drpixie

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   by drpixie 8y ago

   While plenty of the article is sensible, the author unfortunately skips very briefly past the one killer situation. It's not enough to say "[Transaction restart gets a little tricky in nondeterministic systems if some of the volat
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   by drpixie 8y ago

   Agree - looks largely like syntactic sugar. Fine if that what's you want but should be acknowledged as such.
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   by drpixie 8y ago

   Certainly possible but not required. In the B737 family, most of the main controls are essentially power assisted direct controls. Boeing consistently has preferred more-or-less manual controls, while Airbus took the other direction (in whi
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   by drpixie 8y ago

   Aviation does not usually require the precision assumed here. The aircraft would have flown fine anywhere between (say) 150k and 300k, so an initial-nav indication of (say) 250k +/- 20k would tell the crew that things are "close-e
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   by drpixie 8y ago

   The difference between ground-speed and airspeed is the wind. In normal conditions, ground-speed is a useful proxy for airspeed - perhaps not good enough for an airliner precision approach, but more than adequate for normal flight. For the
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   by drpixie 8y ago

   The original Motorola RAZR flip phone. And in general, phones with actual buttons you can feel.
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   by drpixie 8y ago

   Heads up display showing info from external sensors ... can you spell patent troll children?