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by calmbonsai 2y ago
Oh wow. The Ercoupe. Sadly, the original design was found to be an unsafe plane due to very poor spin recovery, but mostly due to being under-powered for its airframe. It actually ended up having a higher-than-mean accident rate for the
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by calmbonsai 2y ago
Vashon has already been making a new FAA type-certified out-of-the-box $150k plane with modern avionics for a few years. https://vashonaircraft.com/ I believe they've already delivered around 80 planes to individuals a
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by calmbonsai 2y ago
That should read "low-lead 100LL" avgas. Basically, the FAA drug their feet despite over a decade of independent testing data that indicated it was perfectly safe to run 100 octane equivalent "low-lead" in almost every e
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by calmbonsai 2y ago
How are you going to address the insurance, ownership costs, and FAA certifications for this? Atm, the real barriers to entry in the market are the insanely high regulatory and liability compliance costs--not flight aides, pilot training, o
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by calmbonsai 2y ago
Take a look at older designs from the '60s and all the Experimental aircraft. It's not that the industry doesn't know or can't do "sexy" (e.g. Cirrus custom leather and carbon fiber interiors and paint colors s
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by calmbonsai 2y ago
Not surprising at all. Yelp, Paypal and their ilk deserve all of their earned derision for, amazingly, being simultaneously user, customer, and developer hostile. Related to the earlier "old & grumpy" 3rd party API post, I&#x
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by calmbonsai 2y ago
For basic electronic components and fasteners, I use McMaster-Carr https://www.mcmaster.com/ . Their website is also amazingly free of cruft.
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by calmbonsai 2y ago
Articles 6,12, and 19 of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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by calmbonsai 2y ago
Those all seem like decent common-sense policies as long as those users are made aware of the ban/time-out and any applicable time-out-countdowns. Sadly, there are "known bad" IPs--hell even entire blocks. I'm relatively
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by calmbonsai 2y ago
Correct. I'm not arguing that free expressions and actions that can be done on public property can not be curtailed on private property. I'm arguing against the undetectable curtailment of them. This goes against the human &quot
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by calmbonsai 2y ago
There should be higher "barriers to entry" (time-delay, additional a/a) before a new account can be used and it should cost karma to comment and post.
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by calmbonsai 2y ago
I believe that shadow-banning is unethical. It goes against a fundamental human right to "be seen and heard" and should never be done. *edited to remove the original "public" to clarify the argument
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by calmbonsai 2y ago
Yep. And some of us deleted our LinkedIn profiles years ago precisely 'cuz it got spammy. That makes this a non-starter.
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by calmbonsai 2y ago
Even before the acquisition, any TC article was viewed as a "negative signal" in my circles. They were a classic pay-to-play non-journalism rag for generating PR spin or, worse, cabal "take-down" pieces. They absolutel
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by calmbonsai 2y ago
I recall the example used in many white papers being the scanning of a pallet of soda cans inside of an open truck or shipping container. All of the multi-path interference would've made it one of the hardest environments I can image
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by calmbonsai 2y ago
Not necessarily. A good business is also self-sustaining. This doesn't appear to be the case. There's no clear sustainable margin here against reliable time-proven alternatives.
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by calmbonsai 2y ago
With Python, use Black or go home.
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by calmbonsai 2y ago
Good. I just can't fathom how not having basic checklists, cross-checks, and logs on safety-critical parts installation isn't criminal negligence.
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by calmbonsai 2y ago
Probably the best practical flight explanation website: https://www.av8n.com/how/
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by calmbonsai 2y ago
Joby aviation seems the furthest along. Joby has completed many test flights that mimic its real-world route distances and energy-altitude flight regeimes. Its flight avionics package (essential for VTOL fly-by-wire) has received FAA certif
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by calmbonsai 2y ago
Three issues with pusher-prop "tail-less" designs: 1) While they are more stable in nominal flight regimes, they are far harder to recover to stable flight from perturbations. It turns out, it's (overall) much safer to have
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by calmbonsai 2y ago
Srsly, just buy a 4th gen Kindle on Ebay. They're around $70 USD un-opened/new and around $35 USD used atm, have physical buttons, and are lighter/thinner than later-gen Kindles. Hell, they're even lighter with the adde
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by calmbonsai 2y ago
Robotics and tele-science will improve at a much faster rate than our ability to solve getting humans to Mars, sustaining them there, and returning. Plus, sending robotic probes is already "solved".