Merry Christmas to everyone! I've read a few great stories in here and thought of sharing mine. My childhood Christmas were never that special unfortunately and during my teen years, life was pretty tough. But I do have great memories from all the Christmas I had my wife over the past 20 years. We established a lot of Christmas traditions for our families, since I never had any from my childhood to share. Actually we just finished watching the Raiders of the Lost Ark and spent two hours talking about great cinema and of course me playing the Indiana Jones game from Lucasarts. Oh wish, I could get back in time and play that game for the first time. Not quite the same playing it these days, the magic unfortunately is gone.

So yeah today was a great Christmas day! All the best to the HN community.

Incredible! Catching the booster next JIRA ticket.

> Catching the booster next JIRA ticket.

someone update the status from Blocked to Ready for Dev

I'd put Starship Soft Landing first. That's easy and safe-ish to try in a remote location. Vs. any little oopies on a Booster Catch could damage a load of high-value infrastructure.

>I'd put Starship Soft Landing first.

So that just happened. Been even better if the camera wasn't mostly melted, but looked like a slow enough landing.

(I figured "Landing" implied "dry land". Or at least a dry barge deck. Beyond the obviously-greater precision needed - a soft & dry landing is paradise for post-flight engineering analysis.)

they're focusing on booster reuse and ship tile slash entry reliability. Ship reuse will come after.

reason they're going hard on booster reuse is those 33 engines, they cost lotsa money to be dumping them over and over.

Someone call Behnke to file it

Happy New Year to everyone!

Geez, OS2/Warp. Memories! Trying to install it on my 486DX

so, so, so many discs...

I remember OS/2 Warp on a single CD that came as a cover disc for a magazine.

Installation instructions: First copy to 18 floppy disks ...

I got OS/2 2.x when IBM sold it very cheaply one time (about 60 Deutschmarks, I think). But it came on soo many floppies and had such requirements that I never got around to install it. I used the floppies years after for warez, though…

Took OS/2 Warp on a CD for me to finally give it a try. If it would've been more stable on my system, it might have postponed my journey to Linux for a few years…

Then randomly fail on like disk 10. Turn off the 'turbo' on your computer and try again (taking twice as long this time).

What are the odds of this appearing today in HN? I was only looking yesterday about the current status of Potassco, after an entire decade. I then checked if there was anything recently written about it in HN. And behold, today there is a post.

For anyone interested, this museum in Thessaloniki Greece: https://www.noesis.edu.gr/en/ancient-greek-technology/ has a lot of very interesting items. If you ever visit the city, worth going there. I was particularly impressed with Syracusia, the giant ship/castle designed by Archimedes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracusia

Absolutely invaluable place for every age. A day full of experiences (technology, science, history...).

Gongrats to Blue Origin, this was great but when compared to SpaceX its like seeing a bicycle ride compared to a Model S Plaid track on Nuremberg.

Lithium mining is an issue and can be improved. Lithium on its own ending up in the rivers and sea when it is a valuable commodity? How is that going to happen?

Mining lithium is cheaper than recycling

Really? Where are the numbers for that assertion?

Right now it's a fact that does not need numbers to prove.

Hopefully by 2030 there will be a robust network of recycling facilities around the world, for the majority of exhausted lithium batteries.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/batteries-storage/lithiumio...

The part where we mine lithium instead of recycle it is a good indicator.

Only if there were waste streams of lithium of comparable scale, which there are not.

We are enormously expanding our use of lithium, and the biggest problem for the places that are currently trying to recycle lithium batteries is that there aren't enough of them to recycle. A big source of their current batteries are just the defects from the current manufacturing process.

...which will go through a similar disassembly process and also pollute the environment for as long as it lives.

I haven't used or seen a £50 note for more than 15 years. In a cashless society who is still using these?

I'm not in the UK, but surely you guys have some sort of equivalent to Gumtree/Facebook Marketplace, as well as semi-legitimate cash-only businesses and tradies that are trying to avoid tax?

Gumtree/Facebook Marketplace is still mostly cash in the UK - neither the buyer nor seller really trust the other with their bank details. Nobody is 100% sure that bank transfers are irreversible (they are, but if you complain loudly enough to the sellers bank they might mark the seller as a fraudster, ban them from banking for life, and transfer the money back to you).

Cash protects both buyers and sellers more from crazy people.

P2P bank transfers are a breeze under SEPA.

Nothing to do with cashless, most places don't accept £50 notes and cash machines often only dispense £20 (apart from airports). Using less cash will probably decrease the use further but so far the lack of £50 note usage had little to do with card payments.

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