maxden

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by maxden 11mo ago
and what happens in the event of a disconnect? It mentions it has a form of automated control in the tow with "Aerolane's patented Pilot Positioning Assist systems"
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by maxden 1y ago
In what sport does she compete for Germany? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_Klz5qncZQ
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by maxden 2y ago
It may not be the monetary amount but the message it sends. Mess with me and Ill shut you down.
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by maxden 2y ago
for interest, also posted in 2019 when it was published. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20577142
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by maxden 2y ago
previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22226442
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by maxden 2y ago
Article is from 2018 and the effect has been discussed previously. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18340693
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by maxden 2y ago
They will now need to change over to a new or backup communication system, with both the changeover and new platform bringing risks.
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by maxden 2y ago
posted 28 October 2022 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33491437
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by maxden 2y ago
That seems like an even worse place to move you to!
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by maxden 2y ago
I guess it's living up to Betteridge's law. "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... edit: I see i
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by maxden 2y ago
Or you do support those and they introduce ads later. Unfortunately for users, advertisers will keep throwing money at the problem until the provider finds it attractive enough to add ads, or the provider builds up the user base to make it
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by maxden 3y ago
there' s already a $500 bounty for an early roblox client. https://robloxopolis.com/2006-roblox-bounty/
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by maxden 3y ago
thought your comment was going to become a quote from the Artilleryman from Jeff Waynes musical version of War of the Worlds! "We're gonna build a whole new world for ourselves. Look, they clap eyes on us and we're dead, righ
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by maxden 3y ago
Imagine it has the same functionality as Bait car.. and not allow the occupants to exit the car either.
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by maxden 3y ago
Your post prompted me to look into it, as I'd not made that connection either. However Wikipedia says that's not the case and "a wake for the dead harks back to the vigil, "watch" or "guard" of earlier tim
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by maxden 4y ago
Wow.. that soundtrack is distinctive! Off to listen to Oxygène.
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by maxden 4y ago
Yeah, its the "all sensor data at a glance page" https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eclipsim.g...
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by maxden 5y ago
you could daisy chain them, swapping them in/out
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by maxden 5y ago
They've used that landing on Mars as well, Terrain Relative Navigation.
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by maxden 5y ago
Agreed, it's just a landing/feeder page for the actual article. I guess longreads has better ranking/reputation?
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by maxden 5y ago
That Fly for your life music video is amazing. Thank you for posting it. It made me look into the making of the visual elements [0] and a more technical look here [1] of the short film "Paths of Hate". Given some (or all?) of the
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by maxden 5y ago
It's referencing a scene from the movie Ronin. "What's the color of the boathouse at Hereford?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm-g0NGE9W8
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by maxden 5y ago
This page linked earlier [0] relates one possibility to the 'Bethe formula', where depending on the energy of the beam (proton in their example) you can control where the burst appears. [0] https://www.otherhand.org&#x2
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by maxden 5y ago
Sadly our presence in the ocean depths isn't as transient as we may wish, with pollution in the Mariana Trench. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/20/plastic-... Perhaps we will detect
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by maxden 5y ago
and in 2015 it was reported Germany was helping the NSA spy on European politicians. NSA doing what the NSA does really. https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/24/8489477/bnd-nsa-informati...
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by maxden 5y ago
They might have been protecting you from an unseen predator. There have a been a few knows cases of it. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2004/nov/24/internationa...
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by maxden 5y ago
There was the timber hauling truck converted into an ICBM launcher. With the deforestation apparently happening in North Korea it probably wasn't the best thing to sell them regardless. https://www.reuters.com/article&#
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by maxden 6y ago
I thought they were trying to stop used up cryptominer cards from flooding the graphics card market. So this doesn't help Nvidia in that respect.
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by maxden 6y ago
aka the "QAnon Shaman" from the Capitol Hill riots.
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by maxden 6y ago
I think they are saying they couldn't connect as all lines were busy, so they would call someone they assumed was connected, causing the other person to drop off and free up a line, and then try and get that free line.

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