Keeping in mind the object with the larger mass will (over those millions of years) pull the smaller object closer in all dimensions/planes

It’s still hard for me to get my head around, it would be great to see an animation showing this with perhaps 3 or 4 objects. It’s especially hard for me to visualize the gas cloud around a star coelescing into a plane, even before the more solid objects form.

Is this because of rotational mechanics around the star?

Depends on who your dear is 😁

It’s surprising an experienced deep sea explorer would go along on something like this.

When I first read about it, it took me less than 5 minutes to discover many, many reasons it was a bad idea.

Wow, I hadn’t thought it through like that, but yea, you’re right.

One or the other. Pick.

Very interesting, but I don’t see how replacing the same volume of air in our lungs with helium doesn’t make you lighter. It’s the same volume, so the volume displacement zeroes out in any equation - I think that poster may mean as compared to empty lungs. Even then I think they’re mistaken - otherwise a blimp/balloon wouldn’t work, as it too is displacing air around itself, and increasing in volume.

I think your closing statement contradicts your earlier statement about weighing less (though I get the point you’re trying to make about mass).

Do we consider weight a sum of all interactions in a given place (including atmosphere)? I’d say we do, since our atmosphere accounts for a notable portion of our weight, and I’ve never seen a scale with a negative tare to account for atmospheric weight.

The difference is even this pittance of a fine wouldn’t happen in a planned economy - it would be like the planners fining themselves.

What we’re seeing here is a result of the amoral “beastly” types concentrating power. What you’re suggesting is to intentionally concentrate that power from the start.

Facebook is a great example of democracy - the billions of people using it have effectively (in their voluntary ignorance) voted for it to be like this. These are the same people who would vote for policies in a pure democracy.

And you’re ignoring what happens in the SMB space, where people aren’t part of the corrupt circle.

You’re welcome to start a small community anywhere in the US with a planned economy, as proof of concept.

You could call it… A commune, to indicate its goals.

No

Not to excuse MS crap, but you consented by not managing the system during setup. If you accept defaults, you’re consenting to what someone else thinks about how your system runs.

I’ve never once had Windows do updates behind my back, because I configure the update system as part of setup. At work, we manage the updates for all systems.

If it’s worth keeping, it’s worth backing up (kinda obvious in hindsite, haha).

Yea, I had the same mindset as you until I lost a bunch of music when a RAID array puked.

Now I have 3 local copies and an online backup.

I like your use of “sufficiently unplugged”, as we’re all plugged in, to varying degrees.

I’d love to see a layman’s explanation of the challenges and solutions for this.

Like Mach at sea level is going to require more energy than at altitude. How much more? What’s the tradeoff? Clearly they’ve done the math to say the extra energy is worth it.

Also the other tradeoffs - is the sled reused, how much so? Or is it a loss, but the loss makes sense, again, how so?

These aren’t criticisms, I just think it would be nice to see how such systems are planned, knowing any approach is a balance of these tradeoffs (conventional rockets aren’t reusable but don’t have the engineering time and production costs of reuse, for example).

It’s all very interesting, and seeing the high-level tradeoffs would help dispel a lot of armchair dismissiveness (including my own - I’m always suspicious of grandiose “new” ideas).

Hahaha, you’re so full of shit your eyes are brown.

All companies with more than a handful of employees, have HR. It’s a legal issue for them.

Salary vs hourly really has fuck all to do with this.

Good HR people are there to protect the company, yes, but they’re also there to protect the employees.

Their primary responsibility is to protect the company, protecting employees only matters in the context of protecting the company.

Didn’t bother reading the rest, because you’re already bullshitting.

Source: almost 4 decades in very large (tens of thousands of employees) companies

Even the ones built before can have some bullshit. But I’m with you.

Had to replace a totalled, paid off car in 2019…best value was a 2016. Fortunately (to quote Monty Python) “it’s not got much spam in it!”. It already has a couple minor glitches with the “cool” features, like the stupid keyless system.

I will happily pay thousands to fix what’s wrong on my early 2000’s vehicle, just so I don’t have to get all that BS.

Hahaha, oh boy, that’s rich!

Another ATT/VMware type fight.

Why the hell would I want to:

1. Use that garbage called discord

2. Use corporate spyware like shitcord?

3. Give all this local gossip detail a place online

4. Let alone in spyware garbage like shitcord?

Did I forget to mention what utter shit discord is?

Have you never used NextDoor? Ffs, people are such gossipy ignoramuses on an app like that, why would I bother?

I wonder if maybe some kind of notification system for her, and you, would be useful (in addition to blocking).

Then maybe you can interrupt her, perhaps talk about it, or setup some tools for her to use to help manage stuff and learn along the way.

Guess what I’m going for is the learning/growth angle, rather than just automatic constraints (which hy themselves don’t teach or help us learn to manage this stuff ourselves).

Seems like there’s a need for all this for all kids, not just neuro-atypical.

Ah, OK.

Yea, not sure if these units can yet support expansion of a data set.

BTRFS and ZFS technically have the capability (from what I recall) in the latest versions, the question is does the device you’re looking at support the capability? I haven’t looked into enough of them to know for sure.

That said, my ancient Drobo can do this, but… It will only see the new size once you upgrade all the drives. It will resilver with a new larger drive but until all drives are upgraded it won’t use the extra drive space of an added larger drive.

(And yes, Drobo is garbage, this one was free, I had some spare drives and I use it as a third local storage device, kind of a spare I don’t really trust).