manarth

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by manarth 10y ago
My experience is that it's sometimes twist (doesn't work), relax, twist again (still doesn't work), relax, twist again (still doesn't work), give up, tap the face. Not always, but often enough to be a mild annoyance.
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by manarth 10y ago
Diving depth - ish. That 50m is static pressure. Don't expect to actually dive to 50m and have your Apple Watch survive. The reality of "50m waterproof" is that if you swim with it (pools, maybe a few meters below the surfa
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by manarth 10y ago
Well, they did (apparently) address the issue in the 6S, by moving the vulnerable components, so presumably they'll have considered this issue in the next iteration. Maybe they'll even restore the metal shields over the chips. The
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by manarth 10y ago
I spent nearly a year as a contractor (for Ericsson) in Stockholm. I found it difficult to rent a flat, and I got the impression that this was fairly common. Be prepared to hunt through adverts, and respond as soon as you can after its publ
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by manarth 10y ago
Incorrect orbit of a secondary payload is also included in the failure count (I was thinking of a 2012 Falcon 9 launch, where the primary payload was successful but the secondary payload didn't reach its intended orbit).
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by manarth 10y ago
Sounds like another addition for the "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" article [1]. Other problematic names: "O'Neill" (apostrophes), "Gómez" (accents), "Rees-Mogg" (hyphens). [1] htt
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by manarth 10y ago
I can't see the relationship between Norway being an oil-producing country, and the content of the article, which is that Norway publishes the records of residents' personal income. Do other oil-producing countries usually do that
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by manarth 10y ago
> I don't see human rights coming down either side of the argument here. Article 12 [1] begins "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy" I don't agree that publishing income is a breac
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by manarth 10y ago
> it reduces your ability to negotiate It can also increase your ability to negotiate: "This person does the same job as me. That work is value at $X, so I should also be paid $X."
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by manarth 10y ago
> "how do you justify working at such a place with the kind of corporate moral code that would punish employees for behavior not defined in the employment contract" I've worked for a few organisations where the contract
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by manarth 10y ago
How is that calculated? Cash in an account is fairly easy…but stocks and shares? Property assets? Cars/boats/aircraft? Furniture? Art? Intangible assets such as patents or licences?
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by manarth 10y ago
The advantage that I can see to that transparency is the potential for reducing income inequality based on gender, ethnicity, etc. Whether that's effective is another question.
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by manarth 10y ago
Would you mind saying which country you live in? I'm from the UK, where income/tax is private, and my understanding is that this is the same in the USA, and most European countries. It's interesting that what's "nor
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by manarth 10y ago
Train out of an aircraft…exit at 15000', and train down to 5000'. That would give plenty of time (and altitude) to recover from a stall, and safely deploy a parachute.
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by manarth 10y ago
In the UK, you aren't allowed to skydive with a camera until achieving a "C" licence - minimum 200 jumps. That's a common requirements for many overseas dropzones too. Most BASE courses won't accept you without a mi
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by manarth 10y ago
> "3:1 for horizontal vs vertical is quite dangerous" I would suggest that the danger isn't the glide-ratio, but the proximity to the ground. Could better materials improve safety? If there were improvements in the predi
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by manarth 10y ago
It's discussed in BASE-jumping forums, mostly for its historical value, and to answer the people who ask with all seriousness: "How can I learn to BASE-jump, without bothering to learn skydiving first". You'll also see i
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by manarth 10y ago
> "Are there airspeed indicators for wingsuit fliers" Yes: there are devices that can be mounted to skydiving helmet, and provide audible feedback (using different tones to communicate information such as airspeed). FlySight
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by manarth 10y ago
> "this is something you learn in skydiving class…You learn on your first day that if you hug the beach ball, you will flip and fall with your back down" This is true of the first 20 or so jumps, before achieving your "A
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by manarth 10y ago
Wow, what a video. "You know, fear is a super-important thing now. And without fear, you will die." "I'm actually pretty happy this happened. I think in the long run it saved my life." Mind you, he doesn't leav
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by manarth 10y ago
That's an interesting point, which has a fairly obvious solution: train wingsuiters to find the stallpoint - and even stall their wingsuit - in controlled conditions, where they can safely recover from a stall.
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by manarth 10y ago
> the crew in charge of checking failed What other checks might have been missed? Fuel? Flap-setting? Doors are closed? Cleaning and catering are not legal requirements to ensure the safety of the flight, unlike FAA-mandated equipment.
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by manarth 10y ago
> checking everything when you land a plane And critically, before you take off. This is what checklists are for.
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by manarth 10y ago
192.168.33.10
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by manarth 10y ago
The services discussed - memcached, redis, etc - don't use HTTP. The attack is successful because the protocols follow the robustness principle of 'be liberal in what you accept', and simply ignore the HTTP cruft, but still p
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by manarth 10y ago
The satellite build costs $200m. Launch 1 costs $600m: total cost, $800m. Launch 2 costs $200m: you can build 2 spare satellites for the same cost (assuming you don't pay for the launches that go boom; and even if you do, that still gi
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by manarth 10y ago
I initially started this comment saying "I doubt that there's that much cash-flow between SpaceX and Tesla/Solar City", then thought I should at least google it first. What do you know? Turns out SpaceX invested $165M in
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by manarth 10y ago
As an aside, when SpaceX do reuse a rocket for the first-time (I suppose you could describe that as a test-flight), they have apparently given SES a discount [1]. [1] http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/30/technology
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by manarth 10y ago
The video points out two of the protection features, but they wouldn't do so well with a RUD. The tower features - the hold-down arms, etc - are painted with a sacrificial paint. The idea is that it's the paint that chars and burn
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by manarth 10y ago
The payload was reported at $200 million. Although whether it would cost an additional $200 million to build a second is another question, but I doubt there would be that significant an economy of scale for just one extra unit.

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