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by KuiN 5y ago
Anyone seeing this that has any interest aviation disasters, AdmiralCloudberg (author of article linked in parent) produces some of the best disaster write-ups I've found online. They post an article every Saturday, each covering a dif
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by KuiN 5y ago
They're the cheapest EC2 instance type, so they're very attractive to small scale deployments like side projects, personal sites etc. (basically anything that can run on one or two small nodes) where budget is a major concern. The
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by KuiN 5y ago
Scotland is aiming to be a world leader in tidal energy [0]. Which I guess makes sense given we're practically surrounded by pretty rough seas. Shetland has just had a tidal energy electric car charger installed [1]. Bit of a gimmick b
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by KuiN 5y ago
As other have said, it's a tech demo. Partly just to show we can do powered flight on other celestial bodies, part of it is to test how well the off-the-shelf parts in Ingenuity work in that environment. Rotorcraft require more computi
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US regulators warn Peloton users to stop using treadmill after child death(theguardian.com)
26 points by KuiN 5y ago|2 comments
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by KuiN 5y ago
Even before 1991 many of these theories could be disproved. James Oberg was uncovering info about phantom or missing cosmonauts in the early 70s, including photos of the original class of Cosmonauts before & after some were airbrushed o
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by KuiN 5y ago
I'm pretty sure that'll be the Soyuz capsule that Tim Peake flew to & from ISS on (Soyuz TMA-19M), hence the UK interest. I saw it on temporary display in Edinburgh before it went down to London for permanent display at the Sc
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by KuiN 5y ago
The Soviets/Russians were still flying with analog tech on-board Soyuz until 2010 (TMA-M variant was the first "all digital" Soyuz). And of course, Soyuz is effectively "just" an upgraded Vostok/Sputnik/R-
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by KuiN 6y ago
Wow, so I can drop the regimen of drugs my psychiatry team have developed over the course of a decade that made me able to function despite my extremely complex mental health needs. All I have to do is train myself to think thoughts that al
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by KuiN 6y ago
At the moment. Ingenuity is in a compartment on the underside of the rover and will be released onto the surface before flying. Presumably they'll move the rover away to a safe distance before flying.
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by KuiN 6y ago
Phase 1 of the landing used parachutes to bleed off speed, but they aren't able to slow it enough for a soft landing. So a Skycrane was used for the second phase / touching down. The blades on Ingenuity are larger (relative to the
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by KuiN 6y ago
Same here, my first job out of university was network programming on embedded Linux and Beej's guide was an invaluable resource.
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by KuiN 6y ago
Not directly ICBM related, but the Arecibo telescope detected an ionospheric anomaly in the 1979 Vela incident [0], believed to be an undeclared nuclear weapons test. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_incident
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by KuiN 6y ago
Have seen more than a few attempts to solve this problem. Here's my version[0] and there's many more on GitHub. Wonder if there's an opportunity to unify our efforts & get something into git contrib? [0] - https:/&#
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by KuiN 6y ago
The article continues to talk about 6 out of 7 of the UK's nuclear plants going offline by 2030. Given how slow UK infx projects - especially nuclear projects - move, I'd be surprised if these were online by then.
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by KuiN 6y ago
Map, fold etc. are implemented on the `Iterator` trait. [1,2,3].iter().map(|x| x + 1) https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/iter/trait.Iterator.html
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by KuiN 6y ago
Air New Zealand famously offered Antarctic sight-seeing flights in the late 70s. All stopped in 1979 when one of the planes crashed into Mount Erebus on Ross Island, killing all 257 people on board. I guess modern airliners make it safer bu
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by KuiN 6y ago
Out of interest, why are you using a 10 year old OS that went out of support _7 years ago_? That must have horrible security implications, surely?
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by KuiN 6y ago
Given how pervasive Facebook tracking is, I'd bet on your pseudonymous account being linked to your shadow profile very quickly. There is no anonymity when Facebook is involved. I'd also strongly object to moving the needle even t
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Skyscanner to cut 20% of jobs, close two offices due to Covid(bloomberg.com)
9 points by KuiN 6y ago|0 comments
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by KuiN 6y ago
Medium to long range aviation doesn't use ICEs, so no probably not. Aviation gas turbines have had efficiencies >50% for a decade already anyway.
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by KuiN 6y ago
It's not acceptable. None of the apps broken on my phone require Facebook features for core functionality. Downtime happens, but downtime due to your non-essential & user-hostile ads/tracking/social SDK? These companies d
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by KuiN 6y ago
Even harder to see the J-vanes on the Ferrari (not helped by there being only 10 photographers round the tracks at the moment, so many fewer pictures than usual) but I've found a couple photos of the SF1000's vanes: https:/&
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by KuiN 6y ago
Always tricky to see detail in this area of an F1 car, but the BBC really haven't picked the clearest photos ... Hopefully a bit clearer here: * Mercedes W11 cape: https://i.imgur.com/LoDuge8.jpg * Red Bull RB16: http
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by KuiN 6y ago
Yeah I'm struggling to get too excited here. Theoretically latency with current geostationary satellites "could be as low as" 477ms, but they're usually 600ms+. Plus this is for v2, which Elon has said will be launching
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by KuiN 6y ago
You're right. The first stage (4 conical shaped boosters hanging off the sides) and the second stage (central core booster) all fire together to lift-off. When the side-boosters are depleted they jettison (and perform the Korolev cross
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by KuiN 6y ago
It's really cool, but my main takeaway from that video was multi-second input lag and you can see several times when he's dragging things around the computer doesn't do what he's expecting. It's a cool tech demo but
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by KuiN 6y ago
Everyday Astronaut on YouTube has a great video on the environmental impact of rockets. 55 minutes long but it's fascinating. The TL;DW is they're not as bad as you'd expect. But not zero-emissions, obviously. https:/&#
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by KuiN 6y ago
As an outsider watching from across the Atlantic, I am astonished at what is being posted in these comments. There are hundreds of videos on social media of wanton police violence towards peaceful protestors. Of course there are non-peacefu
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by KuiN 6y ago
This comment can surely not be in good faith. You cannot seriously be suggesting you believe that protesters went to "destroy evertyhing[sic] in every city"?

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