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931.
by db48x 2y ago
The actual flight systems were still working perfectly. All the stuff that failed are unrelated to flying the airplane. The ILS is necessary to land in bad weather, so if it fails you’re supposed to abort the landing and go to your alternat
932.
by db48x 2y ago
Freedom has more to do with allowing people to cross the road, and not so much with where they are allowed to cross.
933.
by db48x 2y ago
Most people do install Nvidia’s out‐of‐tree graphics driver. It is definitely a risk.
934.
by db48x 2y ago
The equivalence principle only applies to uniform fields and uniform motion. A charged particle in orbit is not in a uniform field and is not experiencing uniform motion.
935.
by db48x 2y ago
That’s beyond my level of expertise, but yes. Quoting from the abstract of The Motion of Point Particles in Curved Spacetime < https://web.archive.org/web/20151203142700/http://relativity... > > T
936.
by db48x 2y ago
Particles in orbit do accelerate. They accelerate continuously, from our perspective, as they go around the orbit. But seen from the perspective of GR, that orbit is really just a straight line through a curved spacetime. It might be easier
937.
by db48x 2y ago
> Really? Why exactly will they free fall? Why can't they just stay exactly where they are? Absent any forces, they can only stay on a geodesic. It’s like the arrow that springs from the bow. No hesitation, no doubts. The path is cl
938.
by db48x 2y ago
It really is a nice way to travel. I did SF → Orlando and back a handful of times.
939.
by db48x 2y ago
> In 1992, there was a proposal to fully integrate the AME school with the ACT Government school system. However the idea floundered after the ACT Teachers Union amongst other things, knocked the idea on the head, due to compatibility is
940.
by db48x 2y ago
That’s entirely plausible, and it was my guess too.
941.
by db48x 2y ago
Except that you might be missing the key fact: the letter is just a letter. It’s not a form that requests information from the recipient, and the recipient is not instructed to return it. Scanning it would be pointless, because all of the i
942.
by db48x 2y ago
Apparently it’s the same way if you work for the military. The movers show up, pack _everything_ into the truck, and it ends up at your new home a week or two later. You might not want that sandwich meat or ice cream any more, but it’ll arr
943.
by db48x 2y ago
Specialization does begin earlier than that. Most high schools in the US have advanced classes that students can opt in to, and there is the AP program. Personally I think that we could do better by tailoring every student’s education to th
944.
by db48x 2y ago
Hmm. I’ll have to try to remember that :)
945.
by db48x 2y ago
Such is the indiscriminate nature of mad gods.
946.
by db48x 2y ago
Yea, it’s pretty weird. There’s no technical reason for it, merely a legal one.
947.
by db48x 2y ago
Ahem. We are discussing items which have been hidden. A hidden item which users of the archive cannot access is not being copied. It’s just sitting there on a drive. Occasionally an automated process comes along and computes its hash to mak
948.
by db48x 2y ago
You’re welcome.
949.
by db48x 2y ago
Dramatic reenactment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljmifo4Klss (smallpox instead of malaria; close enough)
950.
by db48x 2y ago
They’re not making copies either.
951.
by db48x 2y ago
I would be better to quote the actual text of the law than to make up a silly hypothetical on the spot, but that would be more work. Even better would be to quote from some case where a judge has applied the law to actual events.
952.
by db48x 2y ago
Copyright only regulates the distribution of copies of copyrighted works. Possessing copies and distributing copies to other people are two different things. If you were photocopying a textbook and giving it to your classmates, the publishe
953.
by db48x 2y ago
It’s all about copyright. Copyright law in the US gives a monopoly on distribution of copies of things (hand‐waving because the definitions are hard, basically artistic works) to their author. Of course authors usually delegate that right t
954.
by db48x 2y ago
Don't be asinine; of course there are exceptions. But the general rule is that nothing is deleted. Even if you have a fancy expensive lawyer send them a C&D letter asking them to delete something or else, they’ll just hide it. You
955.
by db48x 2y ago
I worked there for a short while.
956.
by db48x 2y ago
Again, no they don’t. They just hide them.
957.
by db48x 2y ago
Nope. Nothing is deleted, just hidden.
958.
by db48x 2y ago
Yep. And worse, now matter how much you pay for security it is still possible for someone to make a mistake and publish a credential somewhere public.
959.
by db48x 2y ago
The attempts have actually been focused on specific types of content, such as historical videos.
960.
by db48x 2y ago
No, they don’t delete the archived content. When the domain’s robots.txt file bans spidering, then the Wayback Machine _hides_ the content archived at that domain. It is still stored and maintained, but it isn’t distributed via the website.

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