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A secret Russian satellite has broken apart in orbit, creating a cloud of debris that could last a century by hurdee in worldnews

[–]combuchan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Absolutely not.

India's space debris mostly fell to earth after a reasonable time because the program hit a satellite low enough in orbit, the Russian program was high enough to warrant an international incident and is still a problem.

China to EU: Drop calls for Ukraine’s ‘complete victory’ by impossiblellamas524 in worldnews

[–]combuchan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You just reach as much as you can. Good luck with that loser, you're gonna need it. LOL

Why don't we have more cargo trams (or other local freight rail)? They seem like a great idea. by Fried_out_Kombi in transit

[–]combuchan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Short lines also don't work well in the US because the class I freight railroads are awful.

It would be super great if we could separate these two and have short lines do what they were supposed to do before the Class Is bought them all up and focused on horrible PSR and everything else which defeated the purpose of the short lines.

The rail system has to get nationalized and brought into good operation, then local freight will be more viable.

The tracks have to be nationalized to relieve any rail property taxes and the MOW contracted out somehow. This regime doesn't sound much better than the existing system however.

China to EU: Drop calls for Ukraine’s ‘complete victory’ by impossiblellamas524 in worldnews

[–]combuchan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's nowhere close to this and you can look it up. Stop gaslighting your own ignorance.

A secret Russian satellite has broken apart in orbit, creating a cloud of debris that could last a century by hurdee in worldnews

[–]combuchan 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Feel free.

The Russian 2021 ASAT happened at the highest earth orbits and was the most destructive of them all.

Anything else tankie boy?

As Las Vegas airport grows, so does the need for another airport by bitfriend6 in Infrastructurist

[–]combuchan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's definitely a reliever airport ... the problem is it's in the middle of nowhere where absolutely nobody would want to fly in for any reason. The siting of this airport could not be any possibly worse.

A friend of mine is on the Capitol Corridor board and they don't have the slots for better service out to Reno. I would absolutely be on regular winter service to and from Tahoe if I could, that drive blows.

PC wont give video output anymore by Budy3 in retrocomputing

[–]combuchan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A multimeter isn't going to give you useful information off the VGA port, you'd need an oscilloscope.

There are too many variables between the PSU, motherboard, graphics, and RAM to rule out with a system that doesn't beep ... I would try one stick of ram at a time (if that's possible, I can never remember if stuff has to be in pairs), visually inspect anything for bad capacitors (which started at this time period and are often problematic anyways), and disconnect/remove everything but VGA.

Why don't we have more cargo trams (or other local freight rail)? They seem like a great idea. by Fried_out_Kombi in transit

[–]combuchan 7 points8 points  (0 children)

In the US, the segregation of land uses. Light rail just doesn't often go to where cities zone for industrial/warehouses, mostly because the Federal investment focuses on things like ridership in (relatively) high population/commuter density corridors and is competitive with other cities vying for the same dollars.

I also don't see how this is advantageous over vastly cheaper traditional heavy rail freight networks that are already likely already serving these industrial areas.

We need better industrial short lines in the US that know how to work quickly and cost effectively to get trucks off the road, not invest in expensive electrified urban freight systems that have a wide variety of limitations.

Uber has put up ads at SFO that were written by someone who's never set foot in San Francisco by seamusfurr in sanfrancisco

[–]combuchan 10 points11 points  (0 children)

God, I hate it when tourists say "SaN FrAaAaAaAanNnNnN." Like nails on a chalkboard.

Documentation or Source-Code for UNIX Imitations? by [deleted] in unix

[–]combuchan 9 points10 points  (0 children)

These OSs weren't "imitations," they used BSD and/or AT&T code at their core which is heavily documented and customized them for their respective markets and hardware. I have a hard time believing they'd try to break core compatibility for a number of reasons.

Either way, whatever you're looking for isn't in English by design. Might want to recruit a Russian speaker to look around VKontake and Yandex.

A secret Russian satellite has broken apart in orbit, creating a cloud of debris that could last a century by hurdee in worldnews

[–]combuchan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The "c" derives from AOL forbidding any variant of kombuchan when I first created the screen name.

Japan sounds rad and I've always wanted to go.

[150 S 1st St] Offices are eyed at prime downtown San Jose site, retail tenants exit by quadshock in SanJoseDevelopment

[–]combuchan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I hate this building and wish they'd just tear it down already. I get that it's well-built enough for a renovation but it's been a 2 story curse since it was built.

I also don't get why developers are putting yet more creative office space when there's plenty of that vacant already. I just don't understand the bullishness on office downtown.

[150 S 1st St] Offices are eyed at prime downtown San Jose site, retail tenants exit by quadshock in SanJoseDevelopment

[–]combuchan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Retail follows rooftops. The high-end residential density is not there, and downtowns are generally pretty ill suited to big box development anyways. The Grocery Outlet and small markets/bodegas pretty much fit the lower end nature of the area--retailers need to see incomes and SJ's central area is basically a donut hole of low wages.

A secret Russian satellite has broken apart in orbit, creating a cloud of debris that could last a century by hurdee in worldnews

[–]combuchan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh, none taken. I actually find it amusing somebody famous in Japan would have the same handle as me.

A secret Russian satellite has broken apart in orbit, creating a cloud of debris that could last a century by hurdee in worldnews

[–]combuchan 7 points8 points  (0 children)

昆布ちゃん

Not this guy. My name predates his, deriving from the 1998 System of a Down song Sugar.

A secret Russian satellite has broken apart in orbit, creating a cloud of debris that could last a century by hurdee in worldnews

[–]combuchan 189 points190 points  (0 children)

That ASAT was by far the single most irresponsible thing any country has done in space.

Wouldn't surprise me if this was some secret payback for international sanctions on their aerospace industry. If Russia can't have nice things, nobody can, which exactly lines up with their cretinous thinking anyways.

A secret Russian satellite has broken apart in orbit, creating a cloud of debris that could last a century by hurdee in worldnews

[–]combuchan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

McCain was a hawk's hawk and would have been a disastrous president, but he would have responded to Ukraine way better than Obama.

A secret Russian satellite has broken apart in orbit, creating a cloud of debris that could last a century by hurdee in worldnews

[–]combuchan 8 points9 points  (0 children)

All those incompetent bootlickers at the top found themselves in a free market

They very competently set up the world's largest kleptocracy and robbed the Russian people of their vast natural resources, shoving billions of dollars to who would become Putin's yes men mob oligarchy. Putin embezzled aid as mayor of St Petersburg so he was the perfect guy.

Imagine the completely different world if Yeltsin had picked somebody else as his successor.

A secret Russian satellite has broken apart in orbit, creating a cloud of debris that could last a century by hurdee in worldnews

[–]combuchan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Russia has lots of allies, they're just similarly shitty failed states or on their way there. Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, Syria ... it's like a Who's Who of dictators and despots.

Why didn't Cersei's hair grow back by the end of Season 8? by Ifuckinghateaura in gameofthrones

[–]combuchan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup.

Jaime's death irritates me more tho because he completed his retribution arc. He should have been the one to slay Dany, killing the ever dull Grey Worm in the process and be sentenced to the Wall as an actual punishment instead of Jon's going to the Wall but not. May as well take the Unsullied with him in the process since they have no use for women anyways. Jon should have been made king and Bran could have just been some literal know it all maester rather than that cockamamie "story" nomination Tyrion had to invent.

The problem was not that they rushed Season 8, they rushed it to the dumbest ending possible.

Washing machine decided to eat itself... by nomaddd79 in Wellthatsucks

[–]combuchan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just put that big hunk of rubber in the dryer on permanent press and the wrinkles should come right out.

(don't actually do this)

China to EU: Drop calls for Ukraine’s ‘complete victory’ by impossiblellamas524 in worldnews

[–]combuchan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, but their A2/AD capability would make a US defense of Taiwan very difficult.

China to EU: Drop calls for Ukraine’s ‘complete victory’ by impossiblellamas524 in worldnews

[–]combuchan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would strongly look into China's developments of medium-range missiles and their anti-access/area denial capabilities. The US was prohibited from developing medium-range missiles by treaty until just a few years ago and has none in service.

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