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by andrepew 5y ago
I don’t think comparing a Tesla’s price to an ICE competitor is an apples to apples comparison. Sure on the surface a Model 3 price tag looks luxury, but look at full cost of ownership and things start looking downright reasonable. No manda
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by andrepew 5y ago
For engine failures turning in to fatalities, the biggest cause are stalls/spins where the pilot fails to maintain airspeed, unload the wings and stay coordinated. Flying the aircraft just above stall speed into the side of a barn is f
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by andrepew 5y ago
Honestly, I couldn't say where my line would be. I'm doing post-grad stuff and have a career that isn't majorly dependant on it, so I can afford to be more choosy I guess. But in general, a lot of students are in debt and hav
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by andrepew 5y ago
As someone who has been forced to use software like this, I'd be afraid to take measures like that lest the software flag it as tampering or evidence of cheating. My grades (or worse, my good standing with the integrity office) are hel
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by andrepew 5y ago
Arq has baked in file versioning unless you mean something else?
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by andrepew 5y ago
I don't like Backblaze because they require you to hand over your encryption key to their website to restore which kills any hope of it being a 0-knowledge solution. Right now I'm using Arq Backup + S3 and have been happy.
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by andrepew 5y ago
Usually you don't need a support contract for continued use of the software you bought. I have old versions of a few applications and am happy with their current functionality. I can choose to not have a support contract and still use
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by andrepew 5y ago
I believe for the satellites to pick you up you need ADS-B antenna diversity (an antenna on the top and bottom of the plane) which I don’t believe is very common yet because it has cost.
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by andrepew 5y ago
Blue Airways — a Romanian budget airline is on the list as a “Terror” organization. I guess their service isn’t very good.
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by andrepew 5y ago
The US Army and the FAA are two separate entities. The example in the article mentioned that a FAA facility manager might have denied escalation to use the buzzer, not the US Army.
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by andrepew 5y ago
The article makes it seem like they're testing the capability of field personnel rather than doing R&D. For the actual R&D stuff, I can see why they'd need to do something in the field to see how it behaves. But I would al
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by andrepew 5y ago
Can someone more familiar with the situation explain why they jam GPS at all? You'd think the vast industry around the military could replace actual jamming with training aids. Even if the bespoke training tools are expensive, I doubt
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by andrepew 5y ago
Over 1500 hours of continuous operation is quite a feat. Components like magnetos have service schedules much shorter than that. This also ignores all the unexpected issues that pop up in aviation. My only experience with Cessna 172s are re
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by andrepew 5y ago
Probably for the best with their history of customer support black holes and horror stories of falsely banned accounts in all their consumer products. Google is one of the last companies in the world I’d trust to hold my finances.
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by andrepew 5y ago
I agree with all your points, my comment was mostly my confusion around many articles getting upset with the name "Tesla Autopilot" which seems like an honest description of the feature. There are practical implications of having
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by andrepew 5y ago
Full Self Driving is a much less honest name that people should be legitimately upset about. But I see article after article pick on specifically the "Tesla Autopilot" name which I always found strange.
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by andrepew 5y ago
I don’t understand why so many take issue with the feature being called Tesla Autopilot. I’m a pilot and believe it is a pretty accurate name. Do regular folks think an aircraft autopilot does everything? Traditionally, it is just a system
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by andrepew 5y ago
If your goal is to learn a skill, there are better ways to go about it than gaming. The problem in learning that gaming helps with isn’t learning efficacy —- it is motivation. As a child, I simply wasn’t interested in novels and enjoying pl
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by andrepew 5y ago
I agree that playing a game might not improve a class of skills in general like coordination or problem solving, but I don’t think it requires much study to determine improvement of skills directly used. For example, to improve your reading
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by andrepew 5y ago
They’re referring to customs rather than TSA. Only applicable entering/leaving a country.
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by andrepew 5y ago
I agree, I'd rather just have a bigger phone with a better battery. Although I don't think bigger inherently means more durable/more protection. Bigger means when dropped, whatever part of the chassis hits the ground first ha
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by andrepew 5y ago
From what I hear from my friends who edit video, pro video editing workflows can involve some pretty hefty bitrates beyond what 1gbit networking can handle.
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by andrepew 5y ago
No because security of the system is tied to security of that email account because the password can be reset through it. The Microsoft account serves as the means to authenticate in Windows.
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by andrepew 5y ago
If the decision appears reasonable in the context of your industry, you won't be blamed. Phrases like "Nobody ever got fired for buying Cisco/IBM/etc." are tossed around fairly often. If you chose the expensive, gol
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by andrepew 5y ago
From my perspective as a business, I don't see a difference between my server being down and all of IRC being down. Either way my comms are down. All I care about as a business is about frequency and duration of those outages. If Slack
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by andrepew 5y ago
Engines are complicated and the maintenance and certification requirements on such a complex system in the context of aviation is very expensive. Airplane engines must be rebuilt at set time intervals even if they’re working perfectly becau
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by andrepew 5y ago
Really disappointed they shortchanged Ryzen by not using it on the flagship configuration despite it being the better product right now.
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by andrepew 6y ago
I don’t think it is unreasonable for them to not know they had US citizenship despite being born in the US. Completely unconditional citizenship based on location of birth isn’t really a thing in Europe. It is also possible they knew and th
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by andrepew 6y ago
It would be awesome if they added support for FIDO hardware keys since it is supported by OpenSSH 8.2. PIV/GPG based solutions are a pain in the butt to use.
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by andrepew 6y ago
They're talking about a difference in real world dev use. My Macbook Pro thermal throttles just running Chrome sometimes (which is always running while I develop). If I started a single threaded compile alongside that, it most definite

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