exidy

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by exidy 1mo ago
To the best of our recorded knowledge, nobody ran a 4-minute mile in the five millennia prior to Roger Bannister in May 1954[0], but more than 2,000 people have met or exceeded this achievement since. In fact, his record stood only briefly,
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by exidy 3mo ago
There was a brief period of time where you could buy your car like this. You'd purchase a rolling chassis from one manufacturer, and commission a coachbuilder to put a body on top. Many premium brands such as Bugatti, Rolls-Royce and J
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by exidy 4mo ago
You are absolutely correct that things can go wrong very quickly, especially at altitude. Modern planes fly very high for reasons of efficiency, but as the air thins, the window between stall speed and overspeed becomes narrower[0]. That&#x
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by exidy 4mo ago
Once the aircraft was stalled there was a narrow window to recover from it, which obviously did not occur. But the stall was entirely caused by pilot input of full nose up! The procedure for unreliable airspeed (which was in both the QRH an
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by exidy 4mo ago
The behaviour you describe above only occurred after the pilot flying stalled the plane. There was a procedure for unreliable airspeed indication. Had the pilot flying performed it, the situation would have been resolved without incident.
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by exidy 4mo ago
The line is actually "HOW MANY NIGHTS A WEEK DO YOU REQUIRE A WOMAN?" and was cut from the broadcast version.[0] [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/alternateversions/
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by exidy 4mo ago
> Speedwise the 1MHz 6502 and 4MHz Z80 were on par. This is a bit of an exaggeration, the 6502 was efficient but not that efficient. While generally understood that the Z80 took 2x-4x ticks to execute instructions as the 6502, in the rea
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by exidy 5mo ago
I completely understand the sentiment you're expressing here, however if it helps the language you see as a monolithic invader underwent exactly the same process, more than once. If you could go back in time, no doubt a 12th-century An
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by exidy 5mo ago
News outlets around the world continue to misreport this particular phenomena. Demand for air travel is highly elastic. As airlines raise prices to cover the increased cost of fuel, they are cutting capacity to ensure their load factors rem
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by exidy 5mo ago
... in mice. [0] [0] https://jamesheathers.medium.com/in-mice-explained-77b61b598...
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by exidy 5mo ago
I can walk down a Bangkok street in my suit and be comfortable. Why? Lightweight Italian wool fabric, silk-lined jacket, cotton shirt. Meanwhile the guy next to me in short sleeve polo and jeans is a puddle of sweat. Synthetics definitely h
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by exidy 5mo ago
Even a sextant and decent watch should be able to get you to within a nautical mile or two.
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by exidy 5mo ago
> It would be like the UK allowing Oxford or Cambridge to become a slum, the universities moving away and the old buildings becoming derelict. Or the Sydney Opera House going vacant and letting squatters move in. Or the Roman Forum going
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by exidy 5mo ago
> I'm not aware of many places that do almost everything so excellently Probably Singapore, which is sometimes described as the Switzerland of Asia anyway. 10 Gb symmetric fibre is broadly available at around SGD $50/month (abo
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by exidy 6mo ago
I had to explain this to some slightly younger colleagues recently. It's hard to believe now, but in ye olde days hardware was not as cheap and abundant as it is now. So you invested heavily in your database servers and to justify the
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by exidy 6mo ago
There was a brief period of time where you could buy your car like this. You'd purchase a rolling chassis from one manufacturer, and commission a coachbuilder to put a body on top. Many premium brands such as Bugatti, Rolls-Royce and J
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by exidy 6mo ago
> Departure time is easier because of https://www.fly.faa.gov/edct/showEDCT If you're in the US!
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by exidy 6mo ago
While I appreciate the aesthetics of this feature I actually fear it represents a loss of focus for Flighty. As a traveller, I don't need a global view of airport disruptions, I need relevant info for my flights . Given the prominent
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by exidy 6mo ago
> one of the most important pieces of data for a flight, its duration Flighty is all about getting you to the airport in time for your flight, so the most important pieces of information are things like departure times, connection times,
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by exidy 6mo ago
It's a face, specifically the "face of technology". [0] [0] https://1000logos.net/packard-bell-logo/
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by exidy 6mo ago
I don't think it's a useful distinction. I wouldn't describe my car as "really a vacuum cleaner", despite them both having an electric motor. The form factor is the defining characteristic, because that informs how
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by exidy 7mo ago
> Singapore has a regressive shock absorber model where something like half the country are immigrants that are ineligible for, say, public housing Singapore has about 1.5 million foreign workers[0] of the population of 6.1 million or ju
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by exidy 7mo ago
> The country effectively runs on a slave class. I really wish people would not throw this word around so casually, it is disrespectful to the many millions of people over the course of human history (and today!) who were forced under th
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by exidy 7mo ago
The non-resident population of Singapore (which is a reasonable proxy for migrant worker population) is at the highest it's ever been, as is the total population.[0][1] [0] https://www.singstat.gov.sg/publications/
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by exidy 7mo ago
It's a direct translation of Las Islas Filipinas which dates it back to the Spanish colonial era.
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by exidy 7mo ago
I'm sure no ill intent on your part but referring to the Philippines as "The PI" (short for The Philippine Islands as it was known under US colonial administration) is roughly equivalent to calling Thailand "Siam" o
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by exidy 7mo ago
As a non-American this seems very similar to what happened with Roe vs Wade. > With a divided Congress unable to agree on legislation to tackle rising global temperatures, the EPA finding became central to federal efforts to rein in emis
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by exidy 7mo ago
Even many decades later I remember the frustration in university 100-level CS courses of every new concept demonstrated with a mess of foo(), int* bar, void** baz scribbled on a overhead projector. Descriptive names are helpful, people! I t
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by exidy 7mo ago
The author is upfront about their goals and motivations and explicitly acknowledges that other concerns exist. Calling it whiny is ungracious -- the author is letting some very human frustration peek through in their narrative. Not everythi
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by exidy 8mo ago
Partly it was an anti-Wobbler thing. Someone in America or somewhere thought it was real clever to make the game ask you little questions, like “What’s the first word on line 23 on page 19 of the manual?" and then reset the machine if

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