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571.
by nether 11y ago
All we use are strip charts. It's all I saw at Boeing as well (through some proprietary charting software IIRC). What I'd like is some "rich" time series data format that stores a history of modifications (removing noise
572.
by nether 11y ago
Do you use a database for your data? We store our flight test data as individual DATAQ files with a naming scheme. This is manageable for our very simple civil aircraft so far.
573.
by nether 11y ago
war is boring
574.
by nether 11y ago
we're having similar issues in aerospace. time series data out the wazoo.
575.
by nether 11y ago
no, we can't. we currently do not have the CPU power to do molecular simulations of fluids and solids ( beyond the grain level) at large scales, that's why we still have supercomputers working at simplified versions. additional
576.
by nether 11y ago
Not to mention, isn't the FFL more selective in physical ability than the US Army Rangers? You don't just sign up.
577.
by nether 11y ago
"Harm considered harmful"
578.
by nether 11y ago
> One might have to build one > One might have to start an entire aircraft development program, employing a hundred or so rotorcraft engineers, constructing test facilities along the way, that might take years and tens of millions to
579.
by nether 11y ago
That's actually the approach being used with the ULA Vulcan to recover the first stage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(rocket) . I think it is an easier method with less flexibility than self-landing. As typ
580.
by nether 11y ago
"Drones" can be fixed-wing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_D-21
581.
Lake fire grew after private drone flights disrupted air drops(latimes.com)
38 points by nether 11y ago|45 comments
582.
by nether 11y ago
> And again, if you worked at NG, what possibly interesting things you could have done? Applicant: Well, I wrote a code to optimize a UAV flight path to avoid enemy radar and minimize fuel consumption, and debugged another controls code
583.
by nether 11y ago
taytay
584.
by nether 11y ago
I wonder if it's illegal to fire someone for being depressed per the American Disabilities Act, since it protects those with "mental impairments": http://www2.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=Helpline1&templa
585.
by nether 11y ago
"And Here's the Kicker" by Mike Sacks is a collection of interviews of top comics, from standup to sitcom writing. There was definitely a lot of misery in there. There's the Simpsons writer who graduated from Harvard and
586.
South Korean auto brands surpass Japanese in J.D. Power quality study(latimes.com)
1 points by nether 11y ago|0 comments
587.
by nether 11y ago
I'm an aeromechanical engineer around LA and might be interested in contributing some design/analysis work in a non-leadership role. Current work is in structural analysis, interested in aerodynamics though (was my master's c
588.
by nether 11y ago
Back home in South Carolina, we had apple trees in our front yard. Never used any pesticides or anything, just let them grow. Anyway, they were about half the size of grocery apples, almost completely covered in insect bites, and tasted lik
589.
by nether 11y ago
Well AFF is unique in that it's explicitly a hookup site, and that might naturally skew men. I'm not sure an even gender balance would even help anything. With 1,000 men and 1,000 women, you'd still have the most attractive
590.
by nether 11y ago
> Add to that the fact that in most dating sites the analogy of men to women is at least 3 to 1 I've never actually seen this proven. Did you scrape profiles? OkC staff have repeatedly claimed that the ratio is around 50/50 for
591.
by nether 11y ago
Soylent had exceptionally poor order handling prior to their latest round of funding. The way they've run their business and development seems like a total joke. 6-10 month order delays over a year since they started selling? (Not to m
592.
by nether 11y ago
What's wrong with being irrelevant?
593.
by nether 11y ago
"90% of people who go to Vegas lose money, 80% leave happy"
594.
by nether 11y ago
Well, now you're aware.
595.
by nether 11y ago
Maybe a huge amount of legacy code using wavelets that's been debugged and experimentally validated. CFD code checking is laborious and errors often very subtle, and so tends to be pretty conservative.
596.
by nether 11y ago
An American architect tried building a school in post-earthquake Haiti. He struggled for a while with growing cost estimates, finding materials, and cutting through corruption and bureaucracy. At the end he thought that just giving them cas
597.
by nether 11y ago
A few billion?
598.
by nether 11y ago
> Even if I'm alone I can whip up a 10 minute meal that tastes damn nice compared to what Soylent is supposed to taste like. E.g. heat a wok with a bit of oil, dump in a package of pre sliced wok vegetables and a handful of cashew n
599.
by nether 11y ago
Mealsquares is probably healthier, but it's also much more expensive at $20 for 2,000 calories, vs $9 for Soylent. They're priced like energy bars (Clif bars, probars etc.).
600.
Crevasse fall and rescue(zapiks.fr)
1 points by nether 11y ago|0 comments

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