I assume the point of mining in space is to have raw resources that are already outside the gravity well. Not so much for bringing it to earth, but space based construction.
Good point, but the assumptions are that this metal would then be used in potentially life critical systems and would require the full rigor of quality assessments for such materials. Not too sure how that might work in LEO.
How are you planning to do that in future missions? Sending up a a capsule or heat shield for sample return, or is the ultimate goal to return a larger mass and lose some?
Pre-built sample return has been proven to work with another asteroid in a small way I guess, the Hayabusa mission.
Ouch... that actually hits a bit close to home. After having a couple of blogging homes fold out from under me, I've kicked around the idea of coding up my own blog - which usually was in whatever framework/language I was getting ramped up in. I realize I've probably ported/built something a half a dozen times in the last decade, and never bothered to take the final step to deploy it before starting the next rewrite.
I started writing my blogging engine [1] in late 1999, and spent almost the next two years trying to get it perfect, while at the same time using it for blogging (locally at first). I finally got fed up with trying to perfect the software and just went public with it. I still use it after 25 years. Granted, there hasn't been a line of code that hasn't changed in that time, but it still feels the same to me, as it still works the same from a user perspective (entries can be added via a web interface, email, file (that was true even 25 years ago) and the PUT method (added last year); the storage system hasn't changed either and is backward compatible such that the code in 2001 (when I first went public) could still work on the data today). And yes, it is still a CGI script. I saw no need to change that over the years.
Our US company sent me to France to help out with an implementation. The guy I worked with spoke very little English and my French is terrible. Both of us had done Latin, however - so the comments were hilarious as we used that as our common link. One of those projects I'd expect to show on the daily WTF at some point.
I did try my hand at a translation tool, as it was all i18n up proper. Watched one guy blow coffee through his nose when I demo'ed - and the 'BACK' navigation was the French word for a persons back or something like that.
Isn't it true that schoolboys in many countries would learn Latin 100+ years ago? I suppose it would've been used sometimes in international communication?
If you're from Europe knowing Latin definitely gives you a deeper appreciation of a bunch of stuff.
It's a useful way of formalising verb conjugation and tenses which is common across the major European languages. Something they all take for granted but I watch my poor mother's mind melt when she tried learning German as a Chinese speaker. Especially as a lot of these forms are looser and more forgiving in English.
A lot of vocabulary has its origins in Latin and biology and medicine still like to borrow from it.
It's niche but only today I was playing some Mozart on the piano and saw "M. S." where I was meant to cross the hands and I considered for a sec and guessed it must be mano sinistra (forgive the declension) even though I've never learned Italian thanks to Latin.
100+ years is still pretty recent. The immediate predecessor to English as a world language was French. Matter of fact, my country has only dropped French translations from its passport with the most recent design update a decade ago or so.
Latin would have been used pre-Renaissance. Our grandparents might have still had to learn it as a part of an educated person's toolkit, but it was long not intended for communication anymore back then.
> The immediate predecessor to English as a world language was French
From what I remember, there was a divide between Catholicism and Protestantism, where some of the smaller countries that followed Protestantism used German as a common language due to its origins. I think knowledge of German in Norway was something that was expected of students attending the universities until the mid 1900s (due to geopolitical changes)
It's still mandatory (1-2 years) in non-vocational high schools in Croatia, for the stupidest of reasons ("culture" and "you might need it in law or medical higher education").
It was mandatory at the schools I attended from 7 to 14, which was in the 90s, although this was at what British people call "prep/public schools", a group of a few hundred fancy fee-paying schools. Most people dropped it at 14 (GCSEs), and almost everyone dropped it by 16 (A Levels)
Lol, I learned it in the 80s - 90s. If you chose to learn Latin & Greek in high school here in Belgium then you're seen as being a top student. It's still a big thing.
Big fan of the tool. Sublime was one of the few editors that could even open the massive logs one project was generating. The recovery is so good, I've realized I had dozens of tabs unsaved for years until IT updated machines.
One question: is there going to be another 3.x release? The popup takes you to a 4.x release, which is great if you are on 4.x. If it hit EOL, it makes it easy for us to force the update. Right now, it is in a bit of a weird in between.
ST3 won't be receiving any bugfixes or new features, so it's effectively EOL. Anyone's of course free to use ST3 or 2 or 1 if they don't wish to upgrade, we still make those available on our website.
I think the last time any of my computers had a case was back when I realized the pair of 900gx2 cards I was running was turning my computer into an easy bake.
The 'move in' appeal comes into play. While the land/location may be great - places with the lime green toilet and 70's shag carpet will require renovations to be considered current. The flippers are doing the work - usually the unusually dated bits - for less than what the buyers would think that remodeling would cost. (and they are often correct) That delta is why flippers can make it work. At a certain price point, folks expect a house to be finished.
We picked up a house that needed updates. A few miles from work (were I to drive in) and on a lake. When we looked at the house, it showed terribly. We had replaced our bathrooms and a few other 'major' things in our previous house, so what might scare some folks is a few hundred to a few thousand at home depot and some possibly long weekends. Chunk by chunk, we've been making the house the way we want it.
I should be doing some drywall this long weekend. Way to dang cold to go out and pick up supplies.
Installing 4.37.2 does sort the malware warning, for those who install with the binary. Was a fun post holiday treat for those who have lots of developers.
yes. it’s been a stupid amount of work for something I could not possibly care less about, but the issues for me are not the fresh installs of the patched version, but uninstalling corrupted versions.
I replaced my kid's 2017 mac she used through university last year. I expected it to be trashed - and turns out it is in reasonable shape. While it looks like this might be the last OS refresh for it, it felt usable. 16G of RAM probably went a long way. Cleaning it up for a second life.
So very much this. As I was learning Rust, I'd ask what the equivalent was for a snippet I could create in Java. It is funny. I look at the Java code provided by prompts and go meh. The Rust code looks great. I realize this is probably due to 1) me being that junior level in Rust or 2) less legacy crap in the training model. I'm sure it is both, with more of the former as I work from working to beautiful code.
When I worked as a SE, we'd often categorized sales reps as 'hunters' vs 'farmers' when it comes to managing the accounts. The hunters would hit their numbers, collect their bonus, move on, and leave the account in shambles for us to try and assist the new rep in recovering. This is the first time I've noticed that attitude in the company leadership. My heart goes out to our (now) Broadcom rep, as I can tell they are putting the squeeze to all contracts, to their mid-term detriment.
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