azalemeth

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by azalemeth 7y ago
Breast cancer screening is one of those things where there is a serious risk of overdiagnosis and iatrogenic injury and one has to seriously think about how many such injuries are acceptable per life saved. I personally think that the targe
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by azalemeth 7y ago
TLDR: The short answer is "yes". (They claim a fuel economy of 13L/100km too, apparently, which is...mildly terrible, but I guess better than being completely stuck).
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by azalemeth 7y ago
> a simulated edge case involving "gamma rays from space"? People have nearly died because of exactly this situation. See, for example, Quantas Flight 72 [1], in which a pair of sudden, uncommanded pitch-down manoeuvres that ca
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by azalemeth 7y ago
Also, what happens if it rains? Most 'weather sealed' lenses and bodies go to great pains to put O-rings on everything and completely separate air inside the camera from air outside. I imagine that's a lot harder to do with t
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by azalemeth 7y ago
As a non-USA person, I really don't get why your politicians don't just call for a ban on guns.
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by azalemeth 7y ago
I'm an idiot -- you're right. Apologies. The graphic vectors looked like the wind was blowing the wrong direction and I missed this.
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by azalemeth 7y ago
[Edit: I am wrong. Ignore this] >"Runways generally point in the wind direction, as aircraft take off and land more easily upwind. The designation of these is based on their respective alignment angles." NO!! This is exactly 18
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by azalemeth 7y ago
To save reading a twitter thread: > When I joined Google, I fell in love with the company immediately. I was excited to come to work, not just for the technical challenges, but because I really felt I was making a difference and working
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by azalemeth 7y ago
I've always wanted to use BSD as a desktop -- it just seems so much better thought out, and laid out together as an OS. However, it's /never/ been _quite_ there -- a bit like Linux in the early 2000s. Linux, meanwhile, m
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by azalemeth 7y ago
I'm reasonably sure it would be possible to implement appropriate DSP Voodoo Magic (aka finite response filters) on the Teensy that does a _pretty_ good job of all of these things. However, I agree with the OP that it does have a fairl
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by azalemeth 7y ago
>a plane will know a radar is active long before the radar can detect the plane. The other bit of information that might be perhaps missing from some (other!) explanations is that this arises entirely because the ground station has to re
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by azalemeth 7y ago
A good example of "bad things" happening would be Quantas Flight 72 [1], an event in 2008 in which an Airbus A320 made a series of uncommanded movements, because of a particularly strange design bug in one of its flight computers,
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by azalemeth 7y ago
> More or less, how often is “occasionally”? Cosmic ray fluxes vary depending on the energy of the photon you're talking about, but the number of events is, on a human scale, surprisingly large. > Can this be used as a source of
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by azalemeth 7y ago
Wow. Seriously impressive -- both to see the limitations that smart people worked within while taking mankind off this rock, but also hats off to some excellent nerdery. >"Division. Arrgh. The AGC does have hardware division (and mu
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by azalemeth 7y ago
To be fair, some people just like diapers... ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaper_fetishism )
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Edward Snowdon Talking and Q&A at ORGCon 2019 Livestream(youtube.com)
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by azalemeth 7y ago
Whether we're talking electricity or gravity, potential differences are always defined _with respect to something_ -- where you put your zero is pretty arbitrary, and for some problems there's an obvious "right answer".
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by azalemeth 7y ago
I'm a great proponent of the UK (Type G) plug. It's wonderfully over-engineered for safety. The plug is an asymmetric triangle shape, with a well-defined orientation that is "forever" polarised. The earth pin (at the top
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by azalemeth 7y ago
I've subscribed my mother to their FFTC service, upgrading her from ADSL. She lives in the middle of nowhere, and BT have historically cocked up an awful lot with the wiring. Their team know a hell of a lot more about networking than I