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Why does it matter how long it took to count all the votes?

If you want to allege election fraud, don't beat around the bush.


Even if we set aside for the moment the question of whether or not they're actually right about their claims that have no public evidence, there's also the question of materiality. When multibillion dollar businesses are audited they don't prove financial statements are accurate to the penny. There are 67 million people receiving some form of Social Security benefits. If say 67 of those are listed 150 years old in the database, so that this is literally a one-in-a-million issue, is that really an issue worthy of the amount of attention this has received?


> The problem is that gdb will sometimes take 5 minutes to start debugging

If you run gdb-add-index on the relevant binaries ahead of time it should start up much faster.


Said binary is modified by me every time I change something while building (and I used to build with gdb-index but recently this caused crashes with another build flag so I had to disable it.. though maybe it's fixed with last gdb release?)


rr should work on any remotely modern Intel system, and generally on AMD's Zen CPUs too. Unless you're in a virtualized environment (some of which are supported) or a more esoteric architecture rr probably works on your silicon.


I have AMD Ryzen 5 3500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx (8) @ 2.100GHz.

As I remember - it is should work according to documentation, but I couldn't launch it. Probably I'm not spend enough time to solve errors


You probably need the fix from this page: https://github.com/rr-debugger/rr/wiki/Zen


They succeeded in the sense that Chamath Palihapitiya et al made a shitload of money out of hawking them.


He's ALL IN!!!!


EMAS is designed to crush under the pressure of all of the aircraft's weight pushing down on the relatively narrow contact area of the tires. There were no tires in this case. I am unaware of an EMAS that has been designed or tested for the far more broadly distributed weight of a belly landing.


That’s a fair objection. Still you would expect the plane to sink into the grass after that.


Now account for the fact that the plane had no brakes since the landing gear were not deployed ...


A hull rolls better than a wheel? Has humanity been doing vehicles wrong this entire time?


Snarky and ignorant, the two often come together.

Because you seem unaware: Airplane wheels have very powerful brakes!


Even if they lock completely, they'll skid more than the entire hull's skidding no?


The trick is not to lock and use static friction. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiction

Hm, the stiction page on Wikipedia does not explain how it relates to braking. Maybe check out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_braking


Thanks for the link. Nowhere it seems to indicate that the friction of the breaking would be greater than the friction of the hull, since the pages related to non-destructive braking.


Airplanes use disc brakes. These can provide pretty much unlimited friction and are very destructive to the brake pads. They are effectively limited by the static friction of the tire and how much waste heat they can dissipate without blowing the tire.

Look it feels like you want to win an argument. You can only win it for people who do not understand the difference between static friction of a tire on tarmac and kinetic friction of a hull on tarmac. I couldn't tell you off-hand which has more friction, but I'm ready to believe by example that the hull has bad properties when it comes to braking. It's made for low friction after all.


Or Burlington, VT, which doesn't even have scheduled international service.


Except they are and they do. The quoted "air safety expert" in the BBC article essentially says the landing was "as good as can be" and that most or all of the people onboard would have survived if the localizer berm wasn't present.


Are you this "air safety expert" is part of the investigation team? Because otherwise, I don't think the actual investigators care about their opinion, or yours, or that of any media (mainstream or not)...


The full quote you're referencing but truncating is "as good as a flapless/gearless touchdown could be." This is, uh, light praise? "It's a pretty great shit sandwich."

None of these people are calling for not investigating the other factors.


> We modernized and rationalized the Space Shuttle to make the SLS and each SLS costs > $4B.

Except we didn't, because we took absurdly high-end engines (RS-25s) that were designed for reuse and refurbishment and now we drop them in the ocean after every launch.


And because we are using those engines, which lack sufficient thrust at liftoff, we have to use the Solid Rocket Boosters. Those were supposed to be recoverable but the SLS just drops them into the ocean now too.


I found on a forum

>it would cost $23 million to refurbish a used SRB and $12~70 million to refuel it.

A unconfirmed sources, that worked at NASA claim that Thikol employee explained to him. That reuse cost 3 time more, than a expendable SRB https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=51959.0


Space Shuttle (and now SLS) SRBs always dropped into the ocean for recovery after the fact.


I think it’s actually a bit more nuanced than that, see:

https://space.stackexchange.com/a/45894

Basically the SRB had multiple modules and some were more reusable than others, so some got recovered and refurbished a lot more.


AFAIK, we do recover and refurbish them - at least when shuttle was flying.


Not any more. SLS drops them in the ocean.


So did the Shuttle; all of the Shuttle SRB's were recovered (with one obvious exception) and refurbished and reused at least in part. It wouldn't make sense for either Shuttle or SLS to drop them on the ground


The two solid rocket booster casings are dropped into the ocean and (usually) recovered with both the Shuttle and SLS.

RS-25s were the three main engines. They were very expensive, designed for reuse and were recovered with the rest of the orbiter they were bolted on to. Not in the ocean. Then refurbished with a much greater amount of effort and money than initially expected, and eventually reused on a future mission..

But the SLS first stage doesn't fly itself back to Cape Canaveral after 2 weeks like the Shuttle orbiter did. So those now FOUR very expensive "reusable" engines are now chucked into the ocean never to be seen again.


They've given up on refurbishing & refueling the SRB casings for the SLS.


Simply having to maintain one or more ships (continuous expense, year round, year after year), to fish those tubes out of the ocean (once every few years) almost certainly ate up any cost savings they could possibly get from refurbing the tubes.


And this lazy, reductive line of thinking is how they got to $4B/launch.


Lmao, do you have any idea how much ships cost? The spent SRBs being sunk are the least of SLS's problems. SRB shell refurbishment had dubious economic sense when Shuttle was flying several times a year, but for something that will fly as few times as SLS it would be an absolute farce.


The shuttle did not drop RS-25's in the ocean. The SLS does.

The shuttle's SRB's were fished out, refurbed, refueled, and reflown.

The SLS's SRB's are left to sink to the bottom.


And yet, the SLS does.


He's talking about the SLS. The shuttle hasn't flown in 13 years.


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