The engineering team with NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is trying to solve a mystery: The interstellar explorer is operating normally, receiving and executing commands from Earth, along with gathering and returning science data. But readouts from the probe’s attitude articulation … Read more
Hi! This is Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie, and Jairaj Sethi, the founders of Substack, with Sachin Monga, the head of product. Yesterday, we launched an iOS app for Substack, so you can read all your Substack subscriptions in one place, … Read more
I’ve been a Linux (or GNU/Linux, for the purists) user since 1996. I’ve been a FreeBSD user since 2002. I have always successfully used both operating systems, each for specific purposes. I have found, on average, BSD systems to be … Read more
Some utopian activists believe that the United States needs a drastic urbanizing and an end to reliance on the automobile, for climate relief and other reasons. But this isn’t going to happen. America is and will remain a suburban nation, … Read more
General availability 22 Oct 2021 02:36:02 UTC (2 hours ago) We’re seeing an ongoing attack against our primary network provider. We’re working with them to block the attack and restore access. General availability 22 Oct 2021 01:29:07 UTC (3 hours … Read more
optics background In order to fully appreciate what’s happening in the eye, we need to understand some fundamentals of optics in order to understand how light travels and can be focused by a lens. snell’s law – when light changes … Read more