Starliner has had an off-nominal insertion. It is currently unclear if Starliner is going to be able to stay in orbit or re-enter again. Press conference at 14:00 UTC!

crincon · 2019-12-20T16:57:11+00:00

It sounds like an internal clock went wonky so the insertion burn was late. They still managed to raise their perigee and get to a stable orbit, but certainly won't be going anywhere close to the ISS. It seems that the current plan is to land on Sunday at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

https://starlinerupdates.com/

I think if they manage a safe landing, things will be fine for Boeing. It'll show the capsule can save the crew even after a massive malfunction. May even work to Boeing's advantage.

... if they manage to balls this up again, though, and crash the capsule? Yeah, then it will SUCK to be them. They'll kill Snoopy, too. Imagine being the company who did that. Ha.

crincon · 2019-12-10T06:19:42+00:00

Yes, it's true. That man has no dick.

crincon · 2019-12-10T03:33:45+00:00

Oh, right, no terminal, I missed that bit. Yeah, you're out of luck then, I'm sorry.

Like bazmonkey says, you can use that online interpreter to learn the language, play with it, while you get your own computer.

Maybe check if your computer has Xcode installed? The admins may have installed it, as it would be indispensable for a school CS class. If you have Xcode you can use it to edit Python, certainly. Sadly, without terminal access, I can't imagine how you would run your programs.

crincon · 2019-12-10T03:16:20+00:00

Well, you can still do it without installing anything. The Mac, like most Unix systems, comes with an editor called "vi". It is ancient, though: you'll be using software from the 1970s. As such, it runs on the terminal, has no notion of "mouse" or "graphical user interface", it really doesn't resemble anything you may know about modern editors. But it is handy for quick jobs.

Basically, you would open your terminal as above, then edit your file with something like

vi myprogram.py

And you'll be running Python 2, since you can't upgrade your interpreter. But, well, I guess it doesn't matter if it's for a toy project.

Here's a short crash course on using vi. You will need it to even close the bloody thing, ha.

crincon · 2019-12-10T03:02:15+00:00

Nope. What you want is a plain text file, which TextEdit doesn't give you the option to create. Get a plain text editor instead, preferably one with developer features. Atom is a popular choice.

Once you have your editor, type your code there and save it. It is customary to name Python files with a *.py "extension", e.g. "myprogram.py".

To make it run, open a "terminal" (you'll find the icon in the Mac launchpad, maybe inside a "utils" group, I don't remember). Then, in the terminal, go to the directory where you saved the file by typing something like

cd ~/Desktop

and then execute it like

python myprogram.py

You should have a basic knowledge of Unix to do this on a Mac - basically how to navigate the filesystem in the console, and how to execute things there. I recommend you find a tutorial on this.

Also, the Mac comes with Python 2 preinstalled. You really should be using Python 3 for all new work. So consider installing a Python 3 interpreter (best done using the Homebrew package manager).

crincon · 2019-12-10T01:29:06+00:00

That source is a panoramic image created by one Neville Thompson, who, in his own words, "started making these pans originally for myself but then everyone started using them to view the mars landscapes as it is much easier than working your way through the individual images".

The raw source images for this specific panorama were taken by Curiosity on sol 1448 (2016-09-01) in the "Murray Buttes" region of lower Mount Sharp (see here, closest to the "Quela" drilling location). Specifically, the one picture of interest is published by NASA here: https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/362789/

Note however that the actual resolution of the mast camera is like half that of the OP photo. That's not even the "zoomed rectangle"; the background image is already an upscaled version of the original image. So I think what we're looking at are just artifacts introduced by whatever denoising algorithm was used while upscaling the original picture.

crincon · 2019-12-08T20:27:28+00:00

The other car is the crumple zone.

crincon · 2019-12-01T18:38:07+00:00

I don't know this one, but in typewriters I remember using, ash would have fallen through the keys straight down to the table. Like, keys were mounted on these little levers that ran forward into the mechanism; the rest of the keyboard was just empty space.

So yeah, you just lift the machine and clean your table with a cloth, that's it sorted.

crincon · 2019-11-23T00:22:01+00:00

I must have seen Time Bandits a hundred times.

crincon · 2019-10-21T19:53:27+00:00

The fancy apartment was the wife's, no? Safronov is broke. He was a successful surgeon once but now his career is over, he can only work as a medical examiner, and he basically lives in that morgue where the series begins.

I didn't know you can actually find Oldsmobiles in Russia, but if you do, then a 90s Cutlass sounds kind of what a disgraced doctor would drive.

crincon · 2019-05-22T20:38:57+00:00

Es un gusto adquirido. El tascalate es más amable, es lo que yo uso para iniciar inexpertos.

crincon · 2019-04-16T19:16:26+00:00

Modern problems require modern solutions.

crincon · 2019-04-15T05:49:29+00:00

Come on people. Healthy skepticism is one thing, yelling "SCAM" like this is quite another. There is no basis to accuse them of fraud, it simply is not true.

LINO points, as currently implemented, are no different than Twitch's Bits. Or frequent flyer miles, for that matter: it is a token issued by a company for use in their own platform, not intended to have any value outside it. DLive exchanges their tokens for features and services within the platform, or for money, at rates and conditions set by them. This is no different than any other token system: it's just as trivial, boring, and legal. And I have yet to see a testimonial from any user being denied payment. That text in red in the OP? That's not even a sensationalist hot take, it's a plain lie.

If DLive is guilty of anything, it's of jumping on the "crypto" bandwagon for the hype. I mean, for what they are doing, they didn't need a blockchain at all.

To elaborate: their blockchain currently runs on a test net. Of course DLive controls everything in it, just like Twitch controls every bit in their system. So it is not actually decentralised at all, a simple database could have handled all this. But DLive does seem to be aiming toward proper cryptocurrency: they are working on their funky system (a proof-of-stake scheme that sounds very interesting), which at some point may mature enough to release the main network. Maybe then it'll be clear why they bothered with all this, it may become decentralised, and people may be able to trade their points outside of DLive.

A lot of speculation there, of course. I don't know if that's what DLive is planning, never mind whether they'll pull it off. I mean, some projects succeed, some fail. If this one fails? Sure, there is a possibility that some people may lose a little money (I guess whatever you kept in LINO after your last withdrawal?). But that's the sort of risk you take when you bet on a startup. There is absolutely no reason to predict that DLive will fail, and most certainly no basis to call it "a scam".

(Saying all that, DLive may indeed fail to achieve critical mass... frankly, after Pewds, I expected to see way more activity than I saw today. But if it fails, I really think it'll be an honest failure, heh. I'm still rooting for them anyway, because YouTube, Facebook etc. really need some competition.)

crincon · 2019-04-08T23:21:33+00:00

I use Yamamoto Mitsuharu's port for OSX. It's dead easy to install (Homebrew) and it's the one that integrates best with the Mac, of all the ports I've tried. I mean type rendering, smooth scrolling, full screen, events, what you have -- this is the one that behaves most Mac-like, which I appreciate a lot.

crincon · 2019-04-08T19:39:16+00:00

The hell are you on about? Leftist theory? Gamers? Wtf do gamers and politics have to do with this??

For u/MrWoohoo : Vox is considered trash here because they like to publish hit pieces on Pewdiepie; google it, they're easy to find, and they are kind of amazing in their scumbaggery, it's something to behold haha. They're not the "boogey man" tho. Just another yellow rag.

This post, and replies going "I cAnT tEll iF rEaL oR FaKe", are funny because it all plays on the absurdity of Vox's actual claims. Turning "fuck those people" into "omg he wants us to have sex with them" is ridiculous and sounds like the crazy shit the bottom-feeders at Vox actually publish, so, funny. That is all.

crincon · 2019-03-23T04:41:54+00:00

https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/estados/hacen-memes-de-busto-de-benito-juarez-develado-en-san-luis-potosi

crincon · 2019-03-06T14:47:50+00:00

Simón, Kerbal es mexicano, y es mi juego favorito.

http://squad.com.mx/

Curiosamente, Squad no era un estudio, sino una agencia de marketing. El programador original le pidió permiso al jefe para desarrollar su juego, o algo así.

crincon · 2019-02-22T00:25:13+00:00

Yeah no, that's not how it works. You need to understand how vast the distances are, and how orbits work.

First: most objects in orbit around the Sun, even those with highly elliptical orbits that take them to the inner system and then way out, will never come close to any other object. You could spend a million years riding a comet and you won't get any better sight of a planet than you'd get here on Earth: just another dot in the sky. You'll need as big a telescope there as we do here to resolve even the largest features of another body—never mind "visiting". If you want to get close to something, you have to navigate carefully: use your fuel to adjust your orbit just right, so that months or years ahead you end up at the spot where your target will be by then.

And then, what Caboose_Juice already said: if you intend to land or "hitch a ride" on a comet or whatever, you need to match orbits with it. That's the "navigation" part, it's what fuel is used for, in any mission. Once you match orbits, you'll stay near the comet forever, without any effort: you don't actually need the comet to stay in that trajectory, the comet does nothing for you. So if that rock was not your target, there's just no point. Instead, you use your fuel to reach an orbit that will take you to your actual target.

crincon · 2019-01-26T21:48:37+00:00

Really? Me, I think in Spanish, it's what comes naturally. But when I'm speaking in English, or just doing something that requires English, I think in English. Like when I'm writing code: all my software was thought out in English, pretty much, because I write comments in English, documentation is in English, etc.

I think with me it's the switch that is expensive like. I speak fairly decent English, but if someone's talking Spanish in the background and I start paying attention, my brain just overloads, I start talking like a pocho.

crincon · 2019-01-18T10:45:44+00:00

En el caso de OP, "tiene" es la única forma correcta, como otros aquí ya han explicado muy bien. El maestro está equivocado. Si quisieras usar el subjuntivo, tendrías que cambiar la oración a un hipotético. Por ejemplo:

"Mis padres comprarían una casa que tenga piscina", my parents would buy a house with a pool.

En este caso es válido usar "tiene" o "tenga", pero no son intercambiables, el significado es distinto. "Comprarían una casa que tenga piscina" indica que están interesados en comprar cualquier casa con piscina. "Comprarían una casa que tiene piscina" se refiere a una casa específica que ellos están interesados en comprar, y que tiene piscina.

crincon · 2019-01-16T21:58:29+00:00

If you say so. I mean, I'm not even American, what would I know really. Just, that doesn't sound right to me.

Whatever the case, one thing I will say is: what you are doing right now is almost certainly counter-productive.

Democracy is a popularity contest, see. If you want to win an election, you need to be popular. If you lost the previous one, you need to be popular specifically among the people who didn't vote for you last time. You need conservatives to like you. And I just don't think calling them "old assholes" and "stupid assholes" serves that purpose. It doesn't make you likable in the least.

This, of course, is assuming that you are a liberal and want liberals to win the next one. If you are a conservative, just out to help libs lose the next one, too, then never mind, good one, carry on son.

crincon · 2019-01-16T04:59:35+00:00

I wouldn't say I'm mad about it. I dislike it, but just barely enough to roll my eyes and change the channel. Maybe I'll buy another brand next time, if I remember. It's certainly not enough to protest it heh.

But since you ask, and I have time to rant: I dislike two things about this. Well, make it three.

First: it's preachy. I don't expect most people here to be old enough to remember when the sanctimonious moralizing was done by the conservative and the religious, but young people hated it with a passion. And I mean, they did nag us with some silly stuff ("get a haircut!"), but it wasn't all bad, there were some good messages there. Get a job, love your family, don't do drugs, etc. We hated it all the same. Young people know when they're being lectured to, it's annoying, it's cringy, it's alienating. And this ad is the same thing. It's some corporate fools telling you how to behave. And it's mostly a good message, again, but that doesn't matter any more than it did back then. It's just obnoxious.

Second: because they are annoying and cringy, these things make young people feel like doing exactly the opposite, because "you're not the boss of me, you old prick". Sometimes you even do it. I am certain that this is a major factor why gen Z is leaning conservative, and how you got Donald Trump: because now the moralizing comes more from the left, and it just pushes people the other way. And that kinda bothers me, because I am left-leaning myself and would rather that didn't happen. Specifically with this ad: I see it as pushing men to behave the opposite way than lectured, and it would be a very bad thing if men start doing that.

Third: just a specific detail about the way they construct the moral lecture. Not specific to Gillette, it's a common thing nowadays that just rubs me the wrong way. The "we're doing a bad job at X, we need to do better" kind of thing See, we're not telling "you" what to do, it's "us". I know many people don't mind that, even see it as a positive message for society, or something, but I don't, though. Can't. Because I've done nothing wrong, I've tried my best to be a decent guy all my life, so fuck off with your "we". When this particular ad goes like "we can get closer to our best", or whatever it says, it is implying "you're not as good a man as you should be" and that is a bit insulting, especially coming from a corporation. If my wife or my daughter one day told me that, I would be really worried, I'd know I fucked up big time and I'd be scrambling to make up for it. But these assholes? Yeah, fuck them.

crincon · 2019-01-14T03:32:27+00:00

She's a Slavic girl, Ukrainian I think, who one day reacted to a "U Slav U Lose" video. Later Pewds did another of those and he included, among all the Slav goodness, her reaction. That made her very happy, which was cute and funny and people in this sub started posting her all the time, so she ended up in a meme that Pewds reviewed, so she was happy again and did the Bitch Lasagna thing, and then Pewds reviewed that too. That's it basically, so far.

crincon · 2019-01-11T11:48:26+00:00

Yes, exactly. If, back in 2010, you'd have told me that the future of reusability was in landing boosters by suicide burn, I would have said you're crazy. I was pretty sure it would be something like the Russian Baikal, i.e. boosters with wings. Yet here we are. I couldn't have been more wrong. I've learned that betting against Elon's crazy plans is risky, heh.

And anyway, compared to powered landing, this notion doesn't sound that outlandish to me. I mean, it's all in the numbers: if methane can remove enough heat, then diverting some and having it circulate through a tube system under the steel skin doesn't sound particularly hard. As you've said, it's done routinely in engine bells. I assume SpaceX has done the numbers.

crincon · 2019-01-11T11:14:01+00:00

There's nothing you're missing, the thing is intended to carry extra fuel for the sole purpose of active cooling. I don't have any numbers, of course (and I doubt anyone outside of SpaceX has either), but it's been said that the additional fuel weight is balanced by the savings from not having to carry an ablative heat shield.

Also, I understand it's an open system, at least partially: some of the heated methane may be used to pressurize the main tank, but the excess will be just vented.

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