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by kayfox 6y ago
The 737 MAX 8 has always been _legally_ the 737-8. Most of the airlines calling it the 737-8 did so before the grounding.
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by kayfox 6y ago
Leonard French (copyright attorney and YouTuber) reviews what is going on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAoRO6GfXG8 The suspension is pretty complete in the circuit it is in and will likely be adopted by some other juris
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by kayfox 6y ago
This is exactly what Boeing had originally proposed, but the airlines did not want to incur the equipment and training costs to do it.
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by kayfox 6y ago
The Lion Air sensor was defective when installed on the aircraft (The day prior to the accident), it was a part that was repaired by a company in Florida that was not authorized to repair it, and the airline's maintenance department fa
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by kayfox 6y ago
Training pilots before a training program is approved is kinda like throwing money into a fire. They would still have to turn around and train them again with the approved training. Also, being has little to do with the actual decisions
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by kayfox 6y ago
The control forces have to to always increase linearly into a stall, theres no amount of training that will allow for anything otherwise. The aircraft is not certifiable without MCAS.
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by kayfox 6y ago
The "MAX" part is a marketing name, its always been the 737-8.
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by kayfox 6y ago
> hell of a lot of seagull. I can assure you there are sufficient seagulls on the Oregon coast.
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by kayfox 6y ago
The KATU video is from the remastered video, the previous versions of the video were all bad U-Matic transfers. You can tell the difference by the on screen text, the U-Matic transfers had, in layman terms, chunky text.
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by kayfox 6y ago
Just barely, 47% of electricity in California comes from burning natural gas.
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by kayfox 6y ago
Regulatory capture is the term I usually see used for this.
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by kayfox 6y ago
The RBMK has a lot of issues that make it really unsuitable for further development: 1. Because of the size of the core, it develops uneven reactivity during operation and requires attention to be paid to this. 2. The measures put in place
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by kayfox 6y ago
There are ways of setting up solder fume extraction that is not intrusive, just like how casinos have HVAC systems that pull smoke upwards and out, generally avoiding the place smelling like smoke. I worked in a service center a long time
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by kayfox 6y ago
CATIA only supports specific workstation configurations. It can be run on unsupported workstations just fine, but you may hit a brick wall with Dassault Systèmes support, which is like half of what your paying for with the maintenance fees
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by kayfox 6y ago
From this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics "Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke &q
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by kayfox 6y ago
I was under the impression that CMOS consumes energy on gate transition and not constantly, so the speed translates to more current consumption.
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by kayfox 6y ago
Tell that to CapitalOne.
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by kayfox 6y ago
Its because in most (perhaps all) states of the US it is illegal for a non-lawyer to have an ownership stake in a law firm.
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by kayfox 6y ago
With SLA batteries the venn diagram of those two things has a lot of overlap.
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by kayfox 6y ago
Some bmc commentary on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2280s
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by kayfox 6y ago
In warfare one of the common aphorisms is "know thy enemy" and I think this is very much lost on many people these days. So often I see people fighting against some thing without any understanding of how that thing works or why
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by kayfox 6y ago
Some YouTubers seeing this so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N8MHN2Ce4w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_cJkgXm9nA
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by kayfox 6y ago
RPF are the initials of who dictated the letter, ht are the initials of who typed it up.
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by kayfox 6y ago
SP2 rolled up a large number of fixes intended tighten the security of Windows XP, there was no explanation provided other than it was a security enhancement. Ultimately the raw sockets thing had no real world impact on network attacks, the
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by kayfox 6y ago
The removal of raw sockets in XP SP2 did not prove Steve Gibson anything, as he had predicted the internet would become unusable with raw sockets in Windows, which it did not.
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by kayfox 6y ago
Also note those are what its been known as since the beginning.
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by kayfox 6y ago
It requires a line tech and not an install tech. I don't know why it takes 3 months instead of like a week, but things can get bad when your choices for high speed internet are the phone company or the cable company and they both suc
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by kayfox 6y ago
Ethics violations are a big deal for attorneys, if a complaint is sustained against them with the bar association, they can loose their ability to practice law.
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by kayfox 6y ago
Its unethical for a lawyer to do things not in their client's best interests, and even if Uber is paying for the lawyer, their client is who they are representing.
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by kayfox 6y ago
It is possible for open source replacements for those blobs to be written, but I have not heard of any serious effort in that respect.

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