Jeff Greason reviews Deudney’s anti-space screed. He is the opposite of impressed.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
The First Superheavy Flight
A Cancer Breakthrough?
This is huge, if it pans out.
Bash/Vi Issue
So I’m trying to dig my Windows product key out of my recovered files. I run this pattern on all of them with ‘egrep -r ‘^([A-Za-z0-9]{5}-){4}[A-Za-z0-9]{5}$’ *’
It says it finds it in three files:
Binary file recup_dir.7567/f2079240352_unregmp2 matches
Binary file recup_dir.7574/f2082184960_pidgen_dll matches
Binary file recup_dir.7576/f2082580864_pidgen_dll matches
But when I go into vi to search for the string itself with the same regex, I get “No pattern matches.” Is the syntax for regex different in vi than in bash?
[Wednesday update]
I still haven’t found it, but amazingly, I seem to have installed a working version of Windows 10 without it.
Superheavy
Activity is ramping up.
The Lab Leak
…and its censorious “fact checkers” have utterly discredited themselves.
The CCP smiles.
12 Anti-Free-Speech Arguments
XKCD is great when it sticks to science and tech, not so much when it comes to the First Amendment.
“Necessary, But Not Sufficient”
A good essay on the history of presidential space initiatives and why it’s futile to think we can do Apollo again (or should).
BS “Science”
This is a stupid way to determine maximum human lifespan. There is no maximum human lifespan. All that is needed is to come up with a way for the body to self repair indefinitely, and to do so violates no laws of physics. #ScientistsSay