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by nwallin 5y ago
> All my games may randomly freeze for no discernible reason, All ? My experience is that 90% work fine, 9% have weirdness, (for instance, voices in Skyrim are out of sync with mouth movements) and 1% of them have game breaking bugs.
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by nwallin 5y ago
> But as the article itself says, we don’t know if this is the start of some trend or if this is a never previously observed fluke. ...That's not how statistics works. A 2 sigma deviation can be a never previously observed fluke. A
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by nwallin 5y ago
You're not characterizing the report correctly. The report that was released to the public is a 9 page preliminary assessment. It is almost entirely fluff. It does state that of the 144 reported cases of UAP over the course of the peri
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by nwallin 5y ago
Correct. IR video tends to bloom. If the object is hot enough, (for instance, a jet engine exhaust, a burning vehicle, a refinery flare...) you'll have a blob of smudge around/behind it on the video. The video is contending that t
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by nwallin 5y ago
> the US Navy/Pentagon who have found no explanation of this phenomenon thus far. "Released no explanation to the public" != "have found no explanation". The DoD is simply not in a habit of releasing information
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> "the commute is actually okay" is the reason people buy houses in the suburbs. Speaking only for myself, I didn't buy a house in the suburbs because "the commute was ok", I bought a house in the suburbs because
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> Adding lanes adds demand, The demand is constant and does not change. You can only shuffle it around. You have a few choices: 1. Add lanes. This gives people the option to move to the suburbs with a long commute. 2. Build housing in ur
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by nwallin 5y ago
The leading candidate for dark matter is that it's a soup of particles that interact gravitationally, but not via the electromagnic or strong nuclear force. If we're very, very lucky, it might interact via the weak nuclear force
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by nwallin 5y ago
Copernicus' model had the planets orbiting the same in circles at uniform speed. This does not match reality, so Copernicus just chucked in some epicycles to correct the error. Copernicus's model had all the complexity of epicycle
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by nwallin 5y ago
Regarding "denazification": the president of Ukraine is Jewish, Russia just bombed the Holocaust museum in Kyiv, and the pro-Russian people in Donetsk, Luhansk, and Belarus are the Nazis. "Denazification" is total and
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by nwallin 5y ago
> This gets to something I've been wondering about, what is the winning condition for Russia now? Before the invasion? The West is lazy and does nothing. (see Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine 2014) Now? Unicorns and fairy dust. Russia is
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by nwallin 5y ago
I guess I don't understand what you're trying to say. All it takes for a 737 MAX to crash is one piece of equipment failure and 2/3 an instance of human error. I submit that if three crews were presenting with the same situat
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This system isn't attempting to innovate on the condenser. The condenser part is the solved problem part of a water purifier; it's generally just a sheet of plastic or glass.
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by nwallin 5y ago
The power grid is in fact a graph, not a tree, and not a grid. It is automatically able to route around failures, and it does route around the failures. These failures happen every day, but people almost never notice. Almost. The trouble
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by nwallin 5y ago
You have salt water. You heat up the water. Water evaporates off the top, condenses somewhere, the condensed water is clean drinkable fresh water. The stuff that's left is brine, which is essentially a waste product. The engineering qu
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by nwallin 5y ago
Nuclear works now . A 100% renewable grid will require energy storage. We have small scale options for energy storage, but none of the current energy storage technology we have now scales large enough to meet the demands of a 100% renewa
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It was worth $25 billion before the invasion happened. Then the invasion happened. Then their share was worth the same amount in Rubles, but the value of the Ruble cratered. So their share was worth $10 billion. Then the west began announci
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by nwallin 5y ago
Depends. It's going to hit the embedded world pretty hard. It's going to hit the "no need to update the legacy software that still works" enterprise world pretty hard. It's not even going to be a blip on the open so
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by nwallin 5y ago
I was recently diagnosed with sleep apnea and got a CPAP machine. It has the option to control temperature and humidity in the air that's pumped through it. A few weeks ago my heater went out. Nothing serious, but it took a week to get
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by nwallin 5y ago
"South of Crimea" as in international airspace in the Black Sea?
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by nwallin 5y ago
> the US will suffer from shutting out Russian oil. The US is a net exporter of oil. Some say it's a temporary effect of COVID, but the switch happened in November 2019, before COVID hit, and if you look at the graph, net imports ha
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by nwallin 5y ago
> Well, 100% of the emitted radiation hits the ground in terms of total power, but the radar is looking for the _closest_ reflection, which is some relatively small solid angle straight down. This fixed angle paints a larger and larger c
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by nwallin 5y ago
> This isn't a Boeing-specific issue. If Airbus has the same problem, then ground Airbus too. > Boeing doesn't even make the avionics in question. Some of the manufacturers don't even exist anymore. It's not clear
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> With radar, it's actually worse! Received signal strength is proportional to the fourth power of distance (1/r^2 on the way to the target, then 1/r^2 on the way back to the radar). I think that's specifically true w
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by nwallin 5y ago
Sure, but radar altimeter allocation is 200MHz wide and the gap between 5G and the altimeters is 220MHz. The problem isn't that the filters are insufficiently perfect, the problem is that the filters are hot garbage. If Boeing needs 3.
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If I understand this correctly, the FCC has allocated the 4.2GHz-4.4GHz band for radar altimeters. The FCC has also allocated the 3.7GHz-3.98GHz band to 5G. It turns out that the radar altimeters, as manufactured, use spectrum outside their
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> If you made changes to a document, pressed control-S, and then 1 second later the power went out, then you might lose that last save. If you made changes to a document, pressed control-S, and then 1 second later the power went out, the
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by nwallin 5y ago
> But any ordering should not be observable unless you have a power outage. But what if the front does fall off?
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Go look at Iceland on a map. Don't just imagine it in your head, actually look at it. Now look at a map of Jordan. Ask yourself which of these countries is more circular, and then ask yourself which of these countries your metric will
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by nwallin 5y ago
There does not exist an adequate methodology to determine the length of a nation's coastline. Even if there did exist such a methodology, the various surveying bodies of the world's governments do not agree on any methodology. So

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