Ah yes, the Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle. NASA’s plan was to put the Orion spacecraft on top of a Space Shuttle SRB. The projected development costs were $40 billion in 2009 and it was anticipated to cost about $1 billion per flight beyond that. Despite continued development, to this day, Orion still hasn’t flown a crew. An SRB was what killed the 7 crew aboard the Challenger.

This was a pretty dumb idea, driven primarily by wanting to keep funding going to the same districts as in the Shuttle era. No one misses that system.

Thinking that wasn’t capitalism is ridiculous - NASA designed the system and gave aerospace contractors (read - Boeing) a blank cheque to build it. The contractors of course used that money to lobby congress to spend even more money. Did you miss that part?

Or even zcat -f /usr/bin/zcat

       -f --force
              If the input data is not in a format recognized by gzip, and if the option --stdout is also given,
              copy the input data without change to the standard output: let zcat behave as cat.

I don’t know why this isn’t the top comment. I guess there might be some scenario where you’d want to know about non-gzip files where you don’t expect them so changing the defaults would probably cause some subtle breakage. For shell use though, just an alias could be used; alias zcat=gzip -cdf

The full ten months of the year?

That’s the BBC criticising Apple for indiscriminately mangling all notifications with AI, like news headlines. The BBC could boycott the Apple platform, but that’s basically their only lever to stop Apple doing this besides asking nicely.

Well read the BBC article on this then: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0elzk24dno

It’s an iPhone ‘feature’ that summarises a bunch of notifications into one. It took a set of BBC headlines and turned them into “Luigi Mangione shoots himself…” They don’t list the article that was being summarised so I don’t know what the original headline was.

Are we talking Adobe Flash ancient or Macromedia Flash ancient?

Requisite Manley analysis.

Press conference at AGU (American Geophysical Union).

The Ars article mentions “draining the vehicle’s power and leading to a loss of communications” but yeah, sounds like the motors pulled too much current in a hard touchdown and the controllers dropped out.

Already done of course

BBC article mentioning this flight. A tweet from FR24 says that the aircraft “was old with an older transponder generation, so some data might be bad or missing”, that it was “flying in an area of GPS jamming, so some data might be bad”, and that there was not aware of any airports in the area where the signal was lost.

7km altitude give or take

The ADS-B data puts it as descending between 23 and 22 thousand feet. That’s below 7km.

We heard it here first, comrade.

I didn’t recognise the ‘10 seconds of human consideration’ claim. I found this ProPublica report on it: How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them

There a former Cigna doctor says “It takes all of 10 seconds to do 50 at a time.” They claim to have seen documents for a two month period that put the average at 1.2 seconds per review. That’s using a specific review system that processed 300,000 claims over that period.

They don’t mention if there were other claims processed with different methods but still, the OP article seemed to be generous with that claim.

I don’t know what the “90%-error-rate AI” claim is about though. It’d be nice if the sources were actually cited.

Yeah, they’re a burgers & spies joint.

Seperation confirmed! Congratulations ESA and Arianespace.

Great launch - there’s an article from ESA with a video describing the commissioning and operations to come: Eclipse-making double satellite Proba-3 enters orbit

Great launch - there’s an article from ESA with a video describing the commissioning and operations to come: Eclipse-making double satellite Proba-3 enters orbit

Due to an anomaly detected in PROBA-3 spacecraft PSLV-C59/PROBA-3 launch rescheduled to tomorrow at 16:12 hours.

That’ll be 2024-12-05 10:42 UTC. Via the ISRO Youtube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJXXLLw0PBI

Edit: I suck at time zones - IST is UTC+0530