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by mcarmichael 2y ago
Add some trigonometry, and this superpower has historical military applications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopic_rangefinder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbXyAzGtIX8
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by mcarmichael 2y ago
An important early impetus for research at AT&T was the immense labor component of contemporary switching technology. Hiring the number of qualified operators needed to scale out to a fully national phone system wasn't clearly pos
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by mcarmichael 2y ago
Control was an almost completely unaddressed issue before the Wrights took it up, even though it is also crucial to useful glider development. This video has a nice delineation of the collection of breakthroughs needed: https:/&#x2
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by mcarmichael 3y ago
Melville's Moby Dick. It can be about adventure, about whaling, about the fellowship of man, about mortality... Intruder in the Dust, the best of William Faulkner's "young adult" novels. The short story collection Knig
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by mcarmichael 3y ago
As described, something more akin to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return-oriented_programming#Br... That page has a reasonable summary of the exploitation techniques and history motivating this work.
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by mcarmichael 3y ago
A nice companion piece, focused on a related probem: "An Efficient Data Structure For A Hex Editor" https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/tweak/btree.htm...
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by mcarmichael 3y ago
There are fundamental design choices in Lua that can certainly put some people off, such as prototype-based inheritance or the union of arrays and maps. It certainly wasn't casually hacked together, though. Ierusalimschy et. al. have
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by mcarmichael 4y ago
The really troublesome securities of the Global Financial Crisis were complex derivatives of private-label, almost universally sub-prime, asset-backed-securities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateralized_debt_obliga
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by mcarmichael 4y ago
The project had a real mark-to-market agonizing reappraisal in 2010 or so, as reviewed here (from the standpoint of 2013): < https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-13-690t >. Since then development targets have largely
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by mcarmichael 4y ago
Indeed. This marketing copy is spectacularly over-reaching. Canada has a proud history in sounding rockets; I wonder if comparisons to that military research work were the stepping-off point here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by mcarmichael 4y ago
The primary author, Ted Unangst, has a couple of blog posts describing the inception of doas, and its intended typical use patterns: https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/doas https://flak.tedunangst.com/pos
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by mcarmichael 4y ago
Fayetteville State has some pretty unique regional and demographic considerations to take into account, and specific issues concerning student engagement with this course matter. Paragraphs 2-5 of the article are worth reading in this regar
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by mcarmichael 4y ago
The source article title is quite appropriate in the context of the blog it appears in; presumably it's the HN-specific clickbait paraphrase that's being objected to... I concur, and suggest "History Curriculum: Ending World
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by mcarmichael 4y ago
The relevant conceptual distinction seems to be whether the aerodynamics of the blade(s) are conceptually independent, or interdependent. Better explained here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propeller_(aeronautics)#Air
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by mcarmichael 4y ago
For Tesla in particular, an explanation for the incredible rise in stock price post-2019 is needed, to inform any explanation for the recent slide. In the last 2 years, Meta touched twice its end-of-2019 price; Tesla peaked at over 13 times
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by mcarmichael 6y ago
At worst, the Lake Jackson authorities are being excessively cautious. When drinking, there's a slight chance of some liquid not being swallowed, after all. Given the recent fatality, erring on the side of caution seems quite understa
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by mcarmichael 6y ago
The treatment in the actual text of the book is rather different, and goes into some delightful detail concerning Tarzan's self-study program, which begins at the age of 10 or so: "Among the other books were a primer, some chi
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by mcarmichael 6y ago
Derek Lowe is terrific in communicating complex ideas in the field to concerned lay observers like me; he's been a great resource for reliable information about the science of this thing. Just to clarify; the ChAdOx1 MERS prospect hasn
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by mcarmichael 6y ago
This article is a good summary of the various factors: https://www.kqed.org/news/11755264/why-is-gas-so-expensive-i...
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by mcarmichael 7y ago
Porter Airlines appears to have started in an entirely unique regulatory regime, actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_Airlines In particular, airline monopoly control over allocation of terminal resource
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by mcarmichael 7y ago
Forbes has a reasonably clear article on the subject, although they do themselves no credit by inserting gratuitous Twitter snark about their competitor into their article presentation: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakd
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by mcarmichael 7y ago
I suppose it is literally true that the X-29 is "an impossible fighter jet", in that it was never put into production and fitted with weaponry. The phrase "inverted wing" is more troubling, because of the potential for c
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by mcarmichael 7y ago
On the question of the decision-making process of the corporate officers, hope was springing until the end: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cook_Group#Collapse As uncertain as UK governance and Chinese internation
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by mcarmichael 7y ago
The lunacy began in 2007, I think, with the MyTravel Group merger. The corporate finances became very transactional after that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cook_Group#History
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by mcarmichael 8y ago
The US has used lots of approaches that didn't seem to work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion More restraint was exercised after Soviet support for the Castro government solidified, but regime ch
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by mcarmichael 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STREAMS