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by bdavis__ 8y ago
thus the nickname of the plane. the 'lawn dart'
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by bdavis__ 8y ago
missiles work with radar signature or heat signature, not the visible spectrum. and yes, there are countermeasures available to 'blind' an IR sensor (like those used on short range A/A missiles)
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by bdavis__ 8y ago
i think in this case there is no '737 MAX' simulator, as the existing 737 simulators were considered identical for flight training. back to your question, most full fidelity flight simulations use actual models that are validated
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by bdavis__ 8y ago
Yes, that is exactly how it works. Provided the bug reporter has a support contract and enough clout.
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by bdavis__ 8y ago
I have been buying glasses from my optometrist for decades. A pair runs about $500, after insurance. Dropped by Warby Parker on a lark (they have a store a few miles away). The glass tech looked over my glasses and told me the optical cen
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by bdavis__ 8y ago
Ada was also too slow to compile with the computer systems of the day. I remember a HW company coming on site with a demo (contained on 9 track tape, of course). Compilation of a couple thousand lines of ada took all day (5+ hours). In t
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by bdavis__ 8y ago
That was a very high end scope for it's day. It probably had to go in for calibration to a standards lab every 180 days.
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by bdavis__ 8y ago
when you make $20 an hour, 1.5 times pay for hours over 40 makes sense to all. when you make $50 an hour, 1.0 multiplier seems reasonable. at $100 an hour, 'shut up and get it working' is the cry.
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by bdavis__ 8y ago
737 Looks like cables, air, and hydraulics to me.
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by bdavis__ 8y ago
If you know enough about the law to rely on the Earned Income Tax Credit to pay off you credit cards, why don't you just reduce your withholding. Now the 'refund' turns out to be a paperwork exercise and you have the money a
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by bdavis__ 8y ago
you do this to minimize latency. to ensure things happen in usecs instead of msecs, this is what you have to do. deliberate tradeoff. it is better to waste electricity, and to ensure your deadlines are met than for some to be late and s
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by bdavis__ 8y ago
i would never trust myself to change the raw output of a fundamental tool like this. my coding is too poor (of the add-on), debugging (the target issue) is too hard. output of gdb is one place where I don't mind seeing everything. In
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by bdavis__ 8y ago
Autopilot is the system that moves the flight surfaces to maintain altitude (or a climb/dive rate), and heading. There is an FMS (Flight Management System) that can give commands to the autopilot. The FMS knows the X,Y,Z of every wayp
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by bdavis__ 8y ago
You have to label (tag) every change or it would be impossible.
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by bdavis__ 8y ago
it has not been improved or even updated in but minimal ways. i am surprised you did not experience the intellectual delight of using the ClearCase 'config spec' with it's ability to use rules to extract the source baseline
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by bdavis__ 8y ago
There are several well known techniques, look under "Software Reliability Growth Models"....
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by bdavis__ 8y ago
Not Elon, he just pays a small fine.
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by bdavis__ 8y ago
all this complexity for what? seems like a lot for a little.
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by bdavis__ 8y ago
Until about 1990, if you owned a mainframe or a mini, anything that needed chilled air and a raised floor, you knew the vendor field engineer. Because the computer itself, the disk drives, or the tape drives broke and / or required pe
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by bdavis__ 8y ago
sir, you make a good point. the world always changes. microsoft has changed, perhaps IBM has also. one who believes in sin and redemption perhaps should give IBM a chance.
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by bdavis__ 8y ago
redhat had a lot of love in the world. any other vendor that shoved systemd down everyones throat would have been villified. redhat was given a pass. (karma, anyone?)
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by bdavis__ 8y ago
RedHat can be replicated. Not cheap, and it will take a few years. What do I mean? Well, IBM will slaughter this goose very quickly. Customers will experience vendor hate to a high degree. But, RH is based on open source. A replacemen
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by bdavis__ 8y ago
There is some good intentions here, but just because you do buzzword bingo it does not mean you are 'agile', and it does not mean you are bring value. And desktop / web apps are a lot different than weapons systems. The &#x