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by CarVac 8y ago
How would it respond to gusts? How strictly does it need to maintain angular velocity as it goes around? What would the maximum speed in still air be? Some fraction of the rotor tip speed? Does the tilt-wing configuration (presumably for la
782.
by CarVac 8y ago
I have a TKL and a 46-key ergo keyboard. On my TKL I miss having lots of thumb keys for layers; I have backspace on a layer. On my Mitosis Anaphase, I occasionally miss having dedicated punctuation from my big board.
783.
by CarVac 8y ago
I was under the impression that the question was regarding FFSC versus non-FF staged combustion. You say the main benefit is just increased pressure?
784.
by CarVac 8y ago
Apparently the N-1 never actually fired all 30 engines simultaneously before launch, so there was no way to detect plumbing issues. Additionally, their control scheme was designed to shut down the engine opposite to any failed engine, meani
785.
by CarVac 8y ago
Interpropellant seals require an entirely separate inert fluid to be continually injected into the seal. That's a lot of added complexity.
786.
by CarVac 8y ago
Interestingly the expander bleed cycle mentioned at the end is going to be used in the Blue Origin BE-3U, a change from the combustion tap-off of the older BE-3.
787.
by CarVac 8y ago
I'm not sure where you're getting that. If it's incompletely burned in the preburner, it gets completely burned in the combustion chamber. And even if that were true that combustion happening in the preburner was wasted, then
788.
by CarVac 8y ago
There's no wasted propellant with normal staged combustion. But full flow staged combustion lets you fully vaporize both propellants before they mix, leading to more optimal burning.
789.
by CarVac 8y ago
A full-flow staged combustion engine has more efficiency due to both propellants being fully vaporized before they mix, rather than a liquid-liquid mixture (as in a gas generator engine) or a liquid-gas mixture (as in a normal staged combus
790.
by CarVac 8y ago
The 2nd gen Prius (probably 1st gen too) has a distinct pre-travel during which it only regenerates, and only past a certain point does it apply mechanical brakes. When the battery is full (after descending a long hill) the pre-travel does
791.
by CarVac 8y ago
I believe that on at least some electric cars there's a particular deceleration threshold above which it'll turn on the brake lights.
792.
by CarVac 8y ago
QML is just as fast. If you don't make any changes to the C++ side of things then there's no recompiling needed.
793.
by CarVac 8y ago
Only a problem for mirrorless cameras.
794.
by CarVac 8y ago
A perfect example of the Blub Paradox wherein the author cannot realize the power of a tool superior to what they're used to, and dismisses it as useless because "I don't need those features". http://wiki.c2.c
795.
by CarVac 8y ago
The best part about the cube is that it allows me to use my spatial memory to better remember what windows are open on which workspaces.
796.
by CarVac 8y ago
Also the related Beryl which was more commonly used before the projects merged(?). https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=C...
797.
by CarVac 8y ago
Posterization is the technical term for this sort of banding. Banding can refer to all sorts of things that form bands, like fixed pattern noise from a camera sensor.
798.
by CarVac 8y ago
I don't think so. 10-bit improves compression because posterization leads to noisy patterns that must be encoded. By smoothing the posterization out, encoding a gradient, and having the decoder produce the noise, you can save bitrate.
799.
by CarVac 8y ago
Personally I was expecting linear-algebra based recipes that let you vary proportions continuously or something.
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by CarVac 8y ago
Re: externalities Check out what fracking has done to Pennsylvania's formerly wild forests compared to New York; there is a hideously ugly network of access roads and cut clearings for fracking wells . https://www.google.com
801.
by CarVac 8y ago
They're not talking about vibration damping, they're talking about attenuating impulses. To dampen vibrations as soon as possible, you want very high stiffness.
802.
by CarVac 8y ago
How... does it work then? Was the programming model for mainframes made to be scalable from the beginning?
803.
by CarVac 8y ago
You're conflating bandwidth and latency. Not much needs both high bandwidth and low latency. The latency has the potential to be better than the current internet backbone when going intercontinental due to straighter paths, but it&#x27
804.
by CarVac 8y ago
It's not that the candidates are close. It's that they're equally preferable/not preferable.
805.
by CarVac 8y ago
I'm saying that asking that question "should I approve of this candidate" is just as intractable as "who should I vote for" when you're on the line between two candidates. The problem with instant runoff voting
806.
by CarVac 8y ago
If you're truly on the line about approving of a candidate then it's exactly the same quandary as being on the line between two candidates in a plurality decided election. There's literally no difference. It's up to you
807.
by CarVac 8y ago
The system works because it's relying on the fact that different people have different thresholds for accepting candidates, not despite it. It's still consistent in that in any case, the candidates you're approving of are all
808.
by CarVac 8y ago
But expressing your preferences doesn't actually accomplish anything useful. You can do it, but what does it get you? Instant runoff is not monotonic: there are times when the best strategy is to vote your favored candidate second and
809.
by CarVac 8y ago
It's not that the author is biased towards moderate candidates; the author wants the moderate candidate to win when the mean of the population's normally distributed political beliefs lie closest to the moderate candidate. The pos
810.
by CarVac 8y ago
The fact that the decision to approve of candidate C is not easy makes you effectively a swing voter; the chance that you do or don't vote for them is reflective of your approval of them. Either way it doesn't incentivize dishones

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