sandyarmstrong

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.

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/

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

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!

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

> it puts tension into the spring

Well it certainly put tension into the scene! Thanks.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I believe it's free.

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!

Gmail was also announced on April Fools'...

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%"

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.

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

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.

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.

Yes, exactly! I'd seen an episode of B5 here and there, but it was hard to know what was going on. My family moved states when TNT bought the show and started airing the series in order 5 days a week as Season 5 was starting to come out. I didn't know anyone yet so the highlight of my day was coming home and watching the next episode, then reading the episode guide. It made me feel like part of a community.

This was the most important web destination for me in high school, so glad it's still up!

Have you never read a blog by an open source nerd? Hell, most nerds I know have written their own blogging software at some point.

Or the battery :P

In some parts of the world, wired lightning headphones are actually cheap bluetooth headphones that only use the lightning port for power (to avoid Apple licensing fees). For the author this was baffling, as everyone else took it as normal that bluetooth needed to be enabled to use wired headphones.

Yeah, that was really cool. A couple of years before that, Harvey Danger (yes, the Flagpole Sitta band) literally released their album Little by Little on BitTorrent. I loved that move, and it also happened to be a great album.

> Advice for myself around leisure activities.

Was going to say the same, I'll bet it's listed as an example question in the prompt or something like that. Seems unlikely to be a hallucination since multiple people got the exact same question.

(Also happen to work at Microsoft, also don't work on Bing Copilot)

Historically, it was designed to resemble C#, yet transpile to GNOME-like GObject-based C code, to provide an alternative way for GNOME developers to get higher level language syntax without having to depend on Mono/C# (which was very controversial at the time).

So the biggest difference from C# or Java is that there is no VM. It is mostly syntactic sugar over C and GObject.

At least, this was the case last I paid attention 15 years ago.

There was a brief reference to it:

> They might also want to check out the game’s expansion pack, which caters more to the FPS hardcore by eliminating the community-theater cut scenes and making everything in general a little bit harder. I didn’t bother, having gotten everything I was looking for out of the base game.

I spent a lot more time playing Jedi Knight (honestly, it was probably the best time I ever had playing a video game), but Mysteries of the Sith was still fun, and I liked having a purple lightsaber. :-)