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People pay to have a tempest weather station

https://tempest.earth/tempest-home-weather-system/


That's pretty cool, thank you for sharing.

Do you have any idea if you can plug this thing into a public api to share?


https://community.home-assistant.io/t/weatherflow-tempest-wh...

Looks like it can be done with home assistant and then pushed up to collection locations, so I suspect things are pretty open


Same deal for Ecowitt: https://www.ecowitt.net/ (sign up required)

I can access any other publicly shared Ecowitt station's data.


interesting design, doesn't have the cliche anemometer spoons


KDE is running a campaign. https://kde.org/for/w10-exiles/


The 2025 Moto G Stylus has one!


Good find, I currently have an aging Pixel 6a (with, regrettably, no headphone jack) but I like Motorola's hardware and their fairly vanilla Android. I may consider a Motorola device, if they provide updates for at least 5 years.


I read standard .epub files with KOReader on my Kobo Aura H2O. It's faster, nicer-looking, and more customizable than the stock reader, and the installation instructions were complete, correct, and easy to follow.


You can easily look this stuff up:

Liftoff was published January 3, 2023

Reentry was published September 2024

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/liftoff-eric-berger?v...

https://benbellabooks.com/shop/reentry/


Eric Berger, senior space editor for Ars Technica [0], has written two books about Elon Musk and his role at SpaceX:

Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX [1]

Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age [2]

[0] https://arstechnica.com/author/ericberger/

[1] https://www.harpercollins.com/products/liftoff-eric-berger?v...

[2] https://benbellabooks.com/shop/reentry/


> In some cases, with certain DIMM models that don't adequately lock down the chip, the modification can likely be done through software.

So on some systems, the hack could be performed entirely remotely.


Just wondering, what does this have to do with the article, which is about code that positions desktop icons on the screen (in KDE)?


So that there can be more welders?


Parachutes give little or no control over where and how the rocket lands, are unreliable (unfurling fabric behaves chaotically; modern spacecraft still don't have 100% reliability on their parachutes), and are surprisingly heavy.

Wings and landing gear are useless extra weight during launch, and excess weight on the booster has a super-linear reduction weight delivered to orbit. (the Tyranny of the Rocket Equation)

During the 1960s, NASA investigated using inflatable Rogallo Wings (basically hang gliders) to land the Gemini capsule. It worked fine, but was more complicated than parachutes, and re-use was not one of the goals of the Gemini or Apollo programs.

None of those give much margin for error on landing. Without any kind of propulsion, there's no option to come to a hover or do another go-around if the landing isn't going well. Space Shuttle pilots had to do extensive training in simulators for the landing because they only got one shot at it during the mission.

Propulsive landing doesn't require any hardware that isn't already on the launch vehicle, only a little excess propellant. (And it is a small amount; Super Heavy is like a soda can that's full of liquid at launch and only has a swig at the bottom during landing.) Propulsive landing gives Falcon 9 and Super Heavy the ability to overcome wind and other weather conditions to make pinpoint landings. Engine throttling gives Super Heavy the ability to hover, so it has a huge margin for error when coming in for a landing.

Super Heavy could have had legs, like Falcon 9, but it has such a huge payload capacity that they can simply choose to always launch with enough propellant to come back to the tower, and it saves a lot of flying weight and complexity by simply not having them. The arms on the tower can be massively overbuilt to ensure however much reliability SpaceX wants.


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