juancampa

Glad you mentioned this. I was puzzled by the starry looking background during reentry

How about companies providing Redis as a service?

Isn’t this what competition solves?

Autopilot in an aircraft is basically cruise control, not full self flying.

Amazing! Looking forward to the egui adapter

Right, but that budget is enough to pay 60+ $200k salaries. I'd imagine that New Horizons is mostly coasting and there isn't a lot of new data for long periods of time.

This quote about New Horizons is puzzling

> The New Horizons spacecraft [...] reached Pluto in 2016 and is currently exploring other distant features of the system [...]. Keeping it running today by receiving its transmitted data and making sure it remains on course costs about $14.7 million a year, or less than 2% of its total price tag.

Does anyone know why this would be so expensive? A slice of Deep Space Network time must be expensive but it still sounds like an outrageous figure to me.

fission + fusion

Honest question. Which laws?

Agreed, if the title were "Astronomers reclassified asteroid..." there's barely any reason to click on it.

One more question. How does it handle large files that are frequently modified in arbitrary locations (like a SQLite file)? Will it only upload the "diffs" to S3? I'm guessing it doesn't have to scan the whole file to determine what's changed since it can keep track of what's "dirty".

I ask because last time I checked, S3 wouldn't let you "patch" an object. So you'd have to push the diff as separate objects and then "reconstruct" the original file client-side as different chunks are read, right?