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    manikyath got a reaction from dalekphalm in Success SUCCESS for Starship, now land the thing and make HLS ASAP. (and other Space News)   
    let's break down what your cold unfeeling robot has to say...
    your AI misquoted their own source.. they're on about how creating an engine with fewer parts simplifies the manufacturing process.
     
    again.. a misquoted source, it's a stackexchange discution (of all places to pull data from...) about the pros and cons of both sides, and the reasons to choose one or another. it's a shame your AI misquoted it because it's a pretty good read.
     
    my job is safe, AI will not replace me.. because nothing in the quoted source evn talks about TWR, instead it talks about the reliability benefit of having more engines, and how modern computer technology allows us to control more complex rockets more accurately.
    also - kinda funny.. the source YOU are quoting here.. is elon musk.
     
    same source as 2, same misquoting.. the only reference to combustion stability is a reference to car engines.
     
    this is exactly what we have been telling you.. and you now blatantly use it to somehow try and prove your own point? have you any idea how ridiculous this makes you look? have you not proof-read this at all?
     
    so.. NASA then? because the artemis contracts are historically tight timing-wise, presumably because of the 6-year delay from
     
    NASA's own internal dealings.
     
    i think you mistake "being cautious with optimism" for being critical. now, i've only watched the final thoughts of the video you linked.. but i dont think they sounded critical at all.
    apollo essentially got a bunch of "test subjects" to the moon and back in a tin can, as a physics person you ofcourse understand that if you want to get more than "just another tin can" to the moon, you'll need more energy. the goal of artemis isnt "put human on moon", the goal is to put ACTUAL science down on the moon, and be a pathfinder for further human spacetravel.
    or to put it in a vaguely quoted clarkson quote from earler in the thread:
     
    enough time and money.. should i bring up the cost difference between starship and SLS again? and why do you think NASA isnt flying the whole party with SLS?
    BECAUSE THEY CANT AFFORD IT.
     
    wether you, or anyone else at NASA likes it or not, fact of the matter is that any chance the US has got at winning the modern era space race has to include their commercial launch partners, because they simply cannot do it on their own dime. NASA is too slow, too expensive, and too complicated of an entity to do revolutionary things. the reason why SpaceX is actively blowing up starship prototypes is because it's cheaper and faster to develop that way. two things NASA sorely needs, but cant do themselves for political reasons.
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    manikyath got a reaction from Average Nerd in Upgrade from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10/11   
    there's a number of things that could be wrong there, but i'm not here to disprove you with wild theories i cannot verify on your hardware anyways. 
    i *have* gotten quite handy with keeping both win10 and win11 in check. usually when they run like ass it's to do with some windows update process (usually drivers), or just some insane misfortune with platform specific drivers.
     
    i have one AMD based netbook that runs both win10 and win11 better than the win7 it shipped with, other than a bug with the latest release of the mouse driver, which crashes and takes the keyboard driver with it because someone at HP was truly a genius that day... so it's basicly unusable.
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    manikyath got a reaction from WhitetailAni in Success SUCCESS for Starship, now land the thing and make HLS ASAP. (and other Space News)   
    name them, because between SpaceX, rocketlab, and soyuz, i'm pretty sure i caught the great majority of launches in the past 5 years.
    souyz is also a 60 year old design, the treshold of "cost of complexity" has changed A LOT in that timeframe.
    besides the obvious technological advances made over the past 60 years, soyuz is also essentially an ICBM adapted for human and freight transport. it was *a* solution that worked, and has been extremely reliable in any weather, as you'd expect from an ICBM.. but that doesnt mean plumbing all those engines into a single thank then cant also be a viable option..
     
    which.. i'm gonna reiterate again:
     
    and likewise.. i'm gonna suggest you look into N1, because it really appears that the number of engines had nothing to do with the problems it had.
     
    you can keep shouting nonsense, but if i can come with examples and you cant, i'll just have to assume that what you're shouting is in fact nonsense.
     
    and just to make sure you dont accuse me of talking nonsense:
    in 2023:
    - 96 falcon 9 family launches
    - 9 electron launhes
    - 2 ariane 5 launches
    - i'll count the one SLS launch in november of 2022, because otherwise NASA isnt on this list at all.
    - 17 souyz launches
    - 3 "long march" launches (that's china)
    - 9 ISRO launches, on a variety of solid rocket booster configurations.
    - 2 JAXA launches
     
    fact of the matter is that every big ticket item on this list is either a 9 engine cluster design, pure SRB's, or the undecided quantity that is souyz.
     
    while a cluster of 9 engines to a cluster of 33 engines is a big jump, SpaceX has clearly proven that the plumbing into a single tank isnt an issue, because for all 3 test flights none of the problems were caused by said plumbing. - in fact.. all i can find about N1's plumbing is the engine manufacturer blaming the plumbing for their engines blowng up.
     
    as for the complexity of many rocket engines.. let's talk about the simplicity of many rocket engines.. or as someone responded to this photo below:

     
    forget your special transports for spacecraft parts, having the engines this size and none bigger means you can actually deliver them "by the truckload".
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    manikyath got a reaction from Average Nerd in Upgrade from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10/11   
    you know... this performance thing is utter marketing nonsense. win11 is just as heay as win10, and i've ran it just fine on a wide range of shitboxes, including an i3-540, and a j5005.
     
    i do support the notion of going for an ssd, win10 and win11 both rely on disk IO far more that win8 and before.
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    manikyath got a reaction from da na in Latest Windows 11 Insider build breaks Baldurs Gate 3 and reportedly other games. Roll back! (invisible mouse cursor in-game)   
    well, now if microsoft manages to fix this before pushing it to release, insiders builds will have been useful for once.
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    manikyath got a reaction from Pgunrah in Latest Windows 11 Insider build breaks Baldurs Gate 3 and reportedly other games. Roll back! (invisible mouse cursor in-game)   
    well, now if microsoft manages to fix this before pushing it to release, insiders builds will have been useful for once.
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    manikyath got a reaction from Needfuldoer in You down woth OGG? No MP3!   
    did you read my post at all? at higher bitrates
     
    ah.. so this is what it's about..
     
    look.. i'm sorry to bust your FOSS bubble here... there's benefits to FOSS, there's benefits to OGG in particular, but fact of the matter is that music files are very small in today's standards, so outside of streaming platforms where that bandwidth really matters, it's either 320k MP3, or FLAC for the people who spend 4 digits on their headphones. since MP3 has kind of become a de-facto standard it makes no sense to migrate away if there is no clear benefit. low-bitrate quality is not a benefit in the majority of usecases.
    oh - and for streaming services.. they use what they deem is the most interesting format to use. they have control over the backend, they have control over the frontend, they can stream in .txt for all i care, as long as the quality is good and the bitrate is acceptable.
     
    believe it or not.. my entire music library is stored as both MP3 and lower bitrate OGG, because i used to have a phone with very little storage and it supported OGG so i used the 'more quality at lower bitrate' format there.. literally havent touched any of that since i've upgraded my phone.
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    manikyath got a reaction from Lurick in Your Internet is Too Fast   
    i understood that as 'only the ISPs that do FTTP offer such options", not "FTTP is always symmetrical".
     
    the reasoning behind this is that both coax and copper infrastructure is essentially half-duplex, meaning the more upload speed they offer, the less download speed they can offer. this isnt an issue with FTTP, hence FTTP is the place to be to get symmetrical.
     
    but yes.. could be more clearer in the video.
     
    every time i see an example of this i wonder why text books even bother to include information like this.. what a way to date yourself.
    there's even a brilliant gem like this burried in a cisco exam..
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    manikyath got a reaction from dogwitch in Your Internet is Too Fast   
    i understood that as 'only the ISPs that do FTTP offer such options", not "FTTP is always symmetrical".
     
    the reasoning behind this is that both coax and copper infrastructure is essentially half-duplex, meaning the more upload speed they offer, the less download speed they can offer. this isnt an issue with FTTP, hence FTTP is the place to be to get symmetrical.
     
    but yes.. could be more clearer in the video.
     
    every time i see an example of this i wonder why text books even bother to include information like this.. what a way to date yourself.
    there's even a brilliant gem like this burried in a cisco exam..
  10. Funny
    manikyath got a reaction from RevGAM in Anastasi in Tech: Groq LPU   
    this is based off a quick google;
     
    yeah.. who knew.. making an application specific card will outperform everything else in that specific application.
    if only the crypto world could have told them this... oh wait.
     
    but yeah.. outperforming nvidia's A100 in LLM's, but gets beat by the A100 in other AI tasks.. the revolutionary thing here is that they made it, not what it does.
     
    let's just hope this market for AI ASIC's (that's a horrible name..) grows extremely quickly and nvidia has to go back to making GPU's for other things, it's almost like the crypto boom all over again..
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    manikyath got a reaction from WhitetailAni in You down woth OGG? No MP3!   
    oh lord.. this is some pent up beef you got here..
     
    from what i recall from back when i cared.. what it comes down to is when limiting bitrate or filesize is important, ogg is superior. but if peak quality is what you're after, MP3 does better at the higher bitrates.
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    manikyath got a reaction from LIGISTX in Port Forwarding Issues   
    that's how routing works. your residential internet connection only has one public IP address, each of them has a unique addres on your LAN, and the router routes the traffic to the right place trough a method called "NAT".
     
    you need to forward the port on whatever device is handling NAT, which is usually either your router or modem.
     
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    manikyath got a reaction from Lurick in Why are companys like Thermaltake and Thermalright named so similar   
    ThermalMaster CoolerQuiet BeArctic 420 ARGB...
     
    wait, are we ASUS's marketing department now?
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    manikyath got a reaction from WhitetailAni in Yuzu to pay $2.4 Million Dollars in Damage to Nintendo. Citra also affected. Asks Judge to set Legal Precedent against other Emulators.   
    nintendo has over 11 billion 'in cash assets'
    nintendo's expenses for 2023 were 5.4 billion.
    nintendo's profits for 2023 were roughly 5 billion.
    tears of the kingdom has sold 20 million copies, even if we assume only a tenner per copy makes it to nintendo's pocket (that's a LOW estimate), that's still 100x the money they decided to settle for.
     
    nintendo, for the scope of a court case against a bunch of enthousiasts building an emulator, has infinite money.
  15. Funny
    manikyath got a reaction from emothxughts in Why are companys like Thermaltake and Thermalright named so similar   
    becaue thermal is a word, and they both decided to use that word in their name.
     
    on that note, i present to you, AMD interiors: https://amd-interiordesigner.com/
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    manikyath got a reaction from da na in Why are companys like Thermaltake and Thermalright named so similar   
    becaue thermal is a word, and they both decided to use that word in their name.
     
    on that note, i present to you, AMD interiors: https://amd-interiordesigner.com/
  17. Funny
    manikyath got a reaction from podkall in Why are companys like Thermaltake and Thermalright named so similar   
    asus primecred thermalcooler arctiquiet ROI ARGB white edition Ti?
     
    (ROI = republic of idiots / return on investment)
  18. Funny
    manikyath got a reaction from Hellowpplz in Why are companys like Thermaltake and Thermalright named so similar   
    ThermalMaster CoolerQuiet BeArctic 420 ARGB...
     
    wait, are we ASUS's marketing department now?
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    manikyath got a reaction from podkall in Why are companys like Thermaltake and Thermalright named so similar   
    ThermalMaster CoolerQuiet BeArctic 420 ARGB...
     
    wait, are we ASUS's marketing department now?
  20. Funny
    manikyath got a reaction from Crunchy Dragon in Why are companys like Thermaltake and Thermalright named so similar   
    ThermalMaster CoolerQuiet BeArctic 420 ARGB...
     
    wait, are we ASUS's marketing department now?
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    manikyath got a reaction from Pakwarrior in is 11.2v bad for 12v rail during 100% load ont psu ?   
    dangerous? no.
     
    should you replace that power supply? i would. 80+ white is is pretty terrible efficiency these days, which has further implications about how well made (or lack thereof) the rest of the power supply is.
     
    it's better than not having a power supply, obviously.. but it's safe to assume that if you ever start to notice stability issues with your system, it's probably the power supply.
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    manikyath got a reaction from podkall in Why are companys like Thermaltake and Thermalright named so similar   
    becaue thermal is a word, and they both decided to use that word in their name.
     
    on that note, i present to you, AMD interiors: https://amd-interiordesigner.com/
  23. Agree
    manikyath got a reaction from dalekphalm in Success SUCCESS for Starship, now land the thing and make HLS ASAP. (and other Space News)   
    it was "assumed" ahead of time that this starship wouldnt make it back, because it was still using an older method of attaching the heat shield.. so in a sense IFT3's re-entry was a test of just how well the starship can cope with potential missing tiles. i once again introduce you to the concept of iterative design.. figure out going up first, then figure out coming down.
     
    this is exactly why we dont need:
     
    also, at this point i do want to add this quote from earlier in the thread, because it feels ever so valid now..
    not only did it work, this massive piece of steel managed to do a flip and burn (part of SpaceX design goal to eventually do RTLS on the booster) after hot staging, and then did a landing burn. the booster defenately didnt come back "smooth sailing", but it was a pretty solid attempt.
     
    then starship itself did all the necessary "demo" stuff: payload door, prop transfer, lighting an engine in space.
    it then did a re-entry, which essentially only served as a way to provide SpaceX with the data of how well the thermal protection and ship itself held up trough re-entry. 
     
    that all aside, NSF made an "all the angles" video that's a collection of all vareous cameras they had pointed at the scene:
     
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    manikyath got a reaction from da na in UPGRADE in secret/ without IT Department knowing   
    this will:
    - upset all of the IT staff
    - upset the entire C-suite
    - potentially lead to an immediate termination
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    manikyath got a reaction from promet in CHROMEBOOK WON'T LET ME TYPE IN NON-CAPS   
    press both shift keys once.. sometimes they just get stuck in software, it's weird.
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