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by danaliv 6y ago
Analytics revealed to me that a product I'd built (well, a free side project, but that's beside the point) was succeeding in the exact opposite of the market I'd built it for. I used to run an online Japanese-English dictiona
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by danaliv 6y ago
I've had an idea rolling around for years to build some kind of classifier that sits in front of your Twitter timeline. I follow lots of accounts that tweet about one thing I'm interested in, and one thing I absolutely do not and
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by danaliv 6y ago
Yes, exactly. I love binary protocols/formats. Plain text formats are wasteful, and difficult (or at least annoying) to implement with any consistency. But you really do need a translation layer to make binary formats reasonable to wor
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by danaliv 6y ago
I love that about camping. Really pares life down to the essentials, and sometimes you find the essentials aren't what you thought they were. As for weather, turns out it changes a lot! That's sort of the nature of weather. :) Unl
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by danaliv 6y ago
> ATC didn’t call it so presumably they didn’t see it on radar. Not a reasonable presumption. VFR aircraft are lowest priority, and traffic calls for VFRs are very much not guaranteed. If a controller has too much to do, you won’t get
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by danaliv 6y ago
I don't know if ultralight gyrocopters are even a thing. I just figured if he's designing trash-can helicopters, he might be into an ultralight gyrocopter kit, if such a thing even exists. :) (I also wasn't even sure about ul
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by danaliv 6y ago
You should read the articles. You'll find that a lot of the "repudiations" are less convincing, or at least less interesting. (I didn't read this article.)
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by danaliv 6y ago
tl;dr it says “dare mighty things” and has JPL’s coordinates on Earth. It’s sort of a tradition. Curiosity has Morse code on its wheels. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/rover-leaves-tracks-in-morse-c...
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by danaliv 6y ago
It might be an ultralight. Don’t even need a pilot certificate, let alone a medical.
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by danaliv 6y ago
Seriously, the hostility toward this article is unnerving.
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by danaliv 6y ago
> There is nothing without goals. What a dreadful way to live.
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by danaliv 6y ago
This isn't an appeal to authority though. That would be saying, "I'm right because I'm the expert." This is saying, "I don't trust you because you're not an expert." That's not a logical fal
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by danaliv 6y ago
So the headline (and the article itself) buries the lede a little bit. "The model revealed that when the size of the solar farm reaches 20% of the total area of the Sahara, it triggers a feedback loop." Twenty percent. Not "c
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by danaliv 6y ago
Come on. Evaluating the merit of a source is critical thinking 101.
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by danaliv 6y ago
...is that something we were seriously considering?
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by danaliv 6y ago
This is great, and timely for me. I've got some horrifying rats-nest prototypes in the field that I've been really wanting to replace with PCBs. I'm looking forward to part two about doing the layout. That's the part whe
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by danaliv 6y ago
Happy to see a controller here. Thanks for all the clearances. :)
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by danaliv 6y ago
Until the NTSB investigates, there's no way to know whether age has anything to do with it. It might. It might not. There could be a common cause, or there isn't. We don't know yet.
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by danaliv 6y ago
You’ll find that there’s a gap between what the books say about ATC comms and how things are actually done. No one is being pedantic in an emergency.
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by danaliv 6y ago
Turning into the live engine is more controllable. When you turn toward the dead engine, the tendency is to turn more . You can do it, but it’s not as stable.
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by danaliv 6y ago
To a first approximation, if it takes X thrust to stay aloft, the engines produce a combined total of more than 2X, and there is a speed above which the rudder produces enough aerodynamic force to maintain directional control. If you want t
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by danaliv 6y ago
The loss of control in that accident was caused by slat asymmetry. Removing an engine, by itself, wouldn’t be enough to induce loss of control.
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by danaliv 6y ago
I’m trying to imagine a scenario where that would be beneficial. Maybe uncommanded thrust reverser deployment. Although I think in that case it’s likely to “self-jettison” anyway!
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by danaliv 6y ago
Found another p-zombie.
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by danaliv 6y ago
Also the average of one minute of arc on a great circle route, which was the real handy thing about it at sea.
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by danaliv 6y ago
> our line engineers were almost always busy I should hope so, otherwise you've hired too many line engineers. :) I think an interesting metric would be how many line engineers you had, and how much they cost.
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by danaliv 6y ago
This industry is chock full of dryly technical jargon for describing absolute horrors. My go-to is CFIT, or “controlled flight into terrain.” Yikes.
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by danaliv 6y ago
That’s true of most airplanes’ doors for humans, but the cargo door on a 75 opens outward. It’s too big to be a plug. https://kawakaviation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Kawak-A...
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by danaliv 6y ago
Is anyone else picturing Jack Black in a record store right now?
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by danaliv 6y ago
Indeed—the archaeologic principle! :)

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