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by V99 10d ago
My parents still have a couple, but I think most people's reaction to this is "TiVo still exists?" CableCARDs are going extinct and there are lots of other options to record OTA these days.
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by V99 1mo ago
In Florida a) they don't take kindly to that kind of units and b) you should be more worried about the many 1500-2000' antennas than the "mountains". It's still pretty useful to know where you are and not die hittin
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by V99 3mo ago
Space is big, dark, and the X-37 has significant delta-v capabilities so its position is not a consistent stable orbit like a normal satellite.
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by V99 5mo ago
Unfortunately continuing to burn money with no hope of recovery is not a popular strategy among judges and creditor's lawyers. Customers will either get refunds or join the back of the creditor line.
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by V99 5mo ago
(Former employee) They tend to either get enough traction very quickly and be supported for years, or not and be abandoned in weeks/months.
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by V99 5mo ago
They wouldn't have to set anything. The transponder on almost any modern plane defaults to automatically on, either immediately or at takeoff. With Mode C (reporting altitude) or S (& reporting more) and squawking 1200 (VFR).
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by V99 5mo ago
These have been standard equipment (that you buy, or the school loans out) in middle-class US high school math since the 90's (and gone basically unchanged since then). The math books even have content tailored to particular models so
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by V99 6mo ago
This capsule isn't part of your Netflix Household. Create an account to enjoy your own Netflix today.
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by V99 6mo ago
What you are likely thinking of is the "selective availability" system, which intentionally provided slightly inaccurate data to civilian clients, while military receivers could decrypt the most accurate info. But this has not be
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by V99 7mo ago
This is not even close to the worst ideas Apple ever had, even if you're only talking about mice. The original USB mouse (for the first iMac) was round, so you couldn't orient it in your hand without looking at it constantly. And
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by V99 8mo ago
When all you have is AI everything looks like a model, but this is trivially done with basic text parsing... This info is in the automated weather broadcast (ATIS) audio for any towered airport. Most large airports provide a textual version
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by V99 8mo ago
If you don't go often enough you definitely won't make the same progress per session. You'll spend most of each session trying to remaster what you lost from the last one. For powered flying, one a week is already on the low
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by V99 1y ago
The suggested filtering is just creating a new problem of assuming a 16:10 safe area exists (and external displays or other shapes don't). Group all resolutions returned that are the same +-5% together and choose the lowest one in the
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by V99 1y ago
Testing on the ground and problems with what most people would call the payload (Apollo 1 & 13), sure. But we're comparing to SpaceX launches. Plenty of Raptor engines have blown up on the ground too. There were 13 Saturn V's
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by V99 1y ago
Here's a couch from a retail store you've probably heard of that you can configure online for $12k. https://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/bedford-sofa-uphols... Personally I'd rather buy one from IKEA
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by V99 1y ago
True... `strace bash -c cat` would give more the series of stat calls they're intending to see: newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, ".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}, 0) = 0 newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/local/
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by V99 1y ago
That's nice, but the parent explicitly cited part of US regulations where it's required, while ignoring that it's always required if equipped.
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by V99 1y ago
You are NOT at all (legally) free to arbitrarily turn off your ADSB on an aircraft equipped with it. 91.225(f) [1]. > Except as prohibited in [unmanned aircraft section], each person operating an aircraft equipped with ADS-B Out must ope
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by V99 2y ago
Yes the FAA can issue what are called Airworthiness Directives and require an issue be resolved in the timeframe and manner they specify. The timeframe could be anything, but common forms are like: - Within the next X (flight) hours or Y ca
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by V99 2y ago
JSX operates based on a loophole in the part 135 rules, but that only allows 30 seats. A CRJ doesn't have the range for (nonstop) transatlantic, bigger planes would be impractical, and smaller ones with the range won't hold 30 pe
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by V99 2y ago
TLS did "exist" (well, as SSL), but this was a time when you'd maybe see it used on a few websites that had it on just the specific pages that took a credit card. It was well before most other protocols were worrying about th
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by V99 2y ago
It's really sort of the opposite. You don't see 727s or MD-80s at the terminal anymore (freight somewhat excepted). Airliners are used constantly, wear out and get replaced/sent to other countries. Buying another computer i
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by V99 2y ago
A lot of them don't. They work in nondescript windowless buildings controlling all the airspace that isn't right above an airport. There have also been trials done with "virtual towers" at smaller airports, using a bunc
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by V99 2y ago
This has been a snowballing problem since Reagan fired 11,000 controllers for striking in 1981... so sort of, but not the one you're thinking of, and there's been plenty of both sides of the aisle doing nothing to solve the proble
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by V99 2y ago
The first problem is that everybody who wants to do the job needs to go through the FAA academy in Oklahoma, which is seriously limited by physical & instructor capacity. So only a couple thousand people a year can work their way throu
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by V99 2y ago
Besides the "we already have it everywhere" bit, the big advantage of analog AM over UHF/VHF is that it degrades fairly gracefully. As you're getting too far away the signal gets harder to pick out from the noise, but i
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by V99 2y ago
The "ground" controller manages taxing around the "movement areas" (i.e. taxiways) on the ground. This notably does not include the runways. And it depends how much of the actual ramp and parking area they control (tho
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by V99 2y ago
It is somewhat surprisingly (still) a $500m+ revenue[1] company, with very minimal employees and expenses. They're printing money on house and car listing fees. 1: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/craigsl
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by V99 2y ago
The two solid rocket booster casings are dropped into the ocean and (usually) recovered with both the Shuttle and SLS. RS-25s were the three main engines. They were very expensive, designed for reuse and were recovered with the rest of the
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by V99 2y ago
Step one would be "get Boeing or Airbus to design, build, certify, and sell thousands of a significantly different airplane model". That's a big hurdle for an airline to start climbing now to someday maybe start saving money

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