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by _moof 5mo ago
> it's public domain data. Are you sure about that? Just because it's now in the custody of the NTSB doesn't mean it's public domain. The NTSB didn't create it.
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by _moof 5mo ago
Dawkins doesn't know what consciousness is. He doesn't know what it is because nobody knows what it is. We can't measure it. We can't even detect it, except in onesself. Any claim, by anyone, that someone or something ot
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by _moof 5mo ago
Aviation has stricter laws when it comes to customers. I don't have citations off the top of my head but it's not a normal customer-business relationship. EDIT: 14 CFR Part 260.
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by _moof 5mo ago
Which law? 14 CFR Part 260 requires air carriers to refund tickets on cancelled flights.
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by _moof 5mo ago
You've just decided, all by yourself, that customers are "low priority people." Why?
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by _moof 5mo ago
The customers are creditors.
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by _moof 5mo ago
Drones are already regulated. You aren't allowed to fly higher than 400' AGL without ATC authorization, an altitude chosen because it has special significance in the National Airspace System. Nor are you allowed to fly in the vici
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by _moof 5mo ago
Ha. Last time I went through DCA the ads were all "Here's why TikTok isn't evil!"
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by _moof 6mo ago
The need for belonging is also really powerful, and companies actively try to fulfill that need. Not, generally speaking, for nefarious purposes, but because people do better work when they feel a sense of belonging. If you decide that your
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by _moof 6mo ago
Something I've observed as someone who works in the physical sciences and used to work as a software engineer is: Very few software engineers understand that tolerances are fundamental. In the physical sciences, strict equality - of ac
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by _moof 6mo ago
I hope Adobe dies and becomes a warning to others - sorry, a "case study" - that is taken seriously. I adored Photoshop, starting with version 3, and watched in horror as Adobe stripped itself for parts. The damage is done, but ho
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by _moof 6mo ago
Airlines and aircraft manufacturers are already heavily incentivized to be fuel efficient. It's the most expensive part of a flight. (Sometimes crew salaries are more expensive but not by much.)
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by _moof 6mo ago
Because rationing isn't step one. Putting out a warning that rationing will be necessary if things don't change is step one. Rationing causes serious problems. A warning in advance gives people and powers time to turn things aroun
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by _moof 6mo ago
Interesting. Seems analogous to the atrophy of navigation abilities caused by over-reliance on GPS. I wonder if there's a common underlying mechanism.
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by _moof 6mo ago
The information being collected isn't your license plate, it's your location. (Still might not be personal information.)
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by _moof 6mo ago
They seem to be implying that because they are a "service provider," they aren't responsible for complying with CCPA rules even though they are the ones with the data. Does this hold water? I'm reading the CCPA rules now
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by _moof 6mo ago
I don't understand why energy production must be profitable.
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by _moof 6mo ago
Yes, the Cmd key has been around since 1984.
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by _moof 6mo ago
The Mac desktop era before its iOS-ification was, in fact, awesome. It was a triumph of consistency. The UI guidelines were excellent. Nearly every application worked in predictable ways. I appreciated it at the time and I miss it terribly.
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by _moof 6mo ago
You're wrong. There's a body of literature on this. I encourage you to review it.
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by _moof 6mo ago
There's tons of research on this. Use words.
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by _moof 6mo ago
Honestly, if we could even get that level of thought, it would be an improvement.
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by _moof 6mo ago
The short bursts are just the period of the control cycles. Control cycle starts, loop sees error, commands thrust; next control cycle starts, loop sees error is nulled (or in deadband), commands no thrust.
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by _moof 6mo ago
It was for attitude adjustment.
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by _moof 6mo ago
You're a VC arguing with an aerospace engineer about aerospace engineering. I'm also a pilot (CFI). My day job is space operations. And I can tell you've had too many hangar arguments about how wings work. Pilots don't u
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by _moof 6mo ago
The first-order approximations are easy. When you start adding up all the other factors, it gets complicated fast. The solar wind, which isn't constant, affects trajectories. Earth's atmosphere is neither homogenous nor perfectly
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by _moof 6mo ago
Yes, Challenger - although program management knew they were violating a launch constraint (temperature), and it was the low temperature that produced the conditions necessary for SRB failure. As with any aerospace mishap, it's a chain
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by _moof 6mo ago
Helicopter -> large boat is much easier, and much faster, than small boat -> large boat. And it's not riskier. I know the inherent risk in flight is greater, but it's also much more managed, so the actual risk is less.
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by _moof 6mo ago
That is... not true. Social media may have been an important tool for creating some of the circumstances we're in, but the causes go back much farther.
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by _moof 6mo ago
There are degrees.

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