uomo | 2 years ago | on: Door Boeing 737 pre-MAX opens after takeoff, aircraft returns in safety
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uomo | 3 years ago | on: AppLovin bids $17.5B to acquire Unity
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397510
uomo | 4 years ago | on: 'Freeze-thaw battery' stores electricity long-term for seasonal release
One of Amazon’s buildings in Seattle (Doppler) uses a data center next door to reduce their overall heating costs during the winter.
Source: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/sustainability/the-super-ef...
uomo | 4 years ago | on: Dataset and Model for “I built a system to take photos of planes over my house”
Earlier discussion regarding "I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30039597
uomo | 4 years ago | on: APSE – A Personal Search Engine
Based on the “How it Works” section of their website, it looks like both the screenshot and the text are saved.
uomo | 4 years ago | on: Next generation nuclear reactor to be built in Wyoming
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27374840
uomo | 4 years ago | on: “About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”
According to the Verge, 18 employees (out of 57 total) have tweeted that they are going to leave.
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/30/22412714/basecamp-employe...
uomo | 5 years ago | on: Space junk removal is not going smoothly
For those that haven't seen the video, he consulted on the Netflix film 'Stowaway' (that comes out later this month). He whipped up a design for the proposed spacecraft in a few minutes to help the directors visualize it better.
uomo | 5 years ago | on: Setting up Starlink
I assume they meant 512kbps... or they just have strangely great upload speeds.
uomo | 5 years ago | on: NASA completes engine test firing of moon rocket on 2nd try
The first green run was on January 16th, so only about 2 months between the issue popping up and the fix being implemented and verified.
uomo | 5 years ago | on: Tesla on autopilot crashes into stopped Michigan police car
If anyone else was wondering what percent of drivers in the US have a suspended license it's 2.59% [1]. Which honestly surprised me because it seems lower than I was expecting.
Fun fact: North Dakota has the most drivers with a suspended license at 7.75% and is followed by Ohio at 5.62% [2].
[1]: https://insurify.com/insights/cities-with-the-most-suspended... [2]: https://insurify.com/insights/the-10-states-with-the-most-su...
uomo | 5 years ago | on: Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a 'precaution'
Yes, but herd immunity makes it possible to protect the total population from a disease including the ones that cannot get vaccinated, such as children or those with contraindications.
uomo | 5 years ago | on: NASA's Perseverance rover sends stunning images
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/ Would be the best place to get images/videos from Perseverance.
uomo | 5 years ago | on: Jacquard by Google
This sort of reminds me, at least the Adidas example, of the Nike and Apple activity tracker that would be embedded into shoes in order to track distances and number of steps.
uomo | 5 years ago | on: NASA's Perseverance rover will attempt to land on Mars this week
The 3,034 days refers to how many sols (Martian days) it has lasted. The discrepancy is due to the fact that a Martian day is roughly 24 hours 40 minutes long. That extra 40 minutes over roughly 3000 days leads to the 82 day difference.
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> According to De Telegraaf, no signal would have come through in the cockpit before departure that the door was not closed properly.