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by scrumper 8y ago
You'd need general if you wanted to divert asteroids and crash them with pinpoint accuracy on your enemy's cities.
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by scrumper 8y ago
Ah yes, Albourne Village. I vaguely remember their website having an actual village metaphor for navigation - I guess it was just close enough to the '90s :)
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by scrumper 8y ago
Cities and freeways are one thing, but I think it's more about suburbia. Stop signs over yields by default, four way stop signs, and roundabouts (circles) being a completely alien concept. These things are kinda fine in an automatic bu
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by scrumper 8y ago
I attended a similar industry event in 2006 called HedgeStock[1], for hedge funds and the various remora fish that feed off them. It was a very strange and quite unpleasant experience. Most of the attendees' firms were severely damaged
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by scrumper 8y ago
Quite likely the TFR is actually to protect the blimp! TFRs pop up for all sorts of reasons - rocket launches, presidential motorcades, volcanoes, sporting events... They're situational and specific rather than blanket restrictions.
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by scrumper 8y ago
In the USA, you'd almost certainly be in violation of a TFR (Temporary Flight Restriction) which are usually established over stadiums during games. That is a federal problem that'll get your pilot in a huge amount of trouble.
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by scrumper 8y ago
Which would put you in the position of being a rank amateur playing against a top pro.
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by scrumper 8y ago
> - "Rosatom, in a statement, insisted its plant was 'invulnerable to tsunamis.'" > Really ?? why are they trying to sell dumb electricity when they have the much more valuable technology of invincible ships. How m
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by scrumper 8y ago
Same here, only in Rust. Felt really rather stupid having managed to write code for 20 years without actually knowing this. Tons of knowledge is built on faulty assumptions.
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by scrumper 8y ago
The best commute I ever had was a 45m walk from the upper east side of Manhattan to midtown, through Central Park. I did it every day for two years in all weathers. What a wonderful way to see change each day, mark the seasons, feel connect
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by scrumper 8y ago
Interesting. My experience is all commercial, not government. Pleased to hear there was some good behavior (at least in defense in the '80s!)
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by scrumper 8y ago
Thank you for this.
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by scrumper 8y ago
This is excellent. I don't understand why there's an arc at the end when the lineman disconnects and pulls away the safety rod. That's there to keep the helicopter at the same potential as the transmission line, right? So why
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by scrumper 8y ago
This applies just as much to private sector RFPs too. If you're a vendor and you get an RFP out of the blue, you're not going to win it. RFI process is usually far more open.
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by scrumper 8y ago
Think how much space you could save in an open plan office! Twice as many seats at each desk. A CFO's dream.
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by scrumper 8y ago
So logically there is a market. This scheme wasn't opportunistic, it was planned and involved some investment. The perpetrators therefore aren't complete morons; they have surely thought about what they'd do after making thei
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by scrumper 8y ago
Thanks for the correction, Kens. Been a while since I read about this and I'd conflated some of the similarities down to a direct lineage. But you're right, it's really just a conceptual lineage.
528.
by scrumper 8y ago
It's a direct descendant, really almost a twin, of the SAGE air defense system from the 1950s. This was one of, if not the, first large-scale networked computer system. https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm10
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by scrumper 8y ago
Indeed. It was seeing the moons of Jupiter from a New York City apartment window* that rekindled my dormant childhood interest in astronomy. I felt like Galileo. I had no idea what to expect when I pointed the binoculars at Jupiter. I thoug
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by scrumper 8y ago
Why would you want to store your propellant water separately as O2 and H rather than as water? You'd have to react it to turn it into water, water is pretty inert, there's no mass advantage (more of a problem than volume). What am
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by scrumper 8y ago
This is great! Forum search is genius, well done. Let me search by year.
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by scrumper 8y ago
Never mind the fascinating subject matter and insight into early war thinking in government, this is a great example of how to write a broad report. It's brilliantly structured and written with real clarity.
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by scrumper 8y ago
Yeah those are the "not real use cases" I was calling out. And I am heavily exposed to enterprise blockchain... This kind of half-assed thing doesn't build much of a case in favor of the industry.
534.
by scrumper 8y ago
There are only 30, it's full of typos, doesn't include any finance stuff, and some aren't actually real use cases.
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by scrumper 8y ago
Thanks, will take a look.
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by scrumper 8y ago
Do you mean that you are working on Notes-like app frameworks at Couchbase? That's enormously interesting.
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by scrumper 8y ago
There's also Cursive if you're doing Rust stuff.
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by scrumper 8y ago
In fairness in the '50s as a man your choices were ad exec, sales rep, auto mechanic, lawyer, accountant, or serviceman. There were no other jobs at all.
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by scrumper 8y ago
Very light jets are somewhat disruptive, having the altitude, speed, range, and reliability benefits of jets with turboprop/piston-engine single pilot capability and costs. There was nothing equivalent in general aviation prior to thei
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by scrumper 8y ago
Could be NXT panels. Which made me wonder, are they also using the sound system for active noise cancellation?

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