VBprogrammer

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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
Can I just point out the irony of this statement in the context of my comment up thread.
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
I made an off hand comment here that has got a lot of great response while I slept. I do wonder though if I'd have mentioned a handful of other issues whether the trans one would still have been the one to stir most controversy. The fa
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
The slippery slope from here to banning under 18s looking at websites discussing suicidal thoughts, transgender issues, homosexually and onto anything some group of middle age mothers decide isn't appropriate seems dangerously anti-fal
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
The avherald is reporting second hand reports of the Indian media. The EEC MN4 microcontroller is located on a control board on each engine. A dual failure seems improbable. The fuel cutoff switches are of a similar design to the 737 and mo
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
My concern would be that the investigation in this case is more likely to be biased towards a system failure. Disgracing a major flag carrier is something very few regulars have the independence and courage to get away with.
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
In older turbine aircraft this would cause a hot start or worse. It would be interesting to know what the FADEC systems do in this case.
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
It feels quite uncomfortable to me. I remember using this exact example of why the changes after the German wings crash wouldn't prevent a murder suicide in the future.
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
The idea that we'll have huge excesses of clean energy seems like wishful thinking. We may have issues with excess energy at certain times of day for sure. But intermittent excesses like that are difficult to make use of economically b
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
I'm not going to argue over the numbers but any business which ignores such an obvious upside / upside scenario is not really serious about achieving economic criticality. It would allow a power plant, iron ore plant, cement produ
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
You could make the same argument about AGI. Just because nature does it doesn't mean it's easy for us to replicate in an industrial setting.
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
Terraform Industries (and others); I'd seriously consider taking a long bet that these companies turn out to be better at converting investor capital into employee salaries, for a finite period of time, than they are at converting atmo
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
Do you have any source for this extraordinary claim? It's practically a claim of perpetual motion. Carbon dioxide a tiny fraction of the atmosphere, even in concentrations which are immediately harmful to human life. At the moment it&#
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
This audit put the number of overnight parking spots at "on-site locations" within 5km of the strategic road network (so not even the whole country) at 16,761. With the remainder of the report concluding that the usage was at or a
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
Good luck with that. The reality is their aren't enough toilets for truck drivers nevermind building a whole suite of rest stops up and down the country.
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
The majority of trucking in the UK is based on the tramping model. A driver gets in his truck at 6am on a Monday and drives it around the country until Friday evening. Sleeping in service stations, lay-bys and industrial estates depending o
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
My trip home to my parents is 400 miles (about 650km) and that's far from the the most extreme journey. Presumably you mean with recharging? Which is theoretically fine but the charging infrastructure for large vehicles is currently no
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
Yeah, in the US they should probably run overhead wires which would be more efficient than batteries. They could also consider coupling together a few dozen trucks on the highway. For the ultimate in efficiency, and to reduce particulate em
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
I'm not sure where you got condescension from - I was going for genuine concern. Being irrationality concerned about hygiene is a warning sign for conditions like obsessive compulsive disorder.
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
It took me a long time to convince myself he wasn't the actor from Numb3rs.
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
If you are worried about this you might want to consider whether you have a healthy degree of concern about hygiene and bacteria. It could be worth speaking with a therapist.
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
It's not clear there is anything Israel could do which would elicit more than strong, but carefully chosen, words of condemnation from the west. Certainly Nuclear strikes against Iran would be a huge overreach. But no other country is
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
Glad I don't own any Boeing shares at the moment...
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
Yeah, I initially wondered about a botched single engine failure. It's not uncommon in twin piston and turboprop aircraft for someone to shutdown the good engine. It is less common in turbofan aircraft because their performance is typi
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
Yeah, I've seen examples of that in the past. The 737 Max incidents were fertile ground... However, to come at it from the other side. If we assume the RAT didn't deploy, and by implication there was no loss of engine thrust. What
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
Having done a bit of internet research I'm convinced the RAT deployed. There is a very good quality video of a Thai Airways 787 coming in to land with the RAT deployed which sounds identical to that of the rooftop iPhone video, if you
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
Even on light GA aircraft the radio will run for an hour on the starter battery. This narrative doesn't sound realistic.
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
It's a shame this is so far down the page (at least for me, at this moment) because I'm fairly certain you are exactly right.
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
I suspect that any reduction in hiring is more a function of market sentiment than jobs being replaced by AI. Many companies are cutting costs rather than expanding as rapidly as possible during the capture the flag years.
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
Not to mention that wet bulb temperature, measuring the effect of humidity, is actually the most important measure in those temperature ranges.
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by VBprogrammer 1y ago
I sometimes say, tongue in cheek slightly, that the best Linux desktop is Windows.

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