That might have been the promise but never the real value. As you say in practice the engineer needs to know ops & terraform along side their language of choice.
The real value of cdktf was more dynamic infrastructure provisioning while still having the plan / apply pattern.
I tried nose strips but I don't like disposables. I now use silicone nostril openers - two little tubes attached at the base that you stick up your nose. It came as a set of 4 sizes so a bit of waste there, but one size fit me and one size fit my wife.
These work well, but I wonder about hygiene. I keep mine in a glass dish on my desktop and attempt to cleanse them in hydrogen peroxide on occasion.
Ultimately, surgery is the best option in my experienced opinion, but it also has diminishing returns over time (~20 years in my case). This occurred recently for me, and I am looking to consult with an ENT again, when I feel like taking the recovery leap. With that said, I am still functioning extremely better than I ever did when I couldn't breathe 20 years ago.
Probably. GPT3.5 was really good at writing unit tests. I asked it to unit tests for some typescript code using jest and aws-sdk-mock. It did it as I would do. I really couldn't fault it.
Energy is life. But we've had commercial nuclear for over half a century. We as a society just chose to pollute instead of dealing with the real / not real risks associated with nuclear.
Rational discourse about nuclear energy might eventually have to come around to the fact that all the states want to store their waste in one state which least needs nuclear energy. And that storage facility... yeah, it caught fire a few years back.
IMO Netflix and Amazon Prime's problem is they don't surface their good content enough. They mix it with their shitty content. They should make it stand out. HBO are good at this. When they make something good, that they know is good, they will rub your face in it with large high quality images.
I don't have time to shift out the good from the bad with Netflix.
Basically a controlled thermo nuclear reaction blasting out the back.
"One design would generate 13 meganewtons of thrust at 66 km/s exhaust velocity (or 6,730 seconds ISP compared to ~4.5 km/s (450 s ISP) exhaust velocity for the best chemical rockets of today)."
You certainly wouldn't want to use this to take off from Earth. But we could use it for deep space travel.
Practically all the nuclear propulsion designs are ideally launched from space. You want to get the "fallout" as far from the Allen Belts as you can from what I remember reading of General Atomics's Project Orion.
Since nuclear rockets are far more practical for all major interplanetary travel, that's why a moon base or captured asteroid habitat will be the first real step to a "space civ".
Of course I'm nutso enough to think that SpaceX should launch antimatter collection arrays in orbit to grab it from the solar wind, right now.
Getting to Mars otherwise is really just a big marketing exercise.
It now kinda seems unrealistic that most sci fi interstellar empires have lots of planet based settlements (well, the ones that have to deal with gravity). Gravity wells are a huge PITA once a reasonably closed-loop space civ gets moving. A nice asteroid belt seems a lot more valuable or a planet with a crapton of low-gravity moons, than a planet with 1G gravity well you have to spend millions to escape.
On the moon, you could probably setup maglev launch or assisted launch with just solar panels.
Asteroids may make up the vast majority of available system mass. Kind of hard to mine the interior of planets, so that mass is irrelevant. The asteroids are bits of broken up planet internals, right there for the taking?
Use for heavy lifting? Depends on efficiency. If it 'burned' its fuel completely, then maybe not as dirty as imagined.
Further the oceans already contain dissolved uranium salts. Returning them to the ocean is 'net neutral' in a sense. Especially if we harvested them from there to begin with!
The dirty part is the fission products, not the unspent uranium. You wouldn't want to launch a nuclear salt water rocket from the surface even if it achieved 100% fuel burnup.
The real value of cdktf was more dynamic infrastructure provisioning while still having the plan / apply pattern.
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