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by na85 6y ago
Some of us have known this for years. Mark, after all, is the guy who got rich promoting "privacy is dead" and then used that money to buy all the mansions around his in order to protect his privacy. Blatant hypocrisy.
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by na85 6y ago
It was intentionally "leaked"; the whole thing is a PR move. Facebook's entire business is predicated upon having intimate knowledge of its users and is as such irreconcilable with the concept of privacy.
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by na85 6y ago
I used to live in Ontario near where the only airworthy Lancaster lives. It's based out of Hamilton, and the Lanc is powered by inclines rather than radials but still an awesome sound. I got to ride in it once, it was a lifetime experi
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by na85 6y ago
I'd wager it's because a lot of them fly to places where electricity is widely available but pressurized hydrogen refueling is not.
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by na85 6y ago
I had a professor in school that hated turbines. You press a button, it whines, and with a small puff it starts. A radial looks, sounds, smells dangerous, like it's going to fly apart at any second, and that's awesome. Every so
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by na85 6y ago
> Don't a lot of older small craft—such as seaplanes—have radial engines? Sure, lots of older aircraft (and lots of modern small aircraft) run on avgas or diesel, whether radial or inline. But Harbour Air's fleet is almost all
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by na85 6y ago
>Outside of optimal operation, specially during the start, this would actually be an advantage of electric motors? When you say "this" do you mean "having more low-end torque than a gasoline motor"? In theory, you cou
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by na85 6y ago
>Electric engines have a significantly better trust-to-weight ratio. Aerospace engineer here. This is not accurate, unless you are perhaps discussing cars. But for aircraft the torque supplied by the motor is not nearly so critical. Fi
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by na85 6y ago
Jet fuel (which powers the turbine engines that Harbour Air uses) is actually quite similar to Diesel. Some turbines have diesel listed as an approved emergency fuel, particularly military aircraft. You might be thinking of avgas which has
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by na85 6y ago
>You're also entrusting my life, and those of my family, to them. But we'll gloss over that, because it's expensive not to. This is my biggest concern. I'm going to get killed by some jackass' tesla while he&#x2
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by na85 6y ago
>Cool so Google does not like what I do to my mailbox? It's not your mailbox with Google.
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by na85 6y ago
You'll see if you dig into it that it only does 2D. You could extend it to 3D with some serious work, and for simple geometries at low angles of attack and high Reynolds Number it will probably do fine. But if you want better fidelity
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by na85 6y ago
See also by the same professor CFD Python: 12 Steps to Navier-Stokes: https://github.com/barbagroup/CFDPython
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by na85 6y ago
> you should almost never use `su` Why?
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by na85 6y ago
This isn't "Silicon Valley News". Lots of us don't live in the US.
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by na85 6y ago
Do any of those operating systems have particularly good support for messing around with the GPIO ports?
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by na85 6y ago
It seems quite obvious to me that Larry is trying to get Ted Turner a job in the Clinton Administration. What are you seeing there that's so shocking?
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by na85 6y ago
I don't use Java but I was under the impression that it has the most sophisticated gc's available. Isn't the Shenandoah GC supposed to be able to gc asynchronously without pauses?
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by na85 6y ago
What makes you think, in this world of ubiquitous high profile security breaches, that Tesla is capable of making a phone-home system that can't be disabled?
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by na85 6y ago
I've long held the opinion that chip making will eventually go the route of uranium refining and become national strategic capabilities that all great powers will pursue. I'm continually surprised that this doesn't seem to be
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by na85 6y ago
I mean if you accept that fossil fuel emissions are bad for the planet, why on earth would you want to disincentivize purchasing electric vehicles?
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by na85 6y ago
In Vancouver BC for example it's common for residential streets to be "parking for residents only" and bylaw officers will ticket/tow any vehicle that is lacking a pass. The pass comes with your house/apartment.
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by na85 6y ago
+1 for the Beaglebone Black, a great little board that doesn't get as much publicity as the Raspberry and other boards.
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by na85 6y ago
>This is totally unacceptable. And yet not at all surprising. These huge companies have a reputation for being faceless because they skimp on staffing their support teams and until the so-called "tech reckoning" have operated
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by na85 6y ago
Perhaps it is time to start a new, grassroots replacement for the W3C.
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by na85 6y ago
Does the site you linked purport to have total awareness of all illicit wallets on the blockchain?
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by na85 6y ago
>"Cryptocurrencies are a particular concern. I think many are used - at least in a transaction sense - mainly for illicit financing. >"And I think we really need to examine ways in which we can curtail their use and make sur
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by na85 6y ago
>BLAST Not to be confused with BLAS, which is for Linear Algebra and likewise a neat example. BLAS and its co-conspirator LAPACK are the underpinning for many (most?) scientific libraries in use today. Packages like scipy will wrap BLA
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by na85 6y ago
It's pretty common in Computational Fluids as well. Two well-known codes among several are Code Aster [0], a structural mechanics, thermodynamics, and finite element analysis solver, and Code Saturne [1], a Navier-Stokes solver. [0]
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by na85 6y ago
>subpar support for a webcam, energy saving, suspend/resume, the trackpad, brightness/volume controls Honestly this sounds exactly like my experience with linux on any laptop, including three thinkpads. Linux is a great deskt

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