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Comment · 3 years ago

Wouldn't want to be a Roscosmos higher-up right now. I hope they manage to stay away from windows on higher floors.

This was supposed to be Putin's triumph over the 'degenerate west'.

Comment · 3 years ago

Wonderous:

A showcase app for the Flutter SDK.

Built by gskinner in partnership with the Flutter team, Wonderous deliberately pushes visual fidelity, effects and transitions to showcase what Flutter is truly capable of on modern mobile hardware.

https://github.com/gskinnerTeam/flutter-wonderous-app

Comment · 3 years ago

A little clickbaity...

It's a commercial third party modification made for use as a kiosk.

Comment · 3 years ago

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/15pxt76/why_ha...

Comment · 3 years ago

It's a surprisingly cute building:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Building

Comment · 3 years ago

Clarified this. Thanks.

Comment · 3 years ago

The reason communications with the Voyager 1/2 twin probes have lasted for like 45 years:

Voyager 2 is equipped with three Multihundred-Watt radioisotope thermoelectric generators (MHW RTG). Each RTG includes 24 pressed plutonium oxide spheres, and provided enough heat to generate approximately 157 W of electrical power at launch.

Comment · 3 years ago

So the result of me writing this was that John Gruber was added as the BDFL of Markdown. Creator, sure, BDFL, that's a stretch.

Comment · 3 years ago

He forgot he wasn't 18 and not somewhat overweight. Jock things.

Comment · 3 years ago

Also see - what happens when you leave a jock in charge of Microsoft:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxbJw8PrIkc (Ballmer: Developers, Developers, Developers! Extra Super Sweaty Edition)

Comment · 3 years ago

Moneymaking has a way of ruining things, generally speaking.

Comment · 3 years ago

Found this one while browsing the catalog. Cool.

https://github.com/nasa/astrobee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk-1j3sXTqA

Three NASA Astrobee free-flying robots have been operating inside the International Space Station (ISS) since 2019. This astrobee repository contains source code for the Astrobee Robot Software, consisting of the flight software that runs onboard the Astrobee robots, a software simulator, and supporting tools, primarily written in C++.