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by dingaling 3mo ago
The 'new stuff' is split into two categories: 1. Better, real-time atmospheric data that allows use of boom-refraction flight profiles to prevent the boom reaching the ground. This is a trick that Concorde sometimes used when con
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by dingaling 3mo ago
DVD perhaps yes, until the disc degrades. BluRay no, because your player's keys can be revoked when you pop in a new disc.
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by dingaling 3mo ago
> Meanwhile Airbus started with Concorde Oh gracious no, Airbus started with the utilitarian A300 widebody twin[1]. Concorde was Sud Aviation and BAC joint venture, nothing to do with Airbus which didn't even exist at that time. [1]
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by dingaling 3mo ago
> And Iran no longer has any significant naval force, it's all been wiped out. A naval force isn't required to control the Strait. Artillery, drones and missiles fired from inland can do that quite easily.
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by dingaling 3mo ago
In my experience DAB goes painfully 'squawky' and squeaky before finally cutting out, it's unbearable in headphones. This video gives a good example of the signal breaking down from 00:38 https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by dingaling 3mo ago
... on a patchwork off different frequencies across the UK due to the poor propagation of VHF
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by dingaling 4mo ago
Even if they did delete it, why not just make another one? Google Accounts aren't linked at birth, and many people don't even have one.
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by dingaling 4mo ago
The idea of overthrowing a vicious dictator can't really be wrong in any moral sense. In terms of realpolitik or execution it can be.
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by dingaling 4mo ago
There's no reason Section 75 protections couldn't be extended to debit cards, except that in the mid-1970s banks were lobbying very hard for credit cards to become more legitimised and S75 was the successful result. The banks took
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by dingaling 4mo ago
> A lot of human writing was always trash. Yes, several history authors come to mind who over several decades never broke out of the style of "this happened, then they moved to here, then this happened.". Their entire book cou
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by dingaling 4mo ago
You omitted to mention that the Irish state broadcaster, RTE, actually implemented voice restrictions before the UK did: https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0119/1217560-section-31-b...
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by dingaling 4mo ago
Israel has a very productive and and capable arms industry that could probably survive a US embargo,and its own self-contained intelligence gathering network, so beyond cutting FMS funding the US has very few levers to pull
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by dingaling 4mo ago
Do you apply this rule in reverse? If you need to speak to someone who isn't wearing earphones, do you wave at them first or do you just start talking to them? I suspect the latter.
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by dingaling 4mo ago
> I wish Firefox would just give a mild warning for a recently expired certificate Nope, if the SSL industry continues to insist on increasingly short cert lifetimes then I want Firefox to give no quarter when a cert expires. Play by the
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by dingaling 4mo ago
> A pyramid scheme can run out of people to keep it going And then you describe how the secondary stock market requires 'fresh blood' to whom to sell stock to cash-out. It's precisely a legalised pyramid scheme that always
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by dingaling 4mo ago
> The logic is that the markets will almost certainly go up The markets go up because people buy expecting that the markets will go up, which causes sellers to increase their price because they expect people will pay more because of FOMO
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by dingaling 4mo ago
I suppose it's the juxtaposition of saying "I think open source is important" and then building your business criticality on the least open software systems on Earth. In most organisations which are building on open source th
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by dingaling 4mo ago
Even that's revisionist. Originally a zero-day exploit was one that was found by crackers on the first day of release of a software product. Like finding a licence crack for a new Microsoft program on the day it went on sale. There us
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by dingaling 4mo ago
I have no sympathy, and even less respect, for people who choose to fly with Ryanair and then complain about these patterns. After 32 years of Ryanair in its current incarnation nobody can claim naivety. Dance with the devil and he pipes t
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by dingaling 4mo ago
> Except that there were no global standards at the time England had a patent system from the mid 15th Century which emigrants to the New World brazenly ignored in order to set up their own industry. Of course, they then pulled the ladde
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by dingaling 4mo ago
Pi hasn't been a hobbyist computer since they were prioritised for large-volume business purchasers during COVID. As for the education market, that's a long forgotten pipedream.
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by dingaling 4mo ago
> companies are supposed to be profitable! No, companies are meant to be successful. "Profit" is surplus money that could have been invested earlier in R&D, product development, employee benefits or customer service. Instea
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by dingaling 4mo ago
> The value of the stock is your share in the underlying business. Which for most investors with Class C/D shares is... the square root of zero. They assert no control over the business, the only way to benefit from the stock is to
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by dingaling 4mo ago
The novel aspect is that it is being conducted by a satellite, rather than a ground station. Which is an escalation in sophistication which makes counter-jamming much more difficult and also gives global reach to the jammer.
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by dingaling 4mo ago
> As long as they provide their own power How is running local gas turbines more efficient than relying on centralised power generation? Even the transport costs of getting kerosene to them is considerable.
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by dingaling 4mo ago
> Rather, if you list a price for various packages, people get scared off Yet somehow other businesses manage to convey tiered pricing without scaring customers. Imagine trying to book a hotel room but were told to contact them because t
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by dingaling 4mo ago
Not 'entirely', the 6500's wings are made in Japan, the rear fuselage and tail in Northern Ireland and the engines in England.
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by dingaling 4mo ago
"Gell-Man" is an unfounded toy theory invented by an author without any research, using a colleague's name without permission to make it sound more authorative. It's hokum.
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by dingaling 5mo ago
> "less space than a Nomad" I actually thought that was a valid comment, more so than the Dropbox one. The contemporaneous iPod _was_ technically and acoustically inferior to the Nomad. The iPod "won" on account of fa
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by dingaling 5mo ago
The non-programmer decomposition of that joke was painful to read. Particularly from those outside the domain who criticised it as a 'not a very good joke' because they didn't understand it, which I think summarises the entit

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