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Except the "emergency capsule" is all of them, including Starliner. Because Starliner is perfectly capable of returning to earth safely.

Because every thruster that has shut down has hot fired okay, and the known helium leaks still leave enough margin to cover several multiples of the 5 hours or so of RCS operation that you need to get to landing.

This comes up on every one of these articles. The astronauts are in no way stranded.

There's a common sense operating rule on the station: every person on board ISS must have a dedicated seat in a ride home that is ready to undock and leave within 30 minutes notice.

Right now, the Starliner capsule is certified and ready for that role for the two test pilots. The crew dragon and soyuz are docked to handle the rest of the station crew.

Earlier today there was an emergency shelter event on the station when some debris got unusually close. In this type of event all crew evacuate to the escape spacecraft and close hatches. So if something does hit the station, it's less likely someone gets hurt during a depressurization.

Starliner served as an emergency shelter for this exercise, because it is certified for emergency reentry, and the five identified helium leaks are not close to preventing it from returning safely.

To get from ISS to a landing site requires no more than 5 hours of RCS operation. There is plenty of margin in the helium system to cover 5 hours.

My understanding is that the second Distance campaign is mostly recycled Nitronic Rush levels.

Discarded corn cobs and pages from the Sears Roebuck catalog. At least in midwestern USA.

I think that Biden has done a better job of working the hill to get the stuff he wants than Obama ever did

I can't wait for 37 more ballots of Hakeem Jeffries almost winning.

Especially talk to FSF if this "well known debugging tool" is a part of the GNU project, as FSF has the power and standing to enforce the copyrights on GNU software.

Usual business mindset on something like this is, "Sure, this is not economical for us, but it's only for six to nine months while the software guys code up the real software. In the mean time, we'll collect and maintain market share, and we'll just swap in the real software when it's ready."

Devaluing currency?

Isn't that the thing the US used to accuse a bunch of other countries of doing?

Sounds like Trump, then.

From the main project page on GitHub there's a button for "Releases", which can be a source to get exe or zip archives.

These are both old men... They both take a lot of drugs. This is America. Have you seen an older person who doesn't have weekly pill organizer?

It's from Coca-Cola (headquartered in Atlanta) having total dominance of the south for a long time.

For fun reference purposes: it's one race called "The Barkley Marathons" with an s, because it covers multiple marathons.

Once you're far enough up to reach terminal velocity, it doesn't matter how far you fall any more. (mostly)

I'm gonna quote Wikipedia on 1 Timothy:

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarship questioned the authenticity of the letter, with many scholars suggesting that First Timothy, along with Second Timothy and Titus, are not the work of Paul, but of an unidentified Christian writing some time in the late-first to mid-second centuries.[5]. Most scholars now affirm this view.[6][7]

It turns out that most of the NT passages that have been used to repress women use grammar and vocab that suggest they did not actually come from Paul. And in fact they are a hundred years newer than the letters that do appear to be authentically from "Paul".

And Paul was the founder of the religion; Jesus didn't expect the world to last longer than the lives of his disciples

Paul expected the world to end too. That's why he suggested that everyone should be celibate. No point in getting married and having children if the world is just going to end anyway.

I've met a lot of people who don't seem to understand this important concept from epistemology, which is the philosophy of knowledge.

To demonstrate the concept of "non-falsifiability" I will now produce a short fictitious dialog between a made up Scientist, S, and a Religionist, R.

Topic: how old is the earth? Is it 6,000 years old or more than 4 billion years old?

S: The earth must be more than 4 billion years old, because I found these rocks. These rocks have isotopes in them and they definitely look like they've been around for more than 4 billion years. If the rocks are really old, then the earth must be really old too.

R: No. The is only 6,000 years old, because the holy Bible has a list of human descendants from Adam, the first man, to Jesus, who we know was born in 4 BC. If you count it all up, you can find the exact year that the earth was created, as described in Genesis 1, and it's about 6,000 years.

S: But these rocks.... They're really old...

R: God must have created those rocks with the isotopes already set up in the correct ratios to look like they are 4 billion years old, when He separated the firmament from the heavens 6,000 years ago.

S: But how could God create rocks with different isotopes? When minerals solidify from molten lava, lead isotopes naturally form in this ratio. (I don't actually know how initial lead composition was established for this)

R: God is omnipotent! Any miracle is within his grasp.

S: But why would God want to make the earth appear to be much older than it really is? What purpose does it serve?

R: I do not pretend to understand the ways of God.

Ctrl+alt+delete was a separate interrupt line direct from the keyboard. That is, when you pressed the three keys, the interrupt signal was asserted, causing the CPU to jump to the interrupt service routine, which should be in the source code package.

Breaking news is that she has decided to secure her own health in another state.

The veto and permanent seats are there to keep the superpowers in the UN organization. If you take away the veto, then US, Russia, etc would probably just say they don't recognize the authority of the security council, and then go do their own thing.

This veto mechanic kept the US and USSR in the room and at least talking to each other throughout the entire cold war. That's gotta be worth something.

It's also not really a fine. Under the New York statute the government is obliged to recover all of the ill-gotten gains from the fraud. No matter how much they are.

Seems like it's more of "Jack Smith wants to get this trial going" vs. "Cannon maybe wants to back door delay it a little while."

In any case, I don't think Smith is going to win his fight for a speedy trial. There are just too many was to dilly dally.

Yeah, I think that guy only got a superficial understanding of what Uncle Bob was saying.

My policy as a tech lead is this: In an ideal world, you don't need the comment because the names and the flow are good. But when you do need the comments, you usually really need those comments. Anything that's surprising, unusual, or possibly difficult to understand gets comments. Because sometimes the world is not ideal, and we don't have the time or energy to fully express our ideas clearly in code.

My policy on SCM logs is that they should be geared more towards why this commit is going in, not what is being done. And what other tickets, stories, bugs it relates to.

It should be "Pasteurize", as it's named after Louis Pasteur. And the specific process he invented dramatically increases the shelf life of milk using very high temperatures for a very short time.... Without changing the milk texture or cooking it very much.

So pasteurization is a process that sterilises did with heat. But I don't think it works on meat.

You don't want people to be able to ditch judges they don't like through means of violence.

I think part of the difference is that Israel is a paying customer on that last deal.

I want to recap the long sequence of events that has led up to this point:

1. In the beginning of this narrative, every death penalty state was doing lethal injections with a three drug protocol.
2. Italy and maybe some other European nations start arresting pharmaceutical executives and charging them with murder, because their drugs are being used for these lethal injections in the United States.
3. Drug companies stop selling their drugs to state penitentiaries. States are not able to perform executions.
4. Death penalty states start amending their protocols to switch to different drugs and sometimes a single dose barbiturate protocol.
5. Those drugs become harder and harder to source. Pharma companies become completely unwilling to dispense the drugs at all. State legislatures start allowing corrections officials to change the protocol without amending state law, in an effort to keep up.
6. States resort to buying drugs from shady compounding pharmacies in secret. Having prison guards write dosage protocols turns out to have been a bad idea. Because, guess what, anesthesiologists are a highly compensated medical specialty, because what they do is highly complicated. So some exit l executions are botched, which delays things even more.
7. It's in this environment that this nitrogen idea migrates from internet boards into the state legislatures.

The big picture here is that if execution remains legal, but you take away all the options, death penalty states will go looking for alternative options.

CGP Grey is all over it. The design they picked is pretty sweet.

Looking at the link that was posted it appears to be a dummy CSS file to test some part of the go standard library that works with html and CSS.

Also folks hiding their user agent string or doing something cheeky like "Notepad/1.0"

How reliable is this actually? There are a millions reasons for me to fake which is and web browser in using.

Shouldn't this effect cause Linux use to be under reported? That is, the real percentage would be higher than 4%?

I would pretty strongly expect significant correlation between people who spoof their user agent and Linux users.

Somebody who is less lazy than me should try to translate the glyphs.

To be fair to Airbus,

1. They probably chose the language for that call-out way before 2009. Airplanes can live for thirty years, and type designs can keep going several decades longer

2. The designers were also likely to be French, but they selected English call-outs. This seems to me like a case where they picked a word that's technically in the OED l, but is actually much more common in French.

Practical answer: pour funding into immigration courts and hire a bunch more immigration judges, and scale up the pro bono legal aid.

The phenomena of mass asylum requests are driven by the 4 year wait times to get a case adjudicated. If we got that down to a couple of months, then fewer people with weak cases would attempt it.

It's American specifically. "Come-to-Jesus" evokes the tent revival culture that started in the second great awakening in the 1830s and continues to the present day.

In the tent revival culture, an itinerant preacher will ride into a (typically small) town and pitch a tent for about a week or two (or more). They then attempt to "revive" the faith of the townspeople by preaching intensely for several hours at a time, sometimes for multiple times per day. In typical Christian fashion these services will include multiple invitations to literally "come to Jesus" by publicly confessing sins and professing faith before the whole group, thereby becoming born again. Regular church goers are expected to attend revival sessions every night when they're in town.

Everything about the tent revivals evokes imagery of the early Christians in Acts and the epistles. Large crowds and mass conversions. That sort of thing.

I believe we paid Mexico money for most of the territory...after invading nearly to Mexico City.

And you can write more than six characters, but only the first six are recognized. So APFLWSAC and APFLWSAF are really the same variable.

And without namespaces, company policy reserves the first two characters for module prefix and Hungarian notation.

Oh wow I think I've been dealing with this bug. And just chalked it up to regular Linux ill-polish.

I read the article and this definitely doesn't sound like any autopilot or manual pilot malfunction. I don't see how any hardover disturbance on the primary flight controls could pull the kind of negative Gs needed to pin people to the ceiling nearly instantly.

This sounds like freak clear air turbulence to me, but I will be awaiting the reports on this intently.

I want to see him haul that slide into court to introduce as an exhibit.