Forgive my bluntness asking this question: how hard can it be to put a stationary "satellite" as a communication relay next to the moon to bridge the "dark window" with the space craft?
It's doable (and has been done), but is not entirely easy or cheap. Without getting into the orbital mechanics/whys, a "geostationary" orbit around the moon is not available (it exists but is further out than the Hill sphere and not stable). You can park a relay semi-stably at Earth-Moon L2, but still need station-keeping burns. The moon has has a very lumpy gravity field, so any kind of orbit needs station-keeping eventually.
It's just not super worth it.
If you want to look at a mission that did this, see China's Queqiao.
Orbital mechanics and "next to" don't go together particularly well, so it's not quite as easy as popping something up there.
The Chinese have put Queqiao-1 in the earth-moon L2 point which seems to be working out for them, but I guess the Americans aren't likely to be asking permission to use it.
We have DSN already. As for the moon, it is a nightmare to orbit. Its density is very lumpy, which means orbits around it are constantly being perturbed, and that means you need to bring an annoying amount of propellant if you want to remain stable.
The German term is "Pilze sammeln" which literally translates to: collect mushrooms.
There are many dialects of the German language - where I'm from, we would use "Schwammerl suchen" ("Schwammerl" as another term for "Pilz(e)"). This literally translates to: searching for mushrooms.
"sammeln" can have multiple translations. "Collect" would be more like "einsammeln". In the context of "Pilze sammeln", you'd use "forage". You forage for food.
That's right! It's called "merit order" [0]. Best scenario would be to either decouple the gas price from the price of electricity or get rid of the merit order system altogether. The gas price jacks up the price of kWh by so much that alternative energy providers (wind, hydro, solar,...) are making fortunes! The EU is not interested to change that although Spain and Portugal swolled the penalty for suspending the merit order system. Something I find to be long overdue in other EU countries as well since the elevated price for electricity drives inflation. A lot. [1]
I'm long-time unemployed, had my last interview in Dec 2025. But what I can tell you is that during my interviews I get a lot of questions regarding numbers like: "how did you get to $X mio ARR, saved Y% on the data ingestion pipeline, or decreased processing algorithm speed by Z mins?"
Don't do that!
Everybody is trying to "quantify" their resume but hiring managers are calling the bluff. It's straight out lying, they smell your BS.
Speaking of lying: I get a lot of input from my peers how to actually make it to the next round of an interview process. Across the board they advised me to inflate my expertise of skill XYZ, if asked. Speaking humbly about yourself is not recommended - quite the contrary: brag, but keep it vague and very brief. I never had to do this in the past but now it's almost required.
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Yes, of course, DO NOT LIE on your resume. DO NOT exaggerate, bend the truth, or other shenanigans, This is not an excuse to avoid quantifying your contributions though.
Some people genuinely have increased revenue by 40% in a department, on their own. I know, because they were my direct reports, and I was more than happy to clear away roadblocks for them to continue doing the same thing at higher and higher levels.
The issue is that no one wants to say their part was only 0.02%, so they take credit for the job the team as a whole did.
I used to DJ in the 90's with vinyl on 1210s decks. A lot has changed in the industry and I'd like to spin at home for fun since I'm still a "househead".
Anyone knows a good YT channel that explains my options? Money is tight these days so I'm unable to buy the latest and greatest but I'm curious of the new technology used.
Look at the Phase Controller [0] if you're looking at spinning again. Amazing milli-second response time even on older hardware. I DJ with a MacBook Air 2017.
Failing that, a second hand Pioneer DJM-250mk2 is the entry level digital vinyl controller which works (via hardware unlock) with Pioneer's Rekordbox software.
For me it was not the process (the company I worked for announced their plans early) of being let go - it is the current job market that keeps me from sleeping at night: every day I get rejection emails, every day I'm told I'm not good enough or that other 220 candidates applied for the position. I feel obsolete, depressed. All I want is to find a job where I can be helpful, have a purpose and focus on my work goals.
I too had flat fleet, and wore arch supports for many years, but after training in barefoot running for a year I "fixed" the issue. I even ran a marathon in barefoot shoes! It sounds like an advertisement, but it was life-changing for me. (I'm also a big guy at 240lbs)
The book I used is "Chi Running" but there's many similar books.
Yeah, not quite the same but my arches stabilised by moving to a more forward strike - mid to forefoot. We've been careful with my son who is now 6 to have flexible soled shoes and he naturally runs like this (may not be related, but interesting to note).
Glad you asked here. I was taking down notes during the article to inquire about if this would help me get into running. I have very flat arches as well, but I've never been a runner and my knees are already pretty bad.
A direct database connection means almost all of your queries will work without any error handling. Using an API requires you to handle lost connection every time you make a request.
Direct database connections almost always are orders of magnitude faster, especially when joins are involved.
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