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by gnaffle 12y ago
Agreed. There is a real problem that Stack Overflow comes out on top if you Google for most of the "best X framework/library/... for Y" questions. Thus, many if not most of my encounters with SO are with closed, marked-a
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by gnaffle 12y ago
ABS pointless? The Wikipedia article disagrees, so I'd certainly like to know more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-lock_braking_system#Effect... ESC is certainly shown to be effective, although I don't kno
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by gnaffle 13y ago
That's not really how the story goes, though. Intel spent a lot of effort on getting Itanium to succeed, and they really dragged their feet into x86-64. It was the market that decided that the price/performance of Itanium wasn&#x2
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by gnaffle 13y ago
> What company isn't creepy these days? Apple? Valve? Pretty much any company where their primary way of making money isn't dependent on collecting and feeding off their users data.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Yeah, Sergey Brin and Larry Page are not idiots either, but the history is littered with great products that were killed off after they were bought by Google. It's entirely reasonable to be at least skeptical about this.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Nice! BTW, with the new Bluetooth Low Energy protocol, you don't need a $100K license to interface with iOS devices anymore: http://www.mkroll.mobi/?page_id=386
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by gnaffle 13y ago
The recording might capture a lot more detail than what the sound engineer was hearing. For instance, the recording could have been made in the 60s or 70s, and the state of the art in sound reproduction can have improved since then. So unle
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by gnaffle 13y ago
What I'm really tired of is that off-topic, nitpicking discussion threads are often on top. I have to wade through a lot of comments to find the good ones. And I say that as someone who has myself fallen to the "someone is wrong o
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Maybe he has an order in for 2000 units? In any case, they should have ordered them in Sparkfun Red while they were at it.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Where would you find someone to unpack, paint and repack them for less than $15 a piece?
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by gnaffle 13y ago
The original Fluke 87 was introduced in the mid 90s if I remember correctly, and I think the yellow cases predate that model.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Thanks! That's a good summary post.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
If so, they would probably already have seen other faults as well, and at the very least have a warning about the transponder being disabled. Their last communication made no mention of any problems.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
From what I understand, the traces they are correlating now come from military radar (which is also why they have not been made public).
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Anything is possible, but my guess is that if they were hijacked, they had a plan that went wrong. It's far more likely, and it's happened before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_961
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by gnaffle 13y ago
From what I read elsewhere, synchronization problems between different radar systems and other effects can also cause echoes or "ghosting" to appear, so it's not uncommon to see more than one trace for a particular object. De
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Avionics software is written in an environment where, _if_ such a problem as a programming language being "old and unfriendly" introduced bugs, that would have been noticed and mitigated. http://www.fastcompany.com&#x2F
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I think the biggest issue with nuclear energy is public trust. It was broken with Chernobyl, and broken again with Fukushima. I've always been pro-nuclear, and have spent a lot of time arguing why it's better than many of the alte
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by gnaffle 13y ago
100% renewable energy for electricity production is certainly feasible, despite what some people say. Some countries like Denmark already get 44% of their electricity from wind and biomass (other countries get more, but those are exceptions
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I don't believe anything in particular, that was just one of many potential explanations. That said, I'm not alarmed by the radiation in Japan, I'm more alarmed about the situation of the Fukushima plant and the problems they
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I was just pointing out a flaw in his reasoning. I didn't argue that it exists (and from what I gather from other comments, it doesn't). But if it did, it could be offset by any number of things, some of which might not be shared
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Maybe because the background radiation is just one of many, many contributing causes of cancer? For instance, airline pilots are exposed to more radiation than the average worker. But they also have a low percentage of smokers, and in order
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by gnaffle 13y ago
It's all about how widespread they are. What was before a pretty limited hobby where most people would know about and be mindful of light aircraft (and sometimes share airstrips with them), might turn into a real problem when prices co
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by gnaffle 13y ago
I'm pretty sure that as UAVs increase in capabilities and come down in price, there will be regulations that force them to carry alerting / avoidance systems (like FLARM or similar) and light aircraft will have to carry them, too.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
That's interesting. Not sure if it's a "jurisdiction" thing, as in if it's a part of the airplane, they go into the certification regime? For instance, laptop PCs running Windows and iPads are certified for EFB use
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by gnaffle 13y ago
http://ipocars.com/imgs/a/b/n/u/s/citroen__citron_citron_ber... Here's an example of a car from ca. 2005 that has simple, manual controls for climate control. If the passenger is too warm,
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Well, if you look at Airplay, they had a technology that worked well for _years_ until the "leading standard" caught up. They do support other standards such as A2DP though.
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Granted, the things that touchscreens replace in avionics are the stuff that you need your eyes on to operate in any case (navigation computer etc). And they often replace input systems that were far, far worse (read http://phili
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Exactly. They kept an x86 version of OSX for many years until 2005 when they did the switch, so I would expect them to have several prototypes of hybrid OSX / iOS devices like the Surface that they are playing around with while looking
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by gnaffle 13y ago
Well, that's my point (although you could say Xbox was an exception). Tim Cook is very well known quantity when it comes to execution, just like Jony Ive is when it comes to product design, but for innovation, we don't know how th

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