pierrekin

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by pierrekin 3y ago
This doesn't seem right to me, in my experience a 3 - 4 ton sailboat is around 9m long, which has a sail in the 20 - 40 m^2 range. A 5 - 8 square meter sail is really teenie tiny.
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by pierrekin 3y ago
When there is a break in the wind, you reel the kite in, creating apparent wind.
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by pierrekin 3y ago
At HPE, it's $3000.00 per patent, for each author.
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by pierrekin 3y ago
In my home country, there was a stunt where a person used a carrier pidgeon with a usb drive to race a local ISP transferring a file. It got me thinking about strange units. Like how for example a car's mileage can be thought of as a s
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by pierrekin 3y ago
One last thing that is a little bit sadder, so I thought I'd post in a separate thread. I grew to really like the engineer that invited me to the project. He was a well known expert in the field with a wiki page, books, academic eminen
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by pierrekin 3y ago
I think it's just because I'm a new account. I signed up to make this comment. But I'm not a troll or anything so thank you for vouching.
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by pierrekin 3y ago
In the UK, we had a smaller scale model of the aircraft that we used for testing. The team that built the scale model was having trouble configuring the autopilot and I volinteered to help They were using an off the shelf 'drone'
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by pierrekin 3y ago
I am possibly wrong about small details, and would appreciate corrections. So when I joined the project, the physical aircraft was based in the USA, but the software team for the autopilot was based in the UK. For some reason - I think it w
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by pierrekin 3y ago
I worked on this at Facebook very briefly. I believe the project was called Aquila internally. I worked with a famous engineer who joined Facebook from a well known british aircraft manufacturer. He was an aerodynamics expert and was trying