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by codeduck 10y ago
Unfortunately the design of this aircraft means its glide ratio is probably not that good.
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by codeduck 10y ago
Russia has some of the best SAMs in the business. They don't need to use jets; Turkish F-16's wouldn't last long if Russia fired up their anti-aircraft systems and engaged.
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by codeduck 10y ago
5kg of plastic explosive will be more than enough to sink a ship.
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by codeduck 10y ago
Placing an engine in that empty space means that there is less space available for the car's crumple zones to deform before the engine intrudes into the passenger safety cell. A tesla can have its entire front concertina'd down to
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by codeduck 10y ago
Life needs more whimsy; I'd buy you a beer.
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by codeduck 10y ago
The EmDrive would never be powerful enough to be a lifting engine; but what it would be is an incredibly useful engine once your mass is in orbit.
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by codeduck 11y ago
I've been playing a bit with G1 and I'm still not 100% convinced that it's better than CMS. That said, it is nice to finally be rid of PermGen etc.
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by codeduck 11y ago
A small nitpick, but: > Hundreds of XML configuration files is a byproduct of the frameworks, not the JVM itself. Enterprise Java swallowed the XML kool-aid in a big and horrible way.
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by codeduck 11y ago
> And the basic jvm settings will get someone a long ways But when it all goes tits-up it is a lot harder to work out why. Also, I'd forgotten just how much i hated annotations. And now I need eye bleach :/ I like spark becaus
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by codeduck 11y ago
There is a non-obvious barrier to entry when it comes to the JVM, and that is learning the tools to performance tune a JVM in a production environment. To many people this is somewhat akin to black magic. CMS, G1, PermGen, Xmx, NewRatio...
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by codeduck 11y ago
In the USA. Then there's still the minefield of European and Asian governments - some of which view the trafficking of narcotics as a capital crime. And then there's the fact that many financial regulatory bodies are INCREDIBLY c
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by codeduck 11y ago
As a generalisation, women are more likely to reach out for emotional or psychiatric help than men are.
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by codeduck 12y ago
I have never worked in a company, large or small, where my coworkers behaved in this manner. Meanwhile, I have worked in numerous companies where a colleague was not able to make a scheduled interview and asked me to stand in for them inst
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by codeduck 12y ago
I was pointing out that the fact that this guy was conducting interviews was understandable in the context of a small company - I have picked up interviews for team members before when they were unable to make them. I meant no implication a
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by codeduck 12y ago
Small company, he's a programmer - primary interviewer is busy (something came up) - asks another technical person to cover for him. Happens all the time in startups / small companies.
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by codeduck 12y ago
I doubt this is a company-wide problem. I think this is an employee with a serious inability to appreciate boundaries, and he should be removed from his position of responsibility.
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by codeduck 12y ago
I had a pet crow when I was about 6 years old - he was a fledgeling who'd left his nest on the hottest day of the year and was dehydrated. My brother and I were squirting eachother with water and he cawed at us until we squirted him.
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by codeduck 12y ago
London is phenomenally expensive. Rent, tax, national insurance and transport consume most people's disposable income - even in well-paid professional jobs.
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by codeduck 12y ago
Or hunter-killer drones that can close in and fire some sort of directed fragmentation / shaped charge warhead? That might be a viable alternative, especially once 3d fabrication reaches an acceptable maturity.
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by codeduck 12y ago
Conversely, it is far easier to hit a moving target with a laser than it is to hit a moving target with a projectile. With a projectile, you have to aim where the target is projected to be, whereas with a laser you aim where it is now. CIW
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by codeduck 12y ago
No, but they follow ballistic trajectories and can ricochet. A laser is at least predictable, and given that most drones would fly above ground level for visibility, it would take a very unlucky reflection to injure someone on the ground.
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by codeduck 12y ago
Lasers would be more effective. 1W and above lasers are readily available on the open market, and output more than enough power to fuse or burn out any optics that are not shielded.
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by codeduck 12y ago
No. There are various types of LiFePO4 - some are as you say used for receivers etc but the ones I am specifically referencing (and perhaps should have been more explicit about) are the A123 systems Lithium Iron Nanophosphate batteries, w
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by codeduck 12y ago
5 times the nominal rating of the battery - it's a term we throw around loosely in Radio Control, based on Elec.Eng terminology that is too complex for us laymen :) A 1000 milliamp/hour battery has a C rating of 1 i.e. 1 ampere&#
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by codeduck 12y ago
Lithium Iron Phosphate cells can charge at a rate of up to 5C with no side effects - they're used in more expensive hand-tools and as primary power cells for electric radio control aircraft and helicopters. That said, smartphones don&#
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by codeduck 12y ago
They lack the necessary commercial insurance.
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by codeduck 12y ago
This depends entirely on the sail plan of the ship in question. An AC-72 might be fastest upwind, but a square-rigged ship definitely isn't.
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by codeduck 12y ago
Mapcodes are a free, open way to make every house or location on Earth addressable by a short code. With nothing else except your mapcode, for instance, a navigation system will bring someone to within meters of your front doo
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by codeduck 12y ago
1. They're all on the same flight because it's possibly the most convenient one for reaching Melbourne. 2. The conference is for 25000 delegates from all over the world, and has been running since 1985 when the first one was held
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by codeduck 13y ago
I really, really wish flux was compatible with the ipad. Using an ipad at night is a painful experience.

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