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by scarier 4y ago
I’m not convinced it’s a pure numbers game, at least from a perspective of long-term success (for what it’s worth, I was averaging 1-2 dates/year until I met my partner). I think it’s much better to have two high-quality dates than doz
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by scarier 4y ago
Why are you so sure that free will exists?
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by scarier 4y ago
Experiences in war vary greatly, and feelings about them are complicated and conflicted. I've met many people who genuinely seemed to enjoy it. This article nails it: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news&#x2F
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by scarier 4y ago
The small distributed motors on the X-57 are only used on takeoff and landing to augment lift. The small propellers fold away in cruise, when the entirety of the aircraft’s thrust is provided by two large propellers at the wingtips.
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by scarier 4y ago
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2314/
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by scarier 4y ago
CST isn’t built to solve the last mile problem either—it explicitly shows cargo being delivered to and picked up from central hubs.
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by scarier 4y ago
Because it needs far more complicated and expensive cars for no real benefit.
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by scarier 4y ago
The issue isn’t how automated it is— it’s easy to automate trains and automatically load pallets. Making each car responsible for autonomous navigation in two dimensions and self-loading becomes a much more complicated engineering problem.
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by scarier 4y ago
I’m always amazed every time someone tried really hard to invent new technology that’s just a worse train. I love the overall concept, but damn they’re making it way more complicated than it needs to be.
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by scarier 4y ago
I mean, it wouldn't be the first time someone forgot one or two of their FENCE checks...
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by scarier 4y ago
I'm curious about that explanation--in the seats I'm familiar with, initiation (including all the different potential sequencing modes) is done entirely through an explosive train to prevent this exact failure mode (loose Cannon p
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by scarier 4y ago
This is supposedly where the idiom "bought the farm" comes from.
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by scarier 4y ago
It’s wild that the ejection sequence failed. Some two-seat aircraft have a “forward both, aft self” ejection mode for these types of events where you don’t trust the guy in the back to make good ejection decisions, and I originally assumed
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by scarier 5y ago
That's a lot of damage against a reinforced concrete structure for an anti-air weapon. I think it's at least as likely to be an impact from an air-to-surface weapon, which would also have solid propellent. The flight profile looks
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by scarier 5y ago
Frankly, even a working calculator can induce the same problem. My school allowed calculators with a “solve” function to be used on calculus tests, and a staggering number of people would directly transcribe whatever output it gave, regardl
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by scarier 5y ago
Was the Prius ever intended to be an evolutionary step toward widespread EV adoption?
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by scarier 5y ago
Agreed. I'm well aware that he was a racist, jingoist prick, but "If-" is one of my favorite poems of all time. On the flip side, I have a hard time reading poems like "The White Man's Burden" and "Gunga D
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by scarier 5y ago
Loosely related: a lecture on missile guidance laws... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ
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by scarier 5y ago
Somewhat related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ
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by scarier 5y ago
If anyone's interested in watching videos of genuine emergencies in light aircraft, Elliot Seguin ( https://www.youtube.com/c/utopiasnow ) has some fantastic ones.
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by scarier 5y ago
Heh, I think I did a poor job of expressing myself. You're absolutely right that an intermittent/erratic trim operation is a failure, and potentially a serious one. I'm thankful that you, as a flight control engineer, are as
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by scarier 5y ago
In all seriousness, I would enjoy talking about commercial aircraft trim system failure modes over a beer sometime. For what it's worth, while I agree with your technical definition of a trim runaway, every time I've seen it in th
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by scarier 5y ago
>Like this one distributed to ALL 737MAX crews: ...after their poorly designed system caused a plane crash. If you have a 737 type rating and can speak to type-specific training standards I would love to be educated, but the defining cha
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by scarier 5y ago
I mean, that's all well and good, but assuming that your pilots will correctly diagnose and correct a failure of a new system that may or may not have similar symptoms to existing emergencies is still a really poor practice. If MCAS ha
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by scarier 5y ago
Thanks! Should be fixed now.
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by scarier 5y ago
I think this lecture ( https://youtu.be/5ESJH1NLMLs ) should be mandatory for anyone trying to improve flight safety with more automation. I think we're already at diminishing returns, and the only way to eliminate accid
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by scarier 5y ago
>Now, the US military is struggling with the "Fighter Mafia", which tends to run the USAF despite the ascendancy of drones and the usefulness of the A-10. Duuuuude, the Fighter Mafia was active in like the '60s and '7
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by scarier 5y ago
Hypersonic glide weapon.
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by scarier 5y ago
>Fractional Orbital Bombardment System is new and very scary for the USA missile defense systems. It's actually a fairly old technology as these things go, developed in the '60s and deprecated in the '80s. My understanding
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by scarier 5y ago
The oldest aircraft navigational aids to avoid hitting the ground are fairly simple, and predate software (the radar altimeter is a good example, which in its most basic form just tells you your altitude above the ground and works really we

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