damiankennedy

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by damiankennedy 2y ago
How much can the US federal government fine a company like Boeing? 30 trillion would be nice. Or perhaps a federal level registration fee that covers safety/quality checks and costs 50 million per plane?
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by damiankennedy 2y ago
Some phones had a slot where you could insert made to fit cards with common numbers.
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by damiankennedy 2y ago
How long do US people typically fix their mortgage? Are there many people that will refinance their home and have to pay a higher rate or does this just happen if you move house? Can refinancing be avoided if you just move house and transfe
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by damiankennedy 2y ago
Do you think it will get as high as %50 per month or something like %25 a year and would this inflation have any effect on future US Federal liabilities?
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by damiankennedy 2y ago
They're not using an automated ad service of any kind they have manually put these ads in the source code of their web page. We all see the same ads. I prefer it, these ads mean something to the people that run the site, they put some
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by damiankennedy 2y ago
This ignores Planck's energy-frequency relation. Things like photons are affected by gravity as well.
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by damiankennedy 2y ago
What about when an apple falls to the ground, is the apple magnetic?
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by damiankennedy 2y ago
As a New Zealander born in the 70s I very much remember Greenpeace protesting against the testing of the nuclear weapons, the snap election in 1984, the 1985 bombing of the Rainbow Warrior and then becoming nuclear free in 1987. Nuclear pow
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by damiankennedy 2y ago
The reply link is now available again? Everything is red now. Nearly lunch time in New Zealand.
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by damiankennedy 2y ago
The reply link is now available? Update - Issues is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. Aug 14, 2024 - 23:19 UTC Update - Git Operations is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investiga
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by damiankennedy 2y ago
Update - We are investigating reports of issues with GitHub.com and GitHub API. We will continue to keep users updated on progress towards mitigation. Aug 14, 2024 - 23:16 UTC EDIT: The reply link is no longer available. Update - Packages i
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by damiankennedy 2y ago
Update - Copilot is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. Aug 14, 2024 - 23:13 UTC
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by damiankennedy 2y ago
Update - Pages is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. Aug 14, 2024 - 23:12 UTC
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by damiankennedy 2y ago
Investigating - We are investigating reports of degraded availability for Actions, Pages and Pull Requests Aug 14, 2024 - 23:11 UTC
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by damiankennedy 2y ago
How much power would such a device need to be detected above background radiation? Would a power source for it last long enough to improve the odds significantly?
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by damiankennedy 2y ago
I grew up with a 6128 keyboard (the keyboard was ackshually the computer) which had separate Enter and Return keys. It also had a "Copy" key. The keyboard I use today has a key to change the colour of the LEDs. If I press it accid
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by damiankennedy 2y ago
Only if it can send back pictures of itself.
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by damiankennedy 2y ago
Another article here with video: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techandscience/nasa-cancels-4... "First and most important, this is in no way a reflection on the quality of the work from the mission team
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by damiankennedy 2y ago
When a plane reaches V1 (which depends on the model, weight, runway length, temperature etc) the pilot has 2 seconds to abort takeoff or they are too fast to stop before the end of the runway. At V1 a multi-engine plane will take-off even w
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by damiankennedy 2y ago
Hi zdw, do you know why the url was changed?
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by damiankennedy 2y ago
I love the irony of proposing someone program like this without spelling mistakes immediately after a paragraph containing a spelling mistake.
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by damiankennedy 3y ago
I use mine to get banned from reddit.
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by damiankennedy 3y ago
Why should software be any different from aircraft?
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by damiankennedy 3y ago
Meanwhile, United orders more from Airbus.
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by damiankennedy 3y ago
Yes, it was CC-BGG that had the incident and landed in Auckland, then the flight to Santiago was cancelled.
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by damiankennedy 3y ago
The first thing you need to go with a series like this is prove that it converges. Then you can take a series that is already known to converge to pi. The choice of series will mean the difference between the proof being very hard and pract
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by damiankennedy 3y ago
Ahh yeah, that makes sense. Cheers for doing that. I enjoyed unwinding it and playing with it.
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by damiankennedy 3y ago
You can replace the two " with ` so that the code in setInterval is still treated as a string. Also, see the section: q?'♥':Y=1 The code is minimized by setting Y back to 1 instead of providing a character to display but this
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by damiankennedy 3y ago
For extra fun, remove the "uncompressed" onkeydown added at the end, then you can hold down the spacebar to do big jumps.
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by damiankennedy 3y ago
Same with the </canvas> tag. Are these closing tags needed for some "reason"? I suspect the second (and third) line is included by mistake. Also, if we are counting bytes, the closing pre tag is required and should be c

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