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German regulator found 5 defeat devices in Daimler diesels(autonews.com)
2 points by AceyMan 8y ago|0 comments
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by AceyMan 8y ago
De facto the FAA indeed does that very thing. First, any change in design (or in configuration, in the case of repairs) is backed by PEs or A&P mechanics who sign off on the changes. Their career rides on the validity of their analysis
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by AceyMan 8y ago
Every time I've gotten sucked into these <cough> notable LKML messages from Linus I'm not taken aback in the least. To my ear, his language comes across as that of a drill sergeant: intentionally loud, pejorative, and foul f
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by AceyMan 8y ago
Just pointing out for the historical record: this is an animated show, not live action. I will be checking it out, tho, for certain.
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by AceyMan 8y ago
I sought only to say how the upside could be something other than lift increase (in the absence of any white papers from Boeing or the like) and provided some loosely framed concepts that support that possibility. I would address the GPs ni
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by AceyMan 8y ago
> [...] except for devices such as winglets You answered your own question and didn't know it. If the additional width added here has no net lift benefit but served as winglets do to reduce induced drag from the 'mixing boundar
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by AceyMan 8y ago
So, I'm trying to make a home-brew quick ref card and it seems to look best if it's six-sided. I'm adept at the 'arts & crafts' trick of rounding square corners with a few 'facet' scissors cuts, so I f
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What the largest regular hexagon within a square of side-length 's'? (2008)(crazyengineers.com)
1 points by AceyMan 8y ago|1 comments
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by AceyMan 9y ago
I've known about that book but not read it. I have read the full, final NTSB report on the accident. I was the on-duty Flight Control Manager at the time of the incident and received the initial contact (via landline) from FAA. (Due to
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by AceyMan 9y ago
>it's outlasted any attempt to replace it See, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect (my fave citation from everyone's fave source for non-academic citations)
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by AceyMan 9y ago
>Employees told to turn off PCs [...] ... because no Domain Admin knows how to write two PowerShell expressions, obvi. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Horrible to see this, it goes without saying, but unless they have an A-Team like at Maersk they are li
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by AceyMan 9y ago
Twitter even came around and added a feat to allow muting of accounts with the default ("egg") avatar. /* C'mon, Slack, you can't get whipped by Twitter!*/
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by AceyMan 9y ago
I would settle for something to force users to set a unique avatar. IME, our (non-Western) off-shore staff never, ever sets one and it's a UX nightmare of plaid. I literally never focus on the project development channels unless I&#x
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IPhone Sales Could Be Threatened as Subsidized Costs Become More Visible (2014)(9to5mac.com)
1 points by AceyMan 9y ago|0 comments
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by AceyMan 9y ago
I've had this puzzle solved in my own head for quite some time thusly: Distance is a fiction /aka: arbitrary manifold created by our (conscious?) selves interacting with "the world," which is really just a big array of o
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by AceyMan 9y ago
>>>If you don't wear a helmet, don't worry about it, it doesn't mitigate that much risk. The exercise benefits of biking do way more to increase your life expectancy than skipping a helmet does to reduce it. I'd
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Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed Back the Pace?(npr.org)
107 points by AceyMan 9y ago|111 comments
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by AceyMan 9y ago
Just to address the Part 91 vs 135 for commercial flight: it is legal provided there are no revenue generating cargo or passengers aboard (e.g., zero people and a couple of lost bags = nope, because bags are freight). The carriers commonly
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by AceyMan 9y ago
I cannot tell from the photos, but sadly I bet they didn't return the far superior 7-row keyboard to us stalwart ThinkPad owners. The latest (sucky) layout doesn't even have a Fn toggle to use a 10-key numeric overlay so using ext
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by AceyMan 9y ago
>>>Co-sleeping, where the child is in the same bed as the parents, is generally considered dangerous. Citation, please? Yes — done wrong, it has some (very manageable) risks, but if you've gone so far as to choose to bring ano
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by AceyMan 9y ago
Serious question— Does/would a high-end (e.g., Xeon-class) processor and/or a boatload of RAM help keep Code's performance snappy? FWIW, I run my Code install quite light since my "duties and responsibilities", ahem
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by AceyMan 9y ago
To my fellow pen & paper nerds in this thread: For serious, sturdy bound notebooks check out snco.com (Scientific Notebook Company). When I worked in academic medicine that's where the department sourced all their notebooks. If a n
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by AceyMan 9y ago
I believe you'd could get the same ratios when unit costs go down (e.g., raw materials costs drop, fixed costs such as tooling are amortized, and so forth).
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by AceyMan 9y ago
>>>If you will lie to me about that, you will lie to me about other things or, worse, lie to coworkers or clients. This is not clearly the case and it's disingenuous to argue otherwise. Resume gaps are just the ugly zit of peo
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by AceyMan 9y ago
I've caught up a bit on the thread and admit that excellence in the time domain is highly correlated to what audio-wonks call 'inner detail'. And if it sounds lively at low volumes, that helps even more. Case in point: folks
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by AceyMan 9y ago
My team uses mailcatcher, also, but (partly) for reasons I've not yet seen mentioned: Our primary application allows us to safely import recent dumps of the production databases into select CI systems, of which some tables have user re
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by AceyMan 9y ago
For folks who like this kind of stuff but aren't audiophiles, may I suggest the history of the LS3/5a loudspeaker as a fun read. The LS3/5a was chosen as the reference small monitor by the BBC then the design was licensed out
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Western Digital: “Nuclear Fallout” from Toshiba’s Chip Unit Sale – Barron's(barrons.com)
1 points by AceyMan 9y ago|0 comments
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by AceyMan 9y ago
That's the one. It's action packed mech eng banter, in a good way.
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by AceyMan 9y ago
Anyone in this thread know or should know THE GUY who tackles these considerations from the orthogonal position — AvE ("Arduinio vs Evil"). He cracks gear open before he's ever turned it on to look for build quality and&#x2

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