darkpuma

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by darkpuma 7y ago
It's nice and all that the military has such cool radars, but how much do those systems cost? How large are they? What sort of power requirements do they have? What sort of duty cycles do they have? And can they legally be exporte
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by darkpuma 7y ago
You're right, it's not for people like him. It's not for people that have been around the block and have learned a thing or two. They're hoping to take advantage of the young and naive.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
If the radar cannot distinguish between a bridge with five meters of clearance and a "bridge"(trailer) with a single meter of clearance, then the radar simply lacks the angular resolution to be effective. It's the same exac
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Radar is limited, as long as trailers in the US are allowed to have such high gaps to the ground." One of these crashes involved a firetruck, which unlike a semi-trailer, does not have a large gap underneath it. Radars are
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Random people forgiving or not forgiving Boeing isn't going to change much. Hopefully, other nations' air regulators will refuse to certify the 737MAX," Public perception will play a big role in that. If the ge
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> Sure, but that's all make-believe Not from the perspective of many (but not all) monks. I think you're having a theory of mind failure here.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Maybe that is a legitimate concern for flight attendants, but I totally reject there being any measurable impact on my hearing from riding in a 737 a few times a year. Particularly when I also do other activities like walking down sidew
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by darkpuma 7y ago
He was eventually caught after he coerced the NYTs into publishing his manifesto and his brother recognized the arguments contained within it. Not quite stylometric analysis, but I think that's an interesting angle of the story.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Try out this guide perhaps: http://www.greghendershott.com/fear-of-macros/
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Huh? The US has been very aggressive about shutting down websites that spread Al-Qaeda and ISIS propaganda on most websites" You mean like archive.org? That's the website I've seen hosting all the ISIS shit.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Do you really think that having Duterte kill these people is an appropriate response to robocalls?" Pretty sure he'd need only threaten the Philippine telecom executives with death, but if he wants to carry through wi
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Duterte pretends to be a hardass, right? Tell him to deal with it by any means necessary or else the USS Jimmy Carter starts to sever their submarine cables one by one until the problem is resolved that way. If anybody thinks that's
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Some might consider that a feature.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Another channel worth checking out is C&Rsenal, which does longer form videos with very in-depth research and shooting. Right now they're trying to cover every gun issued during WWI, though I think they're close to complet
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Personally I prefer a noisy plane to a quiet plane. With a noisy plane you basically have white noise washing out the sound of all the other passengers having conversations, sniffling, snoring, crying, etc. I'd rather listen to the
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I don't think people are forgetting that. I think people just don't find that excuse/justification to be sufficient for forgiveness. Of course Boeing did it for the money. How often is a corporation not motivated by gr
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Maybe Ethiopia can trick a Boeing executive into visiting for vacation.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
No, I strongly disagree. Exposing the datamodel can be part of an excellent user experience if your target audience are programmers, as is the case with git. Where git goes wrong is numerous commands that do numerous very different thin
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by darkpuma 7y ago
My personal preference is for Honda as well, but when you sit down in the drivers seat and survey what is in front of you in a Honda or a Toyota, you'll find they have more or less the same things. Perhaps Hondas being set up to be mo
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The distinction is between aerospace grade and industrial grade. Aerospace grade is definitely not "below industrial grade". Aerospace grade parts will be subjected to far more rigorous testing. The problem SpaceX had was usin
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "You can export data from Github or Gitlab." And then do what with it, import it into your own bugzilla instance? Have you ever tried that? It's a nightmare.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "I can lose something for you in 2 seconds _in_ git." You just demonstrated losing something that was not in git... All you've demonstrated is that neglecting to put something into git is a good way of losing it.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> If Fossil can’t be compared on the same level, maybe that’s a sign it solves fundamentally different problems. Or Fossil provides a superset of the others. Like comparing a corkscrew, which only opens bottles of wine, to a swiss arm
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I know of teenagers who happily use git because nobody ever told them they were supposed to consider it hard.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Hg and git have near feature parity, so I don't really lament Hg's loss so much. Sure Hg's CLI is a little bit better, but beyond that it never really offered any really compelling features over git. Mercurial and git is l
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It's common for people teaching others how to use git to start off the lesson with some sort of disclaimer about git being really hard. I think this is a huge mistake. I suppose it's meant to prevent the student from feeling di
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by darkpuma 7y ago
As evidenced by that explosion, yes.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Those TI calculators are real cool, I cut my teeth as a programmer on a TI-83+ learning z80 assembly, but the truth is they're considered by many to be devices for teenagers. HP calculators seem far more popular in industry.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It's my impression that common implementations of BLAS have fortran at the core because fortran (moreso than C) lends itself to automatic vectorization.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I mean, gore-tex (ePTFE) has been used for medical implants for decades.

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