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by repiret 12y ago
The fuel use increases with weight, but not as much as you might think, for two reasons: 1. Even at max weight, the cargo is only half the mass of a 747; put another way, you only decrease the mass by 50% when going from full cargo to empty
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by repiret 12y ago
But the drones are still being flown commercially. There certainly will be a market for drone-flying part 135 operators, but it's gotta be legal first.
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by repiret 12y ago
To be pendantic with terminology, if you take a sequence and remove some elements, what you're left with is a subsequence. If you take a sequence and you select some contiguous elements, what you get is a substring. So "amqz"
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by repiret 12y ago
> a gas-engined car has to deal with less air to burn which balances out the lower wind resistance. Thats only true if you have an old carbureted car that requires turning a screw under the hood to adjust the air-fuel mixture. Modern ca
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by repiret 12y ago
If you think your flight instruments are overpriced, I should show you the bill for replacing the altimeter in my Cessna. A couple serious questions though: 1. Would glider-pilot software running on a smart phone, possibly with an attached
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by repiret 12y ago
Fun fact: Tax Evasion means breaking the law to pay less taxes; Tax Avoidance means doing things to pay less tax within the confines of the law.
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by repiret 12y ago
DC in the house doesn't remove the need for switching regulators - you still need to step down from the house voltage to the device voltage. Don't forget that devices that accept 5V or 12V from a wall wart almost all still have s
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by repiret 13y ago
People studying hard sciences, engineering, statistics and mathematics should study calculus, because they need it to understand and solve problems in their domain. High school students would be much better served in life studying statistic
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by repiret 13y ago
From the abstract of the article: "...which had nearly universal participation among adult white males." White males is a lot less than almost everyone. Its not even most people.
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by repiret 13y ago
I believe there are people with the necessary character to be economically successful, but who have never had the economic opportunity to move beyond their basic needs and are therefore poor. I also believe there are people who have had ma
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by repiret 13y ago
> who helped him find an factory in Modesto certified by the National Science Foundation. Its much more likely they found a factory in Modesto certified by NSF International, which is in the business of certifying food safety stuff, than
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by repiret 13y ago
(In the US) for airplanes with a maximum gross weight over 12,500 lbs, you require a "type rating" on your license to fly the plane. The type rating is for a specific make and model (type) of airplane. So if you have an Airline
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by repiret 13y ago
I live in a rural areal, and the local recycling center recently stopped accepting glass. Apparently the cost of transporting it to someone who has the facilities to recycle it outweighs the price the recycler will pay. For a time, the ci
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by repiret 13y ago
In a certain sense, thats what Reader's Digest Condensed Books are all about - lossy text compression. But we let machines do it all the time too. Go from UTF-8 to ASCII-7. You won't loose much in English - orientation of quotat
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by repiret 14y ago
You need your instructor to start covering up some instruments when you're flying. A typical single engine aircraft is pretty easy to fly without any instruments at all. That said, bad instrumentation can certainly take down a plane; Air F
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by repiret 14y ago
Right, which is why they should only allow non-professional/low-volume sellers to make this restriction, that way new users can still buy from pro sellers to get some reputation, or people selling in odd-ball domains where such a restrictio
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by repiret 14y ago
Having recently sold an iPhone on eBay and been concerned about problems like this, I wish eBay would allow non-professional sellers restrict bids to professional buyers.
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by repiret 14y ago
I always thought the right solution to this problem was to wait for both parties to submit feedback before revealing the feedback.
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by repiret 14y ago
MIME html emails should have a plain text part that will be display properly and should contain essentially the same content. One or both of those fail often enough that I have mutt set to display the HTML part, using w3m to render it a
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by repiret 14y ago
I don't remember the full context, but once my uncle said: "It must be an old person, because the handwriting is so pretty." To which my grandfather replied: "you had to write like that with a fountain pen" I've never used a fountain pen, b
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by repiret 14y ago
Are they actually making this airplane easier to fly? As far as I can tell, it will have the same flight controls as any other small single-engine plane. More degrees of freedom in the air means more to do to keep the plane going where yo
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by repiret 14y ago
Competition and mass production hasn't brought the price of any Part 23 (not kit) plane below 6 figures. There's less variety of engines than airplanes, so the engines are produced in greater volume, but even after years of mass production
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by repiret 14y ago
Writing programs like this must be a rite of passage. About a year ago I wrote one ( https://github.com/mlaiosa/cronwrap ). One day when I googled "cronwrap" to try to find the github page, there was a gazillion hits of other programs tha
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by repiret 15y ago
Whats the advantage of Fountain Codes over more well known and deterministic forward error correction techniques like Reed-Soloman Codes? The D.J.C.MacKay paper linked from the article lists applications in broadcast and data storage, but R
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by repiret 15y ago
This. I feel that the law should make a sharp distinction between "a contract fully negotiated by parties of equal bargaining power and it comes up quite frequently as something desired by both sides in contracts between sophisticated
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by repiret 15y ago
I think that there is a very high variance in math education (and people) in public K-12 schools. My high school math consisted of advanced algebra, proof-based geometry, trig and a smattering of calculus. This seems to be typical for co
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by repiret 15y ago
I wish I could parse everything I've been asked to parse with 64 lines of Python. FWIW, I find it ironic that the author is complaining about whitespace-implied structure in his source data, yet uses Python.
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by repiret 15y ago
I've found that my paycheck goes a lot farther since I moved to Oregon. Oregon has (nearly) a flat income tax at 9%, while California has a progressive income tax topping out around 9.5%. The CA income tax advantage shrinks as you make mo
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by repiret 15y ago
Some of the taxes you pay on gasoline and diesel are meant to be public road use taxes. If you're not burning the gas by driving on a public road, they don't need to be paid. You can apply for a rebate based on how much you burnt off-road
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by repiret 15y ago
I don't know about UPS specifically, but: If you consume more than about 1,000 gal/month, you'll buy your gas from a "cardlock" gas station. The station typically has no attendent and no services other than a gas pump, and requires minimum

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