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.

No, you’re supposed to go to prison where you can legally be put to slave labor. They used to be called work houses.

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

The deal with LLMs is that it’s very difficult to say which piece of training material went into which output. Everything gets chopped up and mixed, and it’s computationally difficult to run backwards.

My understanding of the image generators is that they operate one pixel at a time too, looking only at neighboring pixels. So in that sense, it’s not correct to say they understand the context of anything.

Like, there’s lots of information about Bilbo Baggins in Lotr, that doesn’t mean it was written in the third age of Middle Earth homie

The conceit of the LOTR appendices is that Lord of the Rings, as published in English, is really just the Red Book that Bilbo writes at the end. Dr. Tolkien merely found the manuscript somewhere and has graciously translated it from Third Age common language into English for the benefit of us modern people.

Big Smoke, you make big mistake.

T stands for “terminal count”.

No, the spacecraft gets lumped in with the military business unit because the contracting structures are similar, and very different from how commercial aircraft development is financed.

To be clear: to get back to the ground safely, the spacecraft RCS has to operate for no more than about five hours.

As far as I know, this spacecraft is still certified for emergency reentry, and if they needed to, the crew can get in and leave at any time. And they have good confidence that the spacecraft will get them to earth safely.

These delays aimed at getting more data to justify certification as an operational vehicle instead of flight test. If it doesn’t work out, the worst case seems to be that a second test flight may be required.

Delays don’t really cost NASA anything either. There’s plenty of consumables on the station for the crew, and when the capsule is docked the RCS can be shut down so it doesn’t leak.

Well they negotiate for those golden parachutes in their contracts precisely because of the hot seat effect.

Fine? That sounds like a thirteenth amendment situation.

Edit: not US, no thirteenth amendment.

I feel like CEOs are more like football coaches in terms of job security. As long as they keep winning, just about no form of misconduct can dislodge them. Stop winning though, and the hot seat can become very uncomfortable.

If you add the fat first, the mushrooms are going to release so much liquid that you just have to boil that off anyway.

I wonder how much of this is just the Minuteman replacement.

…yet.

These are also used by competitive weightlifters.

Flight attendants are covered by the Railway Labor Act. They can’t actually strike. The President can forcibly prevent them from striking. There are serious penalties to be had for any kind of illegal strike.

So what’s been going on instead is an “unorganized” definitely-not-a-job-action where some individual flight attendants do a bad job on service while still fulfilling all of their safety duties.

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.

To me it feels more like post-1939 phony war, but undeclared this time. And unlike 1939, the invasion went wrong and the aggressors are burning up a whole lot of blood and treasure to get not a whole lot of territory.

Wait! You’re saying that your police department doesn’t get blown up by multiple IEDs every week? How odd.

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