gomijacogeo

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by gomijacogeo 4y ago
It might not be nanoseconds, but something that's a power of 2 number of nanoseconds going into an appropriately small container seems likely. For example, a 62.5MHz counter going into 53 bits breaks at the same limit. Why 53 bits? Tha
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by gomijacogeo 4y ago
I go for thrash metal, with earplugs then over the ear headphones turned up enough to get through the earplugs at a comfortable volume. That blocks any exterior sound, is complex enough that I don't get bored, but doesn't have any
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by gomijacogeo 4y ago
The plane should have also been uncertifiable as MCAS lacked sufficient redundancy in air data or computing for so much control authority. It's not clear whether this was deliberately concealed by Boeing or if they had just lost the in
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by gomijacogeo 4y ago
My impression is this is a technique of the 2nd tier energy companies (e.g. https://www.isds.bilaterals.org/vattenfall-vs-germany-i-coal... ). Companies like BP, Total, etc operate more like nation-states and have other tool
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by gomijacogeo 4y ago
Reeve Collins interviewed Monday morning on CNBC. I won't editorialize and just leave it as a data point for others to interpret. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GsMPMXGzAg
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by gomijacogeo 4y ago
1. How much additional energy does it take to pulverize the rock? 2. What about the effect the rock will have on soil pH? 3. What about leached salts and heavy metals?
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by gomijacogeo 5y ago
I think GregKH complained to the university previously and then, when presented with continuing bad/bad-faith patches, decided to blow up their world very publicly.
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by gomijacogeo 5y ago
There does appear to be a static analysis tool. https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/eecatch.pdf?fbclid... Still, given that he is 4+ years into a PhD (after a Masters), and has published on this topic before
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by gomijacogeo 5y ago
Personally, I think their data points should include "...and we had to explain ourselves to the FBI."
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by gomijacogeo 6y ago
Similarly, I was on a highway and saw what looked like a crumpled up brown paper bag in the center of my lane and, rather than make the large maneuver of going around (I had passengers and didn't want to jostle them), I chose to stradd
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by gomijacogeo 6y ago
Your description is a little terse - are people apprehensive because of: 1) tales of his living at the office and off-hours outbursts, or 2) problematic interactions directly with other employees. If the latter, you likely should act to sep
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by gomijacogeo 6y ago
Though 2.9MeV isn't "cold"; it's around ~3e10 Kelvin.
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by gomijacogeo 6y ago
Looks like other people are onto the same thing - alignment. Especially if this is threaded code, what's probably happened is something (likely with some sort of locking primitive) that fit on one cache-line, now straddles two. The re
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by gomijacogeo 7y ago
The thing is 1829 didn't crash, the pilots got an alert, figured out the problem, took manual control, and flew the plane. Defense in layers. It would be ideal to use different technologies for the AoA sensors to help minimize common-
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by gomijacogeo 7y ago
It depends on what the flight characteristics of the Max8 really are - something I've not seen a good writeup on. If the plane really can get away from pilots, then you're likely right (i.e. it really needs a proper flight envelo
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by gomijacogeo 7y ago
As I understand it, a little bit of everything was done to make up for the shortfall: 1. Spare capacity was used. This makes scheduling tighter and maintenance costs go up. 2. New routes and extra flights that were going to be added to the
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by gomijacogeo 7y ago
Not quite. I don't think you all realize how stupendously expensive certifying a new type is. Boeing and the airlines wouldn't be prepared to absorb the extra costs just to have a slightly more efficient 737 at the other end of
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by gomijacogeo 7y ago
Older, yes. Generally not less safe (and certainly safer than the Max8 right now). Usually more expensive - less fuel-efficient engines, maybe up against C/D maintenance checks, maybe less efficient cabin layout, etc.
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by gomijacogeo 7y ago
I preferred this to the Sobel book. More academic, but a lot more technical detail. The Quest for Longitude: The Proceedings of the Longitude Symposium Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts November 4-6, 1993 Hardcover – November, 19
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by gomijacogeo 7y ago
This is not a well-written article and is in a style that is almost impossible to scan. tl;dr: 1. Richard, the perpetual fuck-up and fame whore. 2. The balloon-boy saga. 3. The balloon-boy aftermath, and legal consequences. 4. Richard whine
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by gomijacogeo 7y ago
Agreed! A-pillars have gotten extremely thick over the last 10 or so years to accommodate airbags and the increased rake angle of the windshield brings the pillar much closer to the eye. In my vehicles (2008 & 2018), the left pillar blo
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by gomijacogeo 7y ago
Not that it likely matters now, but the brother sounds like a high-functioning schizophrenic - super-bright kid morphing into an increasingly erratic and alienated adult. Especially without any hallucinations, it's tough to diagnose an
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by gomijacogeo 7y ago
I guess it's ok to update the abort() documentation now.
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by gomijacogeo 7y ago
It does neglect that one overarching design goal was to not be encumbered by any IP. That means you have to pick your solutions exclusively from expired patents and, no, you don't get to be clever and come up with new things along the
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by gomijacogeo 7y ago
You appear to be making a straw man argument that the planes are safe by claiming to refute the 'sudden-unavoidable-death machines' argument which no one is making. The probability of a total loss of an aircraft is basically propo
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by gomijacogeo 7y ago
He also wrote a nifty article back in '81 about calculating e to 118,000 decimal places. https://downloads.reactivemicro.com/Users/Grant_Stockley/App...
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by gomijacogeo 7y ago
No. He crashed into Monterey Bay. He likely ran one tank dry then sent the plane into a dive while he tried to move the fuel selector that was located over and behind his shoulder. https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/Re
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by gomijacogeo 7y ago
There is a very (very!) small chance that there are isolated biomes that split from life's tree before what we call the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) and are still plugging along. But it's pretty much impossible that some
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by gomijacogeo 7y ago
Some possible alternatives are covered here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleic_acid_analogue And I agree that RNA and DNA are pretty good molecules and probably close to some notion of 'optimal'. The rib
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by gomijacogeo 7y ago
That's what I was trying to say; I'm in no way a panspermia fan. I was responding primarily to the line "perhaps DNA(+RNA) is the only molecule with the right properties to act as genetic material" with the notion that

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