godson_drafty

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by godson_drafty 7y ago
I agree, the improved version is worse. At first glance, it looks better than the original, but then numerous artifacts become apparent. For example, check out the little girl's face. It's jumbled in the "improved" versi
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by godson_drafty 7y ago
Friendly reminder: it's == (it is | it has) It's my responsibility to correct grammar. it's been tough for the Lions this year. its == (the thing belonging to it) You should always judge a book by its cover.
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by godson_drafty 7y ago
I did that, and then afterwords it told me that the article was being gifted to me buy a paying member. After that I just closed the tab. It is kind of a stroke of genius, encouraging me to sign up by showing me that I'm enjoying the l
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by godson_drafty 7y ago
"Sire. Shall we hunt in the valley, in the forest, or in the mountains?" We shall hunt in the forest. "Sire! Our scouts have just returned from the mountain. They report that the herds are not there at the present time! Shall
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by godson_drafty 7y ago
The developer carrying it out still using 2015 MBP
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by godson_drafty 7y ago
> When intranet webapps came along everyone breathed a huge sigh of relief. Not entirely. Sometimes they were replaced by applets, which are just native application wrapped in a thin layer of html. This causes its own set of problems. At
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by godson_drafty 7y ago
It could work where a large number of AI's are constructed. A small subset of these AI's--those that can only be used for good--are used as a training set. A number of AI's that can be used for bad are added to the training s
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by godson_drafty 7y ago
Why is there not a regulation that states an airline must return its passengers safely home before being allowed to shut down all operations?
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by godson_drafty 7y ago
Omitting automatic registry backups is a defensible policy. Telling the user that a backup was completed while a 0 byte file was saved is lying. Seems like a criminal act under the circumstances.
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by godson_drafty 7y ago
Not sure that's correct though. For banks, deposits are liabilities, while assets are loans and cash-on-hand, which they are required to hold fractionally against the total amount of their deposits. In this example, the bank is holding
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by godson_drafty 7y ago
* an iron core that produces a magnetic field surrounding the planet, which allows the atmosphere to remain in place, rather than being blasted off the planet by solar winds.
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by godson_drafty 7y ago
One huge factor that could help students enter the workforce without crippling debt would be to expand the scholarship counselling programs available at the high school level. Perhaps state governments could set aside funding for more guida
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by godson_drafty 7y ago
Another important, yet often overlooked duty for nervous flyers is monitoring the engine sound. Signs of trouble are when it's loud, too soft, or too grindy. I also find pilots frequently slow the plane down too much on initial descent
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by godson_drafty 7y ago
But if they put in a warning light, then they would have had to add an item to the emergency checklist for what to do when the warning light came on. This would entail explaining about MCAS. Which would have led to discussing how a single A
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by godson_drafty 7y ago
Not only is Boeing too big too fail, it's too big to succeed.
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by godson_drafty 7y ago
This issue of the AOA-disagree warning light keeps getting brought up again and again, which is unfortunate because the presence of such a light would not have saved those 346 lives. Imagine you are a pilot and your airplane's nose kee
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by godson_drafty 7y ago
Muillenberg's assurances that they will fix everything on their own are not very convincing. The existence of such a terrible design -- a single sensor that has complete control over the horizontal stabilizer -- points to one or more
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by godson_drafty 7y ago
Would it be possible to completely remove MCAS, and simply train pilots that this version of the plane stalls more easily? Stalls are a known phenomena that all pilots are very competent to manage.
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by godson_drafty 7y ago
There's the reassurances about the broken and deadly MCAS system. But what is there to assure us about the engineering team within Boeing that allowed such an egregiously bad system to be put into production and hidden from regulators
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by godson_drafty 7y ago
That flimsy tail design bothered me as well. Even if the center wing and wing roots are incredibly strong, there's little reason to place them under stresses that could be alleviated with a single-stabilizer tail design, as other comme
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by godson_drafty 7y ago
To avoid FAA scrutiny, Boeing developed and deployed MCAS covertly. This was done because they feared scrutiny would have led to huge losses in the face of competition from Airbus. Had Boeing management just laid all their cards on the tabl
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by godson_drafty 8y ago
This is incorrect. The engines are not too powerful for the airframe. The problem is that the engines themselves create lift at high Angles of Attack, pitching the nose of the plane up. "This new location and size of the nacelle causes
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by godson_drafty 8y ago
Thank you. I've been meaning to look that up for years.
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by godson_drafty 8y ago
For a billionaire, that is quite a humble home.
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by godson_drafty 8y ago
What about releasing a genetically altered strain of the malaria organism itself?
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My Music Diary(my-music-diary.com)
4 points by godson_drafty 8y ago|0 comments
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What I learned from becoming a landlord(popularmechanics.com)
2 points by godson_drafty 10y ago|0 comments
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by godson_drafty 10y ago
I wish we legally purchase a copy of the original theatrical release of episodes 4-6.
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by godson_drafty 10y ago
Here's a thought: If and when a kid wants to make in-game purchases using real money, allow them to earn that money through real-world work: housework, chores, etc. That way they can get a real sense for how valuable the purchases real
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by godson_drafty 10y ago
I noticed the punishing error sound that these devices emit when the transaction is successful and it's time to remove the card. I thought I was alone in noticing and being annoyed by it. Why not make two sounds - one for successful

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