xenadu02

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by xenadu02 8d ago
Yes that's true. They knew before but at 1500 they should have gone around. At "minimums" callout they should have gone around. When they floated so far down the runway they should have gone around. Instead they waited until
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by xenadu02 8d ago
> The same way Congress has been subsidizing Boeing and its competitors Funny you should mention that. Boeing deliberately buys 35% of a 787's airframe from Japan (along with other equipment for the 787 and other models). That'
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by xenadu02 8d ago
Ubiquity proved you can bust into the market from the bottom end if you want. Nothing was stopping them from doing the same but like many companies they prefer to focus on how much money they can siphon from the Fortune 1000 so I can't
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by xenadu02 8d ago
If we exclude short-term shortages then no. The cost to make a wafer hasn't really changed. Larger wafers improved costs but that's about it AFAIK. Feature sizes have been shrinking unevenly for two decades now combined with the o
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by xenadu02 8d ago
We don't. Prior to LLMs there was some minimal effort required to snipe someone and possibly your reputation was attached otherwise there would have been no point in publishing to begin with. Now anyone with a few dollars can do it, ma
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by xenadu02 15d ago
Part of the problem is they got into this mess because they were behind the airplane and had been behind it for a while. That means less time to do your normal procedures putting you further behind. That raises stress and causes mistakes. T
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by xenadu02 15d ago
No you must pass the stabilized gate well before minimums; legal requirement is usually 1000ft above the airport for IMC (instrument conditions), 500ft for visual conditions. AFAIK airlines can set higher minimums and may set other configur
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by xenadu02 15d ago
Advice I've seen many experienced captains give when you're FO and captain is fixated on landing: declare going around to tower. It avoids a fight over controls or the captain trying to override you; in that moment they're un
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by xenadu02 15d ago
AFAIK all Part 121 Passenger operations in the US (and most worldwide) have a no-fault go-around policy. Most have eliminated even the minimal requirement to denote a log entry as to the reason lest that make pilots reluctant to do the righ
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by xenadu02 15d ago
Pilot here but not ATP or Jet rated. When you try to land with too much energy the airplane refuses. When you get within a wingspan or two of the ground then ground effect starts giving you more and more lift. That plus excess speed means t
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by xenadu02 15d ago
Spool up time is 8-10s on high-bypass turbofan engines. They tried to go around maybe 1000ft from the end of the runway? It was far far too late to even try it at that point. Sadly if they had made the call earlier they were going so fast t
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by xenadu02 15d ago
No, the left main was not on the ground after touchdown for some time. The aircraft will not auto-deploy the spoilers nor autobrake until it senses weight on weels. It also locks out the thrust reversers. All for obvious reasons. The left w
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by xenadu02 23d ago
You aren't wrong - the loan itself can be secured against machinery. But you will still be forced to sign unlimited personal liability for the loan itself unless the business is already well-established and profitable in which case the
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by xenadu02 23d ago
Yes that is technically true. In theory you might be able to get some damages from them and even from Starbucks. But Starbucks would be within their rights to ban you permanently. You could try to go after YouTube but expect to be permabann
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by xenadu02 24d ago
Some of us have been predicting this for a while. People with an axe to grind or states with an agenda are already devoting tremendous effort toward affecting LLM models and it is very difficult to determine real from astroturf for humans l
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by xenadu02 24d ago
It's just hyperbole. When parts spin that fast centrifugal force becomes a serious problem. Everything is a spring, nothing is actually 100% solid. Anything you make that spins that fast will at minimum grow larger in the direction of
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by xenadu02 29d ago
edot covered this better than I could! You're quite wrong. It all depends on volume.
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by xenadu02 29d ago
SBA loans are just regular loans from a bank, except with government backing. You need a high credit score (680 at least) to even have a hope and 10% cash to put down if not more. Unless you can prove experience managing a business forget i
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by xenadu02 29d ago
It is not a legal process. It is Google's process designed to minimize their involvement to the maximum degree possible. When some random person copyright strikes your YT account you have no rights because it isn't based on the la
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by xenadu02 29d ago
It isn't just about that. You need industrial policy. And not just stuff like the CHIPS act. In China a small outfit can get financing and open a factory anywhere. You can't do that in the USA. You are too small for the lenders or
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by xenadu02 1mo ago
I think the argument is that you should't be forced to pay that cost for all writes even if only some require it.
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by xenadu02 1mo ago
When you have a bunch of stores you do sign distribution deals with a nationwide distributor. If you buy enough fuel you might even be able to sign with an oil company that has refining capacity or their own distribution arm. So Costco is d
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by xenadu02 1mo ago
The amyloid treatments slow cognitive decline by 35% or so for 18 months. Some papers argue (and I believe) the effect is small enough many patients don't notice or seem to benefit. We shall see if yet another generation of amyloid-t
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by xenadu02 1mo ago
There have always been opportunities for those who seek out the less traveled paths. If all your peers are only accepting what LLMs tell them then you should do the opposite. Spend some of your time writing code by hand, especially when wor
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by xenadu02 1mo ago
I assume the parent comment meant extract as in vampiric. Collecting rents merely for owning assets rather than doing something useful. China certainly allows you to get rich from starting a company so long as you're well-connected pol
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by xenadu02 1mo ago
As others have noted they've been found colluding previously, more than once. Even admitted guilt and some people went to jail over it. And the reason the market is so small is because of players who did as you propose, the DRAM market
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by xenadu02 1mo ago
I don't think your argument is a genuine one in this case. The government is and always has been the primary driver of science research funding. There simply isn't enough of a known payoff for private investors to bother and priva
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by xenadu02 1mo ago
I agree and I'm glad we have the alerts. I'm just saying we may not get any warning and that's nobody's fault. I'm also thankful that we have at least some seismic standards and have continued to increase them. Look
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by xenadu02 2mo ago
A difficult lesson to learn but one that led to a 10x increase in income for me. You can fight the system all you like. You might make a difference but you won't be rewarded for it. Or you can accept the game and play it. If you don&#x
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by xenadu02 2mo ago
Success is almost always a combination of both. No one is self-made but that tends to irk people who believe they are because they've spent years doing a lot of hard work. Without that hard work they'd have failed! Yet hard work a

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