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Wouldn't want to be a Roscosmos higher-up right now. I hope they manage to stay away from windows on higher floors.

This was supposed to be Putin's triumph over the 'degenerate west'.


This project was reported to Putin as 70% of estimated success chance. And obviously it was very optimistic estimation, so probably everyone understood that.


Wonderous:

A showcase app for the Flutter SDK.

Built by gskinner in partnership with the Flutter team, Wonderous deliberately pushes visual fidelity, effects and transitions to showcase what Flutter is truly capable of on modern mobile hardware.

https://github.com/gskinnerTeam/flutter-wonderous-app


A little clickbaity...

It's a commercial third party modification made for use as a kiosk.



It's a surprisingly cute building:

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


The reason communications with the Voyager 1/2 twin probes have lasted for like 45 years:

Voyager 2 is equipped with three Multihundred-Watt radioisotope thermoelectric generators (MHW RTG). Each RTG includes 24 pressed plutonium oxide spheres, and provided enough heat to generate approximately 157 W of electrical power at launch.


Note that RTGs don't provide propulsion.


Clarified this. Thanks.


Also see - what happens when you leave a jock in charge of Microsoft:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxbJw8PrIkc (Ballmer: Developers, Developers, Developers! Extra Super Sweaty Edition)


Why is he so sweaty?


He forgot he wasn't 18 and not somewhat overweight. Jock things.


Moneymaking has a way of ruining things, generally speaking.


Seriously?


Found this one while browsing the catalog. Cool.

https://github.com/nasa/astrobee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk-1j3sXTqA

Three NASA Astrobee free-flying robots have been operating inside the International Space Station (ISS) since 2019. This astrobee repository contains source code for the Astrobee Robot Software, consisting of the flight software that runs onboard the Astrobee robots, a software simulator, and supporting tools, primarily written in C++.



Does anyone have any experiences to share about the performance differences between regular RDS/MySQL and Aurora for MySQL (I/O optimized config)?

(The article is about the PostgreSQL variant.)


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