VBprogrammer

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   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   Anyone who says they think they might kill themselves on a certain type of bike shouldn't be allowed near any type of bike. They are incredible fun but unquestionably dangerous.
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   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   They lengthened the nose gear 20cm to fit the new engines with the same ground clearance. Must have dropped the thrust centre line nearly half of that.
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   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   Not really. It trims via a moving stabiliser. You are confused because it has flying elevators and the pilot only directly controls the servo tabs which look a lot like trim tabs.
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   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   I only really appreciated this while reading while reading about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_261 It's quite an interesting one if you are into that kind of thing.
5. 2135.▲
   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   Reading a little between the lines this is probably related to the pitch - power coupling present on all modern airliners. This is due to the thrust line being below the centre of lift meaning that increasing power causes a pitch up moment.
6. 2136.▲
   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   I'd be surprised if this was the case. Typically redundancy like this is handled by having A and B systems on commercial aircraft. In the case of flight instruments this is usually divided by pilot and co-pilot systems. They have a sep
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   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   I can't read the article due to the pay wall but if what you said is accurate then I don't believe it's an accurate reflection of the real complexity of a modern airliner. See http://www.b737.org.uk/flightcont
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   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   I think the point was to avoid the need for a bunch of copy paste by making the code simple to interact with in the first place. He isn't really advocating never using helper methods either. In fact he gives an example where the helper
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   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   The way I've always thought of it is that my unit tests have to be a level of complexity simpler than the code under test. Otherwise the "bugs" are equally likely to be in my test code as the production code. I think he makes
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    I think it was clear I was talking about commercial aviation but to lend some balance to your post let me address some of the points. General aviation aircraft operate in completely different circumstances. Using shorter, sometime grass, ru
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    It sounds like a trim runaway incident. This has been a known issue since the earliest days of electronic trim controls. For those who don't know, trim is the system by which the neutral position of an aircraft's controls is set.
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    Really? Aircraft crashes are staggeringly rare. For the most part they are caused by the pilots of those aircraft. I haven't read too much into it but I suspect this system was part of an envelope protection system designed to stop the
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    In an ideal world this might be true. In practice below 10000ft the cabin crew are focused on grabbing some lunch, a drink or just a rest before the rest of the flight. Source: My partner is ex-cabin crew.
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    At the risk of this going slightly off topic. I wondered how that compares to the UK (where there is free at the point of use health care) According to this https://www.yourmoney.com/credit-cards-loans/living-beyond-m..
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    I'm certainly no expert in the matter but couldn't this be constrained in other dimensions rather than availability of the source material. For example capital requirements of whatever extraction / purification steps are requ
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    I'd go further. I'd be much more trusting of running and random JS found on stack overflow than the JS found on your average production environment. Stack overflow is heavily moderated. I think it'd be a challenge to put some
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    That is one possible outcome. I'm not convinced it's the most likely outcome though. I guess it depends on how well correlated engineering talent is with negotiation skills. Personally I wouldn't imagine those things are well
18. 2148.▲
    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    Sorry, I guess we've got our wires crossed somewhere. I'm not suggesting that the hiring process be automated. Just that the compensation offered is fixed along a completely rigid structure.
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    I too have encountered developers with many years of experience and little programming skill. But in those cases I'd not hire them; or if they made it through the net I'd put them on a performance improvement plan and begin the pr
20. 2150.▲
    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    Do you think even the most basic measure, say number of years, is any worse than the current process?
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    That's why I specifically excluded deep learning stuff. I was imagining something much simpler only marginally more complex than title base salary + x * years experience + y * years at google. Where the factors are initially chosen to
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    In short; yes. I think it's fair to say that google aren't going to run out of engineers if they implemented a completely rigid payment structure. Firstly, their pay is very high compared to the industry and secondly they attract
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    Wouldn't it be easier to create an algorithm for compensation which clearly didn't involve gender (i.e. no deep learning stuff). Something which boils down to base salary + experience factor + google service factor. Honestly, I ca
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    I think this is a pretty good treatment of the subject for someone who doesn't yet qualify for the tin-foil hat. http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    +1
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    Need to is a bit of a stretch. Manure, urine, nitrogen fixing legumes are all potential fertiliser. In addition growing deciduous crops rather than annuals and good soil management practices and can help reduce or eliminate additional ferti
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    It's using 'current carbon' which is basically the same thing. Plants grow using CO2 in the air, we burn the plants and that CO2 is released again. If we just left the biomass to rot on the ground it'd produce CO2 and &#
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    Have you ever listened to the Serial podcast? There is an interesting episode in season 3 where they touch on this. He reached for his pants is police speak for "I used violence against a person and I need an excuse". Reaching for
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    Motorcycles are great for that. Except for a few really high end modern bikes (mostly BMWs) they are mostly repairable with nothing more than common tools and a little ingenuity.
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    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    Yup, that's what I got from it. But also the engine is producing CO2 and Water from the biomass. Which can in turn be fed into the water extractor. I think that is the novel step.