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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
The case has obviously fallen out of the limelight but Brendan Dassey should be the poster boy for why this is true.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I think taking VC money is great if you are in a capture the flag type market. Social networks, taxi market places etc. If it's something which has value with a modest number of customers, not a significant fraction of the addressable
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
In a hypothetical situation where these cars are deployed widely and are actually as close to perfect as we'd hope then that would be a much safer environment for you and everyone else than one in which drivers can be drunk, under the
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I can't imagine what would be recovered of a crash of a light aluminium aircraft after a century at the bottom of the ocean would bear much resemblance to an aircraft. I think it's a great thing to locate and document the discover
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
This article doesn't mention one of the main points heat pump gurus have been banging on about for ages - temperature compensation . Essentially, the colder it is outside the hotter you run the flow temperatures. You ideally want this
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Jesus. How far we've fallen. I certainly remember kids being left outside shops growing up in the 80s. However, reading that I had a involuntary reaction of disgust just thinking about it. I certainly wouldn't dream of doing it wi
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I sometimes wonder if this is all just hubris or if there are genuine lessons Qantas could share with the rest of the industry. Certainly they have a good enough maintenance program to avoid something like AS261 but everything else seems li
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
The recent 737 Max issue doesn't seem particularly aircraft specific. If the QA and culture have gotten that bad then it could happen to 787 just as easily. I doubt however this will ever move the needle in terms of passenger numbers.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
The point, as I understand it, is for Microsoft the additional cost of making their search return results as a LLM is pretty small as compared to their overall business. However, they will force Google's hand into moving their whole se
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I think you've misread my comment. I have found copilot for example to be really useful for searching for things like how to pull out part of a log like using common bash commands. I can generally evaluate what it comes up with pretty
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I have to say, I'm not convinced by all of the AI hype, but it makes a bloody good search engine for a lot of the things I want to search (things where I am in a reasonable position to evaluate the truthfulness of an answer). It's
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Thanks, that's very different from what the parent suggested.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Assuming this is true, it would be very tempting to add a simple check before displaying the banner that the install date was more than 7 days ago.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I was doing a bit of a back of the envelope calculation the other day. The max cabin differential on the 737 Max is a hair over 8psi. If we assume that plug is about 4ft x 3ft that is nearly 14000lb (about 6300kg) pushing on the plug. Quite
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
The service is really good. But very little to differentiate it from any of the other services with the result that when we used it we just swapped between whichever service give us a discounted offer. We could keep it up for months on end
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Is that really a thing? I'm super paranoid when I have a rental car, the idea of taking it back and having them basically able to charge you what they like for any damage gives me the fear.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Yeah, I can buy that. The enquiry even today was discussing how some postmasters were forced to agree not to blame Horizon in return for reduced charges. If that's the mentality then it absolutely fits. Presumably those people potentia
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
> Astonishingly, more than 700 postmasters were prosecuted without any executive, manager, or statistician recognizing this glaring anomaly. I was thinking about this last night. I knew there where about 1000 McDonald's in the UK, G
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
It's hard to say exactly how much a sub-postmaster makes but from a brief search it seems to be in the range of £30k-£35k. It's not like the kind of money these people had down the back of their couch. If there is absolutely nothi
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
It's weird, I'm not sure where I first heard about it but I was well aware of the issue. The problem I had was that I just lumped it with Therac-25 and Araine Flight V88, cautionary tales from the past. I had no idea that postmast
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
> We don't have a constitution We don't have a written constitution. The sum of legal presidents, procedures and conventions is our constitution.
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
> They knew the software had many bugs but decided to use that to bully their employees and steal money from them. I don't really see how this argument fits. In my understanding the amounts in question were in the range thousands to
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
Yeah, it seems crazy to me that they didn't have to prove where this money went. I suspect the majority of people caught stealing money in any other capacity are probably caught by the changes to their lifestyle being noticed before th
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
They get turned off to avoid damage in too much wind, not to avoid overproduction. We only have a few GW of installed solar capacity so it's not hugely important to the overall picture. In the UK it's easy to see that Wind and CCG
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
There is a big difference between separating sea water into fresh water and a concentrated brine against separating sea water into fresh water and solid salts. If you could do the latter efficiently then it would be easy, put it back under
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
It's interesting, I've heard lots of tales about how we need the spinning mass to stabilise the grid in way which apparently solar, for example, doesn't. It's not immediately obvious to me whether batteries do or don&#x2
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
I couldn't immediately find the reference but if I remember correctly they also referenced Boris' alleged fair with a Russian Violinist (potentially the one which sparked the "get off my f*cling laptop" incident), at lea
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
If you have a better model for the outcome on a Sport than the bookmakers you can make money gambling against them. The reason this doesn't work in practice is that bookmakers will simply reduce your stake limits, to the point that it&
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
One of the major reasons for gauges is being able to discern trends quickly. Its much harder to look at a number and see the trend over time. You see this on glass aircraft instrument where they tend to have numbers and trend bars to make u
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by VBprogrammer 3y ago
This is a good tabloid take but I don't believe it's accurate. It wasn't pretending to be the same plane - it was pretending to be any aircraft with certifiable flight characteristics, particularly control forces on approach

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