favor of humans...

Half Life Xyla for RV.

I haven't found any pictures of the back, but from the descriptions it sounds like it is pretty lacking in ports for a desktop. I haven't read anything about audio, can't tell if there are built-in ports or if you need to use one of the expansion ports (or USB) for that. Even my smallest mini...

He didn't explicitly ask people to do that no, but he was clearly posting with the intent of drumming of social media pressure. He pretty much said so himself "If shaming on social media does not work, then tell me what does because I'm out of ideas." This wasn't just venting in public...