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by magduf 7y ago
Software flaws in cars usually aren't fatal. If your car has a failure, you just pull over on the side of the road. You can't do that in an airplane. >how about cars that have sudden loss of steering Citation needed. I'
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by magduf 7y ago
>True, but I also know the Max has at least one serious design flaw. >I don’t know the same about my car In addition, there's no evidence that Airbus planes have design flaws as bad as MCAS. So why fly on a 737MAX when any other
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by magduf 7y ago
The pain part can be useful: if you have a tooth infection, that nerve tells you before the infection spreads to your brain. The heat and cold sensations aren't terribly useful though.
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by magduf 7y ago
>When the CPU executes 32 bit x86 code it "compiles" it to uops that are totally unrecognizable to us and use dozens to hundreds of registers. Yes, but the x86 code itself can't address hundreds of registers, only a handfu
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by magduf 7y ago
Why on earth would you want a tooth made of steel? Steel is extremely dense and heavy; you don't want something that heavy in your mouth. There's multiple reasons that implants today are made of titanium. Biocompatibility is one
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by magduf 7y ago
Another important factor with these "our bodies already have a natural mechanism..." arguments is that we don't eat the same foods that prehistoric people did when they evolved, in addition to the fact that we now expect to l
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by magduf 7y ago
I use the Crest "Glide" floss; with regular floss, I'm constantly cutting it in half between some of my teeth which are very close together, but the Glide stuff seems to work much better. Strangely, I've had one dentist
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by magduf 7y ago
In small-town America, you need to be part of their church to fit in. If you're not religious, you won't fit in at all.
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by magduf 7y ago
>Living in the city is great, but I’ve had a hard time making connections, and have had more trouble finding work than I ever expected. I used to live outside NYC, and finding work there is indeed difficult, depending on your specialty.
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by magduf 7y ago
x86 is a lousy architecture, but x86-64 isn't as bad; at least it has a good number of registers unlike x86. It's easy to prove x86 is lousy by seeing its success in embedded and mobile devices: it hasn't had any, despite try
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by magduf 7y ago
It's impossible to have hard real-time on an Intel/x86 processor, and "real-time Linux" is not hard real-time.
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by magduf 7y ago
This isn't quite true. The working conditions tend to be less stressful usually, because by law you cannot be required to work overtime without being paid for it. Every hour you work as a defense contractor must be billable to a go
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by magduf 7y ago
>this behavior against Boeing is unwarranted because it has bias of 737 MAX issues. Completely different team, completely different problem. Wrong. Do you somehow thing there's a different management team running these parts of the
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by magduf 7y ago
I'll name two things: 1) Government pay 2) Government shutdowns But regardless, this was a Boeing spacecraft; it wasn't built by NASA (NASA generally does systems engineering; contractors build things like this).
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by magduf 7y ago
Glass cockpits and FBW are great, in theory. In practice, I don't know because I haven't had to use it. However, don't make the mistake of assuming that just because the US Navy can't get a well-engineered system put t
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by magduf 7y ago
This is pretty typical of military contracts. They like to spread the work around, so different vendors provide different pieces of the system, and it ends up being a hodgepodge that doesn't integrate well and doesn't work well.
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by magduf 7y ago
The thing you're completely missing here is that these systems are built by military contractors, so it really shouldn't be too surprising that they have such awful UI. These companies do not make any commercial products (excep
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by magduf 7y ago
In a real-time safety-critical OS, you absolutely do allocate memory only at startup, but this kind of OS usually isn't used for any kind of GUI interface, it's used for much simpler systems. Another trait of these systems is tha
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by magduf 7y ago
Sure, but scooters don't move very fast (slower than bikes), and e-bikes are usually limited to 28mph. So yeah, getting hit by one of those is still dangerous, but nothing like getting hit by a 6000-pound SUV. Being on any kind of mo
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by magduf 7y ago
You are safer in a car, when you're around other cars, than on a bike. I don't I need to explain the physics of why this is obviously true. The problem here is that there are cars around you when you're biking. If you did
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by magduf 7y ago
No, at least not in the US. It doesn't matter if cameras are better and safer, the US regulators won't allow it for decades if ever.
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by magduf 7y ago
You're expecting drivers to be perfectly attentive 100% of the time, and never have any human failings. That's unrealistic.
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by magduf 7y ago
I see this ALL the time. People drive around at night with their DRLs on, and never turn on their real headlights.
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by magduf 7y ago
Mine don't, and my car is pretty new. The problem is: I leave my wipers on almost all the time, rain or shine. With automatic wipers, there's little reason to turn them off, so I end up just leaving them on most of the time, and
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by magduf 7y ago
The cool thing about smart headlights is that they don't have to dim on the nearside of the car when there's oncoming traffic, so you get more brightness on the side of the road. Regular headlights have to dim both lights equally
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by magduf 7y ago
The best thing to do is to stop driving. The whole idea is bad. We should be living in urban environments where we don't need to drive at all; driving is dangerous (30,000 people killed in the US every year, not to mention maimings),
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by magduf 7y ago
That won't work. The problem with polarized glass is that, by its very nature, it's filtering out ~half the light. This is why cameras don't normally come with polarizing lenses: it'll make them perform worse in low-lig
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by magduf 7y ago
It probably isn't "smart" headlights that are flashing you on bumps, those are normal and perfectly "dumb" lights. The problem is that modern headlights are designed to direct much more light downwards, so that you
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by magduf 7y ago
I was once waiting in a doctor's office about ~4-5 years ago, and sitting close to me was an older lady, perhaps around 60. A commercial came on the TV in the waiting room for SAP, and this lady started cursing about what a piece of tr
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by magduf 7y ago
Doing that would take extra work, and cost more money. Why should they bother, when the dinosaurs who still watch cable TV aren't going to pay them any more for this butter-smooth experience? The people who care about such things hav

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