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by dpe82 5y ago
What does that have to do with vaccine studies?
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by dpe82 5y ago
You do not find it obvious that a human being would not become a GPL'd work?
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by dpe82 5y ago
Or if you simply read GPL code and learn something from it - or bits of the code are retained verbatim in your memory, are you (as a person) now GPL'd? Obviously not.
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by dpe82 5y ago
So like the great Beanie Baby ponzi scheme of the mid-90s, then? Or baseball cards? Or art investment?
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by dpe82 5y ago
That would probably fall under "testing [new/other] systems to see if they also result in known good values."
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by dpe82 5y ago
If there's a ton of dedicated circuits highly optimized for each specific task, then I don't know why there'd be 10+ of them per task as OP claims. :)
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by dpe82 5y ago
Most of those chips would be standard commodity silicon components (think op-amps and such) as opposed to purpose-built automotive micro controllers.
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by dpe82 6y ago
Netscape produced a browser that could be crashed by a malformed page.
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by dpe82 6y ago
Where I grew up in rural Wisconsin I could see it at night laying out on our front lawn. Not super bright, but you could definitely tell it was there.
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by dpe82 6y ago
I worked for a tiny tiny unit of Sony USA that was itself once a startup that Sony had acquired. We were 25 or so engineers with our own little profitable(ish) product in our own office in Madison, WI. I once went to HQ in San Diego and cou
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by dpe82 6y ago
Large companies can hide inefficiencies and incompetence of staggering proportion. Often there's little incentive to really improve things, but tons of bureaucracy that helps maintain the status quo or let it slide ever worse. People c
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by dpe82 6y ago
Evangelical, perhaps, but I was raised Lutheran. My particular synod didn't spend a whole lot of time with the Book of Revelation.
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by dpe82 6y ago
I suspect he's referring to this: https://estesrockets.com/product/001650-f15-0-engines-29-mm/
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by dpe82 6y ago
I was raised as a pretty conservative American protestant and went to religious school where a lot of our study covered history (as recorded in the Bible) of Israel and surrounding areas. As a result I felt some connection to it; I suspect
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by dpe82 6y ago
Ah yes you're correct. I use 1 minute as my personal limit so I don't grow accustomed to running it too hard for too long, but the operator's manual indeed states 5 minutes above 5500. I have a fixed pitch prop, which means I
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by dpe82 6y ago
Depends on the aircraft and engine. Some (like my little Rotax 912ULS) has a peak power at which I can only operate at for 1 minute during takeoff. I typically cruise around 70% peak. I believe in Helicopters you're often running at 90
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by dpe82 6y ago
A lot of fighters have "emergency power" controls that will push the engine past its normally rated power band for a short time at the cost of drastically shortening the life of the engine. I would guess that's what this is a
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by dpe82 6y ago
So much of what governs the success of large engineering projects is the processes that govern decision making: from the actual design of the thing you're trying to build, to staffing and resource allocation, norms and processes that g
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by dpe82 6y ago
One step at a time. Right, that paper doesn't introduce life-shattering innovation but rather just fixes a long-standing issue with UDP performance in the Linux kernel. That ain't nothing. A large motivator to develop and deploy Q
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by dpe82 6y ago
At least for TX it's much easier to get that performance today due to relatively recent kernel changes. Unsure about RX though. A few years ago I worked on the upload service within the YouTube Android app. Shortly after YouTube star
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by dpe82 6y ago
A lot of folks don't know that ffmpeg isn't just a command line utility (which is pretty powerful in its own right) but also a set of super powerful and reasonably well designed media libraries that can be used to do all kinds o
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by dpe82 6y ago
On the other hand, the amount of leaded fuel burned is tiny compared to automotive fuel. Roughly 0.1% of all fuel sold in the United States. Yes it's bad. Yes we need to get away from it. Yes it's being worked on and will happen
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by dpe82 6y ago
We also know that 100LL is shelf-stable for years and is compatible and safe (from the perspective of those riding in the plane) to use with just about every piston aircraft engine in existence. We don't yet have enough data to know
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by dpe82 6y ago
Most piston engine aircraft in the country require, by regulation, 100LL. Oil companies and the FAA have been working for years to develop a replacement and came very close a couple years ago, but since the FAA strongly favors safety and
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by dpe82 6y ago
In most planes, pilots are already able to chose their propeller RPM somewhat independently of torque by varying the pitch of the propeller. However, pilots typically optimize for rate of climb and not noise in order to get out of the low a
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by dpe82 7y ago
The board is meant to represent the investors and act as a check on the power of top executives so they don't go rogue and act contrary to the investors interests. Their job is certainly easier when the CEO is strong and things are goi
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by dpe82 7y ago
Small aircraft can be surprisingly affordable; many small used GA aircraft cost about the same as a nice car does new and they generally don't depreciate very quickly -- there are lots of perfectly safe small aircraft from the 1960s
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by dpe82 7y ago
If your neighbors are traveling by personal aircraft then it is very much the same thing. There are a lot of privately owned GA aircraft and many of us don't particularly like everyone snooping on us. Many in this community get awfully
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by dpe82 7y ago
Rather the other way around - the MAX can only be flown by the subset of 737 pilots who have had the training. In practice that will mean for Southwest to maintain the efficiencies they achieve through standardization they'll need to e
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by dpe82 7y ago
Big companies are not rational. Organizational inertia is very difficult to overcome. If you have a company that's grown for 30 years as a hardware company and as a result the whole management structure is filled with people who got

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