mercano

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[–] mercano 14 points 4 hours ago

They knew what they were doing.

[–] mercano 6 points 19 hours ago

Vermont public safety officials have issued a news release announcing that Interstate 91 at mile marker 168 is closed due to "an evolving police incident." That location is near Newport, north of Burlington, near the Canadian border.

I-91 doesn’t go to Burlington, it doesn’t go near it. Burlington is on the western border of the state; across the lake is New York. I-91 goes up the eastern border of the state, paralleling the Connecticut River, the boundary with New Hampshire.

[–] mercano 3 points 2 days ago

I guess his time isn’t here.

[–] mercano 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

With the exception of the recent Starliner fiasco, there are never more people on board the station than there are seats on the visiting spacecraft. In the event of a catastrophe, the Soyuz and Dragons function as lifeboats. To leave the station, you need to be able to close the station hatch from the spacecraft side. If you didn’t, the entire station would depressurize in your face when you undocked, which could cause a navigational hazard for the escaping ship.

Therefore, it must be possible to crank the station hatch shut from the visiting vehicle side, and, it stands to reason, the reverse is true.

This is a photo of the space-facing side of Shuttle / Dragon docking port on the station. The middle is a target to assist pilots in manually flying into the port straight and level. It was needed for the shuttle, newer spacecraft have automatic guidance. At 12 o’clock is a handle to help pull the hatch shut. (To open, you push the hatch in.) At 6 o’clock I believe is a socket you can put a crank into to seal or unseal the hatch. At 10:30 is a pressure equalization valve.

[–] mercano 10 points 5 days ago

Trump said he’d end the war in a day. If it’s not over by Tuesday, I may start thinking he wasn’t being honest.

[–] mercano 2 points 1 week ago

Both of those mice have weights you can add or remove to your liking. Maybe you took a few out of the old mouse so it was lighter?

[–] mercano 3 points 1 week ago

“Not right now, Lumbergh, I'm kinda busy. In fact, look, I'm gonna have to ask you to just go ahead and come back another time. I got a meeting with the Bobs in a couple of minutes.”

[–] mercano 1 points 1 week ago

The data brokers can still sell your data, it’s just a lot less useful to the marketing teams or scam artists that are buying it in bulk. For identity thieves, it may become more valuable, at least until word of your death works its way through the system, as there’s no living person to contest the impersonation.

[–] mercano 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Terry Pratchett wrote, “Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?” but I don’t think he had data brokers in mind when he wrote it in 2004.

[–] mercano 8 points 2 weeks ago

The Presidential Medal of Freedom OF SCIENCE!

[–] mercano 23 points 2 weeks ago

The city government spinning up its own instance makes sense. You could then have accounts for the various departments, transit, road and highway, parks and rec, the library, the mayor’s office…

[–] mercano 6 points 2 weeks ago

Shortesy is a spin off of Letterkenny. Great show, so long as you’re comfortable with some blue comedy.

 

The change I’m most excited to see is RFID ticketing. I keep my pass in a pocket built into the hem of my jacket, it’s always been a pain when I go to Stratton and have to flip it out to be hand scanned.

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