someweirdperson

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by someweirdperson 3y ago
I think regulations refering to a competent agency doesn't require any competency in the normal sense of the word. And perfectly good those planes were not, they had broken AoA sensors.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
Practice makes perfect.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> you can't really know what you get when you vote for them You'll get that person. And politics that follow daily polls. That's almost like direct democracy, except that there's no guarantee that the peoples oppinion
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
The feed reader seems to be enabled as part of the mail client. I don't understand. Feeds are discovered on the web and their content refers to the web. This couples them to the browser, not mail. Maybe it could be argued that feeds ar
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
It's the fault of modern regulation, requiring it to never cause health issues or problems for the environment.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
The picture shows it is registered as D-M... which is german ultra-light (600 kg max). They are required to have one, unless it can auto-rotate. Maybe there's additional exceptions. And the production model might not be ultra-light.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
Hydrogen doesn't "go bang" unless mixed with the proper amount of oxygen. Usually, it just burns nice and smooth. Not much of a difference for anyone riding the airship though.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> There are all sorts of things you can do in an hour as a programmer: update a test, fix an automation script, fix and/or test a bug. Free time to work between meetings is rarely filled efficiently. An one hour gap is either filled
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
Maybe some orcas played with it.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> "Pixels" is also weird. Could be a unique pixel that does or does not exist in the browser cache (is or isn't fetched (fought?)). A pixel can store information as long as the cache works as expected.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
Wasn't there a time when French FidoNet could not exchange zipped mail, because that would be considered encryption? Maybe my memory is inventing things though.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> The voice is the only instrument where you can "play" (sing) what note you think. More often than not it is: The voice is the only instrument where you think you "play" (sing) what note you are thinking of. With oth
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> [...] but it is much harder, as you have to calculate the intervals between notes in real time [...] Not necessarily the intervals between any two notes, but the note of interest in relation to the tonic. But still may require the rela
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> Do the math for the weight of a string 2 miles long. There are materials that are a bit more dense and others a bit less dense than water. It should be possible to craft a string with a "weight" of zero, when submerged.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
It's not a Nintendo controller.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
And not even be slowed down by animations.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
It could explain why individuals within a group that has decided to act chaotic/evil have difficulties to escape. It might not only be social pressure but synchronization. In that case it is not just a capability but dangerous, too.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
Brains that are processing the same information show similar properties when measured? That doesn't sound surprising. > Neural waves in certain brain regions of people listening to a musical performance match those of the performer—
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
One step closer to lightsabers.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> There’s only one server, and it’s the only way to realistically run the code. That seems a bit extreme. On the other hand, where a complete build and tests take excessive amount of time, running everything by everyone would be similarl
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
The trick is to avoid that people who are doing the work are aware of the estimates or deadlines.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
Also some exponent, anything from ^2 to ^x, especially if multiple persons are involved.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> That's... weird. I never got the 'considerably more' unless you're importing something directly maybe, or maybe it is the kind of Walmart knicknack One random example (randomly choosen manufacturer, first product th
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
It doesn't seem to change in intensity, but in what is illuminated. While high, sun itself appears bright, when dropping lower the things lighted from the side, and at the end scattered light at the horizon.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
Sound as if bike-roads are missing, a bike would reduce it to 5 minutes.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> I want public transportation infrastructure and far, far, FAR fewer cars. I think the US should strive to reduce car ownership by 75% over the next 20 years, at least in cities over a certain population size. Do you want to limit the c
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
They are not eligible for their own reward anyway, I think. Maybe they forgot to mention it in their rules though.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
Those are perfectly safe. People rolling those wheels and breaking is what's causing all the harm.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> [...] racing machine that only borderline-superhumans can withstand the g's of. Suggestion: Make cockpits tilt inwards. Sideways-g becomes down-g. Much more pleasurable ride. If the driver is really the limit, and not the added ma
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
Not only oil, also short on people to drive all those trains and busses (people who accept low wages, of course).

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