labcomputer

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by labcomputer 6d ago
Yea, they couldn’t get the left gear down because they they had enough airspeed to execute a go-around! Literally 5 consecutive minutes of making 100s of wrong decisions snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. According to news report
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by labcomputer 6d ago
The real problem is that they tried to replace the function keys (and especially the esc key) instead of supplementing them.
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by labcomputer 7d ago
Strangely enough... Most US states do not require insurance. Yes, really! In almost every state, you may post a bond in lieu of insurance, for an amount as low as $35,000!
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by labcomputer 7d ago
Er what? You don’t even pay for the fraudulent credit card transactions in the first place! There’s no money for them to return!
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by labcomputer 12d ago
> That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't start the generators during critical phases so they may end up using some fuel for a flight, but not much. I would guess the opposite. Many parts in a turbine engine ar
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by labcomputer 12d ago
> They’d likely need at least double, probably triple battery capacity to fly useful routes all-electric with enough reserve stored in batteries. Yup. And to bring this point home: "Only" doubling the battery capacity likely ea
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by labcomputer 12d ago
Yea, that wasn't super clear to me, either. But... given that turbine APUs already exist for ground power and are already engineered to be as light as practical, my naive guess would be that it's easier, simpler and faster to just
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by labcomputer 12d ago
> Typical reserve requirement is 30 min for a turbine aircraft (45 for piston). For private, yes. For airlines, the requirement boils down to basically enough fuel to "fly to the intended destination as scheduled, then loiter for X
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by labcomputer 14d ago
I can’t tell you why it’s always on the right , but it’s always on the same side because of network effects. Bicycle frames are not fully symmetric left-right because you need things like a mount point for the derailleur hanger, and option
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by labcomputer 14d ago
Part of the problem is the distribution of images (and text) you get from claims is not the same as what the model was trained on. A classic problem in ML. Another part of the problem is that a model not specifically fine-tuned to make a t
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by labcomputer 15d ago
> They do it explicitly to appease Trump Well, actually, no. The EO changes the official name of the geographical feature as recognized by the US government. All the large map providers ingest a data feed from the USG (and other governme
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by labcomputer 17d ago
So let them build enough housing! Why is this so difficult? We will try absolutely anything except to allow enough housing to be built, and then ask why there isn't enough housing. It's madness. If there isn't enough ho
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by labcomputer 20d ago
Avoiding patent infringement. James Pickard modified the Newcomen steam engine to deliver rotary motion using a crank (and patented it). So James Watt used the sun and planet for his steam engine to avoid infringing the patent. The Picard p
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by labcomputer 23d ago
> And a lot it is written from the perspective that large corporations are the only ones who do business throughout the EU. It's completely missed that small entrepreneurs may also want to take part. I'm not convinced that&#x27
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by labcomputer 1mo ago
FWIW, searching "dog at beach" in the photos app on my iPhone returns a set of photos of my dog at a sandy beach.
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by labcomputer 1mo ago
Sure, but why wouldn't you just download the one you like from the app store (and uninstall the bundled one if having it on your phone bothers you)? The point of having a bundled photo app is to deliver a complete product, not to suppr
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by labcomputer 1mo ago
But surely you can see that that's a stupid state of affairs? The built-in Photos app is just a basic built-in photo viewer. So the user is not allowed to view their own damn photos without clicking through a bunch of permission promp
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by labcomputer 1mo ago
So... seat position memory has been a thing in cars for many years now. Given the importance of eye position, the standardization of Airbus cockpits, the near-universal use of EFBs and Airbus's penchant for automating absolutely every
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by labcomputer 1mo ago
Ok, but these two things are incompatible: 1. Your government clearly is dysfunctional 2. You have been brainwashed into thinking that government is bloated, corrupt and inefficient. If I believe that government is dysfunctional... th
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by labcomputer 1mo ago
Sure, why not? The founding charter of every D1 football school claims that it is a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of education. It is still a mystery to me how recruiting "student athletes", with well below
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by labcomputer 1mo ago
> whatever creative accounting they want to do still needs to ultimately satisfy IRS scrutiny if there's an audit. Well, yes, but avoiding taxes is not the point of "Hollywood Accounting", rather avoiding paying actors.
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by labcomputer 2mo ago
> What percentage of buyers do you imagine are gonna buy a battery big enough to saturate 15A*120V=1800W for long? You can get 10kWh of batteries and a 5kW MPPT chargeverter for a little over $2k these days (UL certified). A 30 kWh syste
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by labcomputer 2mo ago
> Why bother? Power companies will complain they are losing money and regulators will allow them to buy energy from residential solar panels basically for free (NEM 3.0). The way I would see this working is that you charge the batteries
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by labcomputer 2mo ago
It’s not just solar. Property taxes increase at a rate legally-mandated to be less than inflation. Not just that, you can inherit your parents (or grandparents) property tax rate. Didn’t have parents who owned property in 1978 (shortly a
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by labcomputer 2mo ago
Are you being deliberately obtuse? It is illegal to discontinue your relationship with your local electrical utility. As in, completely disconnect from the grid, cut the wires and never look back. As the previous poster said, charging for
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by labcomputer 2mo ago
Sure, just copy the contemporary American SIGABA machine, or the cold-war ear Russian Fialka machine. The first public-domain solution for SIGABA was published only in 2023, and I believe Fialka is still unsolved (at least publicly). A few
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by labcomputer 2mo ago
> The most significant design difference between Shays and Heislers was the arrangement of the driving cylinders. Another very important difference (and one that makes Heislers superior to Shays) is that the driveshaft is centered on the
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by labcomputer 2mo ago
The issue is that it takes an entirely contrived oddball situation in order for range to be a problem. Plug in your car when you get home, and you never have to think about range, even for “oddball” situations.
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by labcomputer 2mo ago
I don't understand what kind of media someone has to consume to not understand that SpaceX does completely globally dominate launch services. Like, it's not even close. I have no opinion on whether other companies might catch up
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by labcomputer 2mo ago
Forward-looking statements (even unrealistic ones) are not fraud. If that's your standard for fraud, then literally every public company is a fraud.

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