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@coliver True. But now they are doing things like gravity wave detection.
The possibilities with that are akin to the discovery and manipulation of radio waves 100 years ago; knowledge that fundamentally transformed humanity. -
@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver True. But now they are doing things like gravity wave detection.
The possibilities with that are akin to the discovery and manipulation of radio waves 100 years ago; knowledge that fundamentally transformed humanity.This makes sense for NASA to spend their time on. Climate research doesn't.
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@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller They would need to become NASA to do what NASA does, and in doing so lose what makes them Spacex. spacex isnt making anything nearly as complicated as NASA. NASA is way beyond rocket science with clever gyros.
Well sure, but I want them to do twice as much for half the money. What NASA does is "make good things at great cost", I want them to do something better.
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@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller They would need to become NASA to do what NASA does, and in doing so lose what makes them Spacex. spacex isnt making anything nearly as complicated as NASA. NASA is way beyond rocket science with clever gyros.
To be fair... compared to other countries NASA wasn't that great at rocket science.
Forty years of NASA just to keep pace with four years of Nazi Germany.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller They would need to become NASA to do what NASA does, and in doing so lose what makes them Spacex. spacex isnt making anything nearly as complicated as NASA. NASA is way beyond rocket science with clever gyros.
To be fair... compared to other countries NASA wasn't that great at rocket science.
Forty years of NASA just to keep pace with four years of Nazi Germany.
Not quite that extreme but it's a good point.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller They would need to become NASA to do what NASA does, and in doing so lose what makes them Spacex. spacex isnt making anything nearly as complicated as NASA. NASA is way beyond rocket science with clever gyros.
To be fair... compared to other countries NASA wasn't that great at rocket science.
Forty years of NASA just to keep pace with four years of Nazi Germany.
We were at least a decade behind Russia for most of the space race and cold war.
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@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller They would need to become NASA to do what NASA does, and in doing so lose what makes them Spacex. spacex isnt making anything nearly as complicated as NASA. NASA is way beyond rocket science with clever gyros.
To be fair... compared to other countries NASA wasn't that great at rocket science.
Forty years of NASA just to keep pace with four years of Nazi Germany.
Not quite that extreme but it's a good point.
Decently true. Until just recently we were still flying our main space craft based on a WW2 Nazi design.
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https://hackaday.com/2018/02/25/css-steals-your-web-data/
CSS being used to steal data. Why am I so unsurprised?
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://hackaday.com/2018/02/25/css-steals-your-web-data/
CSS being used to steal data. Why am I so unsurprised?
It still requires at least a partial compromise of the server beforehand. Not really an issue.
...you’ve partially compromised the server or maybe you wrote a malicious browser extension.
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@tim_g said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://hackaday.com/2018/02/25/css-steals-your-web-data/
CSS being used to steal data. Why am I so unsurprised?
It still requires at least a partial compromise of the server beforehand. Not really an issue.
...you’ve partially compromised the server or maybe you wrote a malicious browser extension.
Also, totally not practical.
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Dropbox saved almost $75 million over two years by building its own tech infrastructure
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Nice
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@nashbrydges said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Dropbox saved almost $75 million over two years by building its own tech infrastructure
Queue "The Cloud is Dying" articles.
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@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Grafana with Zimbra
https://grafana.com/dashboards/2846I wish I was smart enough to make cool dashboards.
I can’t make dashboards either
Design isn't my strong suit. I've been thinking about a decent dashboard to show the health of our infrastructure for our CIO (and maybe put it in the public somewhere?) but just can't really get the look right. May try and do Grafana for that but it's a very low priority.
I think people either have an eye for design or don't. I do not.
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@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nashbrydges said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Dropbox saved almost $75 million over two years by building its own tech infrastructure
Queue "The Cloud is Dying" articles.
Which is funny because people confused DropBox with cloud. Although in reality, we can pretty safely assume that DropBox remained cloud, just stopped using a hosted one.
