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Thervicarl
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Thervicarl
2y ago
I have run it on a few hundred systems with Cortex R5 (used in a production context so demonstrated to be stable over tens of thousands of hours). At that time there was a reference port for the Hercules development board available on-line.
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3y ago
Wikipedia says there were 505 Boeing 737-900ER ordered and 505 delivered between 2007 and 2019. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_Next_Generation
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3y ago
A record for jet order should provide some job safety over the next few years (and possibly hiring if they increase their output instead of just adding to a longer backlog) for people working on the manufacturing side of Airbus. But on the
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3y ago
> Gwen Shotsell Gwynne Shotwell
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3y ago
This should guide them if they want to modify existing airliners so they are better equipped to crash into the ground, 737 MAX style. No thanks.
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3y ago
News headlines about "3D-printed guns".
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3y ago
From what I read in the PDF, the analysis is very debatable (with The Register putting forward mostly the nonsensical allegations). Disclosure: I work on satellite design and in the recent years on a program that is part of the NewSpace. I
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3y ago
> the commission itself is captured/corrupt It has been for quite some time (at least it was already dragging this reputation for the EU constitution referendum in 2005). To the point that the schematic vision for EU organization is
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3y ago
Because that is a liquid commodity.
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4y ago
> I've worked with so many truly incompetent and stupid teams and organizations And all of them have deemed you a suitable fit for their incompetent and stupid team or organization.
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4y ago
> their principle competitor among the new disruptive LEO constellations is Amazon The main criteria should be: who has hardware in space ? So the answer is, despite all their problems, OneWeb.
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4y ago
>> 4 RS-25s per year > more like 4 years for ONE That is disingenuous. The message you pointed to says "4-4.5 years from when we order material" which is comparing the manufacturing of an assembled item with the full leng
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4y ago
> The study, from Russian researchers [...] They would deorbit after 1-3 months [...] But it gets a little fuzzy in the income estimates. Even assuming that this could be done once or twice for some stupid novelty effect stunt, there is
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4y ago
> There was 0 increase in electricity here In France I think the price of electricity for professionals has been multiplied by five in the past few months. The price of electricity for residential customers and small businesses has only
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4y ago
> imagine if a company becomes so dominant that little competition exists and little interest exists to create competition This is the core of Softbank / Vision Fund investing thesis. The current events seem to show that this is not
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> The cost of tickets will vary from €3 to €10 depending on the season. So there will barely be an entry fee for people coming for the day too. For a measure targeting people coming from thousands of kilometers away, I do not see how thi
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Amsterdam seems to have gotten better thanks to the pandemic. I go there on a regular basis to visit relatives with kids so I mostly visit parks and playgrounds and the drastic reduction of "bachelor party" type of tourists (comin
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My high school had an electronics training course that was building decoders as a practical work. It was good training for supply chain management and manufacturing. And they were selling them (illegally, obviously) and sharing the revenue
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4y ago
I do not think the message is "here's another bad thing". It is underlining that lots of people are focusing on conflicts between scooters, bikes and pedestrian have to use walkable areas and fringe of streets/roads for
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4y ago
I have an old memory of my grandmother being scolded because she only wanted to take the paper of the guy she wanted to vote for. And the assessors at my local voting place usually complain when people pick only one paper and want to bypass
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4y ago
French ballot boxes are transparent. And you can only insert your envelope when the person in charge presses a lever to open the entry slot. Even for a magician / trickster it would be hard to attack. But the important thing is that an
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5y ago
Not a competitor, a former partner. Early in the OneWeb project Greg Wyler was coming with his O3B background and positioning himself as the mastermind for the constellation aspects (satellite production and operation) with Elon Musk and Sp
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OneWeb is/was lanuching with Arianespace. But Arianespace basically does not have any rocket anymore. A few Ariane 5 left with an uncertain Ariane 6 ramp-up, no more Soyuz, an probably very few complete Vega until Ukraine is back to wo
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There was bad blood between Elon Musk and Greg Wyler the messianic swindler founder of OneWeb. But Greg Wyler is long gone to find new credulous investors. And his main investor support in OneWeb, Masayoshi Son of Softbank, has lost most of
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> I don’t think SpaceX needs any ground stations It is not magic. You signal from the user terminal has to reach a ground station / gateway connected to the Internet. Either there are inter-satellite links and the signal can be rout
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> Because airplanes broadcast their GPS position via ADS-B, you could also know that you'd succeeded. If the GPS is integrated with inertial navigation systems, the effect of GPS spoofing on the computation of the position (that co
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And the one for Soyuz from Arianespace https://www.arianespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Soyuz...
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6y ago
Not sure if that is what you are referring to but this is what happens in France with Swiss and Belgian websites being overloaded on French election days.
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> You have to explicitly refuse any cable service from your ISP in order not to pay it Legally, you have to pay if you have a television in you home and you are subject to paying the residence tax (which will soon be applicable to less t
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6y ago
In France, when people deposit more than 10k€, the bank has to notify Tracfin, the service of the French Ministry of Finances that fights money laundering. And you have to be able to explain where the money is coming from. Most of the time,
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