namirez

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by namirez 7y ago
This brings the concept of "brain in a vat" to a whole new level.
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by namirez 8y ago
I think Persian and a handful of other languages are the outliers. The main difference between old, middle, and modern Persian is the writing system. Old Persian is quite hard to read and understand for a modern Persian speaker, but if one
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by namirez 8y ago
You're right! I was being careless and stupid. I was just surprised how easy it was to miss the recurring charges agreement. That experience made me wonder what value PayPal actually offers to buyers (I don't know much about the s
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by namirez 8y ago
I avoid PayPal totally for any online purchase unless it's the only option. I learned it the hard way. Once I paid $5 to buy the trial version of some software tool. Since I didn't know the seller, I used PayPal thinking it would
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Ethiopian Airlines crash: France to analyse Boeing's black boxes(aljazeera.com)
2 points by namirez 8y ago|0 comments
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by namirez 8y ago
Fly-by-wire means the control surface actuators are connected to cockpit controls electronically rather than with hydraulic lines or metal cables; it's not necessarily related to stability and control augmentation system. With regard t
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by namirez 8y ago
My mistake! Thank you for the correction!
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by namirez 8y ago
They were different sensors though. In Air France 333, the pitot static tube, which measure airspeed, was jammed by ice. In Lion Air 610, the Alpha vane, which measure angle of attach, was faulty. But I agree that the solution is not as sim
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by namirez 8y ago
> people's happiness and wealth don't correlate much past a certain point! Exactly! Most people in the world are well below that "certain point". In an ideal world that everyone has enough to feel safe and secure, pro
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by namirez 8y ago
I don't know about the standard offerings on cloud platforms, but people who do some sort of scientific computing care a great deal about the architecture and performance. As a C++ programmer, I'm constantly profiling my code to f
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by namirez 8y ago
There are a few potential improvements here: 1) Use a look up table for 'sin' rather than using 'std::sin'. 2) Tell the compiler what instruction sets to use; for example, tell GCC to use 'skylake' instructions
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by namirez 8y ago
>> I really don't want to pay more taxes for the Central Bureau of Making Sure You Know You Might Be 7% Less Eastern European than Your DNA Test Indicates. I'm not sure if you're serious, but 23andMe also offers tests
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by namirez 8y ago
Or perhaps Maven got more media coverage than Dragonfly. Selection bias can be a real thing.
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by namirez 8y ago
No! The natural warmings happened over thousands of years. In comparison to the Paleocene–Eocene warming, we are dumping 50 times more CO2 into atmosphere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Therm...
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by namirez 8y ago
> it takes a massive amount of hubris to think that we can do anything to the rock we live on that will affect it in any meaningful way. I think the scientific consensus is that we already have, sadly for the worse.
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by namirez 8y ago
> and then giving them access to documents pertaining to US military technology Not true! Once a technology is deemed to fall under ITAR or EAR, the export regulations kick in. Doesn't matter if the technology belongs to the govern
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by namirez 8y ago
Maybe! Probably he should have known better, but that's beside the point. One can end up in jail by simply hiring nationals from sanctioned countries. This case is more clearcut in comparison. She was actually involved in exporting Ame
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by namirez 8y ago
Nothing new here! She appears to have violated the US sanctions. Many people have ended up in prison for lesser offenses, some of whom were not even aware of their crime. The story of John Roth is really informative. He was indicted and jai
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by namirez 8y ago
For the same reason that we use both temperature and energy and find them both useful. We can talk of the energy of an electron. On the other hand, temperature, is an statistical property defined for many particles. Using mole (based on Avo
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by namirez 8y ago
One flaw here, as others have noted, is the number of wage-earners per household. But there is even a greater factor: the inflation-adjusted GDP per capita! In 1968 it was $24k; in 2008 it was $50k. Is the author really surprised that a lot
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Tech firms make millions from Trump's anti-immigrant agenda, report finds(theguardian.com)
3 points by namirez 8y ago|0 comments
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by namirez 8y ago
I agree with the importance of the freestream turbulence intensity, but at high Re numbers, it's extremely hard to control it. It can be shown mathematically, using a technique called parabolized stability equations (PSE), that small d
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by namirez 8y ago
Fascinating! For what it's worth, detached vortices are also critical to the takeoff and landing of airplanes with delta wings, such as the Concorde.
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by namirez 8y ago
Probably not! This phenomenon is not scale-independent. There is a parameter called the Reynolds number (Re for short) which is the ratio of intertial forces to viscous forces. For a dandelion seed Re is small which is the key to the stabil
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by namirez 8y ago
XM3 has a usb-c connector with fast charging, so it's better than XM2. Going to 100% takes a while though (maybe about 1 hour) but charging it for about 10 min is enough to get you going for the whole day. I charge mine about once a we
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by namirez 8y ago
I second the Sony WH1000XM2 or XM3. I owned both of them. In terms of noise cancelling I didn't notice much difference between them, except XM3 feels a bit more comfortable. Compared to Bose QC35, however, they were significantly super
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by namirez 8y ago
I read The Trial a few years ago and found it a true masterpiece. I can understand that everyone doesn't share my opinion, but for me Kafka's stories hit too close to home. Many of us have been socially conditioned to have a false
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by namirez 8y ago
Template metaprogramming is the most powerful feature of C++. It's true that the syntax is clunky, but since I started using templates, I've never looked back to the old style of coding. C++20 will be even more powerful by adding
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by namirez 8y ago
You forgot to mention the 4th scenario: turning Iran into another Afghanistan or Iraq. smh!
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by namirez 8y ago
I've never seen such ads in my entire engineering career. But if they do exist as you suggest, it must be a "bona fide occupational qualification" or it's not legal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon

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