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by bencoder 3y ago
To come back and admit that I was wrong: "In Port Isabel, a city about six miles northwest where at least one window shattered, residents were alarmed. " from [0] posted to HN [1] I stand corrected - the warning article was pretty
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by bencoder 3y ago
the wide angle makes it look a lot further away from the rocket than they really were - The camera is about 440m away from the rocket. The damage shown in the video appears to be entirely caused by debris while the article was suggesting po
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by bencoder 5y ago
It's amazing to me that every post that has anybody arguing against the restrictions or similar gets flagged, no matter the source or rationale. It's really the most divisive issue I've ever seen in my life.
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by bencoder 5y ago
Having never actually seen the statue of liberty my sense when seeing these comparisons is that it's much smaller in real life than the version in my imagination - no matter how many times I see the comparisons, the statue remains much
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by bencoder 5y ago
Our API is just appsync (graphql) + lambdas + dynamoDB so, theoretically, we shouldn't have been affected. But about 1 in 3 requests was just hanging and timing out. As others have said, they are not being forthright about the severity
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by bencoder 5y ago
Seems like an example of the AI effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect although I think when autopilot was invented, the concept of "AI" didn't exist, so maybe not a perfect example
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by bencoder 5y ago
Yes, all of the headsets do some form of reprojection if frames are not generated fast enough, or to account for the latency between generation and display. If you turn your head fast you'll see black at the edges where it's not c
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by bencoder 5y ago
14cm, not 1.4m
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by bencoder 5y ago
Sure but in small GA planes you're not likely to be travelling so far that the magnetic declination is significantly different so just keep it in mind each time you reset the DI. Or if you are travelling long distance you could make a
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by bencoder 5y ago
The direction indicator is gyro based rather than magnetic so for most GA it would probably be enough to just learn the offset for the area you are flying and add that when you set/check the DI. For VFR flying it hardly matters anyway
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by bencoder 5y ago
I really wanted this back then when it felt like I was missing out. Then twitter released their version and I got a taste and decided I wasn't into it after all.
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by bencoder 5y ago
> Does this make it "freshly-re-copyrighted until 2004 + 70 years?", or is the year that counts for copyright the original publishing date? Any changes (spelling, typos, the typesetting) in the new publication would be under a
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by bencoder 5y ago
https://online-go.com/learn-to-play-go is perhaps similar but doesn't go very far or in depth
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by bencoder 5y ago
https://online-go.com/ is the main & best web based server (and open source like lichess as well)
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by bencoder 5y ago
The pop-up menus also have a very fast transition (compared to many websites) which aids in the feeling of snappiness. I don't know why so many sites insist on very slow transitions
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by bencoder 5y ago
Your doctor should be able to help with that and provide you only drugs that have completed clinical trials to your desired standard.
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by bencoder 5y ago
I remember weallgetthingscheaperwhenwebuyinagroup.com Which I think was advertised on TV in the UK when I was a teen
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by bencoder 5y ago
This is really great!
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by bencoder 5y ago
Space Shuttles actually went into orbit. The falcon 9 boosters are sub-orbital. But I'm hoping that Starship will exceed the space shuttle massively!
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by bencoder 6y ago
Yes, everywhere I've worked (UK), the EM manages a group of teams, each with their own team lead.
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by bencoder 6y ago
Pseudonymity is essentially the default state of the internet. The "right" to it just exists by the nature of it. If you want to remove that right you need to argue why it shouldn't exist
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by bencoder 6y ago
Excellent resource, thank you! I think the date at the top has the wrong year (2020 / 2021)
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by bencoder 6y ago
Probably the billions that governments have paid for their place in the queue
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Vibration overcomes gravity on a levitating fluid(nature.com)
37 points by bencoder 6y ago|10 comments
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by bencoder 6y ago
If that's your conditions I'll quit because I'm not desperate for the job... because of UBI
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by bencoder 6y ago
It's mostly impossible - try buying bitcoin with a card that isn't in your name and see if you can manage it
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by bencoder 6y ago
Not the OP but I count integration testing as testing integrations /between/ systems - wherever your code depends on something outside your codebase. You can mock this for unit testing. Don't mock things that are already in y
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by bencoder 6y ago
> There is no formal definition of what a unit is or how small it should be, but it’s mostly accepted that it corresponds to an individual function of a module (or method of an object). And there-in lies the problem. Remove the idea that
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by bencoder 6y ago
This is a really impressive demo and points to a very interesting future of programming where requirements can be automatically converted to code and the developer is primarily determining and phrasing unambiguous requirements and checking
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by bencoder 6y ago
Since January 1st 2020 the requirement is for ADS-B out. So they will be reporting their GPS position also, now.

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