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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
The 737NG already had computer controlled feedback to the control columns, the MAX added computer controlled spoiler deployment (like the 757 and 767) and elevator trim.
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
No it wasn't. See also: MD-11, 737NG, 777, 787.
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
I've found that hummingbirds are surprisingly not very picky and are quite persistent. Check out what sort of things are native to your area though because you may be able to attract a lot more than hummingbirds. I'm in the Bay
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
It's not necessarily being overlooked, perhaps it's just overkill? Mend it Mark on youtube uses an ancient Tektronix scope for lots of things — and it's great for what he does. Of course sometimes the fancier scopes come ou
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
Later to get banned from bidding on the contract for the replacement vehicles because the trains were so mediocre (although somehow still better than the earlier Boeings) and the company so brazenly corrupt. Meanwhile SF runs 1800s–early 19
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
Yeah I'm surprised too – Breda spent a metric fuckton of money bribing Willie Brown so that the city would buy those damn things. Lots of European kit on them (like the Scharfenberg couplers), most of it never worked right.
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
All of the Breda LRVs were retired earlier this month and their replacements use entirely different displays. Can't say I'll be that nostalgic for the signs or trains.
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
Trains in London in 1992 had announcements using recorded voice clips BART did too. I think the announcements date back to the early days of BART. The computerized text-to-speech didn't come around until 2000 and only cover t
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
They did a good job on ... everything. Nah, they did a good job on one thing: PR. As public transit? We've been suffering the consequences of their chronic NIH for going on fifty years now. Fun link. I saw this article and
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
Not everything needs AI slop. Worse, predatory AI companies mean that vendors like DigiKey, Mouser, Farnell/Newark/Element14, and McMaster-Carr have to hide their sites behind anti-bot services. In practical terms that means you
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
Assuming you mean one of these guys: https://cptdb.ca/wiki/images/6/60/San_Francisco_MUNI_8001-a.... https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/File:San_Francisco_MUNI_8110... The signs m
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
No, big twins weren't possible and didn't make sense in the 60s. The engines were simply far too unreliable.
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
I've been eyeing used bench multimeters recently and recently came across a discussion of Agilent vs Tektronix scopes. A comment on EEVBlog posits that the TDS still has value because the cost to upgrade to probes compatible with newe
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
I think the original comment was suggesting that Linux typically has end-user visible bugs like sound not working, not commenting on where they live.
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
I can't speak to the UK but in California there are various rules around updating vehicle registration when you move. Enforcement is pretty lax unless you drive something with exceptionally high registration fees. There's strong
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
The folks that this article is about are not the sort of folks who can afford €18/lb for protein. In the US, at least, cheap chicken can often be identified as it cooks up with a woody texture or suffers from a variety of visual defec
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
Not everyone lives near a Costco. Not everyone is a fan of the environmental cost of their cheap chickens, or whatever. When I lived in San Francisco there was a Costco but it was more inconvenient to get to via Muni than most of the alte
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
The effects of a bigger fan are the same: the engine is bigger and more powerful necessitating changes to the airframe.
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
No, you really can't. Even if it were the same size a dramatically more powerful engine would need a larger "tail" to maintain control in case of an engine out scenario. But a 50% more powerful engine is also likely to be
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
The MD-11 isn't a new design. It's a stretched version of a first generation widebody whose design dates back to the mid-1960s. Before the MD-11 was developed, McDonnell-Douglas toyed with the idea of a dual engine variant befor
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
In the case of the quad jets, Boeing tried the 747-SP and had minimal marketing success. In the case of the trijets the MD-11 lived on as a freighter because it had a much higher capacity than anything else smaller than a 747. It was ne
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
Flipping backwards is what caused the engine to fly to the right and land to the right of the takeoff runway. The stills in the NTSB preliminary report clearly show the engine flying over the aircraft, to the right, and then heading straig
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
Fully functioning engines departing from aircraft isn't common but it's not unheard of either. Off the top of my head it's happened a few times on the 747 and 737.
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
The DC-10 had a number of other problems, but the MD-11 has always had a reputation of being an unforgiving aircraft especially when compared to the DC-10. It's less about training and more that the MD-11 was simply too many design co
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
Most of the DC-10s in service in the US are used for fire fighting.
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
Normal people don’t want a “conversation“ with a computer. Perhaps, but there is absolutely a subset of the population who uses AI as a human companion.
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
A tenet of systems code is that every possible error must be handled explicitly and exhaustively close to the point of occurrence. All the more reason it doesn't really belong in examples for third party libraries.
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
So what's your argument then? Companies can't release a product unless each and every feature works with their competitors products? By that logic most of the software and hardware you use today simply would not exist. Like a lo
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
Dunno, I think the alternatives have their own pretty significant downsides. All would require front loading more in-depth understanding of error handling and some would just be quite a bit more verbose. IMO making unwrap a clippy lint (or
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by inferiorhuman 11mo ago
You're lambasting Apple for not implementing part of a standard that hadn't been standardized.

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