Notices by rocky1138 (rocky1138@kwat.chat), page 8

Norway’s first hybrid rocket reached space today, demonstrating new hybrid #propulsion technology for a cleaner, safer, more flexible method of powering small launch vehicles. Nucleus was designed and built by @Nammo with @esa_sts.

Read more: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Transportation/Norway_takes_the_lead_in_hybrid_propulsion https://twitter.com/esa/status/1045337868581949441/photo/1 source: https://twitter.com/esa/status/1045337868581949441

Yesterday, 26th of September was Stanislav Petrov Day.

A day to celebrate that you, me, everyone isn't nuclear vapour right now.
SP - disobeyed orders and military protocol, used his own thinking, and by doing so averted nuclear retaliation based on false alarms that would likely have caused a mass nuclear war in 1983.

Stanislav Petrov, often referred to as "The man who saved the world" died in December 2017

Tired: brutalist architecture
Wired: brutalist architecture consumed by plants

One of my pet peeves as a "programmer" (by which I mean, "whenever I write something hopefully restricted to my own use") is when I find code that closes a file and doesn't check for an error from the close.

It's why all my perl programs tend to have something like "close(FD) or warn;" in them. Who knows when your disk will disappear, or suddenly become read-only?

How does human-caused air pollution affect clouds and rainfall? Using @NASAEarth data, researchers found that smoky air makes it harder for some clouds to grow. Light pollution energizes the clouds growth, but extreme pollution actually shuts it down: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-study-untangles-smoke-pollution-effects-on-clouds/ https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1044740593992306692/photo/1 source: https://twitter.com/nasa/status/1044740593992306692

Boobs smushed against someone else's boobs, boost if u agree

Wow:

"Most of the world's Internet users lost access to YouTube for several hours Sunday after an attempt by Pakistan's government to block access domestically affected other countries. (...)

An Internet expert explained that Sunday's problems arose when a Pakistani telecommunications company accidentally identified itself to Internet computers as the world's fastest route to YouTube. "

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4344105&page=1

I look forward to Google engineers twisting themselves in knots to tell us that actually when the average user wants to delete all their browsing history they prefer it if they still have ads based on invasive tracking follow them around the internet