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by gvb 7y ago
Aircraft manufacturers get a "type certificate" for a given type of aircraft which applies to all of the aircraft of that model that are made. The type certificate is expensive but gets amortized over all the aircraft produced. Ch
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by gvb 7y ago
Certification is the single most expensive part of an aircraft. The more "off-nominal" an aircraft is, the harder, and thus more expensive, it is to certify. Commercial aircraft (which a "flying taxi" would be) are also
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The X-1 Skycycle Built for Evel Knievel's Snake River Canyon Jump(canosoarus.com)
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The X-1 Skycycle Built for Evel Knievel's Snake River Canyon Jump(canosoarus.com)
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What you can do is limited by the imagination of whoever wrote the tool (or worse, with "enterprise" tools, the imagination of the committee that wrote the requirements). Non-gui tools are generally much more "open-ended&quot
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by gvb 7y ago
There is no full stop after "phase" in the article: "third and final phase of layoffs of the process it began earlier this year " That does not preclude another "layoff process" in the (near) future.
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An example of the crazy lengths NASA goes to land safely on Mars(arstechnica.com)
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by gvb 7y ago
I suspect the discomfort when switching glasses is that the inter-ocular distance is different between the two glasses (one is likely right or "more right"). You have the right correction, but it is off-axis WRT your pupils with o
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by gvb 7y ago
Be curious. Follow up on that curiosity with actual experimentation. You need a big funnel of ideas - read a lot of technical stuff (HN, trade magazines, etc.). The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.
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by gvb 7y ago
> At this point I think we owe Cuba and Russia an apology for the hysteria involved. We are at the point where we need to confirm the hypothesis. If the hypothesis is confirmed we owe Cuba and Russia an apology.
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by gvb 7y ago
Python 2 and 3 are different compiler/interpreters. Python 2 code might run on a Python 3 interpreter, but probably not. When you run your python2 code, you can specify that it is to run on the Python 2 compiler/interpreter. The P
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by gvb 7y ago
I've flown "right seat" (not pilot) a fair number of times. Air traffic control interacts with the pilot quite often and at fairly unpredictable times. This requires the pilot to be alert and respond promptly to a request or
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by gvb 7y ago
According to John Gossman "Microsoft Distinguished Engineer & Linux Foundation Board Member" in a related announcement, Microsoft plans to contribute it to the Linux kernel: We also support the eventual inclusion of a Linux k
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by gvb 7y ago
The U.S. Air Force's former top civilian, Heather Wilson, said it dips into the atmosphere and uses its aerodynamic surfaces to change its orbit. Ref: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/07/23/f
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by gvb 7y ago
Speculations on the Nenoksa Explosion[1] is interesting. I'm not qualified to judge its accuracy. The author's opinion is that it had to have been U-235: "When you are concerned about weight, as a cruise missile designer mu
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by gvb 7y ago
It isn't the credit card that is in your possession that's the problem, it's the fraudulent loans, credit cards, etc. that the scammer receives directly from various banks, etc.
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by gvb 7y ago
Agreed: this is an IBM "offensive operations unit" publicity piece. Key items from TFA: * TFA quotes Charles Henderson, " who heads up the IBM offensive operations unit. " * "This newly named technique — dubbed “w
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by gvb 7y ago
They are working hard to avoid loosing the trademark protection of Velcro(R) through "genericization". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark#Avoiding_gen...
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by gvb 7y ago
The point isn't how Cuban hedged his stock holdings, it is that he hedged them and that he would have lost a huge amount of money if he had not. Applying this to the Unity shareholders, their smart move is to sell some of their Uni
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by gvb 7y ago
They should follow Marc Cuban's example; take some money out of their share holding and diversify their investments. Quoting from https://www.fool.com/slideshow/7-things-you-can-learn-mark-c... 5. Diversification
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by gvb 7y ago
I searched for John McAfee boat to get some background on his latest stunt: "John McAfee is running from U.S. authorities – and running for President. On a boat." https://www.foxnews.com/tech/john-mcafee-is-ru
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Keep reading... One day, I said "this needs to go", and everybody listened, architects and directors alike. By shipping something that worked he bought himself time and credibility which he then used to replace the shitty soluti
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by gvb 7y ago
Oracle, not Microsoft. Microsoft doesn't need anything they have. Oracle is already selling their (Oracle-rebranded) version of RHEL plus the Oracle database business ties in with the IBM mainframe business.
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That is still the "bait" - they can say anything they want at this point because they (and you) are still in "bait" mode. It isn't until you've bitten on the bait that the scam will unfold. My prediction is one
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by gvb 7y ago
Ahhh, a Turing car; if you can make a Turing car, you generalize it to make a AGI. I like it!
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by gvb 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5IFD2wq_gA Heat pipe, heatsink, and fan that is as big as the Pi! :-O
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No restarts. The incident was with "fire once" thrusters for use only in the event of a launch escape.
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by gvb 7y ago
Nitpicking your nitpick, the difference is whether the random sampling is with replacement or without replacement. Wikipedia's definition of "simple random sample" defines it to include both ways: [S]ampling is typically don
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by gvb 7y ago
That is one of those Great Debates. If your spare disk is a "hot spare" where it is plugged in and powered up, yes. If your spare disk philosophy is "cold spare" where the drive is in a box on a shelf, probably not. Hot
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by gvb 7y ago
Yes, it is an explicit strategic policy of the Chinese government as part of "Made in China 2025" with state support (political and monetary). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_China_2025

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