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Comment Re:Wow. (Score 2) 72

This is like some sort of dystopian nightmare. Heck, I wouldn't even consider the idea of living in an apartment let alone this. All my friends also live in houses (without roommates). I don't think I know a single person who rents. The "Let's Be Buds" FAQ states that utilities are not included and people have mandatory chores. In the town where I live the only folks living in such a communal arrangement are prisoners. I think being in Federal prison would still be preferable than living in SF

What you call dystopian a liberal voter calls acceptable.

You get what you vote for. Fuck ‘em if they refuse to learn, because I refuse to believe their “victim” excuses anymore. It’s hardly Americas fault San Francisco has turned into a shithole. That’s on the citizens of SF.

SF is no different than any other city other than having a climate that makes it easier for the homeless to not die of exposure. Cities are dirty, cramped places. I don't understand why people willingly choose to live in them, but they do. They vote liberal because they lean young, and young people lean liberal.

Their politics have almost zero to do with cities being s**tholes. Republicans manage to turn beautiful places into s**tholes just as quickly. They just ruin things in different ways — Democrats by not mandating psychological treatment for people who are wandering the streets because of severe mental health problems and by allowing them to ignore the rules of society without consequence, Republicans by cutting funding for the mental health services that they need to keep them off the streets and by throwing people into jails where they don't get adequate mental health treatment and end up coming out even more screwed up than they were when they went in.

Both parties absolutely suck, and people who claim otherwise are kidding themselves.

Comment Re: Hopefully it's improved since 2019 (Score 1) 187

I have figured out that some shadows and road patches can trig the braking system.

A side effect of the lane assist is that a lot of the 'feeling' of the road disappears and it makes it harder to find out ice on the road where just subtle changes in the feel of the car indicates bad conditions.

Comment Re: I prefer to be in charge of my vehicle's braki (Score 0) 187

I'd say that the automatic braking system is dumb as a brick - it thinks that tree shadows and pavement patches are items worth braking for.

It also makes it harder to enter roundabouts because it can't see that vehicles crossing in front of you will be out of the way in time.

Comment Re:Hope this isn't a problem (Score 1) 28

for the crew that's about to take a ride.

Or do I have my spaceships mixed up?

If by "about to", you mean September of next year, then maybe it might, but I suspect you're thinking of the Boeing Starliner crewed test in a couple of days. Completely unrelated.

  • Soyuz: Russian capsule (and service module and orbital module, but the capsule is the interesting part) used for getting people back from ISS (capacity 3).
  • SpaceX Dragon: U.S. capsule used for getting people back from ISS since April 2021 (capacity 4).
  • Boeing Starliner: U.S. capsule intended to have a second alternative to Dragon for ISS flights (capacity 7).
  • Orion: Combination of a capsule (Lockheed Martin) and crew module (Airbus) for Artemis missions (capacity 4).

They're all capsules, but Dragon is basically intended as a replacement for Soyuz, Orion has the ESM (European Service Module) attached, which lets it be useful as a habitat for longer missions, and Starliner has more crew and cargo capacity, I think.

The other key difference is that Orion is designed for reentry from higher altitudes (more heat shielding) than Dragon or Starliner, which are both designed only for LEO (e.g. ISS). A version of Soyuz (Zond 5) did fly past the moon, but I have no idea if the current versions are built to withstand high-altitude reentry.

Comment Re:So they can get away with this (Score 1) 80

I doubt it. Brin and Page did it years ago. By this point you could probably just copy Google's algo from a few decades ago and get a reasonably good search, minus the trashification you'd get from people abusing SEO (you would have to tweak around SEO and it would be a cat-and-mouse game if they adjusted to compensate).

Comment Tests rarely go better than expected (Score 2) 28

Finding unexpected problems is just part of testing, both software and hardware. Russia kept tuning existing Soyuz design and got prices and down and reliability up. US capitalism is addicted to throw-out-and-start-over because investors don't get excited by incremental improvements; they pay for buzz.

It would have been cheaper to send 2 time-tested Apollo missions to have a crew of 5 than reinventing one big Orion. And 2nd would be an emergency backup: crowded but survivable.

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