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by cpgxiii 1y ago
They are now , just as MCAS behavior is well-defined and covered in conversion training now . They were not covered as well prior to AF447.
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by cpgxiii 1y ago
One could say that "the point" of MCAS was to be an implementation detail, something that you would often deliberately hide from software documentation so that users don't design around internal details. There's someth
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by cpgxiii 1y ago
> The developers will always be in a better position than end users to assess the long-term maintenance impact. At best developers may be in a better position to assess long-term consequences. The history of major software projects is
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by cpgxiii 1y ago
There's this bizarre alternative history around "cash for clunkers" where an incentive program has been rewritten as this great evil that forced older vehicles off the road. All participation was voluntary. While internet c
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by cpgxiii 1y ago
AMD officially supports precisely three Linux platforms for current ROCm: 1. Ubuntu 24.04.4 with kernel 6.11 2. Ubuntu 22.04.5 with kernel 6.8 3. RHEL 9.6 with kernel 5.14 Anything else, like your preferred rolling release distribution, is
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by cpgxiii 1y ago
Not everyone believes defense contracts are inherently unethical, or at least that they are any more unethical than all of the other consumers GenAI firms are already serving. Given that a (if not the) main business proposition for GenAI is
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by cpgxiii 1y ago
That is a somewhat complicated answer. The simplistic answer is that certification criteria require all turbine aircraft (turboprop or jet) to meet minimum climb performance following an engine failure at the worst part of takeoff. Multieng
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by cpgxiii 1y ago
The F-16 EPU is to keep the flight controls powered so the plane doesn't immediately become uncontrollable following engine failure. The EPU doesn't provide thrust of any kind. The 787 and nearly every other commercial aircraft wi
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by cpgxiii 1y ago
> It is partially self-inflicted. Fallout from nuclear incidents, particularly in the US (testing in Nevada) and northern Europe (Chernobyl), is still a measurable contributor to cancer rates. Other industrial/chemical exposures yes
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by cpgxiii 1y ago
Feet/ankles on humanoids are really hard mechanically. In many ways the kinematic requirements for the ankle are similar to a wrist, but while the wrist of a robot arm is the least-heavily-loaded, the ankle area can be the most heavily
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by cpgxiii 1y ago
This is basically the value proposition for game consoles, for both players and game developers. For the player, secure gaming-specialized device that they don't have to set up and manage in the way a general-purpose computer requires.
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by cpgxiii 1y ago
> For that same matter, maybe that's part of what went wrong with the aircraft manufacturing business in America. The market really should not have been allowed to consolidate that much ... Consolidation was an inevitable result of
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by cpgxiii 1y ago
> True, but FPGAs are suitable only for things that will not be produced in great numbers, because their cost and power consumption are many times higher than those of an ASIC. While common folk wisdom, this really isn't true. A sur
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by cpgxiii 1y ago
Sometimes, even if you know you're starting with somewhat suboptimal performance, the ability to use CPU code you've already written and tested on the GPU is very valuable. Many years ago (approx 2011-2012) my own introduction to
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by cpgxiii 1y ago
> the best solvers are just a large ensemble of heuristics for very specific sub-problems The big commercial solvers have the resources (and the clients interested in helping) to have invested a lot of time in tuning everything in their
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by cpgxiii 1y ago
If the current->torque behavior of motors with gearboxes could be generally well characterized, the entire distinct market sector of "cobots" would not exist because every industrial robotics vendor would have long had good tor
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by cpgxiii 1y ago
I wouldn't say excellent. Motor current->torque is well correlated for motors in isolation, or with very low gear ratio. Not so with higher gear ratios. Can the current value be used to make control decisions for the motor? Yes. Doe
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by cpgxiii 1y ago
Motor current is a workable, but generally unsatisfactory, proxy for torque when using heavily geared motors. Far better to measure output torque directly if you can, which is what's being done here using what is essentially a series e
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by cpgxiii 1y ago
> There's a reason we see so few [tricycles] on the roads, amidst an explosion of various human-powered modes of transport. Perhaps in the US and western Europe, but tricycle tuk-tuks and cycle rickshaws are extremely common in othe
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by cpgxiii 1y ago
> However I believe that all of them have been prompted by some violent, horrific conflict in the years immediately beforehand. And in the cases of most of the European signatories, either the blinding naivete that they would never need
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by cpgxiii 1y ago
The alternatives are hardly better. In addition to worse penetration performance, the tungsten alloy alternatives for APFSDS rounds are not good for the body either, particularly if being breathed in as fine dust. If you have kids playing o
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by cpgxiii 1y ago
It really depends what embedded system (and display) you have. Most "reputable" embedded system/board vendors in the x86 space are going to offer a firmware customization tool, with one of the primary uses being so that you c
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by cpgxiii 1y ago
f2c produces pretty sketchy C code. It's very easy for reasonable thread-safe Fortran code to go through f2c and end up as C code with globals and other thread-unsafe constructs. You have to be prepared to completely rewrite the genera
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
Lead is only in avgas used by piston engines. Approximately zero firefighting aircraft use piston engines at this point - turbine power and reliability are so good that most firefighting aircraft that started with piston engines have been r
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
It could have been Rifaximin (brand name Xifaxan), which is a somewhat standard "special" antibiotic for gut issues.
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
A number of machine vision camera vendors have higher-end variants that support active EF-mount lenses. They tend to be quite expensive models with larger sensor, since you tend to lose a lot adapting full-frame lenses to tiny C-mount senso
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
Unfortunately, while the Novec family had ideal properties for immersion cooling applications (and have been fairly widely used in these applications), they are also PFAS. Many of their "advantages" relative to mineral oil fluids
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
This seems to suffer a bit from the same problem that affects a lot of "new" robotics frameworks: the beginnings are simple, and it's easy at that stage to think that everything else is over-complicated. The comparison with R
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
More exactly, C code (hopefully MISRA C) generated from Simulink models runs much of the embedded systems in many cars. Although sometimes (cough, Toyota/Denso, cough) that generated C is then bodily assaulted by questionably competent
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by cpgxiii 2y ago
Mining is heavily mechanized and automated already, yet remains inescapably dangerous. Pragmatically speaking, when someone falls off a roof or a tree, it doesn't turn into a highly public, high-risk, government-responsibility rescue m

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