supernova87a

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by supernova87a 5mo ago
I remain convinced that the main successful business model in the satellite communications industry is to wait for the first incarnation of the satellite company to fail / go bankrupt / flounder, and then be part of the 2nd round
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by supernova87a 6mo ago
You know that it was basically sold to be able to claim a more responsible budget that year? Basically selling off of an asset to record higher revenue. Like selling your building fire extinguishers to claim that you were able to pay of
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by supernova87a 8mo ago
I thought that the idea of roundabouts was that they lead to slightly more accidents than before, but they are of much lower severity than before (the 90 degree intersections they replace).
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by supernova87a 9mo ago
Thanks!
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by supernova87a 9mo ago
Has anyone come across a good semi-technical description of "how your node knows that its message got sent and reached its destination and can stop sending"? I'm interested in how this logic is executed when you can't
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by supernova87a 9mo ago
I am severely tempted to hop on a flight to go and see it, but wondering if it's such a "once in a lifetime" thing to go see? That, and if it'll peter out by the time I get there, and $500+ to just fly on a whim and st
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by supernova87a 10mo ago
It seems to me an analogy that as a product is increasingly complex, the ultimate consumer/demander of it becomes more and more disconnected from maintenance, operations, etc. considerations and whether that system is well designed and
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by supernova87a 10mo ago
I wonder how the incident was diagnosed? Does the FDR record low level errors that might've contributed to this? I thought that it only recorded certain input parameters and high-level flight metrics but I'm no expert. If a ra
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by supernova87a 10mo ago
I was surprised too at the 2nd sentence: "The project will have a heating power of 2MW and a thermal energy storage (TES) capacity of 250MW..." and how a news outlet about energy could get such a fundamental unit wrong. But given
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In FTC lawsuit, federal court finds that Meta is not illegal monopoly(ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov)
4 points by supernova87a 10mo ago|1 comments
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by supernova87a 11mo ago
It is mind blowing to see the prices of the complex spiral distillation condensers at $5-10 each. Today these are like $300 at least, and I'm guessing they cannot be made in the USA. (I would be glad to be wrong) edit: ok with inflati
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by supernova87a 1y ago
I don't really care if you think people don't understand details of the job you do, or the system in which you operate. Your name is on the article and it's my expectation at this point that someone telling a story give me t
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by supernova87a 1y ago
Hey, I heard about how utility pole inspecting helicopters are able to tell the good/rotten state of wooden telephone poles by the reverb pattern of sound waves coming off the poles from the rotors -- it seems to me the whole field of
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by supernova87a 1y ago
Is it because journalists think of their special talent as talking to people to get information (which is a scarce and priviliged resource), versus reading and summarizing things that we all have access to? So they rarely are forced to do
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by supernova87a 1y ago
yup, I just saw that in reading the ruling in more detail.
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by supernova87a 1y ago
You made me snort with laughter with how right you were. I in fact have 2 adblockers on, and I actively ignore and sanitize some of my history (like Youtube) to not get directed towards advertising or other rabbit holes I don't want t
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by supernova87a 1y ago
Is it not sad/telling that the reporter of the story couldn't summarize this in the story, but the bot here can? If there were an indicator of the future to come...
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by supernova87a 1y ago
By the way, the worst laughable offenders of this idea are local TV news stations. As if to get the real insight on some world issue, I'm going to "stay up to date by going to KTVU.com for the latest on this breaking story!&quot
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by supernova87a 1y ago
I guess they are unable to value the function that I am more likely to read and trust stories from their website if they give me the honest info about where their stories come from that I can further read (and rely on them to always point m
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by supernova87a 1y ago
Why? Maybe stock price is just a reflection that whatever the penalty, even large, now there is legal certainty rather than unlimited risk.
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by supernova87a 1y ago
By the way, a pet peeve of mine right now is that reporters covering court cases (and we have so many of public interest lately) never seem to simply paste the link to the online PDF decision/ruling for us all to read, right in the sto
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by supernova87a 1y ago
Is the incorrectly shared mail piece addressed to someone with a quite similar address, or potentially someone who previously lived there? Just having thought once in a while about how complicated addresses are, I can only imagine all the t
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by supernova87a 1y ago
Genuine question for debate: iPhone app store is a private club to which businesses can choose to belong, if they want to sell their product to certain customers. Membership in the club comes with the condition that you not talk about alt
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Elephants remember: companies using "block lists" to not rehire some employees(businessinsider.com)
7 points by supernova87a 1y ago|6 comments
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by supernova87a 1y ago
Lights are out in the terminals at LHR. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cly24zvvwxlt
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by supernova87a 1y ago
Is it true, I have heard, that ACARS messages are like as expensive as sending data to Hubble, and airlines hate how expensive it is (hence it is not a viable method of transmitting more volumes of more desired data, like position data, reg
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by supernova87a 1y ago
There is a handy rule of thumb called the "rule of 12ths", used in seamanship / ocean navigation / tidal calculations (maybe it is used elsewhere too, this just happens to be where I recognize it from). I think it can
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by supernova87a 2y ago
Why have laws either? Honest people would have not needed them anyway, and people seeking to break the law will find ways around them.
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by supernova87a 2y ago
Sorry, but I think that statement is an incorrect perception that you're falling victim to due to a statistical blip in high publicity aircraft incidents in the last ~2 months. We live in the safest era of commercial airline travel in
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by supernova87a 2y ago
I can see how when owning a building in a place like that, you might be tempted to say, "not even going to dig, don't want to know what we might find under there" that will cause your property to completely change value and c

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