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541.
by _moof 5y ago
I'm an avionics engineer with commercial flight ops experience and I'm extremely skeptical of this hypothesis.
542.
by _moof 5y ago
Any firsthand experience in military aviation to guide that intuition?
543.
by _moof 5y ago
That's true. (Although what's with "old-timer"? Most of the mech/aero/etc. engineers I know are under 35.) I'm sort of the bridge between the software and hardware folks where I work, and nobody understand
544.
by _moof 5y ago
GPS and celnav (and other forms of navigation, radio or otherwise) are really not so different when you get down to fundamentals. At their core they are all about locating the intersection of multiple lines, circles, or spheres of position,
545.
by _moof 5y ago
The world would be much better off with more LED hula hoops and fewer guided missiles.
546.
by _moof 5y ago
I'm guessing all the engineers you know are web software pukes. There are loads of people who could build these today.
547.
by _moof 5y ago
Is there a specific part of this forty-page article you're referring to? If you have a case to make, make it; don't make everyone else do your work for you.
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by _moof 5y ago
> I would have expected at least some simple domain-specific compression. Why? The site is static, so it's cached and browsers get a 304 when they come back. For new players the server compresses the whole thing in flight, not jus
549.
by _moof 5y ago
Real nukes or imaginary ones used as a pretext for invasion?
550.
by _moof 5y ago
I assumed the original poster was talking in the context of safety. When it comes to comfort, they all suck. :)
551.
by _moof 5y ago
These altimeters are required for decreased ILS minimums and autoland. You can perform a Cat I ILS down to 200' AGL in 1/2-mile visibility just fine without any radar altimeters.
552.
by _moof 5y ago
There is no good reason not to get on a 737.
553.
by _moof 5y ago
The incidents I've seen have been outright failures, not incorrect indications (of any amount).
554.
by _moof 5y ago
You can't.
555.
by _moof 5y ago
Human interface guidelines. We had them and we respected them and it meant every application had a consistent set of basic behavior. By comparison web app usability is anarchy, and not the good kind. A lot of other people have mentioned tha
556.
by _moof 5y ago
"Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it." -Harper Lee
557.
by _moof 5y ago
> A bunch of my income is in RSUs. For us I need a VM to run TurboTax No you don't. I've sold stock more years than not and I've never needed to do that.
558.
by _moof 5y ago
> It doesn't even have to be your mistake This is the crucial piece. It doesn't matter how careful you are; everyone who knows you has to be careful too. I have a... well, I hesitate to use the word stalker, because that make
559.
by _moof 5y ago
> You can’t just ask businesses to stop doing background checks and employ convicted felons and hope they will not embezzle funds from their new employer. The risk is too high. There is a reasonable solution to this, and it's &quo
560.
by _moof 5y ago
He didn't equate those things. His argument is not that both parties are equally bad. It's that neither party is one he feels he can support. He writes: "This is about the point where some (most likely some in my own business
561.
by _moof 5y ago
"When you hear hoofbeats behind you, it's probably centaurs."
562.
by _moof 5y ago
This is me 100%. Although I've found that when I do talk to folks and apologize for some of the shittiest shittiness, more often than not they don't even remember what I'm talking about. The lesson here, for me at least, is t
563.
by _moof 5y ago
With all due respect to phk, that he has gotten such a basic fact so howlingly wrong makes me wonder what else in the article needs attention.
564.
by _moof 5y ago
When the NYT announced the purchase, they said Wordle would "initially" remain free to play. If I told you that tonight I will "initially" be watching Evil Dead II, you're going to have some questions about what I&#
565.
by _moof 5y ago
Not saving the original HTML and JavaScript before the redirect was established.
566.
by _moof 5y ago
Seems like lately we've gone from "when you hear hoofbeats behind you, don't expect to see a zebra" to "if you see a horse, it's definitely a centaur."
567.
by _moof 5y ago
Occam's razor says it's the same thing it's always been: a bad release or a capacity problem.
568.
by _moof 5y ago
You're talking about a different sense of the word "conscious." What you're describing might better be called "reactivity" or something. (Don't get too hung up on the specific word; the point is there are
569.
by _moof 5y ago
This gets a little more complicated when you discover that not all fifths are the same interval, as any string player will attest. Violinists playing double stops have to use ever-so-slightly different finger positions than they do when pla
570.
by _moof 5y ago
*Sidelong glance at federal government.* Any day now, folks.

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