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by xenadu02 2y ago
Most of the time we are on autopilot and our brain retconns the reason for an action, decision, or emotion after the fact. But it seems clear that at times we consciously steer our autopilot in a new direction by choice. Some number of repe
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by xenadu02 2y ago
As with many problems this can be handled by a layer of indirection. Have your subclass push all its data into a storage object that itself is a simple ObjC type held in a standard ARC-managed property/ivar. Then the NSCopyObject memcp
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by xenadu02 2y ago
I take that as part of the point they were making: white supremecists, for example, claim white people are superior. Their actions are logical in some sense if you accept their premises that a) race is a useful classification akin to specie
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by xenadu02 2y ago
We covered this in the other thread but to give a simple summary: It is not purely a reduction in lift causing the aircraft to begin free falling. Different air masses can move in different directions, including downwards or in a circular m
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by xenadu02 2y ago
People really want there to be "one reason" for skyrocketing housing prices. Real life is not so accommodating. The problem is multi-faceted. Is there asset price inflation due to cheap money? Yes. Have foreign nationals been park
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by xenadu02 2y ago
When the ground screw came loose the voltage coming out of the flap switch traveled back up the feathering ground, causing the system to think the feathering switch was activated. When part of an electrical circuit starts to "float
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by xenadu02 2y ago
> 10-12,000ft is generally accepted as negligible impact on cognitive function That is just a guideline. Each person responds to hypoxia differently and starts becoming hypoxic at different altitudes. One person might start having sympto
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by xenadu02 2y ago
Ah got it. I'm currently training for PPL so have been studying this among other things. Entropy causing gasses to mix evenly is true... on a large enough timescale. In reality any gas or fluid will form boundary layers between masses
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by xenadu02 2y ago
When the airplane experiences high negative G you get propelled upwards at 9.8m/s/s times the negative G. A -1G force cancels the constant +1G force gravity exerts resulting in free-fall or floating. If the negative G force is hig
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by xenadu02 2y ago
> Obviously, but then the boat and all the objects within it would be experiencing the same gravity acceleration, immediately, at the same time. That is not correct. The airplane experiences this uniformly because the wings transmit the
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by xenadu02 2y ago
They are distributed everywhere. These three are among the oldest and presumably of similar age to other "oldest" stars in other galaxies. I take it to mean many galaxies have surviving stars from the population of stars expecte
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by xenadu02 2y ago
> If I had killed someone, would I be allowed to buy my freedom In some cases this has been allowed, assuming it was not intentional. For example a neurosurgeon who accidentally hits someone in a crosswalk. The family can ask for no jail
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by xenadu02 2y ago
Some of Boeing's large customers would only commit to buying 737s if the update did not require training or updating the type rating. The 737 was originally so low to the ground to enable it to use air stairs and operate at airports wi
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by xenadu02 2y ago
You should see how hard every trucker and good ol' boy here in the USA whines and moans about weight limits and blames BIG GUMMINT for ruining their day. The fact that they are doing exponentially more damage to the pavement, wearing i
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by xenadu02 2y ago
A version of those huge stone coins found in some cultures. The "owner" of the coin is in name only, it can't really be moved. Value is stored via the knowledge of how many exist and who owns them. For China's ghost citi
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by xenadu02 2y ago
She is the one in day-to-day control at SpaceX.
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by xenadu02 2y ago
Contactless and EMV Chip cards are the same. During provisioning the server sends a signed Java Applet to the Secure Element which validates the chain of trust then installs the applet. The EMV protocol involves "application selection&
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by xenadu02 2y ago
Even if we assume you are correct this is a great example of being correct and losing a lot of money - and boy howdy are there lots of ways to be 100% right about something and losing out. I invested in Tesla's IPO with some chump chan
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by xenadu02 2y ago
> Man the critics here about deadlines is astounding. > I wonder how many deadlines that people miss here, and that's usually just pure software, no materials. Look... I'm an investor in the Tesla IPO ($4k -> $200k+). I o
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by xenadu02 3y ago
The "login" dialog on Windows 95 was just providing network credentials. Windows 95 is a single-user OS. There is no actual login or security.
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Apologies, it turns out we are both correct. Coast Starlight uses both BNSF and UP track. Nevertheless the point stands: neither has any intention of making the track better for passenger service. Expect frequent delays and long trip times
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by xenadu02 3y ago
I should have been more precise. There are several regions of the US where HSR could be built with similar density to China which itself has lower density than some other countries yet spent the money to build HSR anyway.
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Where in the Bay Area have you seen contamination? Lots of cities in Alameda, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties get their water from San Francisco Public Utilities, which owns large water rights both in the Bay Area and large watersheds i
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by xenadu02 3y ago
> The US is a huge country with a lot of empty space. China has the same problem... they simply made it a priority to build the infrastructure. There is nothing stopping us from doing the same thing.
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by xenadu02 3y ago
The tracks discussed in the article are BNSF. Amtrak already runs the Coast Starlight on that track and for much of it they can't even run the legal max 79mph due to poor track conditions. The delays cause them to miss their time slot
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by xenadu02 3y ago
I'm not saying it was no factor whatsoever but if you listen to the Hertz investor call they describe the reason for backtracking and they certainly don't cite charging as the primary reason.
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by xenadu02 3y ago
The article posits charging as the problem but that's not actually true. The issue was twofold: 1. Repair cost and parts availability. Fleet damage was more expensive to repair and took longer. That means more of the fleet is offline a
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by xenadu02 3y ago
I think some people get confused because they do log second growth redwoods on state park land (eg Jackson State Forest) here in CA but the old growth forest was destroyed by logging company clear-cutting so even if the trees are 100 years
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Appraisals function as a major fraud reducer, especially for internal fraud. Appraisers will fudge $100k on the value of a $1m house because that's their opinion as an appraiser. They won't fudge $1m on the exact same house (2x va
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by xenadu02 3y ago
Those are extremely biased, to put it mildly. Also random YouTube videos are not scientific evidence. DEI has become a new conservative talking point but so far I haven't seen any evidence that such programs do anything to restrict hir

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