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by jussij 7y ago
From the article: Federal government weather forecasters logged preliminary reports of more than 500 tornadoes in a 30-day period — a rare figure, if the reports are ultimately verified — after the start of the year proved mercifully quiet
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The law of Conservation of Energy says all that input electrical energy going into the system has to be accounted for in the form of some other energy. Now the only thing moving will be the fans and the hard disks, which means only a very l
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by jussij 7y ago
So past history tells us the 737 was marred by multiple fatal crashes cashed by bad rudder design. Recent history tells us the 737-MAX has also been marred with some serious design issues relating to it's MCAS system, which have result
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by jussij 7y ago
> It would effectively create a new language and in turn to a new ecosystem. And that new language would be Go++ (i.e. Go with generics) and what would be wrong with that? Consider how C++ started. It was nothing more than a preprocessor
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The mind is an amazing bit of kit. On several occasion during my IT career I have faced situations where the problem at hand has taken days/weeks to solve. What is most amazing is that on some occasions the solution literally just pops
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Another reason GMO is pushed by multi-nationals is because it helps the company take power away from the farmer. Those GMO seeds are covered by Intellectual Property Law and that power lets the company controls every aspect of how that seed
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While that is correct, the article suggests the market is seeing reduced demand as utility companies increasingly turn to gas-fired generation and renewable energy for electricity . For such a large coal producer to be struggling with that
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The other alternative is also simple. Just do nothing. Then just wait a decade or two by which time it will be way too late and then the world will quickly realise there are no 'chuckles' to be found down that path.
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> Have you ever considered that? The problem is not the air condition or the electricity needed to run the air conditioner. The problem is the electricity was generated by burning a fossil fuel and that causes massive amounts of CO2 poll
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The first step to doing something about climate change is to vote for a political party that actually believes in climate change.
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I don't think the problem is pitching behaviour. The problem is the fact the MCAS is required to fix the pitching problem. Boeing tried to fix the design issue with a workaround solution only to then find they had created another, ev
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> There's no fundamental design flaw, the aircraft is sound. From what I have read, the new aircraft design had a habit of raising it's nose when engine power was applied, which put the plane into a situation where it might sta
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by jussij 7y ago
Australia exports vast amounts of both coking (i.e. steelmaking) and thermal (i.e. electricity) coal. The coal fight currently going on here in Australia is over the new Adani mine which is a thermal coal mine.
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by jussij 7y ago
It is hard to know why the current Liberal government is such a coal-friendly party. My take on this is I think the Liberal party, which once took a centre right position has now been hijacked by the far right wing of the party. Many of t
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This might be about to change as Australia has an election due in the next few week. The current government is very much pro-coal and have spent the last six years working hard to hinder the renewable sector. The opposition is much more ren
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I suspect the keel attempts to stops the barrel from rolling on it's axis. If it had a tendency to easily roll it would be like trying to live in a giant tumble dryer.
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> keeping a tester in the dark about specific implementation details of the system they are testing is a perfectly normal and good way to preserve the integrity of the testing Except in this case a failed test does not just result in a
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by jussij 8y ago
These may well be exaggerations, but the fact is the DC 10 earnt these nick names: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Death%20Crui... The reality is, early on the plane had a bad safety history which resulted i
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I run a highly customised PHPBB forum. Without these customisations that forum would be overrun with all sorts of spam. However, these customisations only stop spam postings but can't stop actual registrations. Based on the users that
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Exactly. They're hooked on their Ad Words income stream.
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I think the problem with Google is it can't decide if they are into software or into advertising. Google had a big lead on Microsoft with their web based 'office like' products, but they just could not get the paying business
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After a few DC 10s fell from the sky it quickly earned nick names like Daily Crash, Death Contraption and Death Cruiser. Not long after that the DC 10 was relegated to flying nothing but cargo.
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I have worked on systems that had turned into the classic 'big ball of OOP spaghetti'. Likewise I've also had to deal with a 'big ball of structured programming spaghetti'. My take on the difference in these two typ
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This will only be true if the bug fix had local impact. If instead the discovered bug was more fundamental in nature (i.e. a problem was found in the actual design/implmentation of the signature/api itself) then every service usin
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> there exists possibilities that excessive warming into uncharted temperatures might trigger some feedback that might slow this warming too. I very much doubt this is the case. What is happening to the world can be explained by science
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The reason I think this is going to result in jail time, is this is not just one or two isolated incidents. But instead the 59 incidents make this a willful act of vandalism.
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> Will the 737 MAX continue to fly for two to three decades after all the items above have been addressed? yes. There is no doubt the MCAS can be fixed. But I would say there with all the bad press the 737 MAX has received, there must be
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> I honestly don't have the expertise to offer a solution to any of these My father worked a life time in the mining industry for several Australian mining companies, and as a result I spent a lot of time growing up in mining towns.
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> If they take MCAS out The problem is they can't take the MCAS out. The MCAS is there to fix a design fault whereby the plane has a tendency to pitch up automatically (and hence have a chance of stalling) when accelerating, due to
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But don't Boeing still find themselves in that exact same position, if not worse only because of all the deaths involved? When the Lockerbie bombing brought down Pan Am Flight 103, the relatives sued PA AM over those deaths. In that ca

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