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Comment Re:Ouch (Score 2) 97

"the experience in building the cargo craft really helped them."

It certainly did, but it's not like Boeing lacked experience. In fact, early on there was a serious push for sole-sourcing the crew contract to Boeing based on their history with the Shuttle, that SpaceX was too inexperienced and couldn't be trusted to get the job done.

Comment Re:I'm skeptic (Score 2) 62

No, 1 nanometer is orders of magnitude too high an estimate. Observed data constrains primordial black hole masses to about 10^13kg, which gives a Rsch of about .0001 nanometers. That's only a couple of orders larger than a proton, it is *not* easy to feed them and one is not going to fall into a star and completely eat it. In the unlikely event it collides with a star, it will absorb scarcely any of it as it passes through.

Comment Re:What's the market? (Score 3, Informative) 29

This is a microcontroller, not an embedded Linux SoC. It has a minuscule fraction of the power consumption, runs a simple RTOS, and can achieve levels of determinism, latency, and timing precision that are impractical with a full Linux OS running on the chip. A microcontroller can bit-bang protocols at speeds the Zero 2W couldn't match, or which it simply couldn't manage the timing requirements for. The programmable PIO stuff enhances those advantages.

The Cortex M0+ of the RP2040 was rather underpowered, though. Its main use is in very tiny systems where transistor count or power consumption are the main considerations. The M33 is a much more capable microcontroller, with things like hardware integer division and a FPU.

Comment Re: Excellent! (Score 1) 167

"It's not about "hating" Jews, it's about hating Israeli genocidal policies,"

Weird how so much hate about Israeli genocidal policies gets directed against non-Israeli Jews in the US.

"At this point, Jews are doing to others that which was done to them."

Wait, I thought it was Israeli genocidal policies. Now one paragraph later you're talking about how it's Jews doing it.

Comment Re:Brazil has Free Speech (Score 1) 87

"That is similar as pointing a knife or a gun"

It is absolutely not similar to pointing a knife or a gun.

Words are words. They are not knives or guns. Your argument is, again, the argument of every would-be censor of ideas in the world.

Lick the boot harder, bootlicker.

Comment Re:Brazil has Free Speech (Score 2) 87

"Your freedom ENDS when someone else freedom starts."

  *Everything you do affects someone else*. Your argument is an argument against all freedom, everywhere.

Which means it's an absurd argument, the argument of the fascist and the bootlicker. It's the argument that Saudi Arabia uses when it executes a journalist or an apostate. It's the argument that China uses when it erects the Great Firewall. It's the argument that North Korea uses when it blows up a dissident with a mortar.

Lick the boot harder, bootlicker, you left some much up there in the treads.

Comment Re:Dumbest idea I've seen in a long time... (Score 1) 20

Moreover, the thing about Shark Tank was that you were getting an investor's buy-in to help you bring the product to market and manufacture it in a volume worth selling. What are the 100 going to do to enable any of that? Ideas are free, it's turning them into actual products that takes time and money.

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