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by SonicScrub 2y ago
The natural world truely is beautiful, and it's no surprise that someone would ascribe the majesty around us to higher powers. In fact, many scientists throughout time have been inspired to pursue scientific endeavors as a way to view
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by SonicScrub 2y ago
Hi theodorejb! The article did not take the time to do a deep dive into feather evolution so it could focus specifically on the topic of how marvelous modern feathers are. However if you are interested in the fascinating topic of the evolut
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
Even 100% accurate precision weapons are only as good as the target information supplied to them. Bad Intel and misidentified targets are very real factors that can cause a precision weapon to strike something they shouldn't.
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
If you're getting data from a GPS, then the velocity readings are ground speed, which is the data input you need for an inertial navigational system.
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
Also "superior" implies some sort of objective measure of progress that evolution is moving towards. Whereas "reproductive success" better captures the idea that selected biological traits are situational. Always remembe
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
There's enough info here to throw together a model using JSBSim and fly it in FlightGear
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
I gave up a long time ago attempting to write GUIs in pure python. I've come back to them periodically to see if the landscape has changed, but I'm always disappointed. My current go-to python GUI solution is to use the Eel librar
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
> A220 RIP C-Series
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
Pretty sure that's exactly one of the subplots of Come from Away
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
Axolotls available as pets are bred in captivity. They breed in captivity quite well, so there's no need to take from wild population to support the pet industry. The wild population is diminishing not because of a pet trade but becau
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
There is absolutely no reason to be unregulated free-market absolutists about addictive behaviors, other than blind ideology. Regulations on gambling and gambling advertisements have been around for a long time because we know that people d
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
It's even easier than walking through that. Just Google the costs per mile of a typical subway line extension. There's a reason subterranean rails only makes when land costs are at a premium.
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
When referring to black holes, "falling in" means going past the event horizon. For all practical purposes for us on the outside of the singularity, this is "having fallen into the black hole" as any object is gone to us
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
The idea that hunter gathers didn't have "territory" or resources to defend is a misnomer. There are richer lands with more plants to gather, and those that are arid. There are plentiful hunting grounds, and those that are de
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
A simple wooden palisade keeps out wildlife just fine. The walls of a Jericho were a fair bit larger to put it mildly. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_es-Sultan#Walls Is it really so hard to believe that the wealt
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
It seems it must be interpretation of the article rather than the position held by academia. Most of our earliest known cities had walls, suggesting that defensive fortifications were essentially a requirement for any large concentration of
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
I don't think this is a serious position held by anyone with even a cursory understanding of history. Loud people on social media maybe.
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
The majority of the efficiency gains in this concept come from max power requirements, rather than energy recovery. Aircraft engines' max power requirements come from take-off performance requirements. The electric engine-portion provi
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
The bulk of the innovative work on this product is done by the unnamed engine supplier it seems. I'm failing to see what is so innovative about the airframe itself (the part that Maeve provides) that differentiates it from the existin
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
"Commerical speech" in the US and is subject to much stricter limitations than things like political speech. The government is allowed to restrict advertising to fulfill it's governance aims, provided those aims are narrowly
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
> The problem with this is that it runs into free speech issues. No it absolutely does not. Rules and regulations on advertising including what can be advertised, how it's advertised, who it can be targeted to, and the medium in whi
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
This is always the struggle. In theory, I like the idea of just letting people make their own decisions, and let the consequences fall where they lie. But in practice we know that unrestricted distribution of addictive products (gambling, a
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
The term "reverse-immigration" is used by the article to highlight the number of people who emigrate after first immigrating. Which is certainly an interesting / concerning trend worthy of making note of. The choice of this t
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
It's a good idea to remember that $NEXT_PERSON could quite possibly you a year from now, when you've probably forgotten what you were on about previously. There are selfish reasons to clean code as well!
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
Is it? The book requires being quite familiar with programming already. Perhaps this is me projecting my own experience of when I read it, but I feel like the book is targeted at someone in the late-phase of being a Junior Dev, and/or
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
"Respecting my experience" does not translate to me as "do everything exactly accordingly to these strict rules". To me it says "consider my opinions before doing something different". Consider. Not follow blin
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
I don't see how that's a fair characterization of a book that has this quote in the first chapter: > Many of the recommendations in this book are controversial. You will probably not agree with all of them. You might violently
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
Leaded AvGas is the fuel for piston powered aircraft. Typically your small, general aviation propeller aircraft. Not jets. They burn JetA (kerosene).
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
Which was required due the huge amounts of aerodynamic drag produced by aircraft designed for supersonic flight while flying subsonic. These design are very aerodynamically inefficient outside their cruise speeds, and thus require a lot of
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by SonicScrub 3y ago
> 1. Fossil fuels can't just run out because they are produced continuously by dead matter decaying over time. I love this comment for being the perfect example of how something can be technically correct, while also being completel

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