aintaer

2255 pts · March 11, 2011


I was never here

Found the heretic

5 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Worse, he was a gacha addict.

7 months ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 0

It's a second firing for specifically that step. In fact you can see the pot comes out of two different ovens.

10 months ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

The launch costs are dwarfed by the cost of the entire rocket, which has traditionally been discarded after launch. This is why the Falcon 9's ability to land made it dominate the launch market.

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This is the first stage booster, Super Heavy, returning to base. The people-carrying segment would be the upper stage, Starship. It does a propelled landing, as opposed to the Shuttle, which was unpowered during its descent.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

康 kang1, Health. The handwriting is very nice, btw

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

You mean efficient. I am likewise aerodynamically optimized.

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Terry Farrell, actress for Jadzia Dax, left Deep Space 9 after the show killed off her character to appear as Reggie Kostas in Becker

3 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

This convention persisted in every subsequent C-like language

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

In C, where "arrays" are just a pointer to a block of memory, you advance the pointer by steps to access elements. Hence 0 steps is first.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Just as any individual rower on a rowboat knows how to row, it takes a coxswain to direct the whole boat and dictate the pace and power

3 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

#42 Highly misleading, the paper proposes a way to score the likelihood of an exoplanet being habitable, given its orbit and size

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Imagine stalactites or stalagmites growing. If they touch, the battery shorts and the cell is useless.

3 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

The metal build-up collects around previous build-up and form these long tendrils called dendrites.

3 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Batteries are made from two plates of different metal, sandwiching some goop. Every discharge cycle, some metal builds up on the plates

3 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

They're more like giant cherries...

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I can tell you how you DON'T say "Awesome" in Finnish: perkele

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It was 6-3, Kavenaugh concurred with the majority opinion. Chief Justice Roberts dissented on reversing Roe v Wade.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You talk to the same rubber duck. This is called a recursive function.

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

gonna tell my grandma this is what an autotuner is

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sounds like a Romulan sympathizer to me

4 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Chinese: 那个 (na/nei ge) "that one" often repeated, often mistaken by English speakers as the N word; or 什么来着的 "whatever-it-came-from"

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Amygdala can suck a big fat one. Always a bad day running into one in the chalice dungeons.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Taiwan trade is done through Separate Customs Territories, like with Hong Kong or Macau.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

While trade with PRC is more well defined relationship between nations, trade with Taiwan is more "gentleman's agreement"

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Trade is equally roundabout and even more complicated. The US traded $558 Bn with PRC in 2019 compared to $86 Bn with Taiwan

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Taiwan has "Cultural Exchange" with the US, but no officially recognized diplomatic relations. Heads of state cannot meet.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

PRC demands that official diplomacy recognize only the People's Republic. Unofficially, Taiwan maintains diplomatic relations independently

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0