ben7799

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by ben7799 8y ago
The Ars article misses the point that google is an ad company that uses it's dominance in search to keep the ad money machine going. Everything else is just playtime to google. So they have no interest in doing the hard work to suppor
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by ben7799 8y ago
I have a 2018 MBP 15" w/Touchbar at work. I have not had any issues but I use the internal keyboard only as a last resort. I really hate the internal keyboard, and I hate the touchbar. For my personal use I went and bought a Surfa
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by ben7799 8y ago
I wonder what level the public school 8th grade teachers are at with their Algebra at this point and what that has to do with this. I get the impression there are very few 8th grade math teachers who studied math in college as their first
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by ben7799 8y ago
No you're not stuck with a 2:1 dogfight. One or both adversaries can escape.. it can happen in seconds with two supersonic aircraft. It's not like a video game where they exist in a modeled world where no one else is around and th
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by ben7799 8y ago
Big difference between the first Jet fighter which was barely operational and a modern fighter. IIRC quite a few Me-262s were shot down by P-51s. But Me-262s had a bunch of weak points and were very immature.. IIRC some of the shoot downs
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by ben7799 8y ago
WWII era Mustangs would have no way to target a modern fighter at all unless the pilot of the modern fighter was acting like a kid playing a video game. All they could do is spray in it's general direction with a hope and a prayer.
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by ben7799 8y ago
Internet bench racing of aircraft always focuses on "dogfighting". Dogfighting has no purpose in in winning the war. Striking the enemy ground targets without engaging in dogfights is successful. Do that and pretty soon ther
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by ben7799 8y ago
This is a really interesting article. Having been interested in aviation for a long time I was not aware of these. Fascinating stuff. A much fancier version of chaff & flares. Reminiscent of submarine warfare.
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by ben7799 8y ago
These guys are test pilots and engineers who have thousands and thousands of hours of flight time and have actually flown the F-35. They can't possibly know what they're talking about, so this must just be a PR piece to cover up h
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by ben7799 8y ago
Exactly... it's not clear if the author of the article is even an engineer, and he's speaking authoritatively on something. good engineer doesn't even speak authoritatively outside their specific area of expertise. And the
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by ben7799 8y ago
There is no such thing as "dogfight at close range" with an aircraft that travels at Mach 3+ when cruising into enemy territory. Even the slightest turn at those speeds moves the airplane by 10s of miles. Any attempt to intercept
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by ben7799 8y ago
You make a bunch of great points. A lot of the "No Accountability" stuff to me started to appear about the same time as Agile. Agile removed most of management's accountability and product management's accountability.
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by ben7799 8y ago
Maybe too many people are trying to find all their meaning in life through their work. It's not a recipe for success for most people, I think the media plays it up a bit too much. They're only covering the success stories in ter
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by ben7799 8y ago
I learned SQL around 1996 or 1997 and had an absolutely fantastic college course or two involving it. I've mostly been a backend developer... having the ability to go in and fix SQL and make things run in < 1 second instead of 5-10
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by ben7799 8y ago
Me too, dedicated Telecaster player. Incredibly flexible despite having so few apparent options.
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by ben7799 8y ago
Not sure how this product (if it's new) isn't running afoul on Presonus' trademarks for "Notion". https://www.presonus.com/products/Notion Presonus' product is for music but it is a softwa
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by ben7799 8y ago
"The Great War"/"World War I" started in 1914... so in 1912 it had not happened, that's where the "quite innocent" came from.
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by ben7799 8y ago
The article is a year old and parrots some of the talking points from the F-16 vs F-35 exercises that definitely didn't reflect the full capabilities of the two aircraft. The F-35 at the time was flying with its flight envelope restric
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by ben7799 8y ago
Everyone has a different anecdotal experience. I hurt the ulnar nerve in my left hand in 2013 bicycling. The doctor put me into a brace and put me on some strong muscle relaxants for 2 weeks. I went to work and typed with the brace on und
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by ben7799 8y ago
They don't have to weld in an inert gas chamber. Titanium welding is typically done by purging the air around the weld and/or pumping the inert gas into the parts being welded assuming they're tubes, etc.. A bunch of the gass
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by ben7799 9y ago
Right. Doing it in the simulator and doing it in real life when the engine has exploded and the cabin has depressurized and you've got serious injuries and panic onboard are not the same thing. Practicing in the simulator is routine,
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by ben7799 9y ago
Egotistical tone to this article... good explanation of procedures on an airliner but for background the author of the blog post made a boat load of money on Web 1.0 and fancies himself as a pilot. It's way too easy for a part-timer l
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by ben7799 9y ago
You're an adult... lots of us grew up in towns like that but those same towns/neighborhoods are not like that anymore in the US.
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by ben7799 9y ago
The article is somewhat alarmist, behavior modification can greatly limit the risk of ticks. This might be something that is more alarming in the UK for some reason if they haven't had to worry about it so far? I live in Massachusetts