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Why 'spectacular' the quotes

I'm sad not alive at a time like Cowboy Bebop oh well, this is a great pic, overview effect


They are quoting NASA.

[unexplained loss of data]

It is funny if you think about it, imagine you arrive on a planet and there is nothing there, now what. Not saying it is not worth doing but it's like other aspects of life, about the journey. But yeah I think we are lucky to have this ability/get outside of our sandbox. Be aware of the bigger picture.

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If they're someone else's words, they'll put them in quotation marks. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

Not really

> Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth

It was described by someone else as spectacular - in this case NASA

> Artemis II crew take spectacular image of Earth

We the BBC certify that this image is officially spectacular

Not hugely important in this context. By more import, when the sentence is something like X 'commits warcrimes' against Y


Is there a writeup somewhere on how it works?

Is it turing complete, runs actual linux binary through wasm or something

edit: went to tweet RISC-V emulator in PDF


Where's that solar-powered website where the images are dithered

I guess it's this one https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

Also like the style of Japanese websites where they seem broken/don't expand to fit available screen but cool aesthetic still


I thought the IR video of that showed it made the missile detonate before the missile hit, maybe shrapnel hit the jet

Then again idk the jet exhaust becomes more significant not sure if afterburner or damage

https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/1ry6ma2/f35_...


That's how anti-aircraft missiles always work.

In that video it seems like something shoots at the missile is what I'm saying from the F35

Someone said maybe a form of DIRCM


The missiles have what’s effectively a flak shotgun shell at the tip, when they’re pointed at an object and close by it shoots flak in a tight cone towards the front.

Flak spreads the damage better and does more kinetic damage than trying to ram a plane with a missile and hoping the concussion from a the resulting explosion damages something.


You're talking about a single "dash" on the frame before it goes all white. First question, if it were a laser, would be what exactly are you seeing there? A laser from the side is invisible, there'd need to be dust there, or the air would need to have turned into plasma. I don't think either makes that much sense. Second question/problem would be… it would have failed/be malfunctioning because —

— pretty much all AA munition works by exploding in close proximity to the target and showering it in shrapnel. So this might even have "helped" the missle/shell against malfunction in its fuse. And considering that this is designed to work like that, and it's likely not the greatest quality work on the Iranian side, it's also possible that the thing is already exploding and just ejected some piece of intentional shrapnel (or unintentionally itself) early, ahead of the actual detonation.

Or the Iranians edited that "dash" into that one frame, it's not exactly like it's a reputable source and it's in their interest to confuse things. Maybe they want the US to believe that the countermeasures are malfunctioning and helping their attacks, so they turn it off…


Yeah I was also thinking the the dash might be the missile itself

The single exhaust plume does become multiple on the F35 suggesting damage


Almost like a seeking flak shell. I had no idea.

The other thing, is encrypted inferencing a thing/service currently? I want to run my own models locally just because if I'm going to be chatting to it about my day to day life why send it to a server in plaintext.

encrypted inferencing, meaning homomorphic encryption: no, it's not solved.

cryptographic confirmation of zero knowledge: yes.

the latter, based on trust in the hardware manufacturer and their root ca. so, encrypted if you trust intel/nvidia to sign it.

there are a few services, phala, tinfoil, near ai, redpill is an aggregator of those


Funny I make cameras around the Pi ecosystem and having 4GB of RAM is pretty overkill, might as well put an LLM on there/vision while you're at it

I did think for more basic cameras I'd use a lower spec Pi like 1GB, I use the full pis now for the high resolution DSI displays


Bought these Patriod SSDs recently, they are cheap but they are DRAMless apparently, I'm using them to replace the HDDs from 17 year old hardware so figure it's not terrible plus the read/write speed is still high

Why is there almost no traffic in places like South America (other than Brazil) and Africa? Data set or reality? Not much in China/Russia either.

The current data is from OpenSky, mainly north america and EU.

10 days? Hope they brought snacks

Seriously though I hope they're able to get up and walk around

I don't know if I could handle that 10 days in that small room


I've heard it feels a lot bigger once you're in freefall. Imagine if you could use all of your room's surfaces as floor space. I would think your room would feel a lot bigger.

They can move around after they switch from launch to spaceflight config. Apparently they also have some exercise gear for the journey.

It is just the capsule though? There's no stage under them/another cylinder? Module

Trying to imagine how big the thing is like 10x10 feet room


Just the capsule - there is a module but it can’t be reached and is for more engines that they will leave behind.

ABC News says 330 habitable cubic feet or about the interior space of two minivans.

330 cubic feet =~ 9.3m²

A cube with an edge of 2.1 meters.

> ABC News says 330 habitable cubic feet or about the interior space of two minivans

I did lockdown in a ~450 sq. ft. Habitable under 400. Partner. Cat. Me. The astronauts will be fine.


~450 square feet, with how many feet in the third dimension? You probably had an order of magnitude more volume than 330 cubic feet there.

> You probably had an order of magnitude more volume than 330 cubic feet there

I’m 6’, so that’s the usable volume. (I’m not claustrophobic heighwise.)

I honestly don’t see an issue spending a couple days with folks I respect and admire in close quarters for ten days.


You don't get it. Your 400sqft apartment needs to be shrunk by a factor of 6 to have the same area as the Orion. Try living in an 8x8 foot square for a couple weeks.

That’s unfair as well - in space, more of the volume is usable. Perhaps equivalent to 2X 1G volume would be fairer.

> You don't get it

Have you ever been on a boat?


> Have you ever been on a boat?

What is a "boat"?


The boat you can step outside of, have a sky

> boat you can step outside of, have a sky

Not in a storm you can't! Granted I didn't do ten days. But I was with two other people for close to a week and it was...fine. We're old friends. There were moments it got annoying. But it was never boring or restrictive. We just played games, drank, looked out of the portholes, cursed hangovers and talked the one person who occasionally wanted to call it.


Yeah that sounds fun and closed spaces can be cozy too, at least especially when there isn't certain death outside

Seems like its at least bigger than the Apollo Lunar Module from the 70's

And with modern forms of entertainment to make the trip less boring.


> And with modern forms of entertainment

"We're sorry, your Prime subscription appears to have cancelled. Would you like to renew it? We can send you a text message to get this started ..."


This capsule isn't part of your Netflix Household. Create an account to enjoy your own Netflix today.

I wonder if Starlink works if the dish is above the satellites. Technically GPS can work from the moon.

Starlink uses phased arrays pointed at the ground but lasers between satellites. So it wouldn’t be impossible to spin one around and have it bounce traffic to earth through the swarm pointing down.

But these satellites are very close to earth compared to the moon. It wouldn’t only save 0.3% transmit power vs just sending right to the surface. It’s very unlikely the consumer antennas could manage hitting an earth satellite from the moon.


> Technically GPS can work from the moon.

Well, one side of it.


Actually, it's all dark.

I don't think I would be bored in this trip!

Astronauts are made of different stuff. Truly the best of the best.

Forget about the snacks, I wonder about the toilet in 10 days in such cramped living conditions.

Toilet fan has already jammed. Not sure if this means the shit has, or hasn't, hit the fan.


I hope they will be able to stretch their legs on the moon.

They're not getting off at the moon, it's just a fly by.

... it's an orbital mission. They're orbiting the moon, not landing.

The newer games are so good eg. New Colossus

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