xenadu02

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by xenadu02 5d ago
Part of the problem is they got into this mess because they were behind the airplane and had been behind it for a while. That means less time to do your normal procedures putting you further behind. That raises stress and causes mistakes. T
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by xenadu02 5d ago
No you must pass the stabilized gate well before minimums; legal requirement is usually 1000ft above the airport for IMC (instrument conditions), 500ft for visual conditions. AFAIK airlines can set higher minimums and may set other configur
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by xenadu02 5d ago
Advice I've seen many experienced captains give when you're FO and captain is fixated on landing: declare going around to tower. It avoids a fight over controls or the captain trying to override you; in that moment they're un
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by xenadu02 5d ago
AFAIK all Part 121 Passenger operations in the US (and most worldwide) have a no-fault go-around policy. Most have eliminated even the minimal requirement to denote a log entry as to the reason lest that make pilots reluctant to do the righ
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by xenadu02 6d ago
Pilot here but not ATP or Jet rated. When you try to land with too much energy the airplane refuses. When you get within a wingspan or two of the ground then ground effect starts giving you more and more lift. That plus excess speed means t
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by xenadu02 6d ago
Spool up time is 8-10s on high-bypass turbofan engines. They tried to go around maybe 1000ft from the end of the runway? It was far far too late to even try it at that point. Sadly if they had made the call earlier they were going so fast t
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by xenadu02 6d ago
No, the left main was not on the ground after touchdown for some time. The aircraft will not auto-deploy the spoilers nor autobrake until it senses weight on weels. It also locks out the thrust reversers. All for obvious reasons. The left w
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by xenadu02 14d ago
You aren't wrong - the loan itself can be secured against machinery. But you will still be forced to sign unlimited personal liability for the loan itself unless the business is already well-established and profitable in which case the
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by xenadu02 14d ago
Yes that is technically true. In theory you might be able to get some damages from them and even from Starbucks. But Starbucks would be within their rights to ban you permanently. You could try to go after YouTube but expect to be permabann
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by xenadu02 14d ago
Some of us have been predicting this for a while. People with an axe to grind or states with an agenda are already devoting tremendous effort toward affecting LLM models and it is very difficult to determine real from astroturf for humans l
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by xenadu02 14d ago
It's just hyperbole. When parts spin that fast centrifugal force becomes a serious problem. Everything is a spring, nothing is actually 100% solid. Anything you make that spins that fast will at minimum grow larger in the direction of
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by xenadu02 19d ago
edot covered this better than I could! You're quite wrong. It all depends on volume.
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by xenadu02 19d ago
SBA loans are just regular loans from a bank, except with government backing. You need a high credit score (680 at least) to even have a hope and 10% cash to put down if not more. Unless you can prove experience managing a business forget i
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by xenadu02 19d ago
It is not a legal process. It is Google's process designed to minimize their involvement to the maximum degree possible. When some random person copyright strikes your YT account you have no rights because it isn't based on the la
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by xenadu02 20d ago
It isn't just about that. You need industrial policy. And not just stuff like the CHIPS act. In China a small outfit can get financing and open a factory anywhere. You can't do that in the USA. You are too small for the lenders or
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by xenadu02 21d ago
I think the argument is that you should't be forced to pay that cost for all writes even if only some require it.
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by xenadu02 22d ago
When you have a bunch of stores you do sign distribution deals with a nationwide distributor. If you buy enough fuel you might even be able to sign with an oil company that has refining capacity or their own distribution arm. So Costco is d
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by xenadu02 23d ago
The amyloid treatments slow cognitive decline by 35% or so for 18 months. Some papers argue (and I believe) the effect is small enough many patients don't notice or seem to benefit. We shall see if yet another generation of amyloid-t
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by xenadu02 23d ago
There have always been opportunities for those who seek out the less traveled paths. If all your peers are only accepting what LLMs tell them then you should do the opposite. Spend some of your time writing code by hand, especially when wor
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by xenadu02 27d ago
I assume the parent comment meant extract as in vampiric. Collecting rents merely for owning assets rather than doing something useful. China certainly allows you to get rich from starting a company so long as you're well-connected pol
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by xenadu02 29d ago
As others have noted they've been found colluding previously, more than once. Even admitted guilt and some people went to jail over it. And the reason the market is so small is because of players who did as you propose, the DRAM market
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by xenadu02 1mo ago
I don't think your argument is a genuine one in this case. The government is and always has been the primary driver of science research funding. There simply isn't enough of a known payoff for private investors to bother and priva
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by xenadu02 1mo ago
I agree and I'm glad we have the alerts. I'm just saying we may not get any warning and that's nobody's fault. I'm also thankful that we have at least some seismic standards and have continued to increase them. Look
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by xenadu02 1mo ago
A difficult lesson to learn but one that led to a 10x increase in income for me. You can fight the system all you like. You might make a difference but you won't be rewarded for it. Or you can accept the game and play it. If you don&#x
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by xenadu02 1mo ago
Success is almost always a combination of both. No one is self-made but that tends to irk people who believe they are because they've spent years doing a lot of hard work. Without that hard work they'd have failed! Yet hard work a
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by xenadu02 1mo ago
I think that overstates the case for the parametron though. Even compared to contemporary vacuum tubes they were slower. Contemporary bleeding edge vacuum tube computers could reach Mhz frequencies. Parametrons were 10-15kHz. The supposed p
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by xenadu02 1mo ago
That's unavoidable. We now have shake alerts in CA but if the quake happens on the Hayward fault across the bay San Francisco isn't going to get much warning no matter what anyone does. By best estimates we may get 15s of warning.
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by xenadu02 2mo ago
The traditional model of compilation is the biggest issue holding back fast incremental compilation IMHO. Swift suffers from this as well. Even a simple change to one file results in re-parsing the whole library because definitions come fro
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by xenadu02 2mo ago
I didn't leave the Republican party, the party left me. Then again I'm some kind of crazy nut for believing that principles matter even if you lose the election and that cruelty isn't something to be praised so what do I know
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by xenadu02 2mo ago
Also note this is a side-effect of the fact that mammals lost true 3-color vision then primates re-evolved it by mutating the yellow cone into green/red cones. If you look at the sensitivity of red/green cones they almost overlap,

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