TWeaK

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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

My thoughts exactly, Intel are still trying to break into the gaming market with their graphics, but they have a long history of failing at this.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Well exactly. It's easier to organise disinformation campaigns if you group them together.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No no no, those are just lighting devices.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Where is the part that says only Congress can decide to remove by a simple majority? My understanding is that Congress can decide to put someone back on the ballot by a 2/3 majority, but it would be the courts that decide to remove them in lawsuits filed by citizens.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago

This isn't exactly new. Vasalgel offers a similar injection that blocks the tubes, however before then back in the early 2010's there was also a guy in India testing a better version which did not block the tubes - the compound was polarised, and when the sperm went through it was disoriented such that it couldn't swim to the egg. The human clinical trials had a 100% success rate at preventing pregnancy, albeit human trials tend not to have that many people (I think there were 26). My understanding is that this became Vasalgel because the pharmacuetical industry didn't like the fact that it completely avoided the complications that can come with vasectomies where the tube is completely blocked.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Wordpad was good for notes with wrapped text. However then I discovered Notepad++ and that's the far better note taking application - you can even get plugins like a comparitor that compares two different files, as well as being an excellent application for typing and viewing code.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 23 points 2 years ago

Will it? Notepad++ all the way man.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Not that big, much smaller than an ordinary rocket uses for its stage 2. You already have most of your orbital velocity - and you get it from jet engines, which are generally more efficient.

There's a theoretical type of craft called an SSTO - Single Stage To Orbit. This is typically a plane that can take off from land, fly at hypersonic speeds at the top of the atmosphere and create a suborbital trajectory, then a small but efficient rocket engine for circularisation and orbital maneuvers in space. Unfortunately, these currently only exist in video games, but workers at SpaceX have long been known to say "Hey, it worked in Kerbal Space Program.."

Another cool Kerbal design is asparagus staging. This is for rockets, where you use fuel lines such that all engines get their fuel from certain tanks. This way, when you jettison your side boosters you still have full tanks in the remaining rocket. Normally, each engine has its own tank, so when you jettison your core booster will be partially depleted. With asparagus you can even pair them up and have more stages, instead of jettisoning all side boosters at once. Unfortunately, such a design is impossible with current technology, the fuel lines just aren't reliable - it was fuel issues that caused both failures of Starship Flight 2.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

You have my upvote for actually going through the Amendment. Respect.

However, you're still ignoring the point that due process is occurring (at least in Colorado, Maine was definitely dodgy). Trump does not need to be criminally convicted of insurrection, it just needs to be decided in court that he meets the bar of being disqualified from office. The Colorado Supreme Court decided Trump should be removes from the ballot, now the US Supreme Court will decide - that is due process.

Being disqualified under 14.3 has a slightly different set of standards to meet than a criminal conviction for insurrection. Arguably he should also face a criminal charge, and a conviction would make the disqualification a sure thing.

It's a bit like civil vs criminal. If you're convicted of a crime, then the civil trial is basically a slam dunk. However, OJ famously got off on the criminal murder charge, then lost the civil trial for killing his victims. Trump being convicted of the crime of insurrection is a separate type of proceedings to removing him from the ballot for being involved with insurrection.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Yes but you don't seem to understand that due process in this case doesn't mean he needs a criminal trial and conviction for him to be removed.

Read the 14th amendment then tell me where it mentions "convicted of insurrection" - it does not. It only mentions participation, or even supporting someone who participated.

Trump is receiving the due process as we speak right now.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Oh I know, but the point I'm making is that things higher up go faster. The space station orbits the Earth in 92.9 minutes. Also, using mach numbers doesn't really tell you anything without an altitude or pressure. Mach 1 at ground level is faster than mach 1 at 60,000 feet.

The military is accutely aware of this, just look at the U-2 spy plane. That thing flies so high that the speed of sound is so low and the stall speed so high that they're nearly the same - this is referred to as "coffin corner" of the flight envelope. Pilots have to be exceptionally careful banking at this altitude, as the inner wing will go slower than the outer wing in a turn, so you can have the tip of one wing stalling and the tip of the other wing breaking the speed of sound.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Orbit, no, but these craft should surely be able to achieve a suborbital trajectory into space.

They don't have engines that work in space though, so they would not be able to circularise their orbit and remain up there. It would just be a parabolic arc that comes back down into the atmosphere somewhere else.

This probably wouldn't be a good thing to do, though, as the craft would have little way to orient itself for re-entry, and there could be issues re-lighting the engines.

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