namirez

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   by namirez 8y ago

   Totally! Given the demographics of their applicants, their ads should read "Men over 30 and women not need apply!". /s
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   by namirez 8y ago

   Is it really worth saving a few cents on Amazon while such stories keep popping up? I for one stopped using Amazon and its services (including the recent ones such as Audible and WholeFoods) entirely five years ago. I buy books from a local
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   by namirez 8y ago

   I didn't say anything about the design of it, which is by the way, very cool. I don't understand the point of the triangle. The same mechanism could be used to change the geometry of the wheel only at the bottom.
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   by namirez 8y ago

   I don't understand the benefit of turning the whole wheel into a triangular track; would it not be sufficient to make only the bottom third flat?
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   by namirez 8y ago

   My bad! Thanks for the correction!
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   by namirez 8y ago

   The correct term for these is winglet, which is a special kind of wingtip device. There are other wingtip devices too. For example A380 has wingtip fences.
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   by namirez 8y ago

   Nothing major will happen. If an aircraft loses one wingtip, the aerodynamic drag increases slightly (called the induced drag) which in turn causes a small moment about the vertical axis (yaw moment). The moment can be compensated by applyi
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   by namirez 8y ago

   Paid journals had a point 20 years ago, but not anymore. Most studies are funded by the tax-payers or collaboration with the industries. The authors are not paid. The reviewers are not paid either. Finally the publisher comes along and clai
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   by namirez 8y ago

   Maybe because these are public forums rather than private messaging tools. Although, I presume individual users are liable too.
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    by namirez 9y ago

    Actually, Mars and Earth can be as far apart as 400 million km, which amounts to a latency of 1333 sec.
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    by namirez 9y ago

    Small perturbations in the velocity field are totally fine even if they are not divergence-free. Most fluid dynamics codes used a discrete Poison equation to enforce the conservation of mass (i.e. divergence-free velocity field). Here is so
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    by namirez 10y ago

    This is the draft of the executive order. Section 3 explains how the US entry ban could be extended indefinitely. http://documents.latimes.com/read-draft-copy-president-trump...
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    by namirez 10y ago

    Good luck to them but given the intermittent nature of wind, the main problem with wind energy is storage not the turbine. So a turbine like this, which is probably rated at 500 Watts or so, must be coupled with a battery pack like the Tesl
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    by namirez 10y ago

    I think it requires a change of mindset. I've been using Linux exclusively on all of my machines since 2004. I started with KDE and then switched to Gnome 2 and finally Gnome 3. Everything looks clean and normal to me. On the other han
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    by namirez 11y ago

    Don't $hit where you eat; is it that hard to understand?