TLDR: NASA knows the issue and is working on validating it and making changes internally before releasing it to the public. Nothing was found which would jeopardize Artemis II
Wow, I knew they were going to try to catch the booster this time but I really didn’t think it was going to work on the first try, I was just hoping they didn’t destroy the launch tower in the process. Congrats to the SpaceX team, absolutely amazing! Hope y’all are celebrating
I think if I understand the systems right Windows can roll back a bad driver update but the CS update wasn’t an update to the driver but instead updated a configuration file which CS updated outside of Windows Update. So from the Windows Update perspective the system started failing to boot with no changes to the system. Again though I don’t know if I totally understand what CS did and what capabilities Windows Update has.
I thought the books matched the atmosphere and quality of the games very well. They didn't read to me at all like merchandising, but rather as an expression of the same artistic vision in another medium. I remember reading one as a teenager, and was deeply taken with the message that as an artist and an engineer (and those are deeply related), a commitment to beauty and proper function, indeed the integrity of honoring what you are and what your creations properly ought to be, demands doing things right, which in turn demands deep study and doing the homework. It is a philosophy that was formative for me, and which still heavily influences me today. I hadn't thought about that in years...!
There were three books in total, and I loved the first two. Particularly if you can get hold of the hard-covers, as they are beautiful.
As for the stories themselves, the world building and atmosphere are fantastic. As a teenager/young adult, they captivated me in a way that very few books could. I continued to read them about once a year up into my early thirties. And I never played the game!
The paperback also had a texture to them as well. It was hard to find them a decade ago and I don't regret the hunt. I'd agree that the first two books are great, the third is nice in rounding out the world but the story doesn't captivate as much.
I keep seeing comments like this on this thread: people who like the game or what it produced (it whatever) without even playing. It’s like me liking all things Alice in Wonderland without ever reading the books. Even though I have them in hot pink hardcover.
I loved reading then when I was a teenager. I remember enjoying how the books were used as portals to be worlds. The world building in general was great and I remember the story as quite clever. However, this just have been 25 years ago at least. So it might have been terrible lol
The author is David Wingrove, whose incredible world building is on display in his Chung Kuo series. Also highly recommended: a future where China has dominated all the continents. Originally 8 books, now 20 due to books splits and additional writing.
Only complaint is he could have used an editor. Sometimes his writing could have used some corrections or better wording.
Not a professional so take this with a grain of salt but my guess would be weight first and foremost. From what I understand geostationary orbit isn’t cheap to get to and each added kilogram increases cost significantly. These lenses while not incredibly heavy are heavy enough to add a fair amount of cost.
Maybe unpopular but I assume this is just what is going to happen. I remember awhile back when I was visiting Ireland one of the tours mentioned that modern whiskey and beer in Ireland came about because of taxes. I wish I could remember more details but the story went along the lines of each time a new tax on some type of alcohol happened the producers would reclassify their beverage or change the method which produced it to avoid the new taxes.
I assume this will be the same in the US, software R&D is now some other title with less taxes. When the small companies do it the IRS isn’t going to care but then big ones will do it and the tax law cat and mouse game will continue.
The difficulty with this is that §174 counts "all such costs incident to the development or improvement of a product." This makes it hard for you to reclassify the researcher role as any kind of software development role because software development is still R&D. The fact that it includes payments to third parties for R&D also means you can't even just split your software dev house into a nonprofit or something. What can you do? Claim prompting an LLM is not software development even if it produces code? It's just search then, right?
Just to be one more data point, I wouldn’t say I am downsizing but instead just not adding new devices to the mix unless they have an explicit purpose or something else breaks. Laptop from 6 years ago is still going strong, desktop got a GPU upgrade a few years ago and should be good to go for gaming for at least the next 5 years. My old iPhone 8 got replaced with an iPhone 13 because the battery couldn’t hold a charge, I don’t expect to replace this iPhone for at least 3-4 years though, maybe longer.
I was doing slomo capture of objects being dropped into a small fish tank. I only had a small lighting kit where my largest light was only 750w. To compensate, I placed the lamps mere inches away. By the end of the shoot, the heat melted the top frame of the tank that would normally hold the housing for the tank's light.
Some productions can bring out 10K lamps and larger. They definitely get H O T.
Yeah, 1K, 2K, 5K, 10K are all available lighting options. Really, anything less than 1K, and people would look at you with that "ahh, isn't that cute" for bringing out your Fisher Price Baby's First Light Kit. At least that's what one gaffer told me he called the kits from Lowel that had 500W, 750W, and the big light was 1K. Before LEDs and fluorescent lighting, "hot" lights had that moniker for a reason. Having stuff ruined because of the heat of a light source was not a rare event, especially for noob gaffer/grip types.
Well, my biggest light might have only been 750w, but I had three of them running. So, a decent space heater. Only these are more useful, as the heat was generated but also made all of that wonderful light.
Oh I don't know. The aircraft appears to be painted with a dark colored paint; that would naturally absorb any heat energy from the lights, and film set lights are really bright.
Yes, but what about the same place, sitting on the tarmac in hot latitude airport (Singapore, Doha, Las Vegas, etc.) ?
It is a bit puzzling to know that heat from lights could damage windows of an airplane.
Cribbing off [another comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38222198), there's as much as 72kW of lighting being focused on a few square meters of the plane's skin. Direct sunlight at noon at the equator is roughly 1kW/m²; the artificial lighting here is well over an order of magnitude brighter than the sun.
Inverse square law should apply to the lights too. The lights may be bright and very hot but each meter away from them would mean a significant drop in the transmitted energy.
Focusing a light, while still leaving the falloff ""spherical"", makes it so the center of the sphere is not at the light source, it's a virtual point significantly behind it. With a narrow beam, being 1 meter from the light and 10 meters from the light might only be 2x different in brightness, or even less.
And for lights with significant width, you drift away from spherical falloff the closer you are and the wider they are. As you get quite close, and the light fills a lot of your field of view, you approach the situation of an infinite wall of light and that has linear falloff.
These lights are huge and wide and can have tight beam angles.
SPF 200. Also the heat will dissipate over distance. At a rock concert where the ambient temperature is 32c due to being packed with humans, the heat can’t dissipate at well and so you get 60c on stage. Melt cables. Input jacks. Doc Martin soles.
You’ll often see those giant fans blowing all over the stage. It’s not just for big hair stances, it’s to keep humans alive.
On sets, less humans, more space, so the lights heat will dissipate pretty well after 5-10 feet. However I suspect that a simulator that is simulating the sun using a physical lamp would be using higher power lights to mimic the suns bloom. Even keeping it within operating normals it will get hot.
I feel like Google shot themselves in the foot a long time ago on this front. This is all based on my experience, I sometimes follow along with some cooking YT videos to try new things, for awhile the ads were not that bad usually a couple 5-15s ads at the beginning and maybe some in the middle for a longer video. I would say a few years back they totally killed that for me because multiple times I would get hour long ads advertising the first episode of some show coming out, sure I could skip it but as I was actively cooking this meant I had to wash my hands to click the skip ads button which made for an extremely frustrating experience. The worst part is clicking skip ads didn't seem to exempt me from seeing hour long ads later in the video. Needless to say between that and getting 4+ ad blocks in a 5 minute video pushed me to just block ads on devices I can and not watch videos on devices I can't.
For me what all of this is going to do is change how I consume videos. Not all content creators do this but I would much rather use YouTube with ads as a sample of the content you're creating and then pay you some percentage of the money I would use to pay for YT Premium for access to your videos outside of YouTube.
At the time for me I had been running Firefox for years but it was kinda slow and an absolute memory hog, I don’t remember specifics but I remember having to constantly close it on my 4gb ram computer. When Chrome came out it’s big thing from what I remember was it was fast and lightweight. I remember installing it and it was night and day, I could have multiple tabs open with out my computer paging memory to disk and everything felt so snappy.
With all that said I think somewhere around 2015 or 2016 I switched back to Firefox because Chrome had become a CPU and memory hog while Firefox had stepped up its game and was a lot faster and more lightweight than Chrome.
