pdelbarba

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by pdelbarba 6y ago
Pretty sure 10,000db is "destroy the observable universe" power levels so.....somehow worse than nukes? That's a 10^1000 multiplier. It doesn't even matter what unit you use really...
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by pdelbarba 6y ago
This guy is really amazing. He did an awesome youtube video series on writing a render engine from scratch. I used his tutorials extensively for learning vulkan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR2my8OE1Sc&list=PL0JVLU
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by pdelbarba 6y ago
I think it depends on context. There are a lot of sim games where the environment is very controlled and forums are littered with people who can't tell whether the occasional picture is real or in-game. A forest is hard to render acc
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by pdelbarba 6y ago
Yea, this one goes from 0 to 100 real quick. The first half is a valid-ish argument, then the second is just an exponentially growing web of conspiracy theories...
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by pdelbarba 6y ago
JFC we really need to turn this societal acceptance of "you don't own the hardware" around. It's always been legal to sell parts off your car. Do not buy anything that attempts to prevent you from owning what you bought
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by pdelbarba 6y ago
Colorado has vote my mail as the default option and it works fine. If you want to vote, you register, get a ballot in the mail and return it. You can verify that it's counted by following it online and we haven't really had any
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by pdelbarba 6y ago
For an owner operator, an R22 and maybe an R44 would be able to do SF to Lake Tahoe for well under $250. For a charter service you could probably get a commercial operator to do it for maybe around ~$500 and there are definitely some ineff
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by pdelbarba 6y ago
You can throw around statistics but the reality is aircraft receive far more scrutiny. Nobody wants to sit helplessly as one of these things flies them into the side of a skyscraper or watch as one falls out of the sky onto them. Is that f
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by pdelbarba 6y ago
If they're operating in the US (given all the pictures of US cities) then they will absolutely be flying part 121 or 135.
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by pdelbarba 6y ago
I absolutely guarantee this will be anything but less expensive. You can get an R44 with better range and payload for a couple hundred thousand. This will be an electronic nightmare requiring extensive certification and maintenance effor
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by pdelbarba 6y ago
This isn't going to be certified and allowed for part 135 operations inside at least a decade. Boeing can't keep their jets from crashing due to simple trim control software, what makes anyone think the FAA is going to go along w
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by pdelbarba 6y ago
Not if they have no funding for those things...
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by pdelbarba 6y ago
Really they spawned a huge industry of balance-operated electric scooter...things... The branding was much more accurate than I think even they hoped as they were a segue to more cost effective solutions. I think it's a pretty good ca
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by pdelbarba 7y ago
These are all moonshot projects. If someone can come up with a creative and simple ventilator that relies entirely on 3d printed and massively available electronic parts they can save a lot of lives and it appears to be entirely possible.
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by pdelbarba 7y ago
Honestly I feel like D3D12's days are numbered. Tons of engines and devs are moving to Vulkan and while Vulkan has tons of tutorials and documentation, D12 has NOTHING. If you want to just go out and make a D12 game, you basically ne
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by pdelbarba 7y ago
They do it with software licensing for sure. There are almost certainly satellites and weapons systems out there with GPL code in them but good luck proving it.
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by pdelbarba 7y ago
Haven't heard that definition of canard in a while... As with most things, I'm fairly sure the truth lies somewhere in the middle and it varies industry to industry. Yea, a lot of stuff went to china, but a lot of workers were al
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by pdelbarba 7y ago
Sure, however this case in particular is a bit of a counter point because covid-19 isn't causing anyone to become a child predator, nor has there otherwise been a recent tidal wave of child predators that appeared out of thin air. See
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by pdelbarba 7y ago
What's the interval they've been flying at? Has any been keeping track of how often they're spotted?
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by pdelbarba 7y ago
I bet by changing up the sensor pixels this would be a pretty cost effective way of making a low res FLIR camera, or really any imaging band. Using a different pin hole you might even be able to image things with xrays, neutrons, or strong
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by pdelbarba 7y ago
If it's going into a secure facility it doesn't matter if it's a phone, an iwatch or a garmin, if it has a radio and/or nonvolatile memory, it's not going in.
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by pdelbarba 7y ago
Check the allowable voltage input ranges for each and if they have overlap just buy a big power brick (like a laptop charger), cut the ends off of each of the supplied wall warts and solder+shrinkwrap them all together into a nice neat harn
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by pdelbarba 8y ago
This kind of illustrates an important point that I think a lot of people don't realize. Strength isn't just muscle mass but also neurological conditioning. You're not just stimulating your muscles to get bigger when you wor
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by pdelbarba 8y ago
A perfect example, though it seems some here are somewhat butthurt :)
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by pdelbarba 8y ago
Maybe? PIREPS are not as useless as the article makes them out and systems for in cockpit weather/PIREPS and wind conditions have become much more commonplace in that time period.
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by pdelbarba 8y ago
I have no idea what they're referring to in terms of app or model, but Foreflight (most common EFB app on the market at the moment) has had this feature for maybe a year and is IPad only... So is this just a huge Delta ad there they&#
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by pdelbarba 8y ago
*caught fire 13 times (river is the Cuyahoga)
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by pdelbarba 8y ago
The exact same thing is true of any certified piston engine but on a shorter time table. Piston engine need to be removed and overhauled at the factory every 2000 hours and if a prop blade grazes the ground or hits a bush it needs to be rem
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by pdelbarba 8y ago
Carbon: One of the most popular high performance light bush planes at the moment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubCrafters_Carbon_Cub_EX Turbines: The money makers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D
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by pdelbarba 8y ago
If you watch the videos he adds some fuel capacity. The particular engine he's using isn't horrible on fuel consumption, particularly at altitude, though definitely worse than the original IO-540

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