ominous_prime

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by ominous_prime 4y ago
not many other vehicles have the ability to transfer >6000ft/lbs of torque down to the pavement to be able to accelerate at 5gs
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by ominous_prime 4y ago
I think it's unfortunately something which has been reinforced by the majority of poor questions. You may legitimately want to solve X, but nearly all of the questions active users see are just poorly researched questions about Y. Atte
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by ominous_prime 4y ago
the NAS is ridiculously full of acronyms, but thankfully most are not three letters, which at least gives us a chance at remembering them ;)
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by ominous_prime 4y ago
It really must be a simple typo, it's inaccurate to the point of being nonsensical.
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by ominous_prime 4y ago
Not sure what you were thinking of, but they were never planning on a turboprop since that's not really possible.
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by ominous_prime 4y ago
What I was getting as is that you can't start with a false claim to make a convincing argument. I didn't see what the expected reduction is from the MIT research, but if it falls within known effects of the solar cycle, Milankovit
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by ominous_prime 4y ago
Except it hasn't. Solar irradiance has steadily increased over billions of years , and fluctuates regularly with the solar cycle. I'm not saying that this couldn't have unexpected consequences, but you can't start from
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by ominous_prime 4y ago
There’s a lot of things wrong with the article, but that’s not really one. A connection is started by binding a local port. You can’t receive the SYN-ACK if there’s no open socket to receive it.
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by ominous_prime 5y ago
Yup, old houses can be insulated, but they do not insulate well. Currently in an 1890s house which has been superficially renovated at least 2x in its life, with all the insulation you could possibly pump into the walls. Winter heating is s
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by ominous_prime 5y ago
A problem with installation is that torque is only a proxy for tension. Torque alone is not incredibly accurate, so there are a lot of cases that could benefit from an easier way to accurately indicate tension than by externally measuring t
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by ominous_prime 5y ago
I also rarely find anything useful on StackOverflow, but that's not never. I bet the real reason for the response level here is the difference between "Do you require StackOverflow to do your job?" and "Are you OK with y
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by ominous_prime 5y ago
Which makes what Tesla calls “autopilot” all the more appropriate IMO. Both will get you _most_ of the way from A to B, while you have to pay very close attention at any critical point, and generally supervise it at all times.
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by ominous_prime 5y ago
Because it is similar to an actual autopilot. Aircraft autopilots are also not fully-autonomous, and basically just follow a predetermined course.
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by ominous_prime 5y ago
If anything the name is the most accurate part of the marketing. My Garmin autopilot will gladly fly me straight into the ground if given the chance to do so. While they are getting more advanced, aircraft autopilots are even less autonomou
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by ominous_prime 6y ago
The solids in butter are what burn quickly. Clarified butter burns at 230°C, which is at the higher end of cooking oil smoke points.
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by ominous_prime 6y ago
Go has a different calling convention and stack layout from C, and wanted completely static binaries which you cannot always get when linking to the standard libc implementations. What is "bullshit" about these compatibility conce
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by ominous_prime 6y ago
All safety and instruction communication must be read back and identified. If the read-back is incorrect, or the pilot responds with "say again" (or even "speak slower"), then the controller can slow down, but the contro
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by ominous_prime 6y ago
Curious where you got the category info there. ICAO doesn't have a super category (proposed designation was `J`, but they don't publish anything under that). FAA list the 225 as NOWGT, which puts it over "heavy", requiri
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by ominous_prime 6y ago
The report corroborates the witness, video, ADS-B, and ATC recordings we had hours after the crash. It adds more details we couldn’t determine at that time, but otherwise it looks to be quite accurate
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by ominous_prime 7y ago
The first releases of each were only 8 months apart, far from “different days”. The projects simply have different goals.
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by ominous_prime 8y ago
I would guess that the node down attitude quickly put them over VFE, so even it they could extend the flaps (I don't know if the flight system would prevent that or not) they would at least second guess doing so and continue other aven
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by ominous_prime 8y ago
I have no idea what the number would be, and probably no one else does either. I don't think the real issue is the total numbers though, it's always the outliers that are the problem -- as someone below stated: "jerks ruin ev
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by ominous_prime 8y ago
um, no it wasn't. Any airflow near the boundary layer at that speed amounts to a rounding error in the test. The range of approach paths that result in significant damage would still be the same. Not only does this damage the wing, but
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by ominous_prime 9y ago
It's rarely a concern in practice. Public APIs should document if a slice may or may not be modified, for example: `io.Writer` says ` Write must not modify the slice data, even temporarily`, and `bufio.Scanner.Bytes()` says `The underl
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by ominous_prime 9y ago
I think it's even more common with companies using Go, because the output is often statically linked which changes the distribution requirements. The main difference between GPL and LGPL is that the the latter allows proprietary or non
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by ominous_prime 9y ago
Another Go SAT implementation (with an MIT license for those that can't use GPL): https://github.com/mitchellh/go-sat
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by ominous_prime 9y ago
Where do people get the idea that helicopters just fall from the sky when there's a power failure? Do people think that others are flying around everyday in machines that will likely kill them in case of a malfunction? Is the media is
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by ominous_prime 9y ago
Helicopters glide quite nicely. Learning to autorotate is something you learn early on when getting your license.
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by ominous_prime 10y ago
Terraform isn't specific to AWS. You can see a list of the builtin providers here that may be useful: https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/index.html
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by ominous_prime 10y ago
Go hasn't used segmented stacks in quite a while. Go now has 2k stacks and uses stack copying to grow.

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