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by theclaw 7y ago
I agree, as someone who spent quite some time building fancy admin dashboards for our team, in my most recent project I chose to abandon this and just write an Excel exporter and importer so they could edit the data in a familiar tool. The
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by theclaw 7y ago
It’s a signed type so dates before 1970 can be represented
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by theclaw 7y ago
Why can’t he be both?
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by theclaw 7y ago
That seems more like five degrees of freedom than five dimensions.
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by theclaw 7y ago
Link to source (University of Southamton): https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2016/02/5d-data-storage-u...
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by theclaw 7y ago
The description of the scheduler[1] explains why: “The RSP executes both graphics and audio processes. A graphics process sometimes extends over one frame, but an audio process must be provided in each frame to prevent inappropriate pausing
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by theclaw 7y ago
It’s the socket that’s rated, not the cable.
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by theclaw 7y ago
I don’t understand. I thought the brain does the isolation of single voices from an audio stream, not the ear drum.
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by theclaw 7y ago
> The U.S. crew tested this by setting up a 737-Next Generation simulator at 10,000 ft., 250 kt. and 2 deg. nose up stabilizer trim. This is slightly higher altitude but otherwise similar to what the ET302 crew faced as it de-powered the
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by theclaw 7y ago
It's a "roller coaster" procedure where the plane is pitched down to lessen aerodynamic forces on the stabiliser, allowing the trim wheels to be manually turned, then pitched up to regain altitude. The process is repeated as
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by theclaw 7y ago
Boeing could simply rebrand the plane. Take ‘MAX’ out of the name, call it a 737-8. I think most people have absolutely no idea what model of plane they’re flying on anyway.
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by theclaw 7y ago
We used to do this but found it was error prone since the down migrations would have bugs and wouldn’t always catch everything. We have dedicated SQL devs that write the migrations by hand and so moving to generated code is a slow and painf
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by theclaw 7y ago
That is our upgrade process, yes.
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by theclaw 7y ago
We use dbup[0]. Its philosophy[1] is that you should treat your DB changes like code changes in source control, and only perform up migrations. I agree with this. We previously spent a lot of time and effort writing down migrations that wer
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by theclaw 7y ago
Erm, isn’t the syntax the whole point of this discussion?
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by theclaw 7y ago
Two immediately spring to mind, Oculus in 2018 [0] and Zune in 2008 [1] [0] https://www.neowin.net/news/every-oculus-rift-vr-headset-bri... [1] https://gizmodo.com/30gb-zunes-failing-everywhere-all-at-o
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by theclaw 7y ago
Yes I agree, they knew about the possibility of runaway stabiliser and they were not morons. Boeing’s guidance was useless to them because it left out a description of how MCAS operates, and I’m not sure it even mentioned it by name but I m
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by theclaw 7y ago
Well that fills me with confidence for the future of safe air travel. What could possibly go wrong?
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by theclaw 7y ago
The disagree alert/indicator was previously an optional extra[0]. Boeing are saying it will now be fitted as standard on all 737-MAX, including those already out there. [0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-indone
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by theclaw 7y ago
I’ve not read anything that suggested they knew about MCAS. They knew about automatic stabiliser trim, which is a different system also present on the older 737 NG. The way MCAS monitors angle of attack, and the way it is temporarily disabl
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by theclaw 7y ago
It’s not like the plane was uncontrollable without MCAS, it’s more that it did not fly like a 737-NG, and so would have required extra pilot training to compensate, which would have made the plane less attractive to airlines.
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by theclaw 7y ago
If there’s any corner cutting here it’s around AoA sensor redundancy and flight worthiness testing. The reason MCAS is there is that the 737 was too low to the ground to fit newer, bigger, more fuel-efficient engines under the wing, which i
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by theclaw 7y ago
Not everyone agrees. There is some argument over why they did not throttle back and ended up overspeeding, which meant they could not manually trim, and why they re-engaged automatic stabiliser trim when the memory items explicitly state no
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by theclaw 7y ago
This is why you should not write your own tests. Where were the FAA when this system was verified? Did they even know it existed?
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by theclaw 7y ago
Video of Muilenburg press conference: https://youtu.be/xOQmQpKHVWA He says MCAS is a “system that’s designed to provide handling qualities to the pilot that meet pilot preferences.” That’s somewhat economical with the truth
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by theclaw 7y ago
While I agree that all these PC storefronts are a complete PITA, none of them charge a subscription fee like these streaming TV services do. The added cost is in terms CPU, RAM and convenience. The multitude of stores is proving very diffic
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by theclaw 7y ago
No. It’s not the crux. It’s still Apple’s app store, GP should have asked “So you want Apple to sell spyware in their store?”
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by theclaw 7y ago
Mobile safari does the collapsed address bar.
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by theclaw 7y ago
In the context of creating debugging UIs for games and graphics applications, Dear imGUI is a godsend. Programmers love it because there is literally only the code to worry about. It's very easy to get it up and running, and all the co
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by theclaw 7y ago
Very simple - the server can push to the client when joining a channel. This would require the channel to be logged server-side and that the user authenticates with nickserv before joining channels. It does not need client-side changes so y

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