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by krisoft 8mo ago
> an overworked air traffic controller in Germany Actually the air traffic controller in question was Swiss not German. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_%C3%9Cberlingen_mid-air_c...
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by krisoft 8mo ago
> You don't get to throw out "fondness for throwing Nazi salutes" slander, based on an hoax immediately debunked at the time, and then act like you're doing democracy a favor. Just to clarify. This is the video contex
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by krisoft 9mo ago
I don't get your point about the tailpipe emissions. Of course there is a hard cutoff. What else could there be? Do you want them to gently suggest that you should maybe fix your car above 90ppm, and then rudely suggest from 95ppm? The
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by krisoft 9mo ago
I work at a self-driving car company and we observed a similar problem when we did some off-road testing on dirt tracks. The cars were too precise and they were cutting deep ruts into the soil. We too solved it by adding a pseudo-random off
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by krisoft 9mo ago
> pilots are trained to keep their nose gear on the centerline Funily I was learning to fly at a grass strip and we were told to vary our positioning left and right on the runway for exactly this reason. In practice it meant that as we w
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by krisoft 9mo ago
> The real translator touch comes about when their is some nuance to the language. And as we all know legal language is famous for having no nuance whatsoever, there are no opaque technical terms with hundreds of years of history behind
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by krisoft 9mo ago
Thank you for the confirmation! This is so good to hear.
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by krisoft 9mo ago
Very good question! I believe they are simultaneous positions. Skyfield has facilities to calculate the light propagation adjusted position but i didn’t use them. Would you have? Is one more “correct” or more likely to be anticipated by fut
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by krisoft 9mo ago
> Just, stop. Why do you mind what others do? > A leading zero does not unambiguously say "there are no implied nonzero digits to the left of this zero". Nor does it anywhere say that it means that or that it should mean tha
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by krisoft 9mo ago
To calculate the orbital positions i used the skyfield python library. https://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/ They have a very handy example right on the landing page how one can calculate the positions and angles of a plane
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by krisoft 9mo ago
> If you have a blog post with a few more technical details, it may be a nice submission for HN. Oh. That is very kind of you. I do have many more pictures and details. I will try to collect them together, and will publish it once it is
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by krisoft 9mo ago
I have once created a pendant to my friends’ wedding following a similar idea. A silver disk engraved one one side with the position of the planets and major moons at the moment of the ceremony. Fun thing is that the Galilean moons orbit fa
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by krisoft 9mo ago
But is the star map there? This article seems to imply that it got demolished in 2022: https://www.oskarjwhansen.org/news/save-the-star-map If so that is somewhat ironic. A message intended to communicate a date to tho
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by krisoft 9mo ago
> asks whether you're at fault here, or she is Or maybe nobody is? Why does someone has to be “at fault”? > you can tell her then don't phrase your issues like that. Sometimes people just want to be heard. There is value in
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by krisoft 9mo ago
> Great, so now GitHub can't change the structure of their IDs without breaking this person's code. And that is all the fault of the person who treated a documented opaque value as if it has some specific structure. > The le
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by krisoft 9mo ago
> calling a delivery place was just easier than using an app This is so much the polar opposite for me. First of all: restaurant discovery. With a phone interface you have to somehow out of band learn that there is a place who delivers t
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by krisoft 9mo ago
> Why is this a desirable goal? It doesn't have to be a desirable goal to everyone. > The only driver that I can really comprehend is the desire for freedom and autonomy in less populated spaces. You got one of the big ones. But
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by krisoft 9mo ago
> Decisions will not be made based on emotions from a demo at CES. Sure. It is not a mistake with grave consequences. Something can be a mistake and not matter much in the long run. Like the CEO could have went on stage wearing mismatche
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by krisoft 9mo ago
> I wonder what starts to break or not work properly at 110⁰ F? Most likely the cooling of the actuator motors. You need to keep the magnets in the motors under their curie point or they stop being magnets. At the same time the coils rig
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by krisoft 9mo ago
The second robot is broken. It is not moving. Why show a broken robot? That is what we are on about.
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by krisoft 9mo ago
Disagree, it was a bad move in two different ways. It was anticlimactic emotionaly and it didn’t convey the right message rationaly either. Anticlimax because the first robot hyped up the entrance of the second robot. It was emotionaly conv
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by krisoft 9mo ago
> Because th green light isn’t controlled by software. The LED is directly wired to the camera power. You got a source for that? Or a clarification about which iphone version you are talking about? Because on my iphone 15 the green indic
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by krisoft 9mo ago
Consider that not all malfunctions of a car leads it to crashing into things. The fuel system, the engine, the transmission and even the steering can completely break down and the car will still came to a stop. They are equipped with redund
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by krisoft 9mo ago
It sounds like you are an expert on DB rules and how they affect the decision making of the various entities in this story. So I will leave that part to you. I personally don't form opinion on things I don't know about. What I kno
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by krisoft 9mo ago
> Wait, are you saying you did? I'm confused about what are you asking. Are you asking if I have looked at the layout of the station and the images of the platforms? If so yes. That's how I'm describing it in my first post
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by krisoft 9mo ago
> Just let the people who are actually there and can actually see the situation use some judgement. Okay. But we are beyond that. The people who were there handled the situation and we both seem to agree that they didn't handle it w
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by krisoft 9mo ago
> trains should never(TM) stop without a platform if they'd have stopped the train on both sides and some old lady tripped and fell and broke her nose on the rail. Yes. That is a good reason to not stop without a platform. But I tel
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by krisoft 10mo ago
> The amount of times this has been asked with no confirmation leads me to believe they still do not. They do follow hand signals from police. There are many videos documenting the behaviour. Here is one from waymo: https://wa
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by krisoft 10mo ago
> how many kids tearing at that wear item will this survive? Idk about that. It is just a plastic part with magnets in it. Sounds like it would be easy to replace on a regular basis. I would be a lot more concerned about kids tripping th
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by krisoft 10mo ago
What do you mean no answer? They are suspending their operations. That is their answer.

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