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by mveety 10d ago
I worked on replacing some PLCs a number of years ago that used drives like these and used the energy from the spin down when power was lost to write anything important to a short 8-track like infinite tape loop, gracefully-ish shutdown, an
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by mveety 7mo ago
I'm a lispworks user for a few projects. The killers, generally, for an enterprise project are the smaller binaries and java interface. I know of a few places that write gui apps in lispworks, but many (most?) projects with a user inte
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by mveety 9mo ago
> Question: is there a reason pid type control is never a thermal option? Or put another way, is there something about the desired thermal characteristics of a computer that make pid control undesirable? I've only every seen somethi
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by mveety 2y ago
This is anecdotal but I use pci passthrough and drm hasn't yet been much of a problem except for older games.
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by mveety 5y ago
Orangeburg pipe is the tar paper stuff. It's a time bomb. Not only does it break down with use it also flows (flattens with gravity/overburden pressure, bends over unsupported sections run through walls/floors, etc) over time
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by mveety 6y ago
It's not just economics there. Weimar was a garbage fire from top to bottom, and that made extremist groups that promised to fix the nation actually viable. People are much more willing to vote for loons if everything is broken and no
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by mveety 6y ago
No I'd bet he's getting avgas. That's avgas price territory.
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by mveety 7y ago
I’ve found this “First Greek Book” [1] to be a good starting resource. It gets you through Xenophon’s Anabasis which is a great starting book. 1: https://daedalus.umkc.edu/FirstGreekBook/
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by mveety 7y ago
But depending on the altitude you're at getting that mask on is wishful thinking. Don't bet on your pilots being conscious after a plane depresses.
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by mveety 7y ago
Both are kind of correct. If it's laying where it shouldn't be it's debris, but if it's plowed through the windshield it's damage.
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by mveety 7y ago
They’re great cards and easy to write drivers for. I still use one in one of my thinkpads for wireless because it used to be the only card supported by 9front and plan 9 back in the day.
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by mveety 7y ago
Almost none came from Airbus. Really you could almost say they came to Bombardier’s aid.
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by mveety 7y ago
No, the SS did in fact have academics in their ranks to produce things that link the SS/Nazism to the "German past," to scientifically show the "superiority" of the German people, and to "quantify" how exa
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by mveety 7y ago
Total conjecture but it was probably factored in. From my standpoint if I knew it was going to sag, I would use that to my advantage if I could and, if not, at least factor it in.
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by mveety 7y ago
Also if we suck the CO2 out of the atmosphere we could turn it into petrochemicals and fuel which would help with making existing things carbon neutral.
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by mveety 7y ago
I wish I had a better math background, and I wish I was taught both the importance of testing and how to write useful tests.
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by mveety 7y ago
Inferno and Plan 9 sorta had this. Octopus and Plan B were both allowed picking up where you left off on some other machine.
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by mveety 7y ago
Yeah, we're still here.
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by mveety 7y ago
Why? That's akin to saying a mechanical engineer isn't worth their salt unless they know how to design and implement software. They're two different specialties that do different things. To be a good mechanical engineer you a
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by mveety 7y ago
This is cool. I’ve thought about carbon sequestration a lot using big nuke plants/solar plants+air liquidification+some plant to distill off and turn the CO2 into like methane or some hydrocarbon. My thought here was put half back in t
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by mveety 7y ago
They’re probably surface plates. They’re used as a flat reference for measurement.
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by mveety 7y ago
The acceleration is more of a function of the powertrain design in steam cars. If you replace the direct drive drive train with one similar to a ICE car (ie clutch+transmission) you can get the acceleration of a ICE car in a steam car. If y
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by mveety 7y ago
Doble got pretty close to solving that problem actually. His water-tube boilers were extremely efficient at the time (probably surpassing the contemporary ICEs). He also did some work on a “wet heater” which is a boiler that mixed the fuel
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by mveety 7y ago
That's absolutely doable, though you would have to prevent the inactive props from spinning and/or feather them to reduce drag. I don't really see variable pitch props on these though, the weight and complexity penalty would
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by mveety 7y ago
It was a little bit of both.
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by mveety 7y ago
I fly. During critical phases you should be assuming something bad will happen and prepare for it. At least on the pilot end of things, we don’t like surprises so we put our ducks in a row for when shit goes sideways. The reason planes don’
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by mveety 7y ago
No they can. There are a lot of other brands with similar support like Fendt or Massey. The reason everyone gets JD machines is that for their specific purpose they’re generally the best barring a few niche markets like what Ventrac targets
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by mveety 7y ago
You wouldn’t be retrained to ignore cues from your senses and trust your instruments. That training happens when you’re young and getting your IFR ticket.
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by mveety 7y ago
It depends on their source. If they’re washed they need to be refrigerated, and if they’re not they can just hang out at room temp.
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by mveety 7y ago
You need to be familiar with all of the aircrafts systems in case one fails.

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