officermike

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[–] officermike 50 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I mean technically 16 is a round number, but it's also a square which makes it sound less round and more pointy.

[–] officermike 6 points 10 months ago (10 children)

Looks like blister packs of medication to me.

[–] officermike 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Gary Burghoff who played Radar O'Reilly in M.A.S.H has a deformed hand that is mostly hidden throughout that series.

[–] officermike 3 points 10 months ago

Can't say for sure on this product, but on most of their other products they use some weird brick that plugs straight into a SATA port without an additional power connection. Maybe eMMC, maybe NAND flash, IDK.

[–] officermike 6 points 10 months ago

Other problem is that a weight shift has to be countered with elevator trim, which can increase aerodynamic drag and therefore fuel consumption.

[–] officermike 29 points 10 months ago (23 children)

Because there are legitimate reasons for some robo calls. Appointment reminders and confirmations, school weather closure announcements, two-factor login verification, etc.

[–] officermike 42 points 10 months ago (7 children)

It's toxic, but a useful reference point: tungsten hexafluoride is one of the densest known gases in existence. At a density of 13kg/m^3 at standard temperature and pressure, it is nearly two orders of magnitude shy of being dense enough to bring a human (~1000kg/m^3) to neutral buoyancy.

[–] officermike 87 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Or instead of investing in a redundancy or software failsafe for the angle-of-attack sensor that was problematic back in 2019.

[–] officermike 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Not quite, to my understanding. Imagine a shallow pond that covers a rock maybe halfway up. The top of the pond freezes, forming a sheet of ice that's attached to the equator of the rock and also floating on top of the liquid water underneath. Eventually this ice sheet breaks into pieces, and wind blows across the top of the ice. With enough surface area on the ice, the wind shear force on the ice is great enough to push the rock along the ground.

[–] officermike 9 points 11 months ago

But this show was built for reboots. "All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again."

[–] officermike 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Range and guidance are not the whole package. I severely doubt North Korea has the ability to defeat US missile defenses.

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