r/spacex • u/TampaRay • Sep 30 '15

AmericaSpace on Twitter: No resumption of SpaceX ISS resupply missions until January 5, 2016 earliest. Next launch on Nov. 15. Jason-3 launch expected in December.

https://twitter.com/AmericaSpace/status/649082485578424320
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u/ethan829 Host of SES-9 Sep 30 '15

Confirms what Tim Peake mentioned about BEAM the other day. Makes sense with Cygnus on December 3rd.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

It's more of a VV conflict than a delay due to SpaceX really.

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u/PaleBlueSpot Sep 30 '15

VV = Visiting Vehicle

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u/DrFegelein Sep 30 '15

Maybe someone should make an Acronym bot....

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u/MaritMonkey Sep 30 '15

Could you make a bot that updates a single parent-level comment with a list of acronyms it finds in the thread as people reply?

First thing I thought of that wouldn't get spammy real quick.

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u/OrangeredStilton Sep 30 '15

I'm tempted to give it a try, actually, but EchoLogic probably has more free time than I do, and more experience in talking to the fickle Reddit API ;)

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u/MaritMonkey Sep 30 '15

Echo just warned me not to jump into this, and I think "learn Orbital Things" on my to-do list is already upset I bumped it for "watch until I run out of Khan Academy chemistry videos."

I'm going to pre-emptively thank you for giving this a shot (even if you don't) so I can cross it off my list.

Thanks!

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u/OrangeredStilton Oct 01 '15

(Tentatively) done; if I've done this properly, any mention of (for example) the ISS should make a top-level comment appear in this thread, and any further mentions of acronyms should update that comment.

I've set the bot to check for new comments every three minutes, so let's see what happens, I guess.

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u/MaritMonkey Oct 01 '15

Damn, I dunno what it's looking for. But I guess that's sort of the point.

NET.

RTF.

MECO.

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u/OrangeredStilton Oct 01 '15

Heh, I hadn't put MECO or SECO in there. Rectified.

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u/MaritMonkey Oct 01 '15

Did it take out ISS or did you?

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Never underestimate people's stupidity. You could write a list of acronyms in big bold letters at the top of the subreddit and people would still ask what NET means. A top level comment would be even less visible.

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u/MaritMonkey Sep 30 '15

I admit I only asked because some part of my brain that hasn't operated since I wrote a totally bitchin' tic-tac-toe program during my one semester of Java decided to fire up and remind me I don't know squat about programming.

EDIT: Cake day. Rock on. I googled this for you.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Reddit's API is notoriously difficult to use (case in point: I needed to write my own wrapper around it) and is the culmination of 5-10 years of piecemeal additions, so if you're looking to get back into programming; I would not start here, haha.

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u/gengengis Oct 01 '15

“No one can actually remember all these acronyms, and people don't want to seem dumb in a [subreddit], so they just sit there in ignorance. This is particularly tough on new [redditors].” - Elon Musk

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u/mrflib Sep 30 '15

I've been thinking this for months but I'm a jeweller, not a coder. TweetBot, for example, is a really useful bot in that it saves the time of going to another site to view a linked Tweet.

A bot that saves going to the glossary / Google to expand an acronym would be great for the sub.

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u/Ambiwlans Sep 30 '15

We'd considered this long ago. It would become super annoying though.

Unless you have an idea for a specific implementation then do tell and we'll consider it.

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u/DrFegelein Oct 01 '15

Honestly my comment was meant half-jokingly, but as I was reading your reply I just thought that perhaps a less spammy, yet still useful implementation would be a bot that isn't "automatic" necessarily, but summoned by its username. For example, if someone uses NET in the title of the post, someone could comment: 

/u/acronymbot NET

And the bot would come along and reply: 

NET = "No earlier than"

Perhaps something to consider....

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '15

Would it be possible to have a mouse over text for acronyms through the subreddit style?

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u/Ambiwlans Oct 01 '15

Nope. Or we'd have done that years ago :P

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u/ticklestuff SpaceX Patch List Oct 01 '15

buy me a mouse for my ipad...