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Precision for what? Knowing their cron job will fire? Knowing what was wrong with the commands they sent? Neither of those are crazy precise or ambiguous statements?

The only highly precise thing that needs to happen is the alignment of the antenna but that system has been working for decades already and has been thoroughly tested.

NASA tends to be pretty straightforward when talking about risks, and if they feel like all the systems are in working order and there’s a good chance we’ll be back in contact with it, I think it’s worth talking them at their word.

Like yeah, it’s impressive they can aim an antenna that precisely, but using stars to orient an object is a very very well understood geometry problem. NASA has been using that technique at least as far back as Apollo

Lol. The knee-jerk contrarianism online really gets under my skin, especially when it’s towards experts.

Like yeah, sometimes experts are wrong or systems don’t behave as expected. But framing that as some sort of erudite insight really bugs me.

“I hope the recovery system works!” doesn’t need to be rewritten as “Mmm yes. But what these engineers haven’t considered is the possibility that they are wrong”.

This is one of those things that sounds meaningful, but can be said about literally any problem in any system. Not all knowledge requires the same level of precision for confidence.

If the engineers at NASA who are familiar with the system say this is a known error state that will be fixed the next time the system designed to correct it fires on its set schedule, there’s not a whole lot added by saying sure, but what if they’re wrong?

It’s just restating the table stakes of existence.

Ah, but you have seen of him.

They’re tak-ing. myyy. gills.

It’s a remake that uses new, higher quality assets though, so isn’t an option in this case.

No worries! Your heart is in the right place!

The OCM analogy is that a lot of “wholesome” content points to much deeper and darker systemic issues, but rather than diving into those, such articles only scratch the surface and present their stories in a Rosy light of “Thing turned out good this time!!! Yay!!!”, rather than the – IMO, more appropriate – light of tearing their hair out and asking “why the fuck is this sort of generosity even needed on an individual level??? Why is society producing this situation in the first place???”

For instance, this article’s title could be rewritten as “Writers for multi-billion-dollar streaming platforms, striking over lack of traditional media residuals, forced to resort to good banks during era of record profits” to avoid OCM-syndrome.

I’m an IATSE member (Editor’s Guild) and yeah, I think “high skilled workers asking for reasonable compensation parity from streaming platforms forced to use foodbanks for the audacity” definitely fits the spirit of that sub.

I’m not whining about the solidarity. I’m whining about the greedy Studio execs that made this necessary.

Is there a fediverse version of /r/OrphanCrushing Machine? Because this fits the theme

It’s worth pointing out that reproducible builds aren’t always guaranteed if software developers aren’t specifically programming with them in mind.

imagine a program that inserts randomness during compile time for seeds. Reach build would generate a different seed even from the same source code, and would fail being diffed against the actual release.

Or maybe the developer inserts information about the build environment for debugging such as the build time and exact OS version. This would cause verification builds to differ.

Rust (the programing language) has had a long history of working towards reproducible builds for software written in the language, for instance.

It’s one of those things that sounds straightforward and then pesky reality comes and fucks up your year.

IMO, it’s always better to try. Worst case scenario is that nothing changes, so no worse than if you didn’t. The only sane choice in that kind of situation is to pick the one with a chance for improvement.

In my experience, giving a shit about what you’re doing has a bunch of positing knock-on affects as well. You just end up feeling better about yourself. In your specific scenario it sounds like trying would also afford you the opportunity to live a happier life, and that’s worth chasing. The world is fucked, but scientists keep saying they if we act soon it’s not so fucked they we’re past the inflection point to un-fuck it.

I wasn’t implying that you shouldn’t be able to. Just sharing my opinion on this particular example.

Call me crazy but I think the top one looks better. The art style loses something in the bottom. The character and the background blend into each other two much, there’s line work outlining the character model that gets lost.

I have like 80,000 total Reddit Karma on an 11-year-old account.

In four weeks on Kbin I’ve already gotten 3,100 reputation. It’s just a much nicer community than Reddit.

Oldie but a goodie.

I’m gonna need some receipts for that one, mostly because as an end user the content quality on that sub is head and shoulders better than anywhere else on Reddit

Also, like, that kinda weird shit is going to happen occasionally anywhere there are power heiarchies. It sucks when it happens to you, but it’s unavoidable when a group of humans is given a set of rules to enforce.

AskHistorians may be my favorite corner of the Internet ever. What a great sub and mod team.

… was he authorized to do that?

Thems the breaks when using what is essentially alpha software. The devs of both Lemmy and Kbin are aware that the admin tools need work, but stuff takes time.

We use LTO tapes in Hollywood to back up raw footage; it wouldn’t surprise me if AWS uses tapes for glacier.

I got a tour of Iron Mountain once (where we sent tapes for long term archival). They had a giant room with racks and racks of LTOs, and a robot on rails that would make copies of each tape at regular intervals to keep the data from corrupting. It looked kinda like the archive room in Rogue One. Wouldn’t surprise me if Iron Mountain was an inspiration for the design. Super interesting.