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by lovecg 2y ago
My new high end washer and drier come with an iphone app that notifies you when it’s done. It comes with non-optional spam notifications for their other products and subscriptions. It seems that the market of “pay more to get a product with
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by lovecg 2y ago
> from Merced to Bakersfield “and, by gum, it put them on the map!”
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by lovecg 3y ago
I’m guessing this is the flight? Just a short circuit, I suppose it’s expected on the first flight. https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=add4b2&lat=34.920&lon=-...
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by lovecg 3y ago
To me the most intuitive and practical mental image is imagining two large bubbles of lower pressure above the wing that hold the wing up by suction (you can see those literally as condensation under certain conditions). As you increase the
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by lovecg 3y ago
Our intuitive experience with wind on the ground is wrong. Next time it’s windy outside imagine the entire volume of air stretching out for miles and miles moving across with the wind speed, we’re just standing at the bottom of this vast ai
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by lovecg 3y ago
These sudden changes do indeed happen in stormy weather, as adjacent layers of air can move with different velocities relative to the ground (the technical term is “wind shear”). If an airplane climbs or descends through those it will look
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by lovecg 3y ago
Reading a good book is a closest approximation we have to actually meeting the author in person. There are books that I read years ago that had such a big emotional impact they probably affected my personality in some way. I barely remember
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by lovecg 3y ago
Yeah as much as I love the graphic design of VFR sectionals, I have to admit it’s an end of an era of sorts. ForeFlight etc. with proper backup devices have the entire database at your fingerprints at all times. And it’s a good thing, anyth
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by lovecg 3y ago
Not that many nowadays thankfully, much better forecasts and technology seems to help.
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by lovecg 3y ago
Worth noting he did a ton more than special relativity (his Nobel prize wasn’t for that theory)
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by lovecg 3y ago
This is why in some rare endgames you might want to promote to a knight instead of a queen to avoid a stalemate!
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by lovecg 3y ago
Yeah by that definition we already eliminated 95% of economically valuable work from 1700s. Very few people do farm work nowadays.
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by lovecg 3y ago
I can’t find anything about that. As far as I can tell, the optional AOA indicator would also include the disagree alert which would tell the pilots something is wrong with the sensors, but that had nothing do to with MCAS per se. They stil
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by lovecg 3y ago
The biggest WTF to me is hiding the existence of this system from the pilots, even after the first crash. All in service of pretending that it’s exactly the same airplane as 737 NG.
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by lovecg 3y ago
This is roughly accurate for general aviation (people taking a Cessna out for a ride on a weekend, etc.) - it is about 10x deadlier than driving and the rates have been pretty stable for decades. If you look at just airlines, they’re in tur
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by lovecg 3y ago
You make a good point, there’s a difference in copyrighting exact works vs. the characters or the story that the work is made up of. I’m not arguing for removing literal copyright (though the terms should be shorter). But I think it’s fine
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by lovecg 3y ago
Centralization makes a difference here I think. Disney built an impressive machine where everything feeds on everything else. The problem is not so much bad sequels per se, it’s all the marketing that goes into making sure they solidly occu
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by lovecg 3y ago
I think the world would be completely fine without a copyrighted C3PO or Robocop. George Lucas didn’t have billions of merchandising revenue in mind when working on his wild and thought unlikely to be successful science fiction movie in the
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by lovecg 3y ago
Well one thing that occurred to me is this argument could hold water if the wind turbines somehow drastically differ in the kinds of birds they kill. E.g. if they kill a million of some rare species that’s not killed by anything else that c
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by lovecg 3y ago
It’s like that scare mongering about wind turbines killing hundreds of thousands of birds per year. It’s laughable when compared with billions of birds that _cats_ kill. Any discussion of this topic is ripe with emotionally charged misstate
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by lovecg 3y ago
I did the hardcore path of Linux From Scratch and then discovered Gentoo which was a (very welcome) step down for customizability :) Highly recommend LFS for anyone who has a couple of hours per day to waste (i.e. young with no responsibili
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by lovecg 3y ago
I’m curious which ways you mean. Many things that we assume existed in the past were pretty unevenly distributed. Even something basic we take for granted like plumbing was only available in only a ~third of households in some states https
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by lovecg 3y ago
Off the top of my head, protein folding and drug discovery have a huge potential to be extremely positive.
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by lovecg 3y ago
Thanks for the link! > The construction of Rome's third aqueduct, the Aqua Marcia, was at first legally blocked on religious grounds, under advice from the decemviri (an advisory "board of ten"). The new aqueduct was meant
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by lovecg 3y ago
Is it rational to do anything pro-social that might not have any direct benefit to oneself? If humankind is to continue and to reach new heights someone is going to have to reproduce, so at the very least it’s a service towards that goal.
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by lovecg 3y ago
It’s a compelling story that’s fun to tell at parties. These are often 90% untrue. Seriously think of any historic “fun fact”, it’s probably mostly false. The reality is much simpler. Pencils suck for long term record keeping. Grease pencil
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by lovecg 3y ago
Speaking from experience with software engineering which might not apply everywhere, but complexity is one of those things that’s often easy to point out and very difficult to get rid of. It’s often a form of organizational disease where a
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by lovecg 3y ago
All gone in a few centuries. Too long to do damage on the scales we care about, too short to leave a trace.
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by lovecg 3y ago
Not sure if there’s any insight here, this is more of a shower thought, but the protocol vaguely reminds me of a deep learning network. Pool -> do a calculation -> pool -> … etc.
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by lovecg 3y ago
They won’t and it won’t be.

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