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by lambda 4y ago
> Casuals get fleeced rapidly It's funny how the meta-game works here. Fleecing the casuals is, of course, the way the pros make money; so it's basically the point of the game. But I can see how fleecing the casuals slowly is p
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by lambda 4y ago
There's more than one surviving Link Trainer in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_Trainer#Surviving_trainer... The gauges on that particular one have been removed; on others, they may have been replace
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by lambda 4y ago
Yep, I'm not saying it's a big limitation, given the VTOL capabilities and availability of airports. Just that there will be few windy days in which we might not be able to fly, but that's the case for pretty much all small a
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by lambda 4y ago
Yes, in VTOL mode you are generally going to want to land into the wind or wheel the aircraft into the wind for takeoff. I think that would probably be possible. But we are also concerned with CTOL performance; in order to add more flexibil
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by lambda 4y ago
You're right, some other entrants in the eVTOL community seem to have strategies that rely on some kind of regulatory magic. The company I'm working for, Beta, is taking a very different strategic approach, with much less reliance
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by lambda 4y ago
Oh, I should also say, for a helicopter autorotation is only particularly helpful if you have enough forward airspeed or height to initiate it. Helicopters come with an HV diagram indicating safe flight envelope, such that autoration could
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by lambda 4y ago
You're right. The maximum demonstrated crosswind velocity isn't a limit, but more of a guideline, based on what was tested for. However, many aircraft do that testing to a higher level than is required. For instance, for a Cessna
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by lambda 4y ago
eVTOL have to be designed to the same safety standards as other aircraft; and in fact, they will be held to slightly higher design safety standards due to their novelty, required to meet safety standards that otherwise only apply to larger
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by lambda 4y ago
I work for one of these startups, Beta. We are focusing on a slightly different market than the other entrants; we're focusing initially on cargo rather than passenger transit. One initial customer is United Therapeutics, for transport
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by lambda 4y ago
We have plenty of the low-paying jobs that only immigrants do in the US as well. Some are via temporary work visas, some are via undocumented immigrants. The fact that they are undocumented immigrants means that they have very few legal pro
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by lambda 4y ago
Why are you assuming that folks will require a lot of financial assistance?
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by lambda 4y ago
I take it you didn't read the article? Because that was the author's conclusion, and caching content for logged out users was the main solution.
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by lambda 4y ago
> First make sure you're familiar with background issues in numerical analysis/computation such that you're generally familiar with IEEE floating point and its foibles, numerical stability, basic error analysis etc. So, wh
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by lambda 5y ago
> Actual link: https://www.anyleaf.org/stove-thermometer HN truncates my links to the top URL 30s after posting. This is probably because you have the following in your HTML: <link rel="canonical" href=
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by lambda 5y ago
This is probably the biggest issue with Rust in the kernel; because it needs to deal with a lot of existing kernel interfaces and abstractions, you get code which is neither very idiomatic Rust, nor is terribly recognizable to someone who k
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by lambda 5y ago
Yep. But there are two different active projects for compiling Rust with a GCC backend at the moment (one as a completely new frontend written as part of the GCC codebase, one as a libgccjit backend for the existing Rustc), there's als
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by lambda 5y ago
Cross compilation is actually much easier with Rust than it is with gcc. Every Rust compiler is a cross-compiler for all architectures that Rust supports; all you need is the rest of the toolchain like linker and libraries. rustup handles i
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by lambda 5y ago
Adding Rust doesn't make it harder to do any of this. When you build a custom driver, you could choose to develop it in C or in Rust. It gives you the choice, and many of us find it easier to build in Rust than in C; but even if you pr
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by lambda 5y ago
> Rust should not be used in the Linux kernel until it supports 100% of the architectures supported by Linux itself. Why is it that so many people feel like they need to make sweeping pronouncements on the exact compatibility guarantees
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by lambda 5y ago
And what did Go do?
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by lambda 5y ago
Yeah. My problem is that my "really bad cold that lingered" was in February 2020. That is late enough in the timeline, and the testing at that time was so insufficient, that it's really hard to say. I don't recall losing
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by lambda 5y ago
Heh. I guess I have an interview question to update. One of my quick warm-up questions is asking about what data structure to choose if inserting an element after an element you already have a reference to is a common operation that you wan
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by lambda 5y ago
Cool! Thanks for some more reading and inspiration. Here's what I have in my notes buffer; I hadn't gotten much further than this. Ssn: /([0-9]{9})|([0-9]{3})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{4})/\1\2\3/ People: Table
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by lambda 5y ago
Hey, nice! I have a notes file experimenting with a similar tree-style minimalist data notation; it's definitely an area that needs more exploration. I like what you've done with it, I'll need to take a closer look. While I w
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by lambda 6y ago
What is Blender's funding model? I recall that its initial open source release was essentially crowdfunded before that was a trendy thing, but I haven't been keeping up with how they've been funding continuing development. Th
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by lambda 6y ago
Argentina?
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by lambda 6y ago
RISC vs CISC isn't really about instructions doing "one simple thing period." It's about increased orthogonality between ALU and memory operations, making it simpler and more predictable in an out-of-order superscalar de
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by lambda 6y ago
Yeah, my tone was a bit incendiary at first, because I get a bit frustrated at the shallow dismissal you see so often on Hacker News (and any number of other tech discussion sites). This kind of snarky dismissive comment is easy to make, an
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by lambda 6y ago
Not just the standard library, but the core language. They are what you get if you write a string literal in your code.
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by lambda 6y ago
Ah, thanks. It's been a while since I've used Ruby seriously. Still not quite sure why "Matz's ruby" is separate on the Benchmark Game rankings, while all other languages are grouped based on the best implementation

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