Apple's market dominance in the U.S. means that people with Android phones face significant headwinds. Being the only Android user in a group chat is its own special Hell. That lack of interoperability works against Apple in places where Android phones are more established. It is hard to convince people that your phone is so much better than theirs when every time you put a picture in a group chat it looks like you took the picture on a flip phone from 1995. Everyone else's pictures look fine. In these cases Apple is clearly the problem, and it is a bad look for Apple.

That doesn't stop iPhones from being a status symbol, and there are certain parts of the population, where all of the rich and powerful people have iPhones, where being part of the crowd is worth the price of entry. However, in a country where 90+% of the population is using Android you have to be pretty darn snooty to justify buying an iPhone. I suspect that is a very hard market to sell into.

Yes, the damaged craft needed to be written off.

NASA beancounters and politicians took a risk. Astronauts died.

Again.

It was said at the time that the white paint on the early shuttle tanks served to also keep the foam together and reduce drag on it.

They scrapped it to save money and increase payload by a tiny fraction. But mostly to save money.

Engineers: this is necessary.
NASA Bean Counters: nah.

Every freakin' time.

Is it still forbidden for a local hospital to pay the ISP so a radiologist can get stat MRI's faster than his neighbor gets cat videos?

Some places have like 10 meg of bandwidth for the neighborhood. FCC may imagine everybody has gigabit FTTH.

I asked the developer to have some way for red/green colorblind people (9% of males, probably 8% of sysadmins) to be able to change the colors.

My electric bill is too damn high.

Interesting.

I'm building a solar battery from LTO cells and am now wondering about adding a simple square driver.

Gotta see if they're NMC or not. 20,000 cycle rating natively might go to 40,000?

Quote:
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The length of relaxation period was
the same as current pulse, resulting in a Duty Ratio of 50% under PC charg-
ing. The average current for all three charging modes were kept the same
(1C, i.e., 2.2 A), thus the current during PC charging (2C, i.e., 4.4 A) was
twice as large as that during CC charging.
```

> Only the Soviets were so uncaring for public safety to build a nuclear power plant like that,

Years ago a commenter here claimed to have been involved with Chernobyl and the way it went down is that a grad student in nuclear engineering wanted to run his pet theory experiment on the Chernobyl reactor.

Everybody said no up and down the chain.

Bu his father was high up in the Politburo and ordered it.

Soviets do what they're told.

It sounds plausible enough that a smart researcher could probably find the father and son from records.

Correct.

And not using radio either. The Chinese already have satellites doing some sort of quantum communication with ground stations and that much is public.

SETI should refocus to atmospheric and oceanic data analysis.

If you follow this subject long enough it is obvious that this pattern will replay.

Ten years ago it was nanotechnology that explained the Fermi Paradox.

Next decade it might be psychedelics or something.

However

> and the total lack of evidence that they do exist

That is false. There is an embargo on scientifically statistically significant evidence in the public domain (go ahead and try to FOIA it - say Nimitz/Princeton, and see what you get - it's been denied repeatedly).

The existing eyewitness testimony would win any civil or criminal court case.

Hynek reassessed based on this.

He mentions why it looks old on the home page, point number 12.

Yes, that is how Fascism operates.

Can your F-Droid download and install with one click like Play Store (without root)?

Can it install security updates for you (without root)?

Some people may not known that F-Droid can compete with Play Store but only if you're rooted to bypass anticompetitive restrictions Google places on users to ensure its market is dominant.

Regular users take risks by having to patch manually. Everybody already knows that rarely works so auto-updates are the industry standard.

FWIW

https://screenrant.com/express...

That's the first thing I noticed in TFA. 'engineers will be needed to operate...'.

It's now sop to hire engineers to operate equipment? That used to be the role of technicians. A different strata.