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Re:Six dead after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse near St Louis
on Saturday December 11, 2021 @08:19PM (#29526122)
This type of warehouse building is extremely pervasive right now. Having worked in an amazon facility and several other 'modern' warehouses, they all share the same design. It's prefabbed concrete sections held in place by steel support columns. Steel truss structure holding roof with steel I-beams providing support to roof. Any modern warehouse struck by the same inclement weather will suffer the same exact fate.
Will add that the weather affecting this particular facility was extreme by any measure but most facilities that occupy the tornado alley should seriously consider this. My facility had a shelter in place policy in case of inclement weather which basically means, everyone(800-1k people?) huddle into 4, 6 person bathrooms.
Amazon Leased the building I worked in, so kind of removes them from blame of structural failure, but maybe not he decision to occupy the building during known severe weather.
Re:SerenityOS demo at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video]
on Thursday November 18, 2021 @06:58PM (#29272193)
From the github
'SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. It flatters with sincerity by stealing beautiful ideas from various other systems.'
The video in the link, Andreas mentions that its all from scratch.
Re:Starship is still not understood
on Thursday October 28, 2021 @12:56PM (#29028222)
The SpaceX HLS bid relies on starship working and they won* that award. I think NASA acknowledged the basket and threw 2 billion into it.
Re:James Webb Space Telescope launch media kit [pdf]
on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @07:11PM (#28450983)
This is the interactive version. Almost every page has links you can click to watch videos and read more about a topic.
Re:After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still flying high
on Monday September 06, 2021 @07:33AM (#28432680)
Ingenuity only has one downward facing color camera and b/w nav cam. None of them are particularly amazing but its just a tech demo. You can see all the images here, https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/