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New comment by sandyarmstrong in "NASA updates lander plans for Moon landings"

sandyarmstrong — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 23:36:25 +0000

I'm very excited for a return to the moon, and NASA released a lot of details today! It's fascinating to see the nuances that each lander introduces into the plan, such that they have two fairly different plans for Orion depending on which lander is used.

I have to admit I'm still a little perplexed that it's going to take so many launches to make it happen. Both landers need several launches to get enough fuel/boosters in orbit so that their landers can make a translunar injection.

NASA updates lander plans for Moon landings

sandyarmstrong — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 23:32:11 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/nasa-updates-lander-plans-for-moon-landings-finally-solves-long-festering-orion-issue/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50216806

Points: 5

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New comment by sandyarmstrong in "A farewell to Arc browser"

sandyarmstrong — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 21:33:41 +0000

I thought this was about the backup software, which I still use on some of my systems, but had forgotten it's spelled "Arq" :-P

https://www.arqbackup.com/

New comment by sandyarmstrong in "US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams"

sandyarmstrong — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:15:18 +0000

This is the world we live in https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/08/trump-ai-super-inte...

New comment by sandyarmstrong in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

sandyarmstrong — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:53:13 +0000

Wow, the list of missing features exactly matches the list of things I don't want and often behaved like pop-up ads on my desktop. Thanks!

New comment by sandyarmstrong in "EmulatorJS"

sandyarmstrong — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:14:20 +0000

Have you played flappy bird before? You keep pressing the button to get it to flap and stay aloft.

New comment by sandyarmstrong in "Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)"

sandyarmstrong — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 14:23:44 +0000

> it puts tension into the spring

Well it certainly put tension into the scene! Thanks.

New comment by sandyarmstrong in "enclose.horse"

sandyarmstrong — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:21:02 +0000

Is there guaranteed to be a solution that encloses the cherry? Is Day 8 the first day to have a cherry?

New comment by sandyarmstrong in "That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam"

sandyarmstrong — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:11:09 +0000

The Verge's article here is the least compelling. They report it with the same confidence and style as their original article when the Reddit post first made waves.

I recommend reading https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax... instead. It offers better reasoning, and an honest reflection about how close they were to getting taken in by the original Reddit post.

New comment by sandyarmstrong in "Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost"

sandyarmstrong — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:20:51 +0000

That is probably not true if you are transferring from a community college after two years. It's entering as a freshman direct from high school that has all the barriers.

New comment by sandyarmstrong in "Maybe you’re not trying"

sandyarmstrong — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 15:09:27 +0000

A line I always remember (from Babylon 5) is: "When I clean my place, all I've done is clean my place. But when I help you clean your place, I'm _helping you_."

tl;dr you should ask your badass partner for strategic help when the entire galaxy is under threat, even if she seems busy.

New comment by sandyarmstrong in "Ultra efficient vector extension for SQLite"

sandyarmstrong — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 18:16:19 +0000

sqlite does not have native support for a vector-like column type. Extensions like this and sqlite-vec build on the BLOB column type, and provide additional functions to let you efficiently search and manipulate this vector data.

New comment by sandyarmstrong in "Ollama Web Search"

sandyarmstrong — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:24:20 +0000

I believe it's free.

New comment by sandyarmstrong in "Xogot: Godot for iPad"

sandyarmstrong — Tue, 06 May 2025 16:30:01 +0000

It's been really fun following the development of this, Miguel et al have been really open about the design process. A really cool journey for both the UX and the backend. I recommend reading through past blogs if you're interested in Godot or SwiftUI.

Congrats folks!

New comment by sandyarmstrong in "Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365"

sandyarmstrong — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:50:08 +0000

Gmail was also announced on April Fools'...

New comment by sandyarmstrong in "Remote Code Execution in Marvel Rivals Game"

sandyarmstrong — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 22:47:36 +0000

I just had to fix this for my kid over the weekend. https://steamcommunity.com/app/2767030/discussions/0/5962604... was very helpful:

You can also skip the UAC prompt without editing the registry, by adding the following to the game's launch options in Steam:

cmd /min /C "set __COMPAT_LAYER=RUNASINVOKER && start "" %command%"

New comment by sandyarmstrong in "Google Cache is fully dead"

sandyarmstrong — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:46:11 +0000

This was really useful when looking for product support, as companies regularly pull down or move around pages on their website. Seeing the version of a page at the time google associated it as a result was something I did all the time.

New comment by sandyarmstrong in "Boar's Head plant posed an 'imminent threat' years before listeria outbreak"

sandyarmstrong — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:19:38 +0000

Watery, yes, that's definitely a component of it!

New comment by sandyarmstrong in "Boar's Head plant posed an 'imminent threat' years before listeria outbreak"

sandyarmstrong — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:19:08 +0000

Yup, that's completely true. But as somebody who typically prefers to buy "cheap" brands, and is usually completely satisfied by them, the fact that I experience such a wide gulf between Boar's Head and other brands makes me think it's not a marketing mind trick.

New comment by sandyarmstrong in "Boar's Head plant posed an 'imminent threat' years before listeria outbreak"

sandyarmstrong — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 16:28:22 +0000

Compared to other brands available in the supermarket, my family finds that Boar's Head deli meats consistently taste better. There is something "cheap" that I find hard to quantify in the taste of generic grocery branded deli meats.

I'm not educated enough to know what the difference is here, but I don't think the fact that Boar's Head costs more is entirely a marketing device.