Nginx487 (u/Nginx487)

Nginx487 commented on NASA reconnected with Voyager 1 after a brief pause scitechdaily.com/15-billi... · Posted by u/Stratoscope

maples37 · 10 months ago

That's the problem, they won't have enough energy to transmit anymore.

The Voyager probes are powered entirely from their RTGs, they have no solar panels nor batteries[1]. So if the power output from the RTGs drops below the level needed to power the transmitter, Voyager can't talk to us anymore. There's no batteries that can be recharged and no solar panels it ever drew power from.

The exciting part from this discovery is the potential to keep talking to Voyager longer than we thought. If the S-band transmitter uses less power and we're still able to detect that signal, we may be able to communicate with the probes with lower RTG outputs than we initially thought. Though at that point, if the radio is the only thing still running and there's no instruments operating, the usefulness is probably pretty low at that point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1#Power, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2#Power

Nginx487 · 10 months ago

On such a distance solar panels won't make any difference. Sun looks like just a very bright star from that far.

Nginx487 commented on Apple refused to pay bounty to Kaspersky for uncovering vulnerability 9to5mac.com/2024/06/09/se... · Posted by u/uladzislau

aspenmayer · a year ago

It’s not that strange. During World War 2, many American companies created subsidiaries to allow collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Companies like Associated Press, Chase Bank, IBM, Coca-Cola, Ford. Those companies that couldn’t do so openly like Coca-Cola just created wartime units like Fanta which were later reincorporated under the parent company after the war. Some companies even received postwar reparations from the government for corporate losses while simultaneously being allowed to profit from wartime business with the enemy.

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

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

Nginx487 · a year ago

I don't say it didn't happen before. I know about these occasions and I find it sick how Americans put personal gain ahead of survival of their nation (yes, both in WWII and now stakes were that high).

Those from the West who don't like the truth I'm saying - I am actually Russian, know my country better than you, and I DESPISE every American who supports our regime or just ready to deal with it like with some civilised entity. Fascist dictatorship you deal with has nothing but hatred towards your state and your nation. Every dollar you pay them will come back will to you in form of terror attacks and deaths of your people, directly of through proxy conflicts.

I'm sure during WWII there were anti-Nazi Germans who felt the same for example towards IBM, who had lucrative contracts with the system of concentration camps of Third Reich.

Nginx487 commented on Apple refused to pay bounty to Kaspersky for uncovering vulnerability 9to5mac.com/2024/06/09/se... · Posted by u/uladzislau

Nginx487 · a year ago

Strange how it's a subject for discussion. It's like during WWII consider paying to operator of gas chamber in Aushwitz.

Nginx487 commented on France will send Mirage fighter jets to Ukraine, Macron says politico.eu/article/franc... · Posted by u/belter

Nginx487 · a year ago

After 2 years of war, Europe expressed mild concern

Nginx487 commented on Yandex open-sources its exabyte-scale big data platform medium.com/yandex/ytsauru... · Posted by u/xpl

throwaw12 · 2 years ago

brainwashing at its peak.

When USA does things, it is for the good of society, democracy. When Russia does things, it is hurting people, bad for society.

Come on buddy, time to wake up and understand every country does things for its own good and whatever your media is telling about Russia is bad, it is because they're applying 3 letter agency brainwashing methods on to you.

Code is open source, if you read code you will not get under Russian propoganda.

Nginx487 · 2 years ago

Would you remind when US committed genocide, mass execution of POWs, execution and torture of civilians, mass rape of women and children, and absolutely widespread looting in occupied towns? I'm waiting.

Nginx487 commented on Nord Stream: the tanker Minerva Julie spent 7 days idling near the attack site businessinsider.com/nord-... · Posted by u/0xDEF

Nginx487 · 3 years ago

Whoever did it, shame on European countries who buy gas from the nation whose army rapes children and wipes out peaceful towns.

Nginx487 commented on How to hire engineering talent without the BS jes.al/2023/03/how-to-hir... · Posted by u/jesalg

Nginx487 · 3 years ago

For the small startups, who don't have time for BS like leetcode, I advise asking the candidate's code first of all. The senior-level developer almost definitely should have GitHub with his portfolio- or pet-projects. After carefully looking through his code, it becomes 100% clear do we want to talk to him or not. After that we usually had one interview, something like system design + soft-skills. Subjectively, I recall the hiring experience as very successful compared to what I experienced interviewing people for major tech companies according to their guidelines.

Nginx487 commented on Learn Vim (2021) github.com/iggredible/Lea... · Posted by u/sadfdsgf

Nginx487 · 3 years ago

I have a counterexample. One member of our team tried to adopt Vim as a primary development tool for Python projects, while rest of the team used products of JetBrains. On the course of two months he tried to set up all linters, static analyzers and refactoring tools to keep up with the rest of the team, being the most unproductive developer all this time. When it became clear it won't be better, he was asked not to play cool hacker and use appropriate tools to solve the problem. End of story.

Nginx487 commented on Another Russian spacecraft at ISS has a coolant leak spacepolicyonline.com/new... · Posted by u/_Microft

bryananderson · 3 years ago

This is outdated, unfortunately. The Russian space program has suffered from immense brain-drain, budget cuts, and corruption, all of which have worn it down over 30 years and resulted in vastly reduced quality control.

In the past handful of years, on ISS alone, there have been: * Progress coolant leak * Soyuz coolant leak * Nauka module rogue thruster sending entire station spinning out of control * Soyuz hull leak * Launch failure with two crew aboard * Various low-grade problems on older modules especially Zvezda

I might be forgetting something, that’s just off the top of my head. No, this amount of serious issues is not normal “space is hard” stuff, and nowhere near as many problems have happened with any of the other ISS partner countries.

This is not to mention a steady rise in unscrewed launch failures, especially for Proton but also for Soyuz. Russia was pissing away its dominant position in commercial launch long before sanctions.

The once-great Soviet space program is dying with the world’s longest whimper.

Nginx487 · 3 years ago

Why "unfortunately"? When space program of basically bigger size North Korea suffers of brain drain and incompetence, it's a good thing by all means (I'm Russian myself)