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by grkvlt 8y ago
Except that in a thermonuclear bomb, fission also occurs at the end as well as the start... The initial fission explosion starts off a fusion reaction, and then neutrons from the fusion process carry on to start another fission reaction,
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by grkvlt 8y ago
See P A Luty [0] and his submachinegun, made entirely from scratch using basic machine shop tools (i.e. not requiring a CNC machine, just a bench drill, hacksaw, angle grinders and various hand tools, see page 4 in his book. [1]) which was
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Hm. I think perhaps a better way of putting it is that the hard AND issue is when people search using a natural language type query (I know about stop words, assume these are always filtered out) and include some extraneous term, so 'W
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Understood - I wasn't really serious! However, when I worked in the City back in the late nineties/early two thousands I lived in Islington (20ish minute walk, one stop on the tube) first, and then EC1 (10 minutes or less walking)
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by grkvlt 8y ago
You could move closer to where you work, so you have a 15 minute bike ride to and from there every day, saving you two and a half hours. Use that time to mend things so that you save money, which you can use to pay for the more expensive ho
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by grkvlt 8y ago
sure, i agree, except that they also apply this 'narrowing down' logic when insufficient or no results are returned, thinking the query needs to be more specific in order to work. i have observed the following sort of behaviour:
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Yeah, seems like there are some questions that are incredibly specific at localising. For me, it was the name for the metal cover for drains - I answered 'stank' and it guessed Glasgow and immediate surrounding areas, which is exa
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by grkvlt 8y ago
The problem with AND as a default is that 'normal' people (i.e. people who have no idea what boolean means) operate search engines something like this: 1. type some words in, and get no or incorrect results; 2. add some extra word
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by grkvlt 8y ago
security related positions, such as application penetration testing, physical pen testing, etc. all require the "security mindset" which is essentially the skill of thinking adversarily and breaking things.
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Which, although technically correct, is still quite misleading and misses out the fact that this was done purely as a precaution, since the actual crack causing the failure did not come from a passenger window [0] but rather the ADF aer
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by grkvlt 8y ago
That doesn't sound right (well, Qantas did have RR engine trouble, as did all RR engined A380s) as all A380 fleets have four of the same type/manufacturer of engine (RR or GE, depending on the airline) and it will be common acro
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by grkvlt 8y ago
I'm not 100% sure that's true - for example, today we have hugely improved development environments, IDEs, source control, collaboration tools, simulators, debuggers, documentation (particularly in terms of easily available and in
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by grkvlt 8y ago
On the ATR-72 [0] there is an extra leg that folds down at the back of the plane to stop it tipping over, and passengers at the front half must remain seated until the rear pax have left, so there must be some danger of unbalancing. These a
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Also, since upgrades are to the next higher seat class only, with PE you stand the chance of getting moved to J, on the rare occasions the stars line up correctly and you get it for free, or of course if you pay for it at check-in, or if yo
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by grkvlt 8y ago
For point 3. I believe Airbus has a lot of commonality between its cockpits on different aircraft, so it is easier to get type certified on an A350 or A320 if the pilot already has a rating on the A380. This means the reserve crew can fly
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Look at BA flight 001, which is a transatlantic flight from LCY/SNN to JFK in an Airbus A318-100 [0] with only 32 (business class) seats. According to BA, a standard two class configuration would seat 107. Admittedly, it has to refuel
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by grkvlt 8y ago
> make the whole concept of us humans not laying eggs, putting some semen and mud on them and disappear into the wilderness an evolutional waste of time. > putting some semen and mud on them and disappear into the wilderness what?
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by grkvlt 8y ago
And, welcome to the UK! We only had about three or four minutes warning time available, so when the sirens went off, that was all the time the population had to prepare/shelter, and obviously the authorities also only had that amount o
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by grkvlt 8y ago
It seems like "politicising a community" means "people with ideas I disagree with have joined" or something similar.
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Also, as I recall, Concorde could do this too...
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by grkvlt 8y ago
No, point 4 was about the fact that somehow it is racist to prosecute people of type X for crimes they commit if those crimes are discovered because of an investigation into a different type of crime (which only type X people commit) - th
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Which goes to show how terrible people are at dealing rationally with anything when they are affected personally or emotionally.
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Re the systematic racist bias in 4. - since you postulate a world in which 100% of terrorists are muslims, why would anyone non-muslim ever be investigated for terrorism? (whether with 'gusto' or not)
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by grkvlt 8y ago
In your examples, the probability of a random green ball having property X is always higher than that of a random ball. If the incidence of X in the green population is higher than the base rate, then if a random ball is green, it means it
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Those are actually pretty terrible, probably written after reading GEB. ESR is trying to emulate Hofstadter but isn't clever enough, so they are all based on a one-trick pony, search-and-replace joke that wears thin quickly. 2/10,
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Yeah, it's like open sourcing code for 3D immersive visualisation of deep-water seismic survey data, along with the detailed blueprints for the ROV and survey equipment. Awesome enough, sure, but pretty much useless to me. I can build
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Did you read the link? See popehat [0] as well. The prosecutors said he should get the 6 or 7 years. And, if the judge went crazy and ignored the guidelines, this is what appeals are for. You seem to be the one lacking intellectual honest
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by grkvlt 8y ago
I recognise a lot of the words and letters used in this comment, but have no idea what it actually means?! Care to clarify... - slotting fees, end-caps, EDLP, Hi-Lo, category manager, circular
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Interesting, did not know about coffee pots. However for pump handles the contact area and time in contact is much greater than a single touch of one fingertip, plus the fact that it is much more likely for the hand on the pump to then im
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by grkvlt 8y ago
> you spread germs Really? I don't think there would be any change or effect regarding microbes passed around the population if pedestrian crossing buttons did not exist. They just aren't a disease vector, or at the most opti

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