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by vdqtp3 2y ago
> Accidentally making a bridge too safe means setting money on fire, and we can't have that. There's a quote I've seen various versions of: anyone can build a bridge that is safe. It takes an engineer to build a bridge tha
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
> Our hope is that GA pilots will no longer need to do things like train stall recovery. I hate everything about this thought process. Every pilot should know how to handle stall recovery, for the same reason that every driver should kno
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
> ones who haven't flown in 3 years and jump into a plane for an IFR cross country to an airport they've never been to before So, pilots who aren't legal to fly?
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
I'll take the "ban fossil fuels" comments seriously when nuclear energy is back on the table.
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
I recently saw a license that was based on a monthly subscription, but once you paid for a year you got a perpetual license to the version you started with. Every year, your perpetual license was updated to the next year's version. I f
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
The cost being that they [generally speaking] ignore proposals, pull requests, and new features - even if they are valuable to their users and AREN'T breaking.
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
Commercial aviation is a little different in that on an IFR flight plan (which encompasses pretty much the whole time the autopilot is active), ATC is maintaining a 3 mile lateral bubble around the aircraft, making sure that there are no co
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
This evolution seems to be the same in most technical hobbies. And as the evolution occurs and the technical requirements for adoption drop, you need more and more regulation to control the bad actors. See UAS regulations after quadcopters
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
I spent a week in Cologne recently and used my Amex almost everywhere I went.
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
Just because he didn't add /s doesn't mean it's not implied
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
> Drug testing is mostly limited (for civilians) to those with access to sensitive, secret, or TS information. Based on my experience, every federal organization requires at least a public trust clearance for every IT contractor.
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
> just getting burnt out and spending a week on the clock re-watching all of Star Trek: Voyager That's a Tuesday for some GS folks. Not all, some of the best folks I ever worked with were GS11-12's. Some of the worst also. Very
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
I also ANAL but if I recall correctly, you can decline to be represented in the class, and file your own lawsuit
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
> it's easier than ever to develop software I agree that there are a lot more solved problems, but I find it much more complicated to develop software now than in the past. You used the example of web front ends, but how large is th
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
If I asked a job candidate any question and they confidently replied with a set of facts that were entirely made up, I would not consider them for any position under any circumstances.
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
Interesting that weapons manufacturing is prohibited, despite the Bible having no prohibitions against weapons, in fact much the opposite. David, a man after God's own heart, was armed from a young age and used his sling in one-on-one
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
> The rates are typically different if you stay a Saturday night. I recently flew from the US to Europe and returning on Thursday or Friday was twice the price of flying home on Saturday or Sunday - the weekend return options actually sh
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
No, that's the core issue. They are overstepping the authority granted in legislation. If Congress passes an open-ended law saying "Agency X can administer Y in accordance with rules 1,2,3" then the agency should not be able
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
Yes, I was a government contractor for a significant portion of my career. This certainly didn't encourage me to trust elected officials or agency employees.
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
This decision leaves it perfectly up to Congress to write a law stating "such and such an agency shall determine, maintain and enforce electrical standards". It just means the agency can't decide to do so on their own.
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
If you are stating that Heller is specious and a fig leaf, you are arguing from a position of bad faith. You may disagree with the constitutional basis for the decision and wish the second amendment to be abolished, but the decision was wel
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
A regulatory body who is not responsible or beholden to the citizenry, and who cannot effectively be balanced by another portion of government?
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
I'm not actually arguing that they existed for you, but if they did I wouldn't expect you to be told about secret quotas.
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/21/15999544/biohacking-finge...
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
If you care to research further, the search term for aviation information would be "density altitude"
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
Especially since at least TCAS has a human in the loop (even if their action is prescribed by the system). New emergency braking regulation and the like is intended to be no human in the loop.
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
This is only true for very broad definitions of "the location you want to hack"
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
> potential out there to cause a lot of confusion, consternation, even chaos, but seems like the sort of hacker that would get their kicks off that is an extremely rare breed Definitely not a rare breed. They're just busy elsewhere
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
Why, after reading an article about a situation driven in part by this policy, do you believe it would have the opposite effects that it is currently provably having in the real world?
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by vdqtp3 2y ago
The energy bandwidth of a charger as opposed to a gas pump is a huge issue right now. Gas pumps can easily pump up to 10gpm [1], corresponding to 300 miles of charge in 3-5 minutes as opposed to Superchargers, which take 15 minutes to charg

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