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by mhandley 11y ago
There doesn't seem to be any technical downside to implementing it and likely significant upside. It's Apache-licensed which grants both copyright and patent rights that cover the code. The spec is published as a Internet Draft
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by mhandley 11y ago
You'd probably need to make it very slightly more dense than water, or it may get trapped at the surface in an underground cave. This means it won't surface by itself once it leaves the cave system, and as water blocks RF pretty
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by mhandley 11y ago
The UK had 113 Typhoons in 2013 and Germany had 112. When they're all delivered, the UK will have 160 and Germany 140. France has 95 Rafales and will eventually have 180. Sweden is not NATO, but has around 130 Gripens. Norway and De
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by mhandley 11y ago
This is why you want reusable rockets. If you recover the rocket, you get to see if any components are suffering damage, cracking or wear beyond limits, and then redesign systems to prevent future potential failures. This is much harder t
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Philae is getting 3hrs/day of sunlight(dlr.de)
2 points by mhandley 11y ago|0 comments
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by mhandley 11y ago
The BBC article has a few more details: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33125068 I'm British, and it seems to me that if British Intelligence need to move spies as a result of what an unprivileged contractor like Sno
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by mhandley 11y ago
I agree. The real question is why did even European cars go boxy in the second half of the 1970s? A good example is the Ford Cortina Mk 3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Cortina#TC_Mark_III_.28197... vs Mk 4: htt
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by mhandley 11y ago
Don't helicopters behave similar to rockets as regards CG properties? I would think the Pendulum Rocket Fallacy would apply here too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum_rocket_fallacy In fact a large fuselage
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by mhandley 11y ago
The A400M that crashed was on its first test flight, so unless they've done something very odd with versioning, it's unlikely that all its ECUs had older firmware than planes that already shipped. Besides, with aircraft, all chan
910.
by mhandley 11y ago
Here's Airbus's statement on the Alert they sent to operators: Airbus Defence and Space has today (Tuesday 19 May) sent an Alert Operator Transmission (AOT) to all operators of the A400M informing them about specific checks to be
911.
by mhandley 12y ago
Did one of the legs break on landing, causing the rocket to fall over? Or did the leg break while the rocket was falling?
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by mhandley 12y ago
From machine translation of his tweets, he seems to be saying that an amendment (#437) was added last night, before the bill was passed, that makes things not so bad for datacenters. Can anyone with better French than me say what the amend
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Video: SpaceX rocket booster crash lands on barge(spaceflightnow.com)
1 points by mhandley 12y ago|0 comments
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by mhandley 12y ago
Agreed - definitely the main app for kids at my son's school in London. They do use instagram a lot too though.
915.
by mhandley 12y ago
Other than costs, another advantage of flying the first stage back is that they can be analyzed to see how all the components perform or wear, and the design improved based on the findings. It's harder to do that when you crash them i
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by mhandley 12y ago
Accidentally clicking a link wouldn't be a problem if you got the chance to back out early once you realized you'd touched it. For example, touch and hold might work. You press on the link, and it starts visually zooming into th
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by mhandley 12y ago
What fuse/circuit breaker do you put in the fuse panel with radial wiring? It's got to cope with the largest appliance you'll put on that circuit. With British plugs, a low-current device such as a lamp should have a 3 amp
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by mhandley 12y ago
Looks great, but it costs £40,000 and needs one metre of space above the ceiling. I don't think I'll be buying one anytime soon. If you designed the building around it though, that might be a different story.
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by mhandley 12y ago
I can't really impose any hard definition, but I was wondering what the oldest server is that's still running on either the original hardware or original software. I don't mind if the software has a minor patch or two to fix
920.
by mhandley 12y ago
My wife has silenced three smoke detectors by physically smashing them from the ceiling with a broom handle. It's a bad idea to persistently disturb her sleep. That's what happens when you can't easily silence a smoke detect
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by mhandley 12y ago
Currently, that's running Apache 1.2.6, which was released in March 1998.
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Ask HN: What's the oldest server on the Internet?
35 points by mhandley 12y ago|8 comments
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by mhandley 12y ago
I would expect the car is a much more harsh environment for the battery than my house. I'm not talking about vibration or temperature, though those matter, but electrical demand. A model S has a 310kW motor. Nothing in my house come
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by mhandley 12y ago
"While extreme weather prevented SpaceX from attempting to recover the first stage, data shows the first stage successfully soft landed in the Atlantic Ocean within 10 meters of its target. The vehicle was nicely vertical and the data
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by mhandley 12y ago
You don't really need to stop the explosion so much as make it not worth the thieves' while. Just spray the money with indelible die as soon as you detect the gas. You may lose a few ATMs this way, but the thieves will pretty ra
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by mhandley 12y ago
It's also legal to cross a pedestrian crossing on the "red man" in the UK - the lights on the crossing are only advisory to pedestrians. I live near the German school in West London and have many German friends here. When I
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by mhandley 12y ago
Their F9R test vehicle could hover. Isn't that essentially a mockup Falcon 9 first stage, but with only the centre engine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwwS4YOTbbw
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by mhandley 12y ago
We already have "client" and "server" addresses, courtesy of NATs. NATs are a huge pain from an architectural point of view, but all the same, many people like them because they provide some measure of security as a sid
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by mhandley 12y ago
It's not fundamental to keep per-flow state to have more control over reachability. Once you step back from the current Internet architecture, there are a whole host of possibilities. Here's are a couple of (rather old) papers f
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by mhandley 12y ago
The Internet got a lot of things right - in particular, it is an excellent design for evolution. None of the original hardware is still around, it's grown by orders of magnitude in both size and speed, and almost all the most popular

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