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by quux 5y ago
I think in the case of Concorde JFK was preferred because the engines used loud afterburners during takeoff, climb and acceleration to supersonic speeds. For noise abatement they would takeoff on burners, immediately turn south to stay over
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by quux 5y ago
I think it's physics, yes. If you want to keep the leading edge of the wing behind the supersonic shock cone you need to have a highly swept design and a Concorde style delta wing is a good choice for lots of aerodynamic and engineerin
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by quux 5y ago
IIRC Concorde development was highly subsidized by the government but it became a sustainable business for British Airways as long as there were wealthy business travelers willing to pay a huge premium to get between the financial centers o
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by quux 5y ago
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
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by quux 5y ago
Hah I had a hunch this was what they did. If it's stupid but it works, it's not stupid.
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by quux 5y ago
Do they assist in cutting the umbilical cord and delivering the placenta before leaving the parents and baby alone?
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by quux 5y ago
https://daringfireball.net https://kottke.org
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by quux 5y ago
Ironically, the allowance for CFD time is scaled based on the reversed world championship points order, and Williams was dead last, so they should have the most CFD time of any of the F1 teams.
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by quux 5y ago
I think the only UML diagram with real merit is sequence diagrams. I use those all the time.
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by quux 5y ago
We use xcodegen at my work and it’s awesome. A similar project from Google is Tulsi [1] but even though it can also generate xCode project files I think it’s more geared towards making iOS projects work well with Bazel. [1] https:/&#x
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by quux 5y ago
While this is certainly true for falcon 9 I wonder if Shotwell is deliberately letting Elon go unrestrained on Starship. Maybe SpaceX winning the Artemis contract changes things but until now Starship was an area where they were free to mak
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by quux 6y ago
Sounds like he read "Death's End" by Liu Cixin and got inspired.
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by quux 6y ago
What else would be the point of "that you can change the software" without having a means to run it? Porting the software to new hardware?
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by quux 6y ago
It is. My point is that saying Tivoization went against "the entire purpose of the GPL" (which would include v2) isn't backed up by the text of v2 itself.
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by quux 6y ago
Giving end users control of their own computers is not a stated goal of GPL 2. From the preamble: Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this
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by quux 6y ago
Press release from WeWork: https://www.wework.com/ideas/newsroom-landing-page/newsroom/...
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WeWork Agrees to SPAC Deal That Would Take Startup Public(wsj.com)
6 points by quux 6y ago|4 comments
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by quux 6y ago
Works great with Marlin based printers.
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by quux 6y ago
Wouldn't surprised me if this is offered as a premium service in the future. Maybe first for enterprise customers like airlines or shipping and then later for consumers. If part of the reason for the current location restriction is man
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by quux 6y ago
I’m using the latest 5.9 kernel on Debian buster. I had to compile from source and make a small patch to get the build working. Happy to share a gist. I wanted to use ads 2.0 but if you want something g mower friction use Ubuntu focal I thi
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by quux 6y ago
There’s a lot of complexity behind making the user experience as simple as it is. One example: it’s my understanding that there is a lot of effort put into correcting for GPS error in areas like cities so the the little pickup location dot
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by quux 6y ago
Is this where RIBs came from? My company adopted that and ran into smaller versions of all the same problems. We moved on to something leaner after a couple of months. Lots of interesting ideas in RIBs though.
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by quux 6y ago
I have a Helios64 NAS that I'm running a raidz pool of 5 3tb drives on with no issues. Full kit of board and enclosure was $295. Overall I've been very happy with it. The only negative from a ZFS perspective is it doesn't hav
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by quux 6y ago
This interview with a young woman with Williams Syndrome really made me smile when I stumbled on it a few months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxZ7aZMFHPE
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by quux 6y ago
From some of the reviews I’ve seen it seems like it’s either there or really close. I think Tested, in their review said it was possible to have a usable virtual monitor with 1080 resolution, but the virtual monitor had to be large.
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by quux 6y ago
I think they were doing this in New York back in may, and it did yield some surprising results that influenced policy. Not sure if it was just antibody testing or PCR as well.
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by quux 6y ago
I'm not a heavy docker user but why can't I develop docker containers on Arm (as native containers, no emulation) and deploy to x86_64? Or vice versa? I understand that some packages are binary only and wouldn't be necessaril
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by quux 6y ago
Wait, didn't Uber decide that Bazel didn't scale enough (speaking as a xoogler, lol) and made their own build tool? Or am I misremembering?
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by quux 7y ago
Wasn't Apple Park a passion project of Steve Jobs as much as Ive?
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by quux 7y ago
X-Plane 11 runs on Linux.

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