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by beeeeerp 2y ago
Maintenance and operation is a big factor, but engine-outs do happen. It also seems like you are talking about helicopters, which have a special exemption: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.119 In a
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
I’m going to disagree unless you are in a specific area of aviation, because it severely reduces your emergency landing options.
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
Those pilots are in the minority, and already accept a much higher level of risk. Also, drone flights that have been problematic are typically in congested areas (much like laser problems). What might have been better is if the FAA had crea
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
As a pilot, this has always been weird to me. I’ve come to the conclusion that people just don’t like drones. I think selling them to the masses is part of the answer. I can build a tower (with exemptions for protected airspace) that’s 199f
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
Yeah - I forgot about their opaque pricing tiers. One other benefit of paying up front is that I think you are less restricted on S3/Cloudfront in what you can host. I think Cloudflare has some restrictions (video files?) to keep costs
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
Out of curiosity on the marches, was it due to electrolyte imbalance? I know army types can drink a ton of water in hot climates! I’m in the Rocky Mtns, so it’s pretty dry up here with lots of unprepared people (maybe confirmation bias in m
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
Maybe it’s confirmation bias, but I have heard of very few over-hydration cases whereas medical dehydration seems pretty common. Granted the pressures for dehydration are a lot more common (hiking with too little water, running competitions
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
I like Cloudflare, but this is also what makes me skeptical. There's no such thing as a free lunch, and I've had the rug pulled out from underneath me many times before. I wish they at least charged a sustainable amount for egress
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
I actively quit producing content and deleted my account. Maybe it’s confirmation bias, but I do feel like the quality of discourse has taken a nose dive.
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
It was just an example of complexity - I would imagine a new coal plant is still more complex than a solar farm.
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
Is that 14% different with solar? I’m just bringing this up, because solar is dead simple compared to engineering studies and infrastructure required to build something like a new nuclear plant. I wonder if the simplicity of solar and stora
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
That’s not entirely true - aliases to AWS resources are free (their suggested “workaround”).
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
Totally agree with this. In their defense (not that I like it), obviously the market is willing to pay what they charge. It’s unfortunate that the other big cloud providers haven’t driven prices down that much.
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
It’s still a huge problem for people that have purchased domains. I bought one that apparently used to be a BT tracker, and gets on the order of several hundred NXDOMAIN requests per second. I understand it’s still hitting Route53 infrastru
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
Now please do this for NXDOMAIN on Route53. This can be a big problem with acquired domains.
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
I think it’s worth mentioning here COTS hardware is also very resilient (things like ZFS without ECC excluded) to radiation these days. Here’s a video of a GoPro riding through an electron beam: https://youtu.be/Uf4Ux4SlyT4?
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
This was really interesting! What about COTS hardware on the ISS? I haven’t heard of major failures with things like their laptops.
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
It was my understanding that radiation levels at Earths surface are still very low unless you had some kind of amplifying collector (ie - large antenna). Devices at high altitudes and space are subjected to CME events quite often, and usual
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
Why do you think this?
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
That’s highly unlikely to have a CME as a root cause unless it was connected to long distance transmission lines. CMEs tend not to affect small electronics on their own.
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
Yes, I find them valuable. The quality of engineer varies wildly across my organization, so it at least gives tests some basic structure.
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
Sarcasm can be hard on the internet. It actually stands for: Extended-range Twin-engine Operations Performance Standards and is a pretty logically laid out standard.
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
I’ve owned some Hondas recently where the rotors noticeably warped after several years (maybe since the cars have such good longevity?). It probably strongly depends on driving styles. I also trust OEM metallurgy far more than anything you
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
I can’t speak for the OP, but a “rotor” can mean the brake rotor on a disc brake, which can warp due to excessive use/heat. They are common on most cars, and usually need to be “turned” (ie. machined to be flat) when they are out of to
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
>Recommended languages are Java (ultimately a failure despite vast effort) Why is Java a failure? Recent JVMs have come a long way, and GraalVM makes it somewhat comparable to Go-like languages. I understand the historical hate and how O
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
I’ve never thought about it this way. What a cool idea!
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
The original comment was about plastic. Paper or wood are used as alternatives in many applications.
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
I’d call that being more neutral than a sink unless I’m misunderstanding you. I consider paper a sink, because trees are actively sequestering atmospheric CO2.
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
It’s actually hard to say. The prices these companies pay can be very different than list prices for us mortals. It’s one of my biggest complaints about AWS; the prices seem high, but in reality they are very opaque.
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by beeeeerp 2y ago
I live in rural CO, and we get them pretty regularly. Extreme weather is pretty common out here, and the infrastructure isn’t as redundant for the mountain communities (I assume due to the cost/benefit ratio of building new lines). It’

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