gnaffle

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by gnaffle 11y ago
That's correct (even though he did mention "watch the height" and could have followed up on that). If I remember correctly, even the left chair pilot also applied nose-up inputs at some point in time.
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by gnaffle 11y ago
> Air France 440 was also shrouded in mystery (but nowhere near this degree), and turned out to be very poor airmanship by one pilot. It was poor airmanship by two pilots (and other factors, including the feedback mechanisms and the lack
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by gnaffle 12y ago
> That's laudable, but countless examples show that not everyone is that diligent. Sure, then again I would guess that the ones who are not that diligent are not likely to apply those access restrictions that you mention (although t
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by gnaffle 12y ago
> An interested party could find stuff that you're not aware off by looking at HEAD. Well, that goes without saying. But I don't think that security argument is a very poor one compared to the huge benefit of having the history
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by gnaffle 12y ago
> You grant that permission to the person legitimately checking out code, but not to the person finding or stealing a laptop with a clone of a repository. The latter is a side-effect of how a DVCS works. I'm not sure what you'r
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by gnaffle 12y ago
Well, you do that anyway when you allow people to check out a local copy of the code. Just as in most VCSes, you can set up a git server to only allow checkout of specific branches.
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by gnaffle 12y ago
> I call that filter bubble. I like using git for local commits, but 15 out of 20 persons here don't even take their laptop with them and I bet that 17 out of 20 won't touch code on the road. Maybe at home, if they have to. A d
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by gnaffle 12y ago
Agreed. I usually like JLGs commentary, but he's no expert on processor technology, and this time his analysis falls short.
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by gnaffle 12y ago
My biggest gripe with the Pi is a lack of proper USB power, so if you add all the stuff you need, especially for a wireless setup it's not so cheap and compact anymore. I'm happy that they've (hopefully) fixed the USB power p
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by gnaffle 12y ago
Here are a couple of use cases: - Stick it on the back of your 3D printer and run OctoPrint on it to give a nice web interface for your 3D printer (and a web cam for time lapse capture). - Connect it to my digital piano to record playing se
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by gnaffle 12y ago
Didn't the tobacco companies also spend money to discredit scientists and peer-reviewed articles and seed misinformation about the real risks of smoking, all while they were sitting on that mortality data? I think that was the real pro
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by gnaffle 12y ago
Thanks, I hadn't read this before. For those that haven't read it, here's Levesons article on the Therac-25: http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf
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by gnaffle 12y ago
If you had taken the time to also read the words preceding your quote, "but just like with new,", you would have realized that I was making a comparison instead of believing I was making the claim that GMOs include new, man-made c
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by gnaffle 12y ago
It's not so much that it's intrinsically bad, but just like with new, man-made chemical compounds that has never existed before, there's a possibility that there are adverse effects that we can't anticipate and won'
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by gnaffle 12y ago
No, they're not. If you want to, you can buy an iPhone, sync it with iTunes, and apart from downloading apps and OS upgrades, that iPhone doesn't have to speak to the Apple cloud at all.
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by gnaffle 12y ago
If you Mac loses power and doesn't get to do a normal shutdown, you're eventually going to get file system errors that you can only fix by booting from a recovery disk. I've had this happen numerous times due to a broken batt
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by gnaffle 12y ago
We don't know what he would have said, but what he did say before he passed away was that he explicitly didn't want people at Apple to ask what Steve would have done, he wanted them to do what they felt was right. The deal would m
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by gnaffle 12y ago
I'm not willing to bet anything on that, one week before WWDC in a year where Tim Cook has already gone on record saying that Apple is going to launch "new product categories".
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by gnaffle 12y ago
The difference is that people in the know (for Apple, the kind of people on HN, for Beats, the kind of people on Head-Fi) would say that the characterization is wrong for Apple, and right for Beats.
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by gnaffle 12y ago
Then again, what did we see before the iPhone launch? Not much more than incremental improvements to Macs and iPods. We'll see next week what they'll have to announce.
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by gnaffle 12y ago
Well, for certain definitions of "working" it did. I remember not so fondly trying to do emergency work with SSH over GPRS back in the day, with incredible lag and connection freezes every couple of minutes. Perhaps they figured o
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by gnaffle 12y ago
That's not really true at night though, CCD cameras can change their light sensitivity quickly, something human eyes can't do (after a bright flash, you'll lose your night vision up to several minutes).
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by gnaffle 12y ago
Continued glared isn't even necessary, losing the night vision (a problem that the camera doesn't show) is the real problem. It's not likely to directly cause an accident, but it might very well be a contributing factor (for
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by gnaffle 12y ago
I find it interesting how many people here discount the risks of laser pointers, and trivialize the stories of pilots. The very same people probably encounter the same attitude from customers and others in their work in the IT industry, for
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by gnaffle 12y ago
Agreed. It might be quirky, but I many of the things he lists here must be things he has experienced (like people buying parrots because they heard he likes parrots) and doesn't want happening again.
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by gnaffle 12y ago
Then again, Apple had the same problem with the iPhone. They managed to solve it by lanching in a few countries first and working tightly with selected mobile operators. I agree that it's hard, but they've shown the willingness to
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by gnaffle 12y ago
The parent _didn't_ say "It's hard to see Beats justifying a $3.2bn valuation". He said "It's hard to see Beats justifying a $3.2bn valuation without a significant part of that being the value of the brand&quot
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by gnaffle 12y ago
I think the big problem with Google is their obsessive compulsiveness in collecting data. Searches, chat logs, locations, everything is collected because storage is cheap. The collect it to improve their services, sure, to better target the
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by gnaffle 12y ago
Ah, thanks!
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by gnaffle 12y ago
I have a Solidoodle 3. After a problem with a clogged nozzle and trying different build surfaces (glass plate + hairspray for adhesive) I've had a long run of successful prints (ABS only). I've printed a set of Prusa i3 parts for

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