“[Intel] mentioned it had figured out a way to utilize both an integrated GPU and a discrete GPU at the same time. Intel didn’t specify if this would be a feature just for its graphics cards and processors, or if it would be compatible with Nvidia and AMD cards, but it’s clearly something the company is working on.”

Loading times have an unfortunate tendency to be at the bottom of the priority list.

Russia has struggled just to get a new disposable rocket designed and built. Angara was intended to replace both Soyuz and Proton. They did two test flights six years ago, and another test flight last December (which makes me highly doubt their claims that every test has been successful). They have announced a program…

Using an intermediary for this seems superfluous.

Surveys, unless specifically engineered to avoid them, tend to have problems with both troll responses and just blatant misreadings of the question. It’s common to see ~5% select answers that are irrefutably wrong, so I tend to regard anything less than that as “indistinguishable from zero” unless they show a very…

For Bitcoin, yes.

The mission is reportedly set to cost NASA $331.8 million — more than three times the price tag of a separate contract the agency awarded to SpaceX earlier this week to launch its SPHEREx astrophysics mission.

It’s a motivational tactic.

They usually start their streams relatively close to launch, especially for these tests. I’d expect them to go live about five minutes before liftoff.

Hell, I saw one today.

For the electric car version, why not base the icon off the motor windings? It’s a nice simple geometric shape, but shouldn’t be too easily confused with other potential warning lights. And it just looks hella mechanical - even if the driver doesn’t know what it is or what it’s called, it looks like a spinny vortex…

Ah, I didn’t think about that. Low temperatures would certainly be a problem, at jet altitudes. A solvable problem - with work you can turn just about any batch of hydrocarbons into another - but a problem nonetheless.

I’m actually kind of surprised they can’t already do pure biofuel.

New Glenn is a long shot, that’s to be sure. No disagreement there, they’re the worst bet as far as ever making it to the launchpad goes.

Many apartment parking lots, at least out in the suburbs, have grass and trees between rows of cars. Digging a trench through dirt is a lot easier than running cable under pavement. And many of them have lights already installed, which means power lines are already present, even if the lines themselves aren’t enough,…

True, but there’s no 120V outlets out there either. I could maybe throw a 300ft extension cable off my balcony but something tells me the leasing agency would frown on that.

Clarification: This is just the Mobile Launch Platform itself - a large base and tower to hold the rocket and prepare it for launch. This is not the crawler-transporter that carried it from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad. It’s a two-part system - there’s the transporters, which have the engines and…

I put no faith in New Glenn. But I also see no reason to completely write it off. Blue Origin’s plan (suborbital tourist rocket as a source of early income and prototype for their second stage) seemed reasonable when they started but has very clearly backfired - human-rating a small rocket has proven the more…

One good place to put chargers would be apartment complex parking lots. My commute is <10 miles, I could easily drive an electric car... except I have nowhere to charge it. I’ve even talked to the leasing company about paying to have one installed, they won’t try to bring it up with corporate unless I actually commit…

The test was unequivocally a failure because many of the things they wanted to test didn’t get tested. The burn shut down too quickly, they only got a few seconds of testing with reduced throttle, they didn’t get data at full gimbal deflection, most of their data is fundamentally incomplete. A new test is absolutely…