jki275

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by jki275 2y ago
Part of it is everybody knows exactly what's happening, but one dude has one job, and that is to put the rudder exactly where it's supposed to be and hold it there. It isn't actually like there's something that holds th
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by jki275 2y ago
The traditional method of control splits helm(rudder control) and lee helm(throttle control). Both are under the direct command of the conning officer, who is responsible for all orders to the helm and lee helm and setting and maintaining
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by jki275 2y ago
This design dates to the 90s at least. I went to school on this system in 1997 and it wasn't new then, it was new to our class of ships but had been in service for a number of years prior. If it went through an HMI review it wasn&#x27
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by jki275 2y ago
I don't agree, from the perspective of someone who has driven ships, stood console watches on complex combat direction systems, and regularly flies flight simulators for fun. The UI for driving a vehicle needs to be simple and intuitiv
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by jki275 2y ago
Agree. Should not ever happen, but we all know it does.
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by jki275 2y ago
The author isn't an expert on anything Naval. He's clearly a design guy, and his analysis ok in that respect. 7th Fleet's issues are well known, but not necessarily outside the community of those of us who lived them.
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by jki275 2y ago
Unfortunately what are you supposed to do when you 80% of the Sailors you're supposed to have, and that number was already 20% less than what you needed to actually fill a watch bill?
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by jki275 2y ago
Rust isn't a panacea, and the US Government really isn't pushing for Rust adoption.
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by jki275 2y ago
The interstate highway network is a problem at least two orders of magnitude smaller than what you want.
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by jki275 2y ago
I think you're not really understanding the scope of the problem. We have a train network. Amtrak is barely used, costs more than flying, and you still have to rent a car at the end of your multi-day trip on the train. The US is HUGE
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by jki275 2y ago
I think you're solving the wrong problem. People who are afraid of learning to aviate shouldn't be flying. Fear of things one isn't capable of doing is healthy.
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by jki275 2y ago
Public transit exists in the US. I take a train to work. But the problem you're not understanding is that we're not Europe. We don't all live in cities within a couple of miles of our workplaces. Even me, I've got a s
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by jki275 2y ago
I can start to wrap my head around it a little bit, and if I were handed this task I'd run away screaming.
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by jki275 2y ago
Probably true. But their own systems internally almost certainly have those magic letters hard coded in thousands of places.
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by jki275 2y ago
It almost certainly would completely break thousands of functions that have those magic letters hard coded into them in fortran, cobol, C or whatever. You might even find that clever people back in the 70s used other ways of representing t
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by jki275 2y ago
I read elsewhere it would take something like 100x the amount of fuel to move it up to a stable orbit. Maybe people are defining things differently, but bringing it down, just logically, has to be way easier with gravity and atmospheric dr
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by jki275 2y ago
You can do lots of brilliant things, but bringing drugs into Russia...
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by jki275 2y ago
how high would you have to move it, how much fuel would it take, and is that even actually feasible? I suspect the answers to all those questions are why the people running NASA decided to bring it down.
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by jki275 2y ago
you can still type them -- alt + 030(for instance) on the keypad will insert that RS character. In Windows at least -- not sure about the other OS.
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by jki275 2y ago
Anything in DOD.
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by jki275 2y ago
I think it's extremely likely there are no leads and there is nothing to actually investigate beyond a radicalized young adult who did something terrible.
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by jki275 2y ago
It works on certain models and certain OS release levels that have known exploits. That's all it is.
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by jki275 2y ago
When I had some customers working with it a few years ago, they were trying to roll out a visual diff tool that would make source control possible. I don't know if they ever really delivered anything or not. That system is such an abo
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by jki275 2y ago
This kind of fearmongering really misreads the decision. The court's decision doesn't leave room for any of this. https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4757174-supreme-court-...
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by jki275 2y ago
I don't see it as a concern. I've got FileVault turned on anyway, if I didn't care I wouldn't bother with that.
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by jki275 2y ago
I don't think that applies to the ESP32 family of devices. I've never heard of DSP hardware onboard them. I think the comment you're referring to is talking about the architecture in general, but not the silicon we're d
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by jki275 2y ago
It's neither. The Arduino ecosystem is objectively garbage, for a host of reasons. Yes, it is an "abstraction layer", that attempts to abstract away all the hard stuff from a whole host of different microcontrollers, and doe
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by jki275 2y ago
Oh of course, if you want to run it on a Pi go for it, makes no difference to me. I just had a feeling there was a way to do it without Linux. I'm generally a fan of make it small, and Linux is kind of the opposite of that. Everyone
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by jki275 2y ago
https://github.com/DennisSc/PPS-ntp-server Not mine, just something I found. I had a feeling one could run a GPS backed NTP server on a microcontroller without too much difficulty.
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by jki275 2y ago
I've been running a fanless mini-pc as a firewall for years. They work just fine. The ones you get from aliexpress come in a case where half of the case is a massive heat sink, and it will get a little bit warm.

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