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by burfog 8y ago
Two smaller turbines can have the same frontal area, which is what creates the efficiency. It's total area, not diameter. Well it is the amount of power per unit of frontal area. Turbofan airflow already hits the support structures for
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by burfog 8y ago
The overall best glass is probably fused silica. I doubt you can find it for anything other than high-end lab gear. The best glass for shatter resistance is the stuff used for large telescope mirrors, but that too would be expensive and I t
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by burfog 8y ago
I wonder what design choices were considered and rejected. Was there a missed option that would have been better? Numerous possibilities pop in to mind... The rear landing gear could have been made to extend more, by telescoping or folding.
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by burfog 8y ago
I can't tell either. :-) The grammar seems to prevent recursive typedefs, but I've never seen it spelled out that you can't have them. This has caused me trouble on occasion. I can't even seem to solve this with gcc&#x27
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by burfog 8y ago
So how do I declare a function pointer for a function that takes two arguments and returns a value, all of which are function pointers of that same type?
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by burfog 8y ago
It looks like that chart just assumes that the median news is neutral. This is not a valid assumption. What is "Neutral" anyway? When news sources are compared against public opinion in the USA, Fox is just a tiny bit left of cent
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by burfog 8y ago
Wikipedia itself is quite biased. Some domains are even banned despite providing real news with original reporting.
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by burfog 8y ago
If you don't read the second paragraph, it seems 100% obviously a case of sarcasm. For some reason, sarcasm goes over badly on HackerNews. Given the second paragraph though, and prior post history... I think it was serious. OMG.
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by burfog 8y ago
It's a way to check errors. Mismatches trigger audits. If you owe lots of taxes, and the IRS sends you their calculations, you might discover that they are unaware of some of your income. Well... guess they don't need to know!
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by burfog 8y ago
Yes, but not just any people. There is a bias toward people with free time and the ability to write. This heavily favors unemployed people (such as those with humanities and liberal arts degrees) and those without families. This clearly int
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by burfog 8y ago
That is hardly neutral. Right in the second full paragraph, Trump's page turns nasty. The fourth full paragraph is nasty too. OK, seen enough... Over on Obama's page, every one of the intro paragraphs is nice. I also note the larg
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by burfog 8y ago
He wrote this: https://web.archive.org/web/20041214030544/http://www.cultde... That at least somewhat supports my interpretation. I was thinking more along the lines of image files.
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by burfog 8y ago
It was a close race, and he lost. That seems like an impact.
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by burfog 8y ago
I think "TacoLand" has a meaning that could be awkward. The food can be a metaphor for genitalia or for the attached humans. For example a tacofest, much like a sausagefest, is a gathering in which one sex is greatly overrepresent
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by burfog 8y ago
A good excuse for struggling with recursion is that the person is a kernel programmer. There, on a very limited stack, recursion is so dangerous that programmers develop a strong reflex to get rid of recursion. If you tell them to produce s
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by burfog 8y ago
In the USA, it is common to get more paid leave as you stay with a company. People who switch jobs often will only get a tiny amount, while those who stay in one place get plenty. The first year might be 5 or 10 days. After 10 or 15 years,
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by burfog 8y ago
The NHS will probably keep you alive if this is considered to be a cost-effective use of funds that are shared by the entire population. The older you get, the lower your priority. You might spend a long time on a waiting list, then get ass
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by burfog 8y ago
Even if you are right about them being low quality (a disputed political opinion) it should be obvious that no 100% sane person would put their family at risk by taking one of these jobs. Good people are thus eliminated from consideration.
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by burfog 8y ago
Nominating one isn't so simple. First of all, there is a backlog of higher priority nominees. It wouldn't be good to distract congress from those. Second of all, the constant harassment of this administration must be having a huge
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by burfog 8y ago
The SAT/ACT is no longer standardized testing. All the determined parents abuse this. They find a sympathetic doctor to diagnose their kid with a nonsense learning disability, then that gets them double the time for the test or more. T
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by burfog 8y ago
Skipping the landline stage means skipping the need to stabilize the situation on the ground, particularly involving crime. There is a lot to be said for the side-effects of landlines, other utilities, a postal service, roads, and so on. Wi
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by burfog 8y ago
That is the ideal qualification if you are trying to stop unbounded self-serving expansion of bloated bureaucracies. A government agency that has less work to do does not shrink, and one that has completed its job does not just disappear. O
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by burfog 8y ago
None of that productivity matters if the company dies due to being hacked into. You might not even know that this happened. Mysteriously, a clone company pops up, or a competitor seems to know all your contract negotiations and customers. A
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by burfog 8y ago
It's done. Here you go, only a few hundred dollars: https://www.dynonavionics.com/aoa-pitot-probes.php
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by burfog 8y ago
Given the expense and size of airliners, it might be worth determining AoA via tracking minute dust particles with LIDAR. That should be highly reliable, with very direct speed measurement in airflow that isn't in any way disturbed by
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by burfog 8y ago
It is part of best practice. You really should have an air gap. Consider the problem of malware connecting out and then giving an attacker a VPN into your network.
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by burfog 8y ago
An air gap will stop innocent mistakes and outsiders.
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by burfog 8y ago
FYI, in SF there are also multiple churches of different christian denominations. Most of them will welcome you, doing their best to make you feel at home and accepted as part of the community. It works best if you don't treat them lik
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by burfog 8y ago
It's fine. Even my weed trimmer is 4-stroke. Aircraft engines, which really need to have a great power to weight ratio, are normally 4-stroke. For small things, the only place that seems to justify 2-stroke is a chainsaw. This is partl
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by burfog 8y ago
Neither the Pittsburgh massacre nor the bombs have been proven to be from the right. For the massacre, the killer actually hated Trump. For the bombing, consider this: people who want to actually hurt their targets, rather than running a fa

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