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by janoc 7y ago
MCAS is not there because of maintaining pilot type rating. The plane's airworthiness certificate depends on certain behavior while approaching stall and the new larger and more forward engines on the MAX changed the behavior of the ma
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by janoc 7y ago
Copying a design is not illegal . Unless the design is patented (which it doesn't seem to be or the OP would likely have said so in the article), everyone is free to copy any design they want. That you wish something was true doesn&#x
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by janoc 8y ago
You need to realize that the EU "directives" are not actually the law (aka the thing that will get you prosecuted). The directives are "transposed" into national law, country by country - and each country can (and does)
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by janoc 8y ago
That would make zero sense for Hololens - Hololens is an enterprise device that will in practice run one or two applications (e.g. the company training or maintenance tool). Also most industrial networks are behind heavy firewalls, so anyth
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by janoc 8y ago
Nope. It is nowhere clear and contrasty enough for that and the eye strain you get from wearing these displays for a long time would make you get the monitors back in a hurry. It may work if all you need is playing a game for an hour or two
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by janoc 8y ago
Was that supposed to be an irony or you didn't really check those links? All those projects have tons of commits and activity going on, by multiple people (35 in the case of Django!).
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by janoc 8y ago
Sorry, that's bollocks. AMD did not put their driver into the upstream tree! What is in that tree is the open source driver developed by volunteers, based on ATI specs. ATI/AMD still has their own proprietary, closed blob driver
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by janoc 8y ago
That's the sort of talk companies with market share of Microsoft or ecosystem of Apple can afford. I am a Linux desktop user myself but: a) The AMD drivers were unusable crap for a very long time, things have improved only thanks to th
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by janoc 8y ago
"Nevod is a language and patent-pending technology for pattern-based text search." Yawn. I will stay with my patent-free regexps (or whatever other tech I may need) than to rely on something that will let you put a gun to my hea
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by janoc 8y ago
This is for embedded development (e.g. a gui for your washing machine), not a replacement for Electron, Qt, GTK or what have you.
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by janoc 8y ago
It is for embedded development - e.g. your car radio or washing machine. You wouldn't use this for desktop. BTW, it is written right there in the title "runs on MCU ..." (MCU = microcontroller)
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by janoc 8y ago
Well, given that the Model 3 is going to cost around 60k EUR in Europe according to recently announced prices, they aren't going to sell many of them. That's a price you can have a huge (gasoline) SUV for. Or a luxury Mercedes. Or
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by janoc 8y ago
Jamming GPS at an around an airport is not that great idea given that the airliners rely on it for navigation. Granted, they have other means of navigating when the GPS isn't available but in the extremely busy airspace around London
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by janoc 8y ago
You know, if nobody cares about this, then why are people constantly up in arms whenever yet-another-Facebook-privacy-scandal surfaces? Why people object to have e.g. their financial or medical information disclosed? Yes, there are people w
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by janoc 8y ago
It is unlikely the branch prediction heuristics that is the problem (that in the Intel's microcode). The problem is in the mitigations necessary to make it impossible/more difficult to exploit these side channel attacks. And that
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by janoc 8y ago
You can - but it also apparently disables storage access. So you can boot Linux but not install it.
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by janoc 8y ago
facepalm Try to build a science career when you are living from the slave wages and short term contracts most universities give to grad students and postdocs. Oh and that doesn't even mention student debt, in case you are in a countr
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by janoc 8y ago
What you probably haven't been told is that the "more effort" typically means paying a rather exorbitant sum of money to the publisher to have the paper opened up. You can certainly do that - but nobody does because for that
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by janoc 8y ago
The problem with open access is that typically you, as an author, get a choice: - assign copyright to the publisher, have your work paywalled and pay for the access to it via exorbitant subscription fees the university pays - ask for having
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by janoc 8y ago
I am sorry but you are completely incorrect here. If you publish to Arxiv you can't publish in a journal that actually gets you the "points" you need to advance your career or secure your funding. The only exceptions are doma
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by janoc 8y ago
90% of scientists have no choice. Your funding and career as a scientist are directly linked to where you publish (impact factors and so on). So if you have a "choice" between publishing in a major journal published by Elsevier an
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by janoc 8y ago
Well, given the market size of that ISP, I am sure Elsevier has noticed and are running scared already ... Sadly the only people being hurt by this sort of protest are researchers that happen to use the same network (i.e. Bahnhof's own
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by janoc 8y ago
Actually this is a real relic (started in 1972!). The original open source (SCCS used to be proprietary) RCS tool that predates CVS (CVS was built on top of RCS) was meant as an alternative to SCCS, with similar functionality. SCCS was hor
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by janoc 8y ago
The problem is that when you put people without formal training in charge of building and training models, you get also results that match - models with horrible biases, models that don't reflect the reality at all, models that are wor
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by janoc 8y ago
Well, they are still peanuts compared to Magic Leap, stuff like Leap Motion and other high profile busts ... And yes, I am worried about this too - VC cash gets burned and nothing of consequence will be delivered, all the while projects wit
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by janoc 8y ago
It was much simpler - the device simply didn't work. Certainly nowhere near what has been advertised. We have two at work and after testing them when they arrived they remained in the box ever since. It is a solution looking for a prob
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by janoc 8y ago
Frankly, if you are running around the office, making everyone feel like useless piece of crap because you are the obvious rock star, no wonder that folks get defensive. My bet is that he wasn't fired/let go because the manager wa
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by janoc 8y ago
And how would you distinguish licensed users from unlicensed ones if the messages are encrypted? Heck, the authorities have problems policing the bands even without having to deal with crypto.
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by janoc 8y ago
If you want that, there are plenty of ISM bands and loads of cheap equipment you can use to build such "decentralized, no-carrier/ISP, disaster-tolerant medium for private communication" (aka internet ...) HAM radio bands are
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by janoc 8y ago
If encryption was allowed, all that would happen is that people would start to use HAM bands as a cheap way to wirelessly connect to the internet or to build private communication links. Totally negating their purpose. If you are after this

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