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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Is the way this piece presents, e.g., "D-Day -21" and "D-Day +2" historically accurate? I had always thought it was D-21 and D+2, explaining D-Day as being the D±0.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
> You could have all of the fuel at the back, behind the passengers and engines. That would cause quite the difference in handling between takeoff and handling. The fuel tanks span the length of the fuselage in this design — and I'
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
They've sold/given/transferred patents to Airbus.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
We still cannot repair a spinal cord injury. A complete decapitation is a total spinal cord transection and more.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
I personally didn't find it easy to consume, and others here didn't either (see the confusion about what it is, asking for context, etc). The links aren't clickable, there are multiple newline-separated links in a single cel
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
They're also specifically designed to operate in absurdly low temperatures — one in fact requires temperatures under 7 Kelvin and so in addition to the sun shield there's a mechanical cooler. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
It's a little funny that someone so invested in public and open datasets would embed their own data in a Google Spreadsheet.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Yes, indeed. It doesn't talk about turning STAB TRIM back on, though, nor does it talk about turning STAB TRIM on with etrim inputs already applied — that's what I was calling your homegrown protocol. My point is that it's ea
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
I completely agree. Here's the deal, though: this wasn't just one crash. It was two. The failure mode of the second was indeed different than the first: it was a failure of Boeing and the aviation authorities to appropriately
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Ok, sure, but you're picking on the pilots for not following Boeing's procedure exactly. And at the same time, WalterBright is picking on them for attempting to follow the procedure. And at the same time, I'm arguing that i
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Yeah, should have said "commuter rail" instead of light rail. For some reason I have those terms jumbled in my head.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Yeah, we just set our tracks on fire. It's fine. (Well, that's the ground-level light rail — Metra — that does that)
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
You know how you make it known to pilots? Not by reading the news. By having the manufacturer issue an airworthiness directive. And Boeing did. And yet it did not prescribe what you're advocating. Are you suggesting that you — a n
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
> In both cases, the pilots didn't strictly follow procedure But would "the procedure" actually have saved the plane? I don't believe so. WalterBright is arguing that the pilots should have known better than "t
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
That's the definition of exoplanet :)
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
In the context of a drama about the explosion and aftermath, I'd say it's quite reasonable to use an absurd number from one of the physicists involved. Perhaps it was indeed wrong, but it sounds like that might be actually what
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Estimates seem to vary wildly — which makes sense given the variety of agents and agendas. It's not really fair to hammer him on facts without acknowledging that the ground truth is far from certain. Heck, even your fourth citation wr
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Wow, that's almost exactly what I would have guessed. The block distance in Chicago is 1/8th mile (200m).
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
In US cities, the densest lines will have one stop per "block" — and that's frequently a regular tenth or eighth of a mile (and more regular as you move towards the newer cities in the west). So you'll typically find mi
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Have Democratic presidents ever tweeted/emailed/promoted/sent out doctored videos that make their rivals look bad?
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Yes, I've done this myself — it's just an email and they "disconnected" the fork within an hour. Very happily and friendlily, too.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Is it as easy to export tickets from Sourcehut? Can I participate in tickets on Sourcehut without creating an account?
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
I still respectfully disagree. If GitHub really wanted to deceitfully name this feature to foster the cathedral model they would have gone with "branch" instead. In fact, I recall them getting quite a bit of push back for naming
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Yes, I did read that. But what is Linus' branch then, and why do folks aim to "upstream" changes to it? I'd argue that the other important Linux sources are _themselves_ cathedrals, each with their own form of centralize
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
It's a little funny to focus on GitHub's fork/pull-request model if you're trying to critique their centralization and lock-in. Every single successful open source project — on GitHub or not — has a canonical "sour
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Isn't the drone ship video problem on the "ground" side? That is, the vibrations and motions the rocket induces ends up messing up the satellite dish's targeting.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Amusingly the drama continued with a new post: > censoring my comment will not resolve the inherent dishonesty of this article!!! Even more amusingly, the commenter's name links to disney.com. Or perhaps it is a strange new astrotu
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Absolutely 100% agreed. I started with that assumption and figured that even with very conservative numbers I'd be well below the number of driving fatalities. I did that calculation as I wrote that comment and didn't retroactiv
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
> I bet if you do the numbers it is the most dangerous way of traveling That's just crazy talk. If it's more dangerous than a car I'll eat my hat. According to NYT/Flightaware, there were ~8600 737Max flights per wee
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Yup, I'm on an old top-of-the-line 2011 that I swapped out the DVD for an extra SSD. It's spoiled me — such that to replace it I want 16-32GB of RAM and 1TB SSD.

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