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Unless you're on a gas turbine ship, you are still using steam. Nuke carriers and subs all use steam.
In the case of catapults, though, there is the upstart EMALS coming in to replace the steam catapults ...
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My house is 100a/240v (although I think it might actually be 208 - will have to check) split-phase 120v.
However, newer houses (and people who upgrade for their BEV) typically upgrade to 200a/240v.
Big push to move from gas homes to electric homes - even moreso than back in the 50's.
Pretty much every missile made since Vietnam are SRM's.
The problem is this particular one is segmented so it can be shipped around before final assembly, and the nozzle is not fixed - it's a new class of thrust vectoring nozzle for SRM's.
The other problem is these SRM's make missile boosters look like firecrackers.
Aren't there quite a lot of solid rocket motors in missiles?
No. Missiles only have 1 solid rocket motor in their booster. Just like this one - it's 1 rocket motor, just scaled up from a missile.
" ... People are complaining about the lack of an NVMe M.2 interface ... "
Then they don't know how to google: (Note: RPi 5 items)
At any rate, I have an RPi4 running Plex Media Server for my DVD Movies/TV series rips. For father's day, just got an RPi5 with dual NVMe hat so I can now put both of my NVMe 2T drives onto one device.
The RPi 4 had power issues when trying to connect 2 separate USB plugs with NVMe drives, so ended up having 1 connected to the RPi4 and the other one in my desktop with an NFS mount to the RPi4.
Same as Microsoft switched the .DOC / .XLS / .PPT format from Office 95 to Office 97, forcing everyone to upgrade to the bloated new version. That worked so after a decade and everyone forgot, MS did it again and switched to XML as well as the Ribbon on Office 2007.
I seem to recall that MS switched to XML-based because of the ODF having an open format that became "the standard" - and of course MS had to "improve" it, especially when agencies started requiring their documentation be saved in an "open" format. They even stuffed the standards committee to be able to claim "their open-style documents" were classified as a standard, which then can be used by said organizations.
Of course, the MS open document standard included a tag that could then wrap their binary-formatted document and still be classified as "open".
Interesting times. Unfortunately.
"What rot.
Here we are, not even 1 year on from the moment when someone very nearly succeeded in achieving global backdoor access through openSSH on all Linuxes by attacking the build system for liblzma, and already there's statements like this being spouted again. No one has actually fixed the general class of problem that enabled that attack.
Linux is only "as intended" if one accepts some wafer-thin trusts."
Here we are and not even 2 months from the last windows PWN and there's another zero day?????
And you "trust" Microsoft????
"Maybe it's time that the IT world, including IT departments, started taking responsibility for shoddy upkeep of shoddy software on shoddy operating systems."
Maybe it's time for the holder of the purse strings listen to the IT department when they tell them what the problems are and how to fix them.
Oh, and not telling the IT department that [next shiny bling] WILL be used and no questions allowed (because of [reasons not related to IT]).
"He has definitely done some things to be unhappy about as well as some good things."
I'd be interested to see what those "good things" are. As someone on the left side of the pond, I have yet to see anything "good" that he's done.
Unless you consider taking more golf trips than any other president, or using his personal villa (on the government dime) for those golf trips as "good".
Forced to MS at work (typical). But home is a Linux box. There are a couple of things I need to run that's MS only (AD for one), then the Windows VM works just fine only having one or two things in the VM that I need.
And the wife? She says only MS stuff works for her, but she has no problem taking over my Linux box when she needs something done or when she's facebooking.
There's plenty of distro's out there that do not use SystemD. Devuan (Debian derivative) and Slackware come to mind.
A simple Google Search will show several sites to check, as well as Wikipedia having a page for listing them.
And your link to the kernel source is showing that it's looking for any standard init to start - not just SystemD init. The main problem is that "applications" are beginning to require SystemD to operate, so you have to find apps that don't hook into SystemD or find alternatives.
No, the people voted in a democratic manner and results speak for themselves. The democratic party lost because it no longer represents the majority. It's that simple.
Actually, look at the voting numbers. The problem is record number of people NOT voting is what happened.
I don't see how Starship is extending the limits of technology.
You don't think returning something the size of a house from orbital velocity is not extending the limits of technology?
Scale, certainly
Actually, scale does mean you're working at the limits - especially when considering the "... something the size of a house from orbital velocities ..." occurs.
"Linux has been so long in development and they still can't be arsed to make it consumer friendly. Geek arrogance at its very worst."
Interesting. And when did MS take Windows out of development and make it a long-term only-needs-security-updates consumer-friendly system?
So far, the only consumer-friendly part is that they got the computer hardware guys to pre-install Windows. If consumers had to install Windows on their computer, forget it.
At least with Linux, I can have a fully-functioning system in less than an hour (complete with updates) that doesn't require searching for extra drivers.
I'm running an HP MFD - but it's a ~10-year old laser printer from HP (M127).
Also, I'm not running Windows at home (except a work VM for the rare WFH project).
Printer and scanner have never been a problem for me.
Of course, it would probably help if I printed more than 20 pages a year :)
But the joys of Laserjet is that I don't have to worry about clogging the printhead with so few print jobs.
It's a case of overhype (somewhat).
Yes, Linus rants are infamous when they go out. No, the rants really do take some time to build up.
He never just blew up for no reason and not on the first try. With that said, if you were a long-time kernel developer and tried to post something that was not correct, then yes - you did get an eyeful of email/postings.
If you were just starting, then he would encourage you and give directions. As long as you were receptive to advice and mentoring, you never received a rant.
> > The difference between "do you want to save first" and "if you continue, you'll lose changes" is just a couple clicks.
> And now we see why the GIMP UI is crap. There ya go. Exhibit A. Thank you for making my point.
And now we see the molehills that people are willing to die on rather than real progress.
I'm running a 10? 15? year old Dell Optiplex 7020 at home with Fedora Linux.
The only thing I did to it was add an SSD and extra ram (32G total).
It even runs Windows 11 in a VM that's faster than the new Dell 5000 machines we have at work (purchased within the last 6 months).
the wife even kicks me off and takes over my computer so she can do her Facebook, email, and online banking. Using Firefox on Linux.
They weren't standardized - it was a convenience at the time. The only time US and Russia docked were their capsules for a "Friendship Mission" - not a joint space station mission.
At that time, you could not dock a US capsule with the Russian capsule and vice-versa without an adapter ring.
It was only after the ISS had already been built with 2 dock types (Russian and US) and had been used for a while before the standard docking ring was designed.
It's not just the oxygen - it's the electronics too. Each suit is paired to the craft.
It's similar to the situation at the beginning of the auto industry - some cars used 6v systems, some 8v, then came 12v. After a while everyone realized the 12v system was the best overall at the time and standardized on 12v systems (24v for heavy duty trucks). Part of the problem was the power source (batteries), then the standard 12v lead-acid battery became standard.
Until multiple vendors start actually designing ships/capsules with standardized parts (not just the suits), then we can start talking standardized interfaces for electronics. However, until multiple vendors start designing systems and seeing the different interactions that can occur, you don't want to prematurely optimize. We're seeing the same thing with BEV's and charging. And payment processing.
How much energy does it take to generate hydrogen?
How much energy does it take to generate gasoline?
How much energy does it take to generate diesel/kerosene?
We don't have the most efficient portable power technology yet available, but it's a matter of what we currently have that gives the best overall results and economies of scale.
... Billionaires only do things for money ...
In the case of Bezos, he started BO as a tax write-off.
There's a quote that not too long ago he was pissed that BO was starting to make money and he complained that they were messing up his taxes.
(or it could be my old-greybeard mind thinking of something else)