In this case, no they did not - the flight was completely automated from launch to docking.

The crew have the ability to manually control the capsule, but it has not been required for any normal operations (it has been used in testing).

"They" is often used as a singular pronoun when the gender of the person referred to is either unknown or shouldn't be disclosed for some reason. Whilst this used to be considered bad grammar, it is now acceptable, even encouraged usage.

100 new "titles" per year would mean 100 new movies or shows - not episodes.

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with what they've said - just clarifying what it appears the target is from the words used.

The House does not conduct a trial. That is the job of the Senate. Impeachment is essentially the same as an indictment. They don't have to present any evidence, they simply need to feel they have enough evidence to present at the trial to secure conviction.

Now, a rogue jury (in this case republican senators) can (and as shown have) refused to consider the evidence on its merits during the trial. But that's a separate issue.

He left it up to the core developers and wider committers to work out how they wanted to be governed. Most decisions regarding the language were already being made by the core devs (backed by the PEP process and issue tracker) without Guido needing to be explicitly involved (unless it was a change he was involved in by choice).

https://mail.python.org/piperm...

All Guido did was remove himself from the position of final arbiter in cases where a decision needed to be made and either no consensus or clear majority was present, or Guido felt the majority choice was wrong (which occurred infrequently, but the general feeling in the community is that when he did exercise this power it eventually proved to be the right choice).

From this emerged a number of governance proposals, and the community eventually decided on a Steering Council model.

https://www.python.org/dev/pep...
https://www.python.org/dev/pep...

Guido is still active in the Python community - he's a frequent poster on the Python mailing lists. He's obviously had the break he needs to reinvigorate.

Whoops - misread (currently hypothetical) 5300X as 3300X ...

A big advantage of the 5600X over the 3600X (which I have and am very happy with) is that on the 5600X all the cores are on the one CCX, which gives latency benefits in some scenarios, and access to more cache.

The 3300X also has this advantage, although testing shows that it doesn't keep up with the 3600X due to other factors (though it's not exactly slow ...).

For me, the 5600X is going to be the best option for most people to have in a high-end gaming rig for a while.

I haven't seen a slashdotting in I don't know how long.

Someone seeing this might think that Oracle doesn't know anything about enterprise-level website development.

I would consider that too great a risk and move the account from the bank that doesn't have a clue about decimal points (and tell them the reason why they are losing your custom).

The Falcon 9 is a heavily-tested rocket that is very different to the Starship prototypes. Different engines, different structural design, different type of fuel, ... The least-tested component is the Crew Dragon module, but one of those has already been to the ISS, and has been through both on-ground and in-flight abort testing. There have been zero Falcon 9 Block-5 launch failures (there was one Block-4 RUD). There was one engine shutdown due to some cleaning fluid igniting (it was left after refurbishment, processes changed to prevent this). The other engines took up the slack and the mission was a success (they failed to retrieve the booster, but that's not part of the mission objectives).

There is always a risk when putting people on top of explosives and sending them up to orbit. I'm confident that those risks have been extensively mitigated for the Demo-2 mission.

I imagine the SpaceX engineers are hoping they do learn things from the Demo-2 mission. It's just very unlikely to be directly related to Starship. One of the things they're explicitly hoping to learn is how much degradation the solar panels suffer while attached to the ISS.

Actually SpaceX have deliberately launched unmanned missions when the conditions were outside their specified range (esp. in the booster recovery area) because they felt it would be a good way to collect more data on the actual capabilities of their systems. IIRC one of the launches earlier this year was done this way.

Of course they only do these kinds of experiments with StarLink launches (i,e. when they're not risking customers' payloads).

One of the advantages of reusing boosters and having a production line is that most launches are an incremental cost. They have enough Falcon 9 boosters built to easily cover the expected remaining launches before it's pulled from service, so the loss of a few during experiments isn't a disaster.

Because I only need about 8TB in my home NAS. Currently I'm using 4x4TB in RAID6 (I originally built it using old desktop drives - 2x2TB and 2x4TB, then replaced the 2TB drives). I recently lost a drive and replaced it with WD RED NAS 4TB which was CMR.

I'm intending to eventually replace it with an all SSD NAS - I run VMs and various other services on there that would benefit. In the meantime I'm hoping not to lose another drive as it appears I'd either have to shell out for an 8TB drive where I wouldn't be using half the capacity, or put in an SMR drive which would severely impact the performance.

1a) Actually, the flashback scene was as broadcast in the Bear Grylls episode - Last Week Tonight did not modify anything. Grylls picks up dung, mentions drinking from dung, flashback. It was the Bear Grylls episode that used that for shock value first.

I'm sure the shock value was part of the decision to show that clip on Last Week Tonight, but they didn't change anything to achieve it.

Looks like the Australia government (Liberal + National party coalition - conservatives) have found a way to get the budget back into surplus after having declared that the country is IN SURPLUS.

By which they meant that it's predicated to be in this financial year ... if all their most optimistic assumptions hold ... oops, bushfires, potential pandemic (well, other failed assumptions meant there wasn't going to be a surplus even before those events).

It doesn't matter whether or not he was found guilty of the first indictment (which is what you appear to be referring to).

Obstruction of congress is illegal and the fact that he wasn't found guilty of this despite his clear and obvious obstruction of the impeachment inquiry makes it clear that every single one of the republican senators refused to do their job or obey their oath.