They have given us a bit of a masterclass in engineering here. Identified a rare but important issue, took decisive action to ensure safety, and engineered a fix very quickly to get the aircraft back into service.

[turns up monitor brightness until console display is projected onto mah face]

It might be a case of the specific version of software they want to install to fix the issue does not work with older hardware, so any aircraft that are still on it need to up upgraded. It's not uncommon for the hardware upgrade to be cheaper and faster than trying to backport the fix and fully qualify that software, especially as the aircraft can't be used until it is done.

It is impossible to launch Soyuz/Proton rockets without this service cabin. The launchpad itself is a huge slob of armored concrete with a hole in the center, used to direct hot gases into a gigantic pit, ot takes a few years to dig out that pit and build the multistory tall launchpad. The service cabin is a multistory metal structire that provides access to set up various umbilicals and to set up the chemical matches, lit electrically, that are inserted into the rocket engines (yes, that is how they light up these types of engines, huge, many feet long, matches). The cabin then slides away into the wall and it is supposed to be fixed in place with some pins. They did not do it this time, so the engine exhaust pulled the cabin out of its niche and blew it out through the vent hole into the pit.

That's what I just said.

Ukraine did not fold to the threat of the USA stopping all support earlier this year, it will not stop to any of these threats now either, it is a non starter. Zelensky doesn't have the mandate from Ukrainians to this type of a "peace deal" just because USA may stop any support. Ukraine will endure wothout the USA support, just with more casualties.

there is no d8fference where it comes to ruzzians. Majority are pro putin there or they do not care, very few are truly against this or especially are vocal about it. I used to work with them back between 2009 and 2014 and supported the work I uaed to do for them umtil 2022. Then I saw what they really where, the young, the old, doesn't matter. A good test is to ask "whose is Crimea". At this point I decided that I am not a specialist in sorting through various types of shit, I wrote them all off.

ruzzia is "winning the war" in the same way that a cancer is "winning" by destroying the body where it resides. Nobody is winning anything yet. Ukraine is slowly losing territory, while trying to keep more soldiers alive, ruzzia is slowly losing its manpower by throwing more and more bodies, now without even basic body armor and helmets into the meatgrinder to be burned alive by the drones to gain a few hundred meters a of burned up, empty territory per day.

Without either side having air superiority both sides are doomed to continue the drudgery of slow attrition, Ukrainian territory vs orcs' lives. Neither is winning, both are losing something. In the long run, prolonged wars favour the defending side for various reasons, the occupiers are seeing worsening of their economic situation for no gain whatsoever. It is all a temporary high, that the ruzzian population was experiencing, following the occupation of Crimea and the start of this "special military operation" that was not supposed to last for more than a few weeks. Now putin cannot let go, this is not about the money or the economy for him, which is why all of this negotiation crap is nonsense doomed to failure. For putin a peace right now is just as dangerous as the defeat, in either case he will lose power. For him there are no options at all, only continuing a perpetual war, which is why the Americans and the West are so horribly wrong about him and his willingness to negotiate. He can only do one thing - keep the war going until the last orc and the last mercenary. If he takes Ukraine somehow, to use the newly occupied people to go to war against Poland, Lituania, Latvia, Estonia and later the rest. If he succeeds taking Ukraine, then he will not be stopped by any conventional Eiuropean force, nobody is willing to fight and die there.

of course it is a sane assumption. Their nuclear missile launch tests fail for a good reason as well, rocket engines, airplane engines and parts were made in Ukraine, the engineers who made them were Ukrainians. All of the ruzzkies capacity is used up to rebuild tanks and produce military equipment, missiles, gun rounds, shahed drones, whatever. Building a gigantic complex platform actually requires resources they do not have.

for the same reason I wouldn't hire an Islamist or a palestenian sympathiser.

To be fair your link does say "designed to bypass internet filtering mechanisms or content restrictions", so it sounds like SSH, work VPNs, banking etc. don't count because they aren't designed to get around the porn filters.

It still seems pointless because most of the VPN services are based outside the US for legal reasons anyway.

They could, but probably the only real reason why they maintained access to the ISS is because they get paid for it, and because they wanted to keep their independent capability alive. Aside from those reasons, they probably aren't all that interested in going there.

The destroyed 8U216 service cabin used for Soyuz launches was manufactured at the Novokramatorsk Machine Building Plant in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region.

Of course this plant was bombed by ruzzia multiple times since the February 2022.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YQDNpqEf5us

ruzzia has a few options there.
1. leave everything as is and stop making launches, fire the unnecessary staff, forget about space.

2. get one of the platforms that were built and installed elsewhere (there are 3 of these used by their military in Plesetsk, 1 in Vostochny, this one is used once per year. Ask the one in French Guiana (South America) to be returned, it is no longer in use anyway. Ask the Kazakhs for the first one that was used to launch the first Vostok rocket with Gagarin to be moved from the museum site.

3. build a new factory somewhere, train new staff, construct a new platform.

4. fix the one that was blown to pieces.

AFAIC ruzzia can and needs to go to hell. I hire people, I won't hire a ruzzian, the world needs to get its act together and start using space wothput them.

Red Bull is at least $3/can.

A trailer full of Red Bull is about 70,000 cans. That's around $200K.

Sell for 1/3rd value and you have a good year's tax-free salary from one truckload.

They're $3/can retail. The store pays at most $2 each. Most likely $1.50 from Red Bull but there are many variables. So a trailer full of cans is around $140k if it's $2/can.

Grocery store margins are thin - the $1 margin is used to pay for transport, storage, store operations (utilities/etectricity, staff wages, etc), so the actual profit per can will fall down to 25 cents or so.

Here's where the summary goes wrong:

Artificial Intelligence is in fact many kinds of technologies. People conflate LLMs with the whole thing because its the first kind of AI that an average person with no technical knowledge could use after a fashion.

But nobody is going to design a new rocket engine in ChatGPT. They're going to use some other kind of AI that work on problems on processes that the average person can't even conceive of -- like design optimization where there are potentially hundreds of parameters to tweak. Some of the underlying technology may have similarities -- like "neural nets" , which are just collections of mathematical matrices that encoded likelihoods underneath, not realistic models of biological neural systems. It shouldn't be surprising that a collection of matrices containing parameters describing weighted relations between features should have a wide variety of applications. That's just math; it's just sexier to call it "AI".