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Comment Project and issue tracking (Score 1) 114

He added that communication problems caused by the team working from home amid COVID-related restrictions meant some issues got lost over video calls or emails.

Have you never heard of issue and project tracking software? All of the communication should have been logged as tickets and prioritized.

Submission + - NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft touches down on asteroid Bennu (cnet.com)

rminsk writes: Four years after launching from Earth, NASA's Osiris-Rex on Tuesday made a historic and brief landing on potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu, over 200 million miles away.

The spacecraft traveled all that way to perform a short touch-and-go maneuver with the goal of collecting a sample from the asteroid's surface and transporting it back to Earth for study.

We won't know until Wednesday whether Osiris-Rex succeeded in grabbing a space science souvenir, but on Tuesday, NASA TV reported the spacecraft's robotic sampling arm, named Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (Tagsam), successfully touched down on Bennu for about 15 seconds.

Comment Costs $10 to make (Score 3, Informative) 391

https://icer-review.org/wp-con...

For remdesivir, we used evidence on the cost of producing the next course of therapy from an article by Hill et all in the Journal of Virus Eradication (2020). Their methods sought to determine the “minimum” costs of production by calculating the cost of active pharmaceutical ingredients, which is combined with costs of excipients, formulation, packaging and a small profit margin. Their analysis calculated a total cost of producing the “final finished product” of $9.32 US for a 10-day course of treatment. We rounded that amount up to $10 for a 10-day course. If a 5-day course of treatment becomes a recommended course of therapy, then the marginal cost would accordingly shrink to $5.

Submission + - Google is not building a nationwide coronavirus screening website (theverge.com)

rminsk writes: According to The Verge Google is not working with the US government in building a nationwide website to help people determine whether and how to get a novel coronavirus test, despite what President Donald Trump said in the course of issuing an emergency declaration for the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, a much smaller trial website made by another division of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is going up. It will only be able to direct people to testing facilities in the Bay Area.

Comment Circumference of 75 meters? (Score 1) 334

The blades have a circumference of 75 meters...

So the blades are about 12 meters each. That seems a bit small. Is the diameter 75 meters? Radius 75 meters?

... is located farther out to see than any other wind farm

I guess they mean "sea" instead of "see."

This is from the CNN article. Basic reporting is a lost art.

Comment Every cinematic cliche possible (Score 1) 231

The problem I had was every cinematic cliche possible, as if before lensing every shot the director said, "You know how in movies when they...", I mean every shot was rehashed from something we've seen and heard multiple times before. And not just from monster movies. War movies, family dramas, all corners of cinema were ruthlessly swiped. The corny melodrama is spiced with insipid corny dialogue forced upon a pretty good cast that was clearly at a loss what to do with it. The daughter and the guy from the Verizon commercials were oddly the only ones that I bought.

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