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by m4x 12y ago
Dikes won't stop water seeping up through the porous limestone which Miami is built on, nor are they practical for protecting the everglades or any of the existing fresh water and sewerage systems I think the bigger problem is that the
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by m4x 12y ago
Which is interesting, because it implies that female programmers are less likely to use SO (or at least respond to SO surveys) than male programmers are. Why is that? EDIT: or they're unwilling to specify their gender
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by m4x 12y ago
Analog circuits such as you would find in a radio are quite different from the analog IO used when interfacing with the real world. Reading an analog signal from a sensor and acting upon it is trivially simple when compared to building an F
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by m4x 12y ago
Does being OSS actually matter for this app? It would still be running on a proprietary OS, and you won't be personally inspecting the code closely enough to know that it's secure anyway. If you were concerned about what was being
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by m4x 13y ago
If a pilot on the ground had checked the telemetry and seen that a) the plane was stalled and b) the elevator was at max deflection, he would have asked why that was the case and the pilot who wasn't in control would have realised what
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by m4x 13y ago
I agree that a better fix would have been to have synchronised joy sticks, but that doesn't negate the usefulness of telemetry I'm aware that the pitot tubes iced over, but they de-iced long before the point of no return And I bet
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by m4x 13y ago
So ask yourself why it never broadcast a declaration of emergency - the autopilot had disengaged due to an instrument malfunction, which should have generated an automated broadcast on the spot. Then somebody could start monitoring the tele
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by m4x 13y ago
Real time telemetry via satellite could definitely be useful in some situations. The Air France crash could have been prevented if somebody on the ground had taken a look at the data from the plane, realised that the junior pilot has been p
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by m4x 13y ago
This ruling only affects commercial use of RC aircraft. By professionals. I don't think you have to worry a lot about a moderately small industry where people make a large mental and financial investment to start a business flying unma
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by m4x 13y ago
I'm not sure Google specifically needs to be doing something, but the tech community at large certainly could be. Hence the original author's question, I presume: why isn't the tech community doing something? It seems like a
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by m4x 13y ago
There's no reason why you can't drive it to the brink of a crash and then have it recover for you. The 'brink' in this case is the latest the computer can reliably recover - not a point 100ms before an unavoidable collis
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by m4x 13y ago
I think shrouds are probably safer. For saw-stop to work the blades would need to be quite heavy duty (vs. the thinner blades that are common now - those would simply snap off if you tried to stop them in a hurry!), and heavy duty means mor
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by m4x 13y ago
The controller is already responding to changes in balance at an extremely high rate. How do you think these things fly in the first place? Like an earlier poster acknowledged, the current hobby grade gear is not really engineered with indu
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by m4x 13y ago
If the grid supply goes down for some reason (natural disaster, car hits transformer, significant sustained overload blows pole fuse etc) then everything connected to the grid in that area will see some or all of the following effects: * su
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by m4x 13y ago
when renewables fail, they don't give you much warning (we're talking minutes at most) If your country has a lot of hydro (which has ramp times measured in seconds) this doesn't matter. Additionally, clouds don't magic
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by m4x 13y ago
The reason I consider it ironic in this context is that a number of people have claimed trade work is dangerous, yet the worst injury I've sustained during my career was when I wrote software for a living. The worst case injuries are c
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by m4x 13y ago
The answer to that is probably 'whoever you need to to get the job', though that isn't a lot of help to most young guys who don't yet have enough professional experience to talk their way into work. It's no differen
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by m4x 13y ago
My experience as an electrician is that there's work available even for completely green newbies who don't know anything useful, and once you've worked for a few years and become a registered tradesman you're pretty mu
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by m4x 13y ago
When you say 'some of these jobs', are you talking about, say, manual labour at oil wells? I have a hard time thinking of any trade that an average person would struggle to thrive in if they were willing to do the work. A few exis
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by m4x 13y ago
They don't do anything with it, judging by the photos of rectifiers mounted on the wall without any heat exchange or recycling equipment to be seen. It's unlikely that there's much heat to recycle though. If there was, those
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by m4x 13y ago
You don't have to go back to their website very often; your browsing is tracked every time you visit a page that has a 'Like' button. And as others have noted many people's browsers already have a unique fingerprint even
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by m4x 13y ago
From http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash : Later, however, it was found that both bombs were fully functional and that a single low-voltage switch was indeed all that stood between detonation. Th
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by m4x 13y ago
Interesting question. I really don't know the answer In real life, many of the people who are inclined to use an ad blocker are not the sort to click on ads anyway and are not providing advertisers with any significant revenue to lose.
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by m4x 13y ago
Her final statement (and in particular her final word) resonated quite strongly with me. It's hard to know where the point of no return is on this issue but I suspect that when it comes (and goes) it will be without fanfare. It seems f
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by m4x 13y ago
The article doesn't really comment on why Apple would actually want to trademark the word 'startup'. As far as I know it isn't used as part of their marketing anywhere. Can anybody here offer some insight?
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by m4x 13y ago
The last terror attack in NZ was when France bombed the Rainbow Warrior in 1985. I don't think there are any legitimate threats to New Zealand. The only other recent piece of action here were the 2007 Uruwera raids which turned out to
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by m4x 13y ago
Is asking people to contribute to society really comparable to the Bad Future? Having read your link, I would say it's more akin to rules 8 and 9 of the 4GC There's nothing wrong with being a freelancer, or deliberately homeless,
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by m4x 13y ago
New Zealand (and probably many other nations) provides a system similar to this where you either have a job and earn as much as you're able (based on negotiating skill and to some extent actual job skill) or you are unemployed and rece
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by m4x 13y ago
I think most of the taps they're referring to involve tapping light directly off the fiber, which reduces the light intensity at the receiving end and can therefore be detected in theory at least Interfering with existing amplifiers&#x
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by m4x 13y ago
Why do the "smaller systems" only get a brief mention at the end of your comment? There are relatively few uses for an unmanned but full size aircraft. The advantage to using a drone is that it can often do the same task previousl

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