RoboRay

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[–] RoboRay@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Considering that none of the answers actually answer the actual question, why keep it up?

[–] RoboRay@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If the antenna isn't pointed at us, it can't hear the commands we send.

We do have to be able to tell it to point the antenna away from Earth sometimes... to point sensors at a target of interest or to align thrusters in a certain direction for a maneuver. We don't need to do these things much anymore, but the ability was critical during planetary flybys.

If we point it away in purpose, we also tell it to point back at Earth when it finishes what it's doing.

We don't tell it to automatically reset the orientation more often because that would waste fuel. When it runs out of fuel, it has no way to maintain the antenna orientation and we loose contact forever.

[–] RoboRay@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some would argue that this is the starting position.

[–] RoboRay@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago

Irrational people behaving irrationally.

[–] RoboRay@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Her constituents keep voting for her, so they deserve what they are getting.

[–] RoboRay@kbin.social -1 points 2 years ago

Someone always finds a way.

[–] RoboRay@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The typical surprise bill would still be a lot less than your monthly payment for the infinite searches option. You probably aren't going to unknowingly perform several thousand more searches than you normally do without noticing it.

Anyway, your other option is to scroll through infinite ads trying to find the few actual search results.

Pick your poison.

[–] RoboRay@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

You're not limited to a set amount of searches if you pick a cheaper Kagi plan... the plan is just for how many are pre-paid. You'd have to do six times the pre-paid number of searches on the $5 plan to get billed $25, so there's no point in paying $25 monthly unless you're actually doing thousands of searches every month.

But either way, there is no limit.

[–] RoboRay@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'd be more interested in Lemmy for Reddit for Lemmy.

[–] RoboRay@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

As a non-Mac user, I'm not even sure if "Mac-only" or "yet-another Chromium fork" makes it less interesting.

[–] RoboRay@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I actually move my Documents, Pictures and other important folders inside my Dropbox folder and symlink them back to their original locations

This gives me the same Docs, Pics, etc. folders synced on every computer.

[–] RoboRay@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

A lot of companies won't employ technical writers, who exist to make good, thorough, complete and well-presented documentation... they rather assume their engineers can just write the docs.

And no, no they can't... very few engineers study the principles of effective communication. They may understand things, but they can't explain them.

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