Infrared lasers aren’t visible. They’re still higher frequency than radio waves. To say that visible light is visible radio is to say that the sky is green, just that it’s predominantly blue coloured green.

I would say don’t give DOGE any ideas but I think that’s less bad than some of their own.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/657404/less-half-sympathetic-toward-israelis.aspx

Gallup get 46% Israeli support in response to the question “In the Middle East situation, are your sympathies more with the Israelis or more with the Palestinians?” Palestinians get 33%.

You know how it is, if you have somebody else’s palantir, then somehow they… get sucked in. They get sucked in.

That’s a biblically accurate implementation if ever I’ve seen one.

If you have the docker-compose.yml locally, you can nix run github:aksiksi/compose2nix to translate it into a nix file for inclusion in your nixos system config. I think that could be done in the config itself with a git url but I’m not that great at nix. You will surely still need some manual config to e.g. set environment variables for paths and secrets.

Think of the speeds you could fly at with no drag! I’m so bummed that the Grace Hopper drone didn’t get to fly after Intuitive Machines fluffed their second landing. That would have been awesome outreach from NASA.

We want drones on the moon!

Yeah. Given that they kept the engine running at idle for a while, I was half expecting to see a trail. I’d like to know the dynamics of the touchdown. I’m sure they’ll figure out most of it but they probably prioritised payload data over images of the touchdown.

Commiserations to IM. Really unlucky to fix issues from their first mission then end up with the same, if not a worse, result.

Spirit and Opportunity used the airbag landing system. The sides of the tetrahedron could open with enough force to right the platform no matter the orientation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Exploration_Rover#Airbags

Doing that on the moon wouldn’t be very mass efficient. It’d need a skycrane part outside the airbags. Much more efficient to land the right way up.

Here’s hoping ispace can land Hakuto-R number 2 in June without incident. 🤞

The money shot:

Their update states that their batteries are depleted, they don’t expect them to recharge and that the mission is now over.

I think it’s a cylindrical square. It can be set on one end on a surface plate to find 90°. Because it can be rotated, it can be checked for error. I think they’re often made by apprentice machinists, hence the name and date stamped in it.

Example commercial version: https://www.mscdirect.com/product/details/06504302?item=06504302

Example use of one with a surface gauge as a squareness comparator: https://youtu.be/53q6kVX9gjM?t=1244

You think that’s air you’re breathing now?

And Structured Query Language is a handy language for querying structured data?

I’m afraid that’s a CT scanner not an MRI.

Your point stands though.

It’s important for objects that can be dereferenced. Smart pointers have methods that can be accessed with dot syntax like swap(). You can still dereference through a smart pointer using arrow syntax to access methods on the referenced type since they overload the operator->() method.

I think they’ve changed the headline, but not the embedded video:

Yeah, they probably have it all figured out.

Well at that point, just don’t install any kernel mode EDR software at all.

NixOS can be set up for impermanence where all config is recreated every boot and nothing persists besides the nix store. There’s helpers for ephemeral home also, so you can have something like TailsOS. I’m sure you could do that with other distros but you’d need absolute discipline to have everything the machine needs provisioned at boot.

I think having an A partition and a B partition (I’m assuming that’s how SteamOS works) wouldn’t help in this case. If the A partition downloaded the definition file, crashed and failed to reboot; the bootloader could failover to the B partition - which would then download the definition file, crash and fail to reboot. It would have to keep rolling back to a last known good snapshot until the update got withdrawn.

You could have an ephemeral set up that wipes /var and /etc and recreates them every boot. I don’t think these EDR tools would like that very much though.

Yeah, you’d need to snapshot their data directory and roll that back. The previous kernel module may well have had the bug already, just not a malformed config file to trip it.

Also, if the driver booted ok, but then panicked soon after, would that count as a bad boot? The description seems to indicate the boot counters get reset as soon as a boot succeeds.