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by cjbprime 7y ago
Thanks. It still seems very surprising to me, but I agree it's plausible. I suppose someone with full access to data from e.g. FlightAware could try to see how many total logged flights there were.
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by cjbprime 7y ago
A possible ameliorating factor: they had an IAS Disagree warning (unreliable airspeed) since takeoff, and it may be policy to keep airspeed up in that case -- not knowing your airspeed means that reducing it may cause a stall. (Still, they
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by cjbprime 7y ago
Yeah, and I think MCAS ended up fully deflecting the stabilizer on Ethiopian. Even with a somewhat more reasonable altitude, I wonder how long it takes to physically manually retrim from one end of the jackscrew to level flight. I think e
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by cjbprime 7y ago
I'm still not sure I follow. How many flights do you think the MAX has now? I'd guess around 100k but the wiki says around 600k and the difference seems important.
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by cjbprime 7y ago
This is odd: that table suggests the MAX has flown 600k flights, but https://randy.newairplane.com/2018/05/22/737-max-a-year-of-s... suggests the MAX had only flown 41k total flights six months before the fir
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by cjbprime 7y ago
That sounds very wrong. According to https://randy.newairplane.com/2018/05/22/737-max-a-year-of-s... the Max had only made 41k flights total in May 2018, six months before the first crash.
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by cjbprime 7y ago
> One pilot has to move all focus to it, without touching the other controls. And even that may not be enough. It's quite plausibly physically impossible if the pilot happens to be less strong than this one, or if the aircraft'
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by cjbprime 7y ago
There are plenty of YouTube videos of people solving Code Jam problems while talking about what they're doing -- I'd probably start with those.
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by cjbprime 7y ago
The fact that complying with a regulation will involve spending money does not imply that a purpose of the regulation is to extract money. It costs money to make buildings fire-safe, too.
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by cjbprime 7y ago
Am curious how this would have worked -- sport pilots are restricted to flying Light Sport Aircraft, which seem to be very uncommon. Was your grandpa's plane one?
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by cjbprime 7y ago
Extremely here for this answer.
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by cjbprime 7y ago
Yeah: permissionless, p2p, mining.
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by cjbprime 7y ago
They're actually identical, data-structure-wise. If you add monetization to your VCS you could defensibly call the result a blockchain. Blockchains don't really have monetization built in, though. Only specific cryptocurrencies
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by cjbprime 7y ago
I remember reading and being impressed by some of the previous blog posts; commiserations, I'm sorry it didn't work out. Archive link to the post, is down at the moment: http://web.archive.org/web/201912231801
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by cjbprime 7y ago
Thanks for the answer.
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by cjbprime 7y ago
Back around 2000, I'd say that most open source programmers did know about Freenode. It was pretty cool: you'd sometimes have the experience of being frustrated with a software project, guessing their IRC channel name on Freenode,
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by cjbprime 7y ago
Looks neat, I wonder if you could get it down small enough to run on something wearable like a watch-style device.
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by cjbprime 7y ago
Use a measurement device and show it in the video. Like the 1000fps camera used in https://danluu.com/input-lag/
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by cjbprime 7y ago
My Android phone recently got a Recorder app update that appears to do successful instant speech to text transcription -- I imagine it's already better than the median stenographer.
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by cjbprime 7y ago
I'm one of the 130-150WPM qwerty burst programmer typists, but a quick round of Typeracer at work showed that none of my programmer coworkers at the time were near to hitting 100WPM, so I expect you're overestimating the average s
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by cjbprime 7y ago
Impressively meta.
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by cjbprime 7y ago
Jeez, I guess so. We're pretty far off track: when I wrote that "[app stores] don't make it possible to target users with malicious updates" up there, what I was talking about was that the app stores aren't giving
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by cjbprime 7y ago
I mean, we're talking about engineers from two different companies at this point, right? Presumably the Foo App engineers have to prepare and sign a malware version of Foo and then you have to go coerce a bunch of Apple engineers to s
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by cjbprime 7y ago
Do you have an example of how?
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by cjbprime 7y ago
I said "paragraphs-at-a-time", not "paragraph-at-a-time". You can't type paragraphs at a time on IRC because a single message can't contain newlines. But even then, paragraph-at-a-time is hard on IRC because t
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by cjbprime 7y ago
This is a super interesting problem! It applies to basically all desktop autoupdaters. Note that App Stores are in a better place -- as far as I know they don't make it possible to target users with malicious updates, you'd have
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by cjbprime 7y ago
I wouldn't describe Zulip as coming from the IRC tradition -- it was built by MIT students as an improvement on MIT's Zephyr. There's a split between line-at-a-time messaging like IRC or Slack, and paragraphs-at-a-time messa
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by cjbprime 7y ago
I wanna know more about these super fast library computers. The public library I worked in in 1999 used computer terminals that were just doing full-screen telnet sessions to a remote Internet host. It was like connecting to a BBS from my
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by cjbprime 7y ago
> Okay, so how are you irrefutably proving a server is clean without physical monitoring? I imagine the idea is to have something like Intel SGX's enclave attest a hash of the filesystem image that was booted, then publish that file
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by cjbprime 7y ago
A headline sorely in need of "In Worms" on the end.

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