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by scrumper 8y ago
Well he might not like conforming to the stereotype of a middle class university professor but he sure as hell enjoys having a massive chip on his shoulder about it.
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by scrumper 8y ago
Yes! I meant more, you have awkward spaces to fill and it may be convenient to mount a panel at some odd angle but still have it display things aligned with the floor.
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by scrumper 8y ago
Non-desk applications: vehicle, industrial, marine.
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by scrumper 8y ago
Later in the video there’s a brief glimpse of the crash at real-time camera speed. The car is moving very fast. Whatever the speed, this doesn’t look survivable, for either occupants or frankly any imaginary plastic people in the range of a
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by scrumper 8y ago
Yes! I was a bit disappointed when he explained it was just portals and a clever rendering hack rather than actually modeling non-Euclidean space natively, then I was delighted when he showed the room-scale VR example.
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by scrumper 8y ago
She thinks it's easier than dealing with a cafetiere or a percolator for a single cup. It kind of is.
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by scrumper 8y ago
My wife insisted we buy one of those dreadful machines for our kitchen. I relented only when I found little metal reusable k cups on Amazon. Now we grind a few beans and they go in the pod. It’s ok, better in a cafetiere though. Never bough
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by scrumper 8y ago
Single stock trading sold as an investment product to the low-end of the retail market (i.e. people like me who's limited investment dollars should be dumped into passive, diversified funds.)
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by scrumper 8y ago
Not big on the empathy this guy, is he? I get that it's a bit of righteous entertainment dressed up as commentary, but even as that it's quite breathtaking in its lack of respect for its target. EDIT: Ah f- it, flagged. This is ha
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by scrumper 8y ago
5am in Penn Station, waiting to board the early Acela. I've been in NYC 20 years at this point and have become tolerably good at deflecting our local street scammers, for the most part. I'm printing my ticket out and a constructio
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by scrumper 8y ago
Yep it’s not without use: it’s potentially a good source of prog-ish album titles. It’s art and there’s a lot that’s interesting in the technique.
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by scrumper 8y ago
Well that's a thing at least. If you could program it to match your office access pass, it's not nothing. Forgetting stuff (wallet, cards, keys) is a problem. Just not one I'd solve by embedding a chip in my flesh.
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by scrumper 8y ago
For my tastes this is too far over the line into voluntarily subjecting oneself to the kind of treatment a dystopian future government might meet out. Is there anything new you can do with this, or anything existing which becomes easier? I
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by scrumper 8y ago
The article discusses that a bit. Water shielding is quite effective. Doesn't have to be airtight. Shielding will mitigate a lot, but redundant hardware, error detection and correction, and resilient software will also be needed. It&#x
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by scrumper 8y ago
Cooling's not that easy in space, quite the opposite. You're limited to radiative cooling. Cooling the ISS itself is quite a challenge. This is good on the basics: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/370
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by scrumper 8y ago
You measure up front and plan. Doing a weight and balance calculation is a standard (and critically important) part of flight planning. For light aircraft in particular it is _really_ important because there is very little margin for error.
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by scrumper 8y ago
Yes, here it means the distribution of passengers and baggage in the aircraft. If the center of gravity after loading is too far forward or aft, you can end up with an aircraft that can take off just fine but then become unflyable.
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by scrumper 8y ago
Perhaps simply selling your (unsigned) winning ticket to _anyone_ for payment after they collect would work. After all, they're going to be a centimillionaire as soon as they cash the ticket in. If I lived in a non-anonymous state I wo
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by scrumper 8y ago
> He was told by a few companies just didn't think he'd be happy at the wages they were paying and refused to hire him. This was despite explaining that he just wanted to do a job without the stress and go home. This was despit
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by scrumper 8y ago
Thanks for that - appreciate the response.
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by scrumper 8y ago
Lay person here. Fraud is a criminal matter isn't it? Can United directly sue the passenger in civil court, or must they file a complaint with law enforcement and let a prosecutor handle it?
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by scrumper 8y ago
This was an excellent article. It reminds me a bit of a story I heard years ago about a power utility company in the mid west that wanted to reduce accidents among its line workers. They looked at all their line crews, and found one team wi
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by scrumper 8y ago
This is good stuff! PIMs were such useful bits of software: Agenda, Packrat, Sidekick, Organizer, Ecco... I am a Mac user but I'll be watching this very closely. I would love to see this get some traction. EDIT: Sorry, thought I'd
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by scrumper 8y ago
I have 1,500 for a family of 4 and it's fine. The youngest's bedroom isn't all that big but it's hardly a cell. The layout is crap, it's a 1950s split so that 1,500 square feet is divided over 3 staggered levels. On
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by scrumper 8y ago
Well, it does pretty much, just not that bit (14 CFR 117). In this Air Canada case it's governed by 14 CFR part 129, which covers operations by foreign air carriers in the USA. https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CF
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by scrumper 8y ago
Well not really, the first piece of the puzzle was a tip-off from a Cameroonian source. The mountain range match was corroboration.
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by scrumper 8y ago
Worth noting that the Canadian regulations are looser than USA in that respect - the Air Canada pilots were in compliance with home regs, but would have been in breach of FAA regs. Other point is that the NTSB isn't generally particula
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by scrumper 8y ago
I have a lovely story from a friend of mine from France. He was christened with a very ordinary first name but no middle name. He always felt that he'd missed out on a middle name. Well, about the age of 10 he started to pester his par
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by scrumper 8y ago
I have about 20k messages in my All Mail and around 5k in inbox, and it's pretty unwieldy. Usable, but definitely slow switching mailboxes, slow at searching, slow at sorting and filtering, slow to bring up message windows and so on. I
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by scrumper 8y ago
It gets quite slow with large mailboxes.

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