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by ams6110 8y ago
Well the maiden passenger flight of the A320 crashed at the Paris Air Show, and the pilot said the fly-by-wire system didn't let him pull up[1]. Officially it was pilot error though. There have been nearly 1,400 fatalities with the A32
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by ams6110 8y ago
No nasty tricks - these aren’t NaN or Infinity OK but then the first example is a naive computation of the mean of two enormous numbers. All this really illustrates is that you need to be aware of the range of your inputs and choose a sol
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by ams6110 8y ago
Why is that? I've seen that: dedicated, separated bike paths are unused, and cyclists continue to ride in the street with the cars.
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by ams6110 8y ago
It's just something we tell ourselves to assuage our embarrassment at getting conned.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Welcome to being a grown-up. These worries have been part of being a responsible adult for forever.
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by ams6110 8y ago
You can have whatever goals you like, but that doesn't entitle you to live in an area you can't afford.
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by ams6110 8y ago
> you will see a lot of conflict and war to fight for resources. This won't be pleasant. So in other words, like all of human history?
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by ams6110 8y ago
Pretty good. I disagree on long term residents. Just as nobody is entitled to live wherever they want regardless of whether they can afford it, nobody is entitled to live in the same place forever if they can't afford it. The history o
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by ams6110 8y ago
Firefighters live in the station when they are on duty. So they'll commute in from wherever they can afford to live. If there aren't enough who will do that, we'll pay them more.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Doesn't mean people were wrong 15 years ago. At the time most of those things were real issues. Especially speed.
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by ams6110 8y ago
What would be a compelling differentiator from what YouTube offers?
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by ams6110 8y ago
Get an ad blocker. I can't remember when I last saw ads on a website. I recommend uBlock Origin.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Fine. Point being, 20 years sounds like a long time when you're 25. When you're 55 or 60, and reflect on how fast that time went by, 15 or 20 years doesn't sound like very long. Certainly not enough time to make up for a life
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by ams6110 8y ago
News flash: we're all going to die, and time flies. At the typical retirement age of 65, most people have 10 or 15 years left. I'd advise a sensible diet and enjoying life while you are young. Don't spend time ruminating abou
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by ams6110 8y ago
Yes, in particular the 737 is a cables and levers and pullys design. It can fly totally manually. If the pilots had realized they had a trim problem, and switched off the electric trim, and trimmed manually (literally turning a crank in the
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by ams6110 8y ago
Point 7 is incorrect. Automatic trim adjustments by the Speed Trim System (STS) had been in place for a long time. However using automatic trim changes during manual flight to reduce a pitch-up tendency near the stall was new.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I'm not sure I like this. How secure is it? Anything you put on port 22 is going to be attacked relentlessly. I think I'd rather have OpenSSH handling those attacks than some tarpit program that may or may not have been subjected
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by ams6110 8y ago
Yes, I suppose I could. I guess that I don't want another human coming into my house in my absence to do that, nor do I want to have to schedule it to happen when I'm home. Nor do I want to take my laundry someplace else and have
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by ams6110 8y ago
If a person distills his philosophy on social justice into one trendy word I think "kneejerk lumping" is appropriate.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Laundry is absolutely the biggest "housekeeping" item I have trouble with. I would pay a lot of money (thousands of dollars) for a robot that would take dirty laundry and wash, dry, and fold.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Interesting speculation that the 22-degree offset in the two AoA sensor readings in the Lion Air crash corresponds closely with a "bit flip" error in the digital representation of the value.
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Ethiopian ET302 Similarities to Lion Air JT610(satcom.guru)
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by ams6110 8y ago
The trick is how to get smart people interested in government jobs.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Maybe he was right?
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by ams6110 8y ago
I've never really used debuggers routinely. They are a last resort for me. I use print statements and logs for the most part.
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by ams6110 8y ago
> health care, higher education and apparently, prison system These things are generally not considered to be operating in a free market. All are highly regulated and receive massive government funding or subsidies.
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by ams6110 8y ago
And likely not his first offense. GP mentions he was already in the juvenile system. Chances are he had a few other adult minor offenses already also, and when he got caught again, this time in a clearly planned and deliberate ongoing burgl
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by ams6110 8y ago
> If you put ads in your app YOU are responsible. Take that line of thinking one more step. If a user installs a "free" app that is ad-supported, the USER is responsible. I tell my kids this when they bitch about needing a new
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by ams6110 8y ago
What is IFTTT? Never heard of it.
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by ams6110 8y ago
> writing code to call APIs from email providers Doesn't strike me as much easier than running a local email daemon to receive email, TBH.

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