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by mgsouth 4y ago
Wow. That's almost unheard of. There's a speed called "V1"; this is the last possible moment for a pilot to start aborting the takeoff. There's another speed called "Vr", which is when the pilot starts the
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by mgsouth 4y ago
Um, an immutable journal means you can't delete bogus data . If, for example, a system chokes when it sees a 3-byte UTF-8 code point, and you accidentally insert such a thing in the journal, then you're hosed. The system can&#x27
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by mgsouth 4y ago
I recently recieved an email from Phillips (re CPAP recall) which said "In the meantime, your device registration confirmation number is 2.02xxxxE+15." [some digits obscurred by me, although they dropped some of the trailing digi
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Tell HN: Notam Systems Info
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by mgsouth 4y ago
Better discussion from Canadian news source https://www.cbc.ca/news/us-air-travel-chaos-notam-outage-1.6... NAV Canada said it didn't think it was related to U.S., but investigating.
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by mgsouth 4y ago
Quote from FAA: "Our preliminary work has traced the outage to a damaged database file." UK news source The Independent is reporting that Nav Canada's NOTAM system also suffered an issue.[1] Speculation: corrupting input, eit
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by mgsouth 4y ago
No, as intended. As I tried to say, was unable to respond to another of that user's comments, but felt it was important to try and respond to them. Hopefully they will see it here.
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by mgsouth 4y ago
The reporter seriously wanted to use a larger value.
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by mgsouth 4y ago
I'm replying to you here because your "Ask HN" post was flagged, can't comment there, but I think your statement about destructive behaviour [edit: was 'last statement'] is the important one. It is to be taken
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by mgsouth 4y ago
Cold, logical advice, based on your questions: "don't do it." It appears the things closest to your heart are technical issues. "[business questions] would also be really nice." Literally a last place afterthought.
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by mgsouth 4y ago
Yeah, me too. But no--it's an editor for m68k assembly, said editor runs in your browser.
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by mgsouth 4y ago
Virus sinks: did you see the recent paper published in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology? [1] It cites lots of other studies showing that nasal epithelial cells create extracellular vesicles (blobs of stuff floating outside the cel
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by mgsouth 4y ago
What am I not getting? Isn't family {1}, {2}, {3}, {4}, {1, 2, 3, 4} union-closed? Each element appears in only 2/5 of the sets, so ??? Edit: From the paper, the family F is defined as "F ⊆ (subset or equal) 2^n". I thin
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by mgsouth 4y ago
(2019)
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by mgsouth 4y ago
(2015)
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by mgsouth 4y ago
True, but neurons are way more complicated than a transistor. Even a synapse is more complicated and powerful. Neurons are more like microcontrollers.
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by mgsouth 4y ago
You touched upon the core issues. Yes, SkySolver should be able to get a solution quickly. Yes, there should be systems in place to co-ordinate invidividual actions of 20k people with rapid adjustments. Yes, they should have procedure
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by mgsouth 4y ago
Well, let's see... A bit of internet searching shows SWA has about 60,000 total employees. Roughly 6,000 of those are pilots. So probably about 10,000 cabin crew (3 or 4 flight attendants, 2 pilots per flight). Most of those 15,000+ pe
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by mgsouth 4y ago
Didn't see that one coming :) That's why listening before prescribing is a cardinal rule. That is an interesting take. "Ask HN: How can we replace governments with software?" would get a reaction. Society's frustrat
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by mgsouth 4y ago
1. Why would spinning the water make it pump out? I didn't see any stator vanes inserted into the tube. 2. Why would the water spin? a. You would need a rotating magnetic field. For single-phase AC this means the equivalent to a shaded
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by mgsouth 4y ago
To be pedantic, implementing a client and server that use gRPC via libraries. No gory protocol details.
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by mgsouth 4y ago
Putting on my architect's hat--what is it the customer really wanting to do? So.. "Why do you want to make Lisp more popular? If you were sucessful, what would be different in the world, and why is that desirable to you?" N
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by mgsouth 4y ago
(Sorry, I turned around and made an edit, but not before you replied.) KeePass encrypts the entire database, all fields, as one giant blob. LastPass stores URLs and other fields as plaintext; these too can contain critically sensitive infor
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by mgsouth 4y ago
The database is encrypted when at rest; i.e., no plaintext is stored on Dropbox. Assuming your master password is decent, you could plaster the database on a billboard and it would be safe. LastPass, on the other hand, encrypts some infor
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by mgsouth 4y ago
Only decodes silk. No encoders, no celt. Very much work in progress.
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by mgsouth 4y ago
I think your threat model is that your application wants to execute or process (signed) resources that are stored on an untrusted third-party server (or one of your servers which is compromised). You're attempting to mitigate issues
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by mgsouth 4y ago
Cool! Have you submitted to Hackaday?
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by mgsouth 4y ago
In Firefox, turn off "Search for text when you start typing" (Settings, Browsing). Otherwise you get an annoying "Click to continue" overlay every time you hit a number or letter key.
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by mgsouth 4y ago
In other words, works for us :) The three disc 1-3 .rar downloads are different. The other albumbs are duplicated in the "Remains" set, though.
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by mgsouth 4y ago
On the albums page, the link for "The Remains of Tom Lehrer (disc 1)" RAR file has a typo. It should be https://tomlehrersongs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/trotl1... (replace the last lowerc

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