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by kgilpin 7y ago
One thing to keep in mind is that any type of auto-fly is dependent on a LOT of automation systems on the plane itself being functional. For example, instruments, sensors, autopilot, auto throttle. To be considered safe, an auto-fly needs t
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by kgilpin 7y ago
Finance, economics and money become irrelevant pretty fast if you aren’t making something people want to buy.
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by kgilpin 7y ago
How difficult is an HA cluster? Because that’s more of a fair test. Setting up a dev-only instance of anything ought to be easy.
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by kgilpin 7y ago
Towing kills the range
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by kgilpin 7y ago
I guess you would be trading a carbon problem for mass extinction.
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by kgilpin 7y ago
It's true that most engineers are not going to implement a binary search algorithm or an optimizing compiler during the course of their employment in a typical year. However, CS fundamentals are the language of software engineering. It
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by kgilpin 7y ago
Maybe they will just prosecute people who do that?
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by kgilpin 8y ago
You could do this in C++ by storing the unit of measure with the measurement value and then performing unit conversion in overloaded math operators.
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by kgilpin 8y ago
I’m curious which projects you used to try this out on?
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by kgilpin 8y ago
Jets cost a ton to operate, in fuel, maintenance and personnel.
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by kgilpin 8y ago
If you have a headwind, which is very commonly 30 knots or more, then in this plane you are barely moving. So, it would be hard to reliably get anywhere at all. Training flights are mostly in the vicinity of the airport so speed and range m
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by kgilpin 8y ago
Assuming that there are many software subsystems that need angle of attack input, it shouldn't be the responsibility of every one of those systems to try and determine if they are receiving bad input from the AOA indicator. Rather, the
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by kgilpin 8y ago
Among all the MCAS noise, this is the best summary of the problem that I've seen so far.
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by kgilpin 8y ago
Anything you fly over is going to be simultaneously blasted and cooked.
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by kgilpin 8y ago
I think you’re missing the point of the article. His original theses was that we aren’t good enough at estimation. And in fact much hand wringing over estimation has been done in this industry over the last 6+ decades. Now he’s amending his
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by kgilpin 8y ago
He doesn’t think estimation is the problem. He says that the projects are started late and that developers are handed a deadline by the business and then accused of being late when they can’t meet that deadline.
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by kgilpin 8y ago
There are ways to cut costs without layoffs and some companies choose to go that route. I think the point you are trying to make is that your employer will need to do what’s necessary to remain solvent. But that doesn’t automatically mean l
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by kgilpin 8y ago
There is a simple way to make it much easier. Use hosted platforms (eg PaaS) instead of self-maintained infrastructure. Unfortunately, most enterprises are still not willing to outsource their IT platform to the real pros and thereby make i
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by kgilpin 8y ago
Flapping wings are also silent. And articulated wings can perform complex maneuvering including hover and vertical takeoff and landing. So is there any other advantage to ion propulsion besides quiet operation?
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by kgilpin 8y ago
I think it’s a lost art in that they aren’t being built any more, yet lots of people have them. In any case I live in Massachusetts and had steam heat for many years and found these books super helpful. There are however some plumbers aroun
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by kgilpin 8y ago
In my experience with web applications at non-Googley scale, most performance problems are occurring in places like SQL queries, rather than the raw speed of the web application stack itself. Another really common mistake is tasks being per
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by kgilpin 8y ago
Sinatra is a great way to build test programs and demos. Once scaling up to a real application I have found that Rails is a better choice because it has a lot of the things built in that feel missing from Sinatra. For example if you are try
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by kgilpin 8y ago
Last year, 90 degrees in the Humanities were awarded by MIT out of a total of 3,490. This presumably includes double majors. The largest subcategory was Economics, which is considered a humanity subject at MIT. https://registrar.
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by kgilpin 8y ago
I’m glad to see this getting ridiculed on this forum. I would be happy to see more critique of the attitude that the problems created by irresponsible technology can be solved with more technology. The driver of the “phone addiction” proble
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by kgilpin 8y ago
From my reading, the sunglasses are created more as an artistic or philosophical statement than as a serious product.
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Zunum Aero selects hybrid electric airplane engine(flyingmag.com)
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by kgilpin 8y ago
It sounds like a buildpack identifies a common case of what someone might be doing in a container / Dockerfile, and standardizes it to remove the arbitrary variation that inevitably occurs when lots of people are independently solving
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by kgilpin 8y ago
There may be more photons than you think. 10^^17 per cm^^2 per second at the surface of the earth. https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2n6zo0/comment/...
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by kgilpin 8y ago
> receive either a stream of particles with collapsed wave functions, or a stream of uncollapsed ones I don’t think there’s any way for Bob to determine whether the particle stream has been measured by Alice or not.
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by kgilpin 8y ago
Also, Terraform stores "all settings, including usernames, passwords, port numbers and literally everything else" in the tfstate file (1). I believe that using Dynamic Secrets is HashiCorp's proposal for how to mitigate this;

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