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by smdyc1 6y ago
This may be slightly off topic here, but I attended a birthday party of a friend last year. Long story short, there was a guy at the same pub who OD'd and my wife and I helped him until the ambulance arrived. There was a 'reality&
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by smdyc1 7y ago
Found this very interesting. I hadn't given much thought to it before, although I've seen this effect on pressurised sections of aircraft and assumed that was the only cause of this effect.
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Reproducing stressed skin effect in aircraft models (2012)(ratomodeling.com)
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by smdyc1 7y ago
Well I got myself an Information Technology degree and I'm working as a product manager for a Saas product that supports the building industry. Really different environment. I like it, but still miss the Air Force.
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by smdyc1 7y ago
I actually did, joined joined the Air Force 3 years later as soon as I turned 18. Only recently got out after 10 years. I was on holiday at the time with my family, and we saw the first news at at a train station when we were waiting for a
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by smdyc1 7y ago
I second that, it was a riveting book. There's a really good audio version as well.
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by smdyc1 7y ago
Yes, I think we have come full circle. The content is becoming more and more fragmented across an increasing number of services, so to obtain the content legally, you will have to pay a lot more than we are now. Piracy will definitely incre
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by smdyc1 7y ago
That sounds awfully like Boeing's 737-MAX MCAS debacle.
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by smdyc1 7y ago
The argument makes sense to me. This is a problem in Australia that is exacerbated by the tax write-offs investors get in the form of what they call Negative Gearing. My possibly flawed laymen's understanding of it is that for each pro
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by smdyc1 7y ago
I find this topic fascinating. As a defensive measure these could have immense value. I'm sceptical of any present long range value however. The ballistic nature of artillery, missiles, and other projectiles allows hitting targets beyo
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by smdyc1 8y ago
I'm wondering if the autopilot contains the same correction algorithm that MCAS is using. I'm wildly speculating here, but since wing loading is also a factor in calculating the angle of attack at which a potential stall conditio
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by smdyc1 8y ago
Amazing footage. The precision Landing of stage 1 was something I hasn't expected.
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by smdyc1 8y ago
It seems the second something on hacker News is related to a topic that can be interpreted as negative to the CCP, the downvoting begins. None of this is criticizing China and Chinese culture, only the authoritarianism of the communist part
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by smdyc1 8y ago
This can only be a means for the Chinese Communist Party to exert more authoritarian control over it's population. Depending on the actual implementation, I'd compare this to East Germany except in this case, the social credit sys
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by smdyc1 8y ago
Now I don't know about fighters, but I used to work on C-130s. Countermeasure systems (flare and chaff) rely on a weight on wheels microswitch completing a circuit when the aircraft is in the air, safety pins being removed from a panel
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by smdyc1 8y ago
Yep. I'm reasonably new to software development, and I've always found JSON is simple yet effective. Less so for XML. It has its place, but I think less so for a simple and reliable data interchange format.