Posts by simonbp@social.linux.pizza
(DIR) Post #Ahh1lWxTRcCBiZZQHY by simonbp@social.linux.pizza
2024-05-08T20:55:23Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Because the universe has chips to accelerate sprites (like an Amgia), but the Earth is still glitchy and needs leap seconds
(DIR) Post #AhrF5xUdjuicn6knnE by simonbp@social.linux.pizza
2024-05-13T18:49:29Z
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@foone Less than 2 per week, so you're still good to spec
(DIR) Post #Ai8c3Aglp53FTsO1a4 by simonbp@social.linux.pizza
2024-05-22T02:31:30Z
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It's what the wee baby Jesus would've wanted
(DIR) Post #Aihnzg0e7Ujz4GdoHI by simonbp@social.linux.pizza
2024-06-08T03:47:50Z
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@ActionRetro I feel like this is an appropriate use of Enlightenment. That really was the authentic way to make your desktop look kewl in 2002
(DIR) Post #AivVSCGt8cPtsxi9Oy by simonbp@social.linux.pizza
2024-06-14T18:26:09Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Homer never dies.
(DIR) Post #AjA8yrUIyWkZlf8kCm by simonbp@social.linux.pizza
2024-06-21T19:54:59Z
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@ZachWeinersmith No one told him how many Chinese students there already are (let alone would be)
(DIR) Post #AlOTfnK28afPrH6KuW by simonbp@social.linux.pizza
2024-08-27T13:31:47Z
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#Colorado's decoalification over the next six years.People tend not to think about it, but coal and steel were the original main industries that built the Colorado front range. Boulder County in particular hosts a massive coal field a few hundred feet down. Most Colorado coal mines closed in the 1950s, as they were replaced with cheaper strip mines of near-surface deposits in Wyoming. But the coal plants have remained, for another few years yet. Some have been converted to natural gas (like the Valmont plant in Boulder), and some are just being shut down as the state finally turns the "300 days of sunshine" into usable solar power.https://coloradosun.com/2024/08/27/colorado-coal-fired-power-plants-closing/
(DIR) Post #AnUSPlUSydIATGS7eq by simonbp@social.linux.pizza
2024-10-26T01:59:40Z
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The dipshit will never love you back Eric, no matter how many glowing hagiographies you write of him.
(DIR) Post #AnUwRKWFDwTa1bwkpE by simonbp@social.linux.pizza
2024-10-29T12:03:47Z
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Portland (Maine) airport has a surprisingly great meteorite collection, with large samples from Vesta, Mars, and the second largest Lunar meteorite ever collected.
(DIR) Post #ArFOQYCBPWS45mNSG8 by simonbp@social.linux.pizza
2025-02-18T15:33:45Z
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Wow, Leafs (objectively terrible cars) outselling Teslas tells you need to know. And this in Colorado, where >25% of new cars last year were electric.https://www.cpr.org/2025/02/17/in-colorados-booming-electric-vehicle-market-tesla-is-losing-ground-to-nissan-leaf/
(DIR) Post #AsrbP3NZa1LwZmJGmO by simonbp@social.linux.pizza
2025-04-07T16:10:24Z
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As someone who grew up on too much scifi, I'm in favour of any big industrial technology that has large block numbers painted on it.
(DIR) Post #At8dulZsnszuECdV0y by simonbp@social.linux.pizza
2025-04-15T21:08:17Z
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$500k doesn't seem like much for a whole McDonnell Douglas KC-10 (tanker version of the DC-10). You can barely get a condo here for that. Should I sell my house, buy a KC-10, and live on the KDEN ramp?https://www.flyingmag.com/how-to-buy-a-kc-10/#avgeek
(DIR) Post #AtKIMIfwZaDG8UAJZg by simonbp@social.linux.pizza
2025-04-21T18:45:15Z
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In low-key important space news, part of the Northrop Grumman (ex-Orbital ATK, ex-Morton Thiokol) facility that makes large solid rockets blew up last week. That could have significant schedule impacts to SLS and Vulcan.https://www.ksl.com/article/51297610/northrop-grumman-says-no-solid-rocket-motors-destroyed-in-promontory-explosion
(DIR) Post #Au5FTPh6E6JuiUiMXg by simonbp@social.linux.pizza
2025-05-13T20:01:18Z
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@Jonas_Bostrom @jon It makes sense for the Baltic states to regauge to Standard, all of their international rail traffic now goes through Poland, including a lot of freight. And the amount of tracks to regauge (after Rail Baltica is done) isn't huge. It doesn't really make sense for Finland to regauge, as it's a huge network that only connects to Swedish Standard at one point. And that Swedish connection sees barely any freight. If you really wanted a Sweden-Finland passenger train without a transfer, you'd use a gauge-changing trainset.
(DIR) Post #Axbuq88WiQCT8IESyO by simonbp@social.linux.pizza
2025-08-27T20:54:53Z
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@wikkit You could do an entire semester long course about "F-35/JSF and the Sunk Cost Fallacy".I honestly wonder what fraction of people now at LM were there 24 years ago when F-35 was selected. Not a lot, I imagine.
(DIR) Post #AxbyfuaEeNnq1GZkrg by simonbp@social.linux.pizza
2025-08-28T00:20:47Z
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@publius @wikkit My dad worked the rebuild of the Lockheed Georgia wind tunnel around the time F-22 was wrapping up there and I remember him calling it "depression city". I imagine LM management very purposely tried to make F-35 an unkillable program.
(DIR) Post #AyOHMNHBd246AIzd7w by simonbp@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-20T07:12:33Z
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I remain baffled by people that pay money to be in the quiet car on a train, and then proceed to talk the entire time.Like, why did you pay to be here? Do you have any self awareness?
(DIR) Post #AyVD4tQR7zeiMi4jQW by simonbp@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-23T14:29:52Z
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@sundogplanets He was in Helsinki. It felt like a rehash of Kat & Renu's warped disk paper from 2017, but only on distant objects (>80 AU IIRC). It was not a particularly strong case.
(DIR) Post #Az0GcwW0T9gJYaMlXs by simonbp@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-08T15:12:01Z
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The ex-Ball Aerospace Tech Tower in #Boulder is coming down. Apparently the new owners BAe decided to demolish it quick before it reached protected status. A lot of spacecraft and instruments were conceived of there, including the Ralph imaging spectrometer on New Horizons.#avgeek #space #astrodon
(DIR) Post #B2aB9FZoVR7AS1f3Zo by simonbp@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-20T11:47:32Z
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@astronomerritt I exist partially because of apartheid, but in a good way. My dad was planning on moving to South Africa (because that's where the mining jobs were), but it was right when the anti apartheid protests really started up and he thought better of it. It's either that or that he just really liked Neil Young as to why he ended up in Canada, depends on his mood when he's telling it.