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New comment by 6nf in "Stranded astronauts' capsule heads home without them"

6nf — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 08:46:45 +0000

No they don't. Dragon takes 4, Soyuz takes 3, 9 people on the ISS, none of the other pods are rated for crewed missions.

New comment by 6nf in "Stranded astronauts' capsule heads home without them"

6nf — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 08:45:53 +0000

There's 9 people on board the ISS right now. The Dragon can take 4. The Suyoz can take 3. The other capsules are not designed for crew.

New comment by 6nf in "Brazilian court orders suspension of X"

6nf — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:02:57 +0000

Let me guess, you've never been to China.

New comment by 6nf in "Starlink Defies Order to Block X in Brazil"

6nf — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 16:04:50 +0000

Example?

New comment by 6nf in "Brazilian court orders suspension of X"

6nf — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 03:07:37 +0000

VPNs are not illegal in China. About a third of people in China use VPNs and the govt is fine with VPNs unless you're using it to break the law.

New comment by 6nf in "With fifth busy beaver, researchers approach computation's limits"

6nf — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 05:04:36 +0000

> 5 states and 2 symbols is just so few with which to try to encode undecidable behavior.

Would you be brave enough to say the same thing about BB(6) or BB(7)?

New comment by 6nf in "Boeing rejects claims NASA crew 'stranded' by spacecraft"

6nf — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 23:23:59 +0000

Isn't there a Dragon docked at the ISS right now?

New comment by 6nf in "Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says"

6nf — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 17:26:55 +0000

Is there a search engine that actually and consistently looks for what you search for now?

Once in a while I try Google but very frequently it completely ignores some of my keywords and I have to click the 'include XXXX' and try again. WTF GOOGLE WHY DO YOU STILL DO THIS

New comment by 6nf in "Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results are getting worse"

6nf — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 22:03:34 +0000

When Google decided that all user supplied search terms were optional, result quality fell off a cliff.

New comment by 6nf in "DJI's First Delivery Drone Takes Flight Globally"

6nf — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 04:49:05 +0000

Previous urban delivery drone services had trouble with noise complaints, could be related to that?

New comment by 6nf in "Removing data transfer fees when moving off Google Cloud"

6nf — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 09:39:28 +0000

RIP Google Cloud

calling it now

New comment by 6nf in "Starlink launches "cellphone towers in space" for use with LTE phones"

6nf — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 21:56:27 +0000

Might require a window seat though.

New comment by 6nf in "Kids with chattier parents are more talkative, may have bigger vocabulary"

6nf — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 10:33:46 +0000

Could be genetic too, at least in part

New comment by 6nf in "$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of homeless people"

6nf — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 23:16:45 +0000

Assign an area to each person and that person has to ensure it stays clean. Don't pay by the pound of trash collected, pay by the area kept clean.

New comment by 6nf in "Tesla will sue you for $50k if resell your Cybertruck in the first year"

6nf — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 18:21:02 +0000

Ferrari won't sell to everyone, but they don't stop buyers reselling their cars.

New comment by 6nf in "Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?"

6nf — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 00:25:47 +0000

Other AI companies are less than a year behind OpenAI and I'm not convinced that's enough for OpenAI to 'win out' in the market.

New comment by 6nf in "X Won't Demonetize Russell Brand, the Company Tells Pro-Censorship British MPs"

6nf — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 08:37:17 +0000

You're in favour of deplatforming people that committed no crime and in fact did nothing wrong except disagree with the govt.

New comment by 6nf in "X Won't Demonetize Russell Brand, the Company Tells Pro-Censorship British MPs"

6nf — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 20:12:41 +0000

This is bullshit. Brand is not even convicted yet.

New comment by 6nf in "U.S. Deficit, Pegged at $1.7T, Effectively Doubled in 2023"

6nf — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 23:38:24 +0000

I mean historically

New comment by 6nf in "U.S. Deficit, Pegged at $1.7T, Effectively Doubled in 2023"

6nf — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 10:03:16 +0000

Inflation fixes that