InclinedPlane

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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
It may surprise you but using a micro-controller and some servos is today often an easier and simpler solution than building a complex mechanism using cams and clockworks.
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Art can be electronically and digitally reproduced and distributed. An artist today can have their work presented to literally billions of people in seconds, a distribution feat that physical goods can never hope to match.
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
People said they saw a missile hit TWA-800 too. Eyewitness accounts are super unreliable.
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
The great thing about the geniuses here is they don't seem to think that Dunning-Kruger applies to them .
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Risk is assessed on a case by case basis. When people ask "is the risk of this system acceptable given its mission role" the answer depends on all of the characteristics of the system. In the case of military aircraft that means t
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
The B-1, B-2, and B-52 bombers all have ejection seats. Some other combat aircraft, like the AC-130, have bailout procedures and the crew usually all has parachutes. Almost all other planes are either fighter jets with ejection seats or tra
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
It doesn't matter why they have them, the fact that they are there changes the overall risk equation for the aircraft. Many military planes have bailout procedures because everyone has ejection seats or parachutes. Civilian planes un
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Bingo.
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
The problems with the plane have been known for a while, so much so that there is a high priority control software patch in the pipeline. The design as it existed is inherently unsafe as it relies too heavy on the input of a single sensor
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
I disagree that "instability is not a problem". In military aircraft that are unstable it's common for everyone in the plane to be in an ejector seat or to have a parachute. Can you provide statistics on how many (or what pro
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Just a counterpoint. I currently have a home and have lived in a home for years and years. I don't understand the homelessness crisis, it doesn't seem like an appealing lifestyle.
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Boom, got 'em! What's it like to be so much smarter than everyone else?
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
We sent people to the Moon decades ago for roughly a billion dollars per astronaut (adjusted for inflation). That's the incremental cost, not even including development costs. It's no wonder we never went back to the Moon, it wasn
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Many dashcams do poorly in low light conditions, Uber's footage is not representative of what that section of road actually looks like. Compare it to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XOVxSCG8u0 Additionally, it D
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Your guess is a bad guess. It certainly is for Uber's self-driving vehicles so far. This isn't a situation where laissez-faire is a good idea. If we want autonomous vehicles to be safer than human drivers then we need to ensure
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
It was a well lit section of road (the dashcam video Uber released makes it look much darker than it really is, there is other video out there of the same section of road, you can find it on youtube) and it was a natural crossing point but
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
An interesting sentiment. Consider what doesn't seem tricky today. Imagine explaining using the internet with a smartphone to someone in 1950, for example. Oh, you just take out this handheld device you keep in your pocket which cont
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Well, for one, the Soyuz can only carry a crew of 3, whereas Crew Dragon can potentially carry up to 7, and is designed specifically (for NASA's purposes) for carrying 4. This alone adds significant flexibility to the crew levels of th
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
No maybe about it, there is lots of ice. There may also be lots of sub-surface groundwater, we just don't have solid evidence of that yet.
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
Ancient groundwater system on Mars, not current.
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
It's not any more difficult than it once was. You don't need to write a mico-servicized containerated whatever system right out the gate just because that's the way some people like to do it at scale. There are tons of people
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
That depends on a lot of factors. "Fullstack developer" can often mean "we just want a donkey to ride for whatever purposes we need", often overworked and underpaid. But not always. Plenty of people have very broad skill
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
There was a period of several years when this sort of thing (weird content people put up because it was stuff they were personally very passionate and knowledgeable about) was more or less most of the what the internet was. I think about th
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
(cough) blockchain coins are pyramid schemes too (cough)
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
This sort of thing is a good reminder of just how shallow our knowledge of the world often is. There's often this perception that we know so much, but in reality our ignorance is not just vast but also readily at hand. Bees are the cor
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
A comforting belief, the reality is that the scientific and rational literacy of vast numbers of people are basically non-existent. People can be convinced to believe anything, regardless of the evidence.
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
I'm not sure how you missed the degree to which the automation of labor was implicit in my post, it's the foundation of it, in fact. Automation of labor isn't new, as I pointed out, it's not sudden, it's not unusual
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
A common sentiment but one rooted in a basic misconception about there being a maximum amount of work available to do. There's no such thing. The amount of undone work at any given time is effectively infinite. There are always jobs be
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
It was also an order of magnitude faster (a fraction of a second for results vs. several seconds).
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by InclinedPlane 8y ago
The Soyuz first stage uses the same system even today.

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