RushingSquirrel

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RushingSquirrel,

One day, while working on a website, I was wondering how to calculate a specific point in a graph. After googling, the answer was by using sine and cosine. Mind blew away, I had always thought I’d never use them.

RushingSquirrel,

Elon Musk is a hero and we should all praise him, buy Teslas and use autopilot all the time while checking out our phones.

RushingSquirrel,

The trajectory was chosen by NASA because the Orion capsule on top of the SLS rocket do not have enough efficiency to be on a low regular lunar orbit while landing and bringing back astronauts. This trajectory has nothing to do with SpaceX.

When comparing the one rocket to land on the moon to the 15 launches (thank you for writing launches and not rockets, as Destin Sandlin wrongly did) is because the mass delivered to the surface is gigantic compared to Apollo. Why? Because we do not want to say “we did it!” We want to say “we live there!”.

Can people stop saying SpaceX rockets explode? They do not. Super rarely they have, but that’s not something that happens on a regular basis and happens as rarely to all other companies. Explosions are either caused by landing first stages (nobody does that, the mission success, they are pushing the limits to reuse parts and they haven’t exploded in a very long while, while adding capacity no other company has) and prototypes that are meant to rapidly test limits and new technology explode, that’s actually the goal: push further, test, improve, nice on to next new system. It’s just a completely different approach from other rocket companies. Instead of spending years and years in research and development, they spend months, test, boom, months, test, boom. What that brings is huge innovation.

When comparing SLS to Starship, check how long has SLS taken and how much it costs while looking at its capacity:
$24B for the first rocket, 4+ per next rocket
$20.4B for Orion
11 years to get the first rocket
16 years to get the first capsule
Can bring 690ft³ of payload

As of now, and evolving for Starship:
$7B cost, 4 from NASA for the first 2 missions
11 years for the first tests, still no rocket
Can bring 220,00lb and 35,000ft³ to the moon
And they still and up with a rocket NASA can continue to use at very low price (less than 25% than SLS per mission)

RushingSquirrel,

Sources are from Wikipedia articles for both starship and Orion as well as an article from the planetary society on the cost of SLS.

RushingSquirrel,

Fully reusable falcon 9 have been scrapped a very long time ago because they realized it wasn’t the right hardware for that. Starship will be and way way more capable. The test flight that exploded never intended to survive. Hoped? For sure. Intended? Absolutely not. It was a test prototype, not a rocket in the sense you make it.

Turnaround for space shuttle was 54 days at best before the explosion of challenger, 88 days since. Falcon 9 is down to 32 and keeps going down. 32 vs 88 is not almost the same. Second stage will never be reused neither will parachutes on Dragon landing. SpaceX wanted propulsion landing, NASA refused. One day they might change their mind (NASA) with starship.

You keep pointing at possibilities that might have been discussed or even said at some points, and I understand your frustration, but none of these were signed deals, they were possibilities or goals to try to achieve while developing the technology, then realising a better solution works (like catching the fairing halves vs. grabbing them from the ocean).

The timeline that’s over confident is for the sales pitch, that’s for sure.

RushingSquirrel,

It will never take 1 year for 15 launches… Also HLS will be ready before astronauts are sent to the lunar orbit.

You clearly don’t and refuse to understand how SpaceX works. Your arguments show how little you understand any of it and using “lmao” at the end of your wrong arguments to prove how good they are is completely ridiculous.

I will watch your video because I’m always curious to understand other viewpoints and learn things, but I’m not planning on replying any further.

RushingSquirrel,

Linkin Park too with Lost as the most played song.

RushingSquirrel,

Want*. He only needs 1

RushingSquirrel,

Right in front of the US embassy, not long after some people from the embassy asked him to leave.

It’s not really loitering though, more like “strolling without motive” (which he had). He refused to provide identification when asked.

RushingSquirrel,

I remember the moment I put down the pen and thought: that’s it! Last exam ever! Never going back to university after that, it’s finally over!

That was 15 years ago and I still relish that moment.

RushingSquirrel,

Is that how he skips stop signs?

RushingSquirrel,

This one wouldn’t make sense as they say dates as month day, year.
To me, dates should always be written in international format: YYYY-MM-DD

RushingSquirrel,

I don’t think that’s fair. When he took over Twitter, he was there every hour of the day for the first few weeks, sleeping in the office. He’s now running 6 major companies all around the US and people complain about using private jets then about not using them to show up to some events.

Don’t get me wrong, I would never want to work for him and strongly prefer remote work, but this claim is just unfair, he’s not working from home, he’s working from other companies he’s running.

RushingSquirrel,

When I started working, I was dedicated to work and wanted nothing else than to produce lines of code, I just loved it so much. Having a boss that was like this, dedicated and loved hard workers, I’d have loved working for him. Few years later? Fuck that, give me 100% remote, 35h/w with 7 weeks vacations, I’d be truely happy that way!

RushingSquirrel,

His shares of Tesla (660B), SpaceX (150B), Boring Co (7B) and Neuralink (5B) give him all the credit he needs. Plus he’s got some good investor friends (as we saw in the Twitter purchase). He doesn’t even need to liquidate any holdings.

RushingSquirrel,

To the contrary, he’s trying to say what he made on Twitter has more credibility than Wikipedia.

RushingSquirrel,

To be fair, it looks like what happened could have easily happened to a human driver too. Human driver hit a woman, making her fall right in front of another car who stopped when they were over them.

RushingSquirrel,

That’s a 100k car. It’s an S

RushingSquirrel,

Not only province, but doctor/hospital but mostly urgency.

If you’ve got something critical, it’s super fast, otherwise it can be pretty slow.

Examples:
went to the emergency for something stuck in my eye, 3am. Went in, waited 3 minutes to be checked, saw a doctor 15 minutes later, by the 1h mark I was out with 1 nurse and 1 doctor who had seen me and removed what I had and another nurse who had given me a vaccine shot.

On my way out, I talked to someone in the waiting room I had seen at 8PM getting a softball to the side of the eye, she finally saw someone around 11h after getting to the E.R. (they quickly evaluate the urgency when you arrive).

Almost 4 years later, I’m still waiting for my vasectomy appointment.

RushingSquirrel,

It’s usually for a good reason though

RushingSquirrel,

Do you have access to food, stores, etc using public transport? How do you go about buying stuff and bringing it back home?

RushingSquirrel,

Expensive wedding
Jewels
Gold

RushingSquirrel,

To me it’s the complete opposite. How can you raise children in the city? They can’t go out without a parent watching over them, they don’t even have a garden to play outside. By moving to the suburbs, my kids can just get on their bike, scooter or skateboard and meet up with their friends at their home or at the park, even as young as 8, it’s a pretty safe place and they’ve got plenty of outdoors to enjoy. We have room for the pool as well as the trampoline, playing soccer and kids can just walk to school super early.

I moved in to the city when I was 14, after growing in the country/suburbs, when you’re a teen, it’s fun to take the bus to go watch a movie with your friends without relying on a parent driving you there and back. But younger than that, take your bike and you’ve got complete freedom!

I couldn’t imagine raising my kids in the city so we moved out before having them, now I can’t imagine moving into the city ever again, I actually almost never go to the city except to visit friends or some museums, too many people, bricks and asphalt.

RushingSquirrel,

I tried a few EVs, I’ve tried non Tesla charging stations. I drive a model 3 and I cannot stress how awful the experience of driving an EV (or even ICE cars) is shitty when comparing to a Tesla. I really can’t see myself buying something else for the moment. The whole driving, charging, entertainment experience is a complete bliss compared to other cars.

RushingSquirrel,

For the exact same reason, I switched those two buttons on the switch. That’s a pretty neat feature. Except when I alternate playing with the kids who got used to the switch default buttons, I need to remap everytime but you can save and load mappings.

In Zelda you can also change the mapping, which I did so that I could run with one button (bottom one if I recall) and jump with the button next to it (right I think) instead of the top one, because it’s way easier to run and jump by simply rolling your thumb.

RushingSquirrel,

Looks A.I. generated

RushingSquirrel,

I love it, it tells me either they haven’t viewed it, so no need to remind them or need to call them if it’s a bit more urgent. If they saw it and didn’t reply, depending on timing and situation, I assume/know that either they’re too busy right now, working on something before replying or forgot and need a reminder.

Super useful!

RushingSquirrel,

That’s sad though. Sometimes I don’t feel like replying to my friends, I know it’s the same for them. If they saw my message and haven’t replied, I assume they’ll reply later or give them a bit more time before reminding them.

RushingSquirrel,

I’ve got a few creators I subscribe to and only ever look at my subscriptions and never at the recommendations. My YouTube experience has been pretty consistent over the years. Still greatly enjoy it, subscribing to creators once or twice a year.

RushingSquirrel,

That only works if the Bluetooth device is able to connect to two or more devices at the same time. My headset doesn’t, so if I want to switch sources, I need to explicitly disconnect the headset from the phone and manually connect it from the PC (in both cases, open Bluetooth settings, click on theb headset that’s paired and click either connect or disconnect). It’s a bit of effort but not too bad. Not as bad as pairing though.

If I don’t disconnect from the last connected device, my headset will automatically connect to it and only play media from it.

RushingSquirrel,

My headphones can pair with a lot of devices. It can actively play media from only one source at a time, though. The ability for headsets to play sound from two sources at the same time is still pretty rare. And I’m not even sure playing from 3 sources exists.

RushingSquirrel,

Thing is, there’s not much American news outside of the US. I live in Canada and have far less news about America than I’d thought there should be given how we are neighbors and partners. Most of the news I used to hear about the USA is from Reddit. And when I visit France (which I do regularly, bring born there), there’s almost nothing about the US there.

Recently though, Trump was also over and it wasn’t pretty. Also when going on Reddit, it’s 80% about US News and content, but not necessarily the best news.

Overall, what bothers me and others is how much patriotic a lot of the Americans seem to be and how great they seem to think they are, even when you hear how bad the society is in terms of healthcare, pension, divided politics, crimes, conspiracy theory, etc.

But everytime I’ve been to the US, I’ve only met great and friendly people and have always appreciated it. You usually hear about the bad parts in the news.

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