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by chipsa 7y ago
There's different types of plutonium that's made. Bombs are made from Pu-239. But reactors will normally produce Pu-240 as well, unless you specifically design your reactor and fuel it appropriately to produce mostly Pu-239. So wh
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by chipsa 7y ago
Why not stick the spec in a different repo? Give an explicitly permissive license on the spec, so that it's obvious that proprietary software can implement it.
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by chipsa 7y ago
I think he doesn’t understand what that field does.
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by chipsa 7y ago
Have you ever tried to set fire to a single log?
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by chipsa 7y ago
This is one of the reasons why housing prices in the Bay Area are always increasing. They literally can't build enough, and so what they do build is going to be expensive, because that's what's profitable.
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by chipsa 7y ago
Space is niche right now, and will always be niche until we get off this rock and have space colonies.
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by chipsa 7y ago
R1 and R2 aren't reused. So you can't chain the attack to gain enough of an advantage.
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by chipsa 7y ago
The plug shouldn't wiggle enough to cause a short when fully plugged in, and when you're inserting, the power pin is limited to 5V.
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by chipsa 7y ago
It's basic income, not basic job or basic requirements for living. If it was basic requirements for living, then you couldn't supplement what was given to make it better. You'd get a rack in a barracks and be fed crap because
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by chipsa 7y ago
/me points to SM-3
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by chipsa 7y ago
MAD isn't a principle. It's an effect. The actual principle is Assured Destruction. It's just that everyone else also follows the same principle: we want to be sure of being able to destroy our enemies. We might also see airb
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by chipsa 7y ago
The price for aircraft and spacecraft is almost entirely related to how much it weighs. A missile that's 10x heavier is going to be 10x more expensive, generally speaking, for a given nation. GBI is approximately 21 tons. A Minuteman I
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by chipsa 7y ago
You're getting downvoted because you don't explain enough in your one line post.
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by chipsa 7y ago
Destroying their ability or willingness to make war. Doesn't need to be occupation, but if they can still fight, you haven't won yet. And destroying cities usually doesn't do much for stopping them from fighting. It mostly ju
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by chipsa 7y ago
The problem is launching enough missiles. Interceptors are expensive to develop, but cheap to make more of, and have relatively low cost of command and control (it doesn't matter if one gets launched by accident, right now). ICBMs are
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by chipsa 7y ago
Quiet subs are essentially mobile minefields. If the battlegroup runs over it, yeah, it's going to have a bad day. But it's unlikely to do so unless you have some chokepoint to make the battlegroup run over it. And that's the
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by chipsa 7y ago
I have to click a button in the extension to get it to fill. Not quite Auto fill, but pretty close.
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by chipsa 7y ago
True horizon has nothing to do with angle of attack. Angle of attack is the direction the wind is coming from relative to the aircraft. It's possible to have a nose up attitude relative to the horizon, and have the actual aircraft moti
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by chipsa 7y ago
MCAS was not designed to make the 737 Max behave like the 737 NG or Classic. It was designed to make the 737 Max certifiable at all. The problem with the 737 Max is that the engine nacelles are further forward and larger than previously, so
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by chipsa 7y ago
Static webpages are served exactly the same to each user. As opposed to dynamically generated webpage. But that doesn't mean a static webpage doesn't use Javascript. It just means the actual content delivered is the same every tim
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by chipsa 7y ago
Where'd you get the idea that pilots can only hold one type rating at a time? One pilot managed to acquire 105 at one time (and is in the Guiness Book of World Records for that). Also, MCAS wasn't put in place to allow the MAX to
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by chipsa 7y ago
If it's getting file change notifications, it can look at which blocks had changes written, and only do those. This doesn't help if every block has changes, but most programs that work on big files will have ways to minimize the n
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by chipsa 7y ago
MCAS is required for the 737 Max to be certified at all. To remove the requirement for MCAS would require enough changes to the aircraft to make it not a 737.
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by chipsa 7y ago
You also have to factor in the capacity factor. Sun isn't shining steadily all the time. You have night-time, notably, but also clouds and fog and smog. Capacity factor is very much location dependant, but all the places with good capa
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by chipsa 7y ago
I think part of the reason why crasher stages aren't in any program of record is that you have to consider abort scenarios where the staging fails.
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by chipsa 8y ago
And magic did stop Hector from leaving. He couldn't actually step on the flower petal bridge. So what was the point of the checkpoint?
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by chipsa 8y ago
It's not that the MCAS software would switch. It's that the sensors feed into two different flight control computers (Captain and F/O). And which FCC is primary would switch after each flight. Both FCCs run the same software,
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by chipsa 8y ago
It's not that the force must be positive. It's the the force must be consistantly increasing up to the stall as well. Without MCAS, the problem is that the force does not continue to increase to the stall point. It does stay posit
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by chipsa 8y ago
How about the name: Manuevering Characteristics Augmentation System. There's nothing about stall. There's nothing about alpha protection.
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by chipsa 8y ago
Alpha protection isn't an autopilot. It's part of the flight control laws. It's the intermediary between the pilot's inputs and the control surfaces.

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