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by mcguire 5y ago
Psst! Boeing isn't the only manufacturer affected. " Airbus has issued Flight Operations Transmission 999.0002/22 (01/10/2022) which describes the currently understood effects of radar altimeter anomalies. Guidance
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by mcguire 5y ago
If the transmitters weren't leaking outside the assigned band, there wouldn't be a problem, right? Those transmitters are the best new tech, right?
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by mcguire 5y ago
Have you looked at a map of Ukraine lately? The nearest defensible feature is the Denieper river, which is another 100km to the west.
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by mcguire 5y ago
https://www.rtca.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SC-239-5G-In...
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by mcguire 5y ago
" "5G interference could adversely affect the ability of aircraft to safely operate," said the bosses of Boeing and Airbus Americas, Dave Calhoun and Jeffrey Knittel, in a joint letter to US Transportation Secretary Pete Butt
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by mcguire 5y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30445969 "They mostly did. They've been warning about this for 3+ years now (see this report from the FCC back in September and October 2019) https://ecfsapi.fcc
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by mcguire 5y ago
Or poor design on the part of 5G transmitter designers?
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by mcguire 5y ago
I realize it's fun to hate on Boeing, but you do realize Airbus, the Airline Pilots Assns. ( https://www.alpa.org/resources/aircraft-operations-radar-alt... ), and the ICAO( https://www.icao.int/safet
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by mcguire 5y ago
There is no way to build a perfect filter. 5G equipment will emit outside of its assigned spectrum and radar altimeters will receive signals from outside their spectrum. The next important variables are the power of the transmitters and
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by mcguire 5y ago
Do they mean radar altimeters? " That would result in "increased lightcrew workload while on approach... " Who wrote this?
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by mcguire 5y ago
How does moving the border 100 or 150 km west make it more defensible?
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by mcguire 5y ago
History would suggest that you can do anything you want if you're willing to back it up with enough military force.
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by mcguire 5y ago
Makes for interesting strategies for a country wishing to expand. If you go in fast and settle the issue quickly, it's a fait accompli and anyone seeking to "reverse the transaction" is just bringing misery. If you can't
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by mcguire 5y ago
" The rebel-held regions which were backed by Russia have been in constant conflict for 8 years. There's nothing new here on this map. Putin's decision yesterday to make it officially Russian-protected instead of shadow-backe
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by mcguire 5y ago
" Java's checked exceptions are generally regarded as a mistake. " By people who do not want to believe that errors are part of a system's API and prefer to just write the happy path and let any exception kill the proces
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by mcguire 5y ago
No one needs more than 64 cores?
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by mcguire 5y ago
Are you arguing that C++ is unsuitable for massive parallel data processing tasks?
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by mcguire 5y ago
It's more intimidating. (IIRC, they can be remotely controlled by an operator and have loudspeakers and such for the operator to yell at people.)
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by mcguire 5y ago
" ...the discomfort of killing hundreds of thousands of civilians in bombing raids and dropping nuclear bombs on two cities... " That decision had been made long before 1945. A pocket timeline of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937
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by mcguire 5y ago
If it's a question of "[competing] with the most vicious regimes in history how cruelly one can treat one's opponents", then the US lost very badly to Japan. " As can be seen, nearly one out of every one-hundred peo
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by mcguire 5y ago
Those politicians were telling that to each other---the Supreme Council was deadlocked after Nagasaki and the Soviets had entered the war.
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by mcguire 5y ago
I've been looking for them from the official source I once had, but I cannot find it today. IIRC, they were: 1. The form of the government is to be preserved; i.e. the Emperor's position is maintained. (I cannot remember if the re
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by mcguire 5y ago
That quote is taken from the Summary Report ( https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/AUPress/Books/B_... , page 107). It (almost) literally ends: " The experience of the Pacific war supports the
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by mcguire 5y ago
The conditions the Japanese Supreme Council was looking so desperately for were: 1. The form of the Japanese government remains unchanged. (I.e. the Emperor is guaranteed to remain emperor. This was not agreed to, but it did work out that w
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by mcguire 5y ago
As far as I've been able to determine, Ukraine wants to join NATO.
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by mcguire 5y ago
That actually was a serious concern, both to the US and to the Japanese government itself. If the Emperor and the military leaders had been killed, there was no one who could legitimately order the remaining military to surrender. And the J
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by mcguire 5y ago
" With these totals I calculated (lines 412 and 413) the overall and annual democide rate (for the occupied population, at its greatest extent). As can be seen, nearly one out of every one-hundred people controlled by Japan was murdere
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by mcguire 5y ago
This matches the collection of ULTRA-decoded Japanese diplomatic traffic and notes from those close to the Japanese Supreme Council that I can't find online at the moment. [Notes mine.] https://www.history.navy.mil/abou
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by mcguire 5y ago
Do you apply this sort of thinking to your job?
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by mcguire 5y ago
Not necessarily directly related to your question, but a conversation I had with a friend who was an aerospace engineer, and who worked on solid rocket design: Remember the Ares I/V designs? They theoretically were claimed to use what

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