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by t0mas88 3y ago
Probably the FBI for the public part of it, but if this wasn't a US owned operation you can be sure the CIA/NSA/military will do their own investigation.
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by t0mas88 3y ago
I haven't checked, but I expect the ext2 driver to be smaller. Which can be relevant for embedded systems with limited flash space.
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Forget about the car, many people have a company car and they're mostly EVs due to tax incentives. The real story with the farmers is that there are 3 very large farming companies responsible for more emissions than all traffic in the
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by t0mas88 3y ago
If Bluetooth headphone batteries can produce significant heat for 8 hours we would have discovered a lot of free energy :-)
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Same experience here, never seen a "tube" type headphone on any European airline, but several carriers used weird headphone plugs so they could still sell you headphones.
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Airlines call them CBT as well, although it's really "iPad based training" at most airlines. For flight sim hobby you can definitely watch CBT at 2x speed and just grasp a high level view on what buttons to press. But for rea
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Absolutely. I've had an instrument failure (invalid attitude indication) cause an autopilot issue that put the aircraft in an upset state in seconds. From there you're manually recovering based on limited data. Fortunately this is
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by t0mas88 3y ago
The Connect API for X-plane is a great toy. I wrote a "recover from upset" script some years ago after having a discussion on the best methods for upset recovery by human pilots. You can easily implement something that does what a
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Consumer GNSS devices are developed a lot quicker than aviation GPS receivers due to high cost and strict certification requirements. So your 100 dollar drone very likely has a receiver with more features than a 100 million dollar airliner.
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by t0mas88 3y ago
You can look at the INS position (and compare the position from each INS separately), but practically you're always looking at the "FMS position" which is where the flight management computer thinks you are. That takes INS, G
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Avionics were designed with the opposite assumption. When a high accuracy location source provides a location (GNSS or DME/DME) the position is updated and it's assumed that could mean a significant jump for the INS. Practically t
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Early GPUs also had this, where you could turn it into a higher end model with just software changes.
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by t0mas88 3y ago
In smaller planes with mechanical adjustable seats instead of electrical there have been several accidents due to the seat moving unexpectedly. So much that the FAA has made regular inspection of the seat rails mandatory for a long list of
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by t0mas88 3y ago
In most of Europe flying is still nearly always cheaper than taking the train, even with good high speed rail connections. And short EU flights with low cost carriers are a lot cheaper than US domestic flights. The US doesn't have thes
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Very very very long. More capacity takes huge investments and many years to bring online. Airbus won't do that for a temporary increase in orders. Large airplane orders are always significantly discounted. Airbus has an easy option her
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by t0mas88 3y ago
United is openly fishing for a discount from Airbus by saying they will switch if they receive an offer where the economics work. But for Airbus there isn't really an incentive to hurt Boeing by offering a large discount. They are bett
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Not about the article, but... I find it ironic that a pop-up with the title "We value your privacy" makes me accept 1532 partners to sell my data to.
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Funny, I did exactly what the article describes. When I was around 12 (previous century...) I learned a lot about coding from writing IRC bots in several languages. In some ways things have become a lot easier, back in those days we had dia
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Exactly. While he may be very good at something, this kind of person is an net negative for a team.
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Cool! I'm working on something on the other side of the same pipeline. Real time data ingestion and identity resolution, delivering into a data lake. Have you considered adding source connectors for S3 based data lakes? For example Par
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Really smart tricks can buy you a few years, but in the end either you'll get sued for not complying with the intention of the law or the law gets changed to kill your trick. The legal system doesn't like tricks, a "yes but I
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by t0mas88 3y ago
The whole thing points at everyone but themselves... "Originated at AWS" then "caused by a caching library" Very little ownership on Wyze's side.
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by t0mas88 3y ago
1600kg is a very low cut-off for calling a car an SUV. A BMW 5 series or Audi A6 are both above that. And those aren't anything like an SUV. Weight also goes up over the years due to increased crash test requirements. So this rule will
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by t0mas88 3y ago
I used ISDN internet for a few years in the 90s before DSL became available. It was a big improvement over normal dial-up because you could still use the phone while online. Or use two lines for 128kb downloads if you weren't expecting
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by t0mas88 3y ago
I think Boeing miscalculated that one, because in the end Airbus ended up with the A220 program which is great for them.
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by t0mas88 3y ago
What you have in mind for the Airbus crash is what the captain claimed, but it was not true. The engines responded normally and started to spool up to maximum power, but that takes time for older jet engines coming from idle. The crew then
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by t0mas88 3y ago
The way it works for the Airbus is that the pilot controls the plane, but there are safety parameters that determine what the controls do. Consider it like a modern car with engine management software. If you floor the accelerator all at on
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by t0mas88 3y ago
The title says "EVs" but really it's "Teslas" they're not selling their Polestars.
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by t0mas88 3y ago
Free market at play, no airline can afford to say "well then quit and sit at home". There is a huge pilot shortage. No airline in their right mind is about to do things their workforce doesn't want. Just to illustrate, 5 year
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by t0mas88 3y ago
No not at all. I meant unions are a good thing here, giving flight crews a say in things affecting their workplace instead of random internet commenters deciding they would like to record everything.

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