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by Merad 8y ago
You're looking for the Boeing X-45 UCAV (test program completed mid-00s) and the Boeing Phantom Ray (current project).
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by Merad 8y ago
> I would also be impressed. There's nothing to it, most people just apparently don't know that it's possible. Chrome, Firefox, and I assume all the major browsers support remote debugging, your IDE just need to know how
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by Merad 8y ago
This is mentioned in TFA: > It's also not that explosive, owing to the fact that TNT doesn't have enough oxidizer to burn all its carbon and hydrogen fuel, which is why you see a black cloud of mostly carbon after TNT is detona
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by Merad 8y ago
FYI anyone can dip into your checking account anytime they want to. AFAIK there is literally zero security, all you can do is dispute unauthorized transactions after the fact. Even with a paper check all the info on the check (including r
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by Merad 8y ago
Do civilian government employees even get a pension plan anymore? I got an offer a few years back from a three letter agency in DC and I'm pretty sure they just had a 401k.
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by Merad 8y ago
I can't speak for the others, but UPS definitely doesn't use climate controlled facilities or well ventilated trucks. In particular the semi trailers that transport packages between facilities are saunas in the summer and ice box
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by Merad 8y ago
I’d be utterly shocked if you’re correct. Controlled substances most likely do get some kind of kind of courier delivery, but there’s no reason to do it for anything else. If it needs to stay cold you slap in an insulated box with ice packs
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by Merad 8y ago
I don't think autopilot programs are anywhere close to that complex. All the ones I've seen had modes like "hold course and speed" or "follow a series of pre-programmed waypoints". Some military aircraft will
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by Merad 8y ago
Basically all of your popular and widely used libraries support Core at this point. Also, starting with either Core 2.0 or 2.1 you can use most packages targeting .NET Framework with Core, and ~80% of them (IIRC) are supposed to be fully c
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by Merad 8y ago
Bear in mind that UPS’ (and I’m sure Fedex too) entire operation is in motion 24/7. The brown trucks return to base full of packages, most of which need to be pushed upstream to regional sort facilities to go to other areas. Those re
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by Merad 8y ago
Worked at UPS from ‘03 - ‘05. I can tell by the labels and codes on the packages I get that not much has changed since then. Didn’t know anything about programming at the time, but I still spent plenty of shifts daydreaming about how the jo
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by Merad 8y ago
I have a hard time believing that the reduction is anywhere near substantial enough. Friction heating was a major issue for high speed aircraft like the SR-71, and they "only" fly at ~3500 km/h at 20+ km altitudes.
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by Merad 8y ago
My parents bought a new 2018 Camry a few weeks ago that came with a manual roughly an inch thick. Expecting anyone to read it is bordering on delusional. I say this as someone who often does read manuals (because I’m a nerd).
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by Merad 8y ago
Seems extremely cost prohibitive. In addition to the extra rails and control systems, you’d need a high speed locomotive and several cars for every single station along the route.
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by Merad 8y ago
"Gaming = single threaded" really hasn't been true for a while now, at least in the arena of AAA games. My gaming desktop has a Core i7-4790k (4 core/8 thread), and I can remember several games offhand that were loading
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by Merad 8y ago
Thanks. Yep, her oncologist's words were "unfortunately someone always has to be in the 8%."
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by Merad 8y ago
Yep. Last year my mom's cancer returned two years after she was told she only had an 8% chance of recurrence. She's at least lucky in that it's apparently a non-aggressive type that can be treated with meds that have minimal
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by Merad 8y ago
I'm really curious what will happen with GitHub Enterprise. Doesn't it compete in the same space as VSTS/TFS?
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by Merad 8y ago
There was a great article around a year ago about how the Obama White House handled letters to the president. Obama wanted to personally read and respond to about 10 per day (IIRC), but his response was in the form of jotting down thoughts
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by Merad 8y ago
TFA was about instinctive drowning response [1], which seems (to my amateur eye) to be what’s happening in that video. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instinctive_drowning_response
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by Merad 8y ago
I've worked at physically demanding jobs (loading trucks at UPS) and at emotionally demanding jobs (call centers). In each case for 2-3 years, so I have a decent amount of experience with both. Neither is particularly fun, but I would
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by Merad 8y ago
I don't think they're very comparable. AF447 was in no trouble whatsoever when the autopilot cut out. From that point a cascading series of misunderstandings led the pilots to crash the fully flyable plane. Going by memory, the
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by Merad 8y ago
I dunno, something the size of a 747 is probably already flirting with the limits of diminishing returns. It's not unlike the rocket equation. Fuel is very heavy, so adding more fuel means you burn more fuel, meaning you need to carr
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by Merad 8y ago
I'm no expert but based on these photos [1] it looks like they're only transporting the engine core. What we normally call an "engine" on an airliner is really a relatively small engine core with a huge fan on the front
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by Merad 8y ago
How many average workers are willing to push back when the CEO tells them to do something? How many CEOs will respond well when an employee does push back against their directions? There are good reasons that most companies don’t operate th
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by Merad 8y ago
Hollywood treats falling buildings like falling trees [1]. The building basically gets cut off at the base, then stays together as it falls to the side until it hits the ground. I'm no expert, but IRL I think any significant amount o
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by Merad 8y ago
Hm, I’ve read elsewhere that burning human flesh smells not unlike cooking pork. I think I’m fine not finding out for myself.
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by Merad 8y ago
I'd venture a guess that it's mostly uncharted legal territory. If the information at [1] is accurate, home burial is legal in most states. Unless state law is worded to state that burial is required it would seem to me that y
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by Merad 8y ago
If you played through the entire game and didn't find any of the stories compelling, all I can really do is shrug and say apparently it wasn't the game for you. I'm curious what games you've felt were "non-flat&quo
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by Merad 8y ago
The Witcher 3. Part of the problem is that often your story-heavy games are really telling dozens of different stories. In TW3 for example, the main story is good but not amazing, yet several of its "secondary" stories are fanta

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