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by dunmalg 9y ago
Yeah, the P-38 was a decent design, but it's very much a 1930's era plane with its oval pattern wings and control surfaces. The P-51, despite technically only be a couple years newer than the P-38, incorporated a LOT of improvemen
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by dunmalg 9y ago
Probably a better example from the opposite end of the spectrum would be the design changes between the F/A-18C/D and the F/A-18E/F. The initial plans were to stretch the C/D model to add fuel and improve the abysma
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by dunmalg 9y ago
>* I do not agree with a lot of the premises of the literature---- But that being said........It works! * From the article: "Lance Dodes, a retired psychiatry professor from Harvard Medical School, looked at Alcoholics Anonymous’s
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by dunmalg 9y ago
>What's the difference between this argument and "why should I have to pay for the insurance of others who get sick? should we all have to pay because a few can't live a healthy life?"? Accepting universal drug prohib
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by dunmalg 9y ago
>the speaker should try and emphasize INorganic or say it in a clearer way The root problem here is that while the speaker may have been an expert in handling nuclear materials, they were not ALSO an expert in communication. The failure
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by dunmalg 9y ago
The struggle is real. Letting go of my local data structures was a surprisingly difficult psychological hurdle. I sometimes wish there'd been someone there to tell me that the easiest paths are basically "all" and "nothi
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by dunmalg 10y ago
Thousands of years of violent human history suggest that designing a better helmet to mitigate TBI is likely to help more people than wishing war would go away.
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by dunmalg 10y ago
"What I mostly notice is that once these things are improved the need for therapy diminish significantly." Isn't this sort of a chicken-egg problem? I have horrible sleep issues, but they're caused by PTSD related anxiet
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by dunmalg 10y ago
When speaking in terms of populations, "better" is generally used in terms of outcome, i.e. the sense of "increasing odds of survival". Quality of life and survivability tend to align, but in the cases where they don&#x2
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by dunmalg 10y ago
They actually have a pretty good idea of what they ate. Interesting article on it here: http://www.ravensgard.org/prdunham/irishfood.html The TLDR of their diet is "mostly pottage and soups, heavy on meat and dair
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by dunmalg 11y ago
Cherry picking the MANNED Saturn V missions conveniently leaves out the unmanned Apollo 6 test where pogo vibrations borked two of the second stage engines and caused third stage relight to fail. And if you want to consider the whole Saturn
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by dunmalg 11y ago
Actually, I suspect the internet has all but killed the real value of the Concorde.The only thing it had to offer was NY-London in 3.5 hours instead of 7.5 hours. There are so few cases where those 4 hours make any difference, particularly
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by dunmalg 11y ago
Possibly one of my favorite articles on the subject with special emphasis on Sin #1 is detailed in an article from back in 2000 on Old Man Murray, titled Who Killed Adventure Games http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/7
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by dunmalg 11y ago
It's amazing how many managers to this day are hell-bent on repeating the Chiat-Day fiasco http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/7.02/chiat_pr.html
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by dunmalg 11y ago
It's amazing how many managers to this day are hell-bent on repeating the Chiat-Day fiasco http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/7.02/chiat_pr.html
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by dunmalg 11y ago
>Of course it might depend on the definition of fitness. It was certainly true that >the wealthier teens had more opportunities to create offspring than I did As far as mating fitness, that's actually all that matte
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by dunmalg 11y ago
The reason chimpanzees are indicative of an inherent propensity towards warfare rather than it being a learned culture trait is that chimps do not have an observed unified learned culture. Their habitat ranges from Guinea on the west coast
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by dunmalg 11y ago
>I think you are confusing "universities" with "USA universities" When the thread topic title starts with "Texas College Professor" on a US hosted web site, in English, not appending "in the USA" t
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by dunmalg 11y ago
Yeah, the Carter bit made no sense. I remember Carter, and a lot of his bad decisions were very much NOT the result of "engineer thinking". One that comes immediately to mind is his executive order outlawing breeder reactors, whic
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by dunmalg 11y ago
>Appendix: Listing every word used in the book in alphabetical order and on which pages each was mentioned. That's the Index. The Appendix is where they list FTP and web sites that are long defunct, sample code for interfacing with
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by dunmalg 11y ago
Modern candles are not even remotely comparable, neither in composition, nor method of manufacture, nor in their former value as a primary source of light. Candles used to use valuable raw materials, were fairly laboriously made by hand, an
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by dunmalg 12y ago
...except in the case of an en bloc clip such as used in the M1 Garand, which goes into the magazine and is itself part of the feed mechanism. My pet theory is that the M1 is a big source of the current conflation of "clip" and &q
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by dunmalg 12y ago
You have to consider what those surveys measure, i.e. people who WORK there, not people who HAVE worked there. Thing to remember about top-tier tech companies is that anyone who CAN get a job with them can also pretty easily get a job somew
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by dunmalg 12y ago
What really is ridiculous is the supposed agreement to limit bulbs to 1000 hours. Seems like GE and Sylvania weren't in on it, because before congress basically outlawed the common incandescent, I was buying long-life bulbs by those co
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by dunmalg 12y ago
Unlikely. Doesn't even come close to complying with DOT regs.
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by dunmalg 12y ago
>People want shitty realtime moving colors because they look cool. Sometimes we just want a moving graph that looks important, so the boss knows we're working on something.
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by dunmalg 12y ago
>I, for one, fail to realize how can one design any half-complex app (gadget, whatever) to be stateless. It's fairly obvious, isn't it? A keyboard with no shift key is going to need twice as many keys... but of course you'
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by dunmalg 12y ago
>Why does adding English cost that much? Localization in general adds a whole additional dimension of complexity. Every place you would normally just stick a word or phrase between quotes now suddenly has to pull that in from an array or
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by dunmalg 12y ago
Yep. The flaw in the plan is right there in the quote from a NYC resident: “We live right up by 96th and people are getting killed left and right by cars going too fast". Lowering the speed limit from 30 to 25 has no effect on people w
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by dunmalg 12y ago
Probably literally meant people from the US. In English, standard usage assumes "America" to mean "USA", and references to the region are referred to as "the Americas" (plural), with the north/central&#x2F

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