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by codeduck 7y ago
I find that asking "What is the worst bug you've ever encountered" is a great sounding board.
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by codeduck 7y ago
> A minute of arc on the planet Earth is 1 nautical mile. Only if that minute of arc lies on a great circle route. As an interesting addendum, when measuring distance made good on a nautical chart, you will use a divider to measure the s
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by codeduck 7y ago
1. There were two explosions - the second of which destroyed the reactor core and distributed parts of the reactor structure (including fuel) over the area. 2. That speck of spent fuel is still radioactive enough after 30 years to push most
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by codeduck 7y ago
It's also the name of a hilariously bad courier in the UK - so bad in fact that most people call it Herpes instead.
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by codeduck 7y ago
also on a 5x which I love, but which is showing its age. Likely to also upgrade to a 3a
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by codeduck 8y ago
Not smarter, just an aviation layman geek :)
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by codeduck 8y ago
A spirit level does not work in an accelerating frame of reference. From the point of view of a spirit level, there is no difference between straight and level flight (1g due to earth's gravity) or a spiral dive (>1g due to a spira
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by codeduck 8y ago
NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID
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by codeduck 8y ago
Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
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by codeduck 8y ago
The ironic thing is that US Radar stations picked up the incoming Japanese aircraft while they were still miles offshore - but believed they were a flight of B-17's that were arriving from the mainland.
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by codeduck 8y ago
And when LaTeX is fronted by Lyx, it really is as easy as a dream. I use Lyx for all my documentation or writing for which Markdown is insufficiently rich.
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by codeduck 8y ago
Most of which are geographically distant enough to not be affected by localised jamming. Never mind that Aircraft will be under ATC in UK airspace, and ATC uses Radar + transponder to localise aircraft. GPS is a navigational aid, not the pr
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by codeduck 8y ago
I wonder how long it will be before airports need to run point-defence lasers to interdict things like this.
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by codeduck 8y ago
For now.
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by codeduck 8y ago
AWS in general feels like an undead survivor of 90's enterprise java websites.
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by codeduck 8y ago
Horrendous way to go - in control of an aircraft that is not responding as your instincts and training are saying it should.
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by codeduck 8y ago
Title should read "At least" A planet as massive as Jupiter will have captured lots(1) of objects. 1. Terry Pratchett Troll counting system.
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by codeduck 8y ago
VW and AUDI do make good cars.
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by codeduck 9y ago
It's hard to tell whether some of the comments are serious, trolling, or the product of deranged Markov Chains.
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by codeduck 9y ago
> This airport means that a good share of the east londonders have to live their lives under noise so the 1% can get to their meeting a little bit more easily. Try living under the Heathrow flightpath before you complain about City airpo
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by codeduck 9y ago
I can't think of any benefits of this layout other than reducing the size of the landing field you'll need. And I guess less complexity on the part of the rotors, no tail rotor with associated dangers etc. I can think of some sig
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by codeduck 9y ago
AWS do the same: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/x1/ Interestingly, AWS have X1 and X1E-class EC2 offerings, two of which are significantly larger than this new Google offering.
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by codeduck 10y ago
Ugly, fat and tacky. I can't imagine dropping £10 k on this, let alone the £30k or more it would cost if it made it to the UK. Model X to go, please.
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by codeduck 10y ago
including moderation.
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by codeduck 10y ago
Bravo.
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by codeduck 10y ago
You would be wrong.
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by codeduck 10y ago
No, I know what it looks like. A hyena will hop up onto the bonnet of that landrover and sniff / gnaw at the canvas up front, and if there's something inside it wants good luck.
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by codeduck 10y ago
Camping in Africa sounds amazing, right up until there's a hyena sniffing around the other side of the tent canvas. Then it's not so much fun any more.
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by codeduck 10y ago
There isn't much direct evidence, no. Publications like https://www.rgs.org/NR/rdonlyres/7A814B01-5B83-4C27-A1F9-8B0... stress types of vehicle which are recommended / not recommended. The reason I made
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by codeduck 10y ago
I'm willing to bet that those shows have logistics teams, tooling and engineers on site.

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