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This seems a decent explanation for Honda's plans to (possibly) expand into producing rocket engines & rockets. At least at more-junior levels of combustion engineering.

The original study, which the article nicely links: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abg5902 They had 16 different psych experiments (recruit subjects, tell them …

Grady Hillhouse is (per his /about page) a professional civil engineer. He just did a YouTube video on a screw-up that has launched a fleet of big-money lawsuits. He has a wife and little kid. …

Heh. Late 1990's, I was an admin on a >1,000 user system - which was rooted because it had that feature, and another admin figured that 'meatball2&balloons' was a secure-enough …

For higher-security situations, ECC memory with higher overhead (more spare bits, and an ECC algorithm which made good use of them). A DRAM-savvy OS might allocate memory so as to greatly reduce "…

Old family wisdom: There is no "normal" for normal (meaning non-C-section) childbirth. A mother's physical and mental recovery timelines will vary (possibly widely) with each birth, a…

A slightly more sophisticated strategy - dedicate more then the minimum effort to a company...but only after they demonstrate decent devotion to good employees. So "Tit for Tat", very rough…

This +10 (if I could). Putting in something clever (and thus probably rare, and maybe unique to you) can make it far easier for Borg-tronic Analysis, Inc. to connect all the little data dots about yo…

Or the ion channel deficit was a side-effect of anti-seizure drugs often given to people with epilepsy, or a side-effect of having seizures, or ... Presumably there is some "gotta be ultra-fresh&…

Did the "one of our close partners [who] recently buckled under a ransomware attack" have contact details for "[you] and other sysadmins", to target the emails?

First reaction - if $Legit_and_Competent_Group believes that a bunch of my infrastructure is compromised, then why the h*ll would they alert me via e-mail? Especially an e-mail full of sensitive deta…

My point (poorly made, perhaps) was more that lots of kinda-reasonable-sounding stuff like (1), (2), and (4) doesn't much matter if the final reality of the law is often more like (3). At least …

How would you feel if: (1) The law books were pretty expensive...but some minimum number of public libraries had copies of the books in their Reference (may not be checked out) sections? (2) The expen…

Compare the current market value of ~58 tons/hour of CH4 (needed to generate the plume which the satellite saw) with the market value of 12 solid gold goose eggs per day. https://tvtro…

That job would seriously scare me. Slip on an icy catwalk, and freeze to death with a broken leg. Screw up with the light, and a troopship with thousands of soldiers on board runs aground in a sto…

Summary: The subject (of the article) was a very routine SIGINT sergeant in WWII. She worked in Canada, listening on the radio to (Imperial) Japanese military signals. She wrote those down on paper…

Here (Michigan, US) there is not a single grocery item I buy that has gone up even 35%. Most items have not gone up at all. Might you tell us your approximate location?

Um...I was talking about Burma , and threw in a few more references, trying to make that clear. India is not Burma, and Wikipedia's entry on the famine barely mentions Burma in passing.

"War is hell." - U.S. General William T. Sherman Most people don't want to live in hell. Most people (especially women, children, elderly, etc.) don't feel empowered by the prosp…

It was an English "literature" class (or at least that bit was) - so suggesting & discussing various possible interpretations of the story was part of the objectives. Consider instead Or…

Providing cushy jobs for loads of well-paid administrators seems to be a primary goal of universities these days. Most of that is probably due to cronyism-type social effects. But some of it is (at …

Assuming that someone has the time and interest to go through granddad's old HD, looking for stuff. Which may be in a non-obvious place, in a HD otherwise stuffed full of horse videos copied off…

True...but I suspect those "older people [who] still somehow associate China with poor developing nations..." are not reading articles in the U.S. Naval Institute News. From my quick read of…

You can categorize fusion reactors and experimental / prototype aircraft similarly: (1) "Our engines produce some thrust, and our wings produce some lift". (2) "We managed to tak…

The prior NPR story on this said that the seamount (which they hit) was uncharted. And suggested that there are ~100,000 vaguely similar seamounts in the world's oceans. I suspect that the Navy …

Notice how much worse this sub's collision was - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711)#Co... . But there was no nuclear disaster in that case, either. M…

Many baleen whales are seasonal eaters - they migrate yearly between feeding in the (say) arctic and breeding in the (say) sub-tropics. Imagine that your 200lbs person needed to pack on enough weight…

The generally accepted way to detect large geological features underwater, if you're not a survey ship (moving slowly, running multiple loud sonars, etc.) is to have and use accurate navigation c…

The sort of geological activity needed to create a large seamount (especially within mere decades) would be obvious to any country with a few seismometers.