KuiN | 1 year ago | on: Is a 'slow' swimming pool impeding world records?
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KuiN | 2 years ago | on: Coincidentally-identical waypoint names foxed UK air traffic control system
Here's the full preliminary incident report if anyone wants to read it:
https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/33/NERL%20Major%20Incident...
Obviously concerning that a single (perfectly valid) flight plan can take down both the primary and backup. Reject the flight plan that the system can't understand, you've got 4 hours for someone on front-line support to be able to work out the correct path and enter it manually? Meanwhile it'd be good if the system continued to operate.
Futher concerns about first and second line support being unable to find in the logs the cause or even the flight plan being processed when the systems failed. Had to bring in the 3rd party developers to look at "lower-level" logs to find out what happened. If your monitoring/logging isn't good enough that the first responder can't work out at least what the system was doing when it failed, that's a significant problem.
KuiN | 2 years ago | on: Canada’s Big Flex in Space
For more context on how big a deal this is, the A220 is quite widely seen as the future of short-haul aviation. Airlines are moving towards a point-to-point model instead of hub & spoke (especially in Europe), using smaller planes with lower capacity, but flying more frequently, together with best in class fuel efficiency (with the price of jet fuel only really going to go in one direction in the next decades) means the 220 is very, very popular. Airbus is expecting to sell 7,000 of them in the next 20 years. That's coming close to the incredibly successful A320 family (including A318, A319, A320 and A321 models) which has sold just over 10,000 planes since 1986.
KuiN | 2 years ago | on: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
Archive.org was knocked offline the other day due to some AI startup scraping it to death. It’s not a good thing.
KuiN | 2 years ago | on: Mach-9 12-passenger jet will fly from New York to Tokyo in one hour
It claims it will use rotating detonation engines, which are currently at a NASA tech demo stage. At best. They're super complex, currently not very stable. It's long, long way from becoming stable & reliable enough to be used as plane engines or being commercially available. The current record is 10 minutes firing.
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/feature/nasa-validates...
KuiN | 3 years ago | on: Amstrad Emailer, the UK’s first smartphone
My favourite thing about the Emailer is it was often stylised E-m@iler, which is the most incredibly 2000s branding.
KuiN | 3 years ago | on: Poor sleep drove me insane, and my long path to recovery
Restless Leg Syndrome is absolute hell. Combined with insomnia it's nearly killed me a few times. I think a lot of people (including many doctors I've dealt with) underestimate it due to it's rather benign sounding name.
KuiN | 3 years ago | on: DIY 1,500W solar power electric bike (2022)
Did you ever share that paper publicly? I'd be interested in reading it
KuiN | 3 years ago | on: Twitter to Charge $20 a Month for Blue Tick Verification, Reports Suggest
"Musk has reportedly told engineers to have the project completed by November 7 or else they'll be fired"
Wow.
KuiN | 3 years ago | on: Victoria III – First Impressions
Strongly agree with what you're saying. I think they've brought out a good game with a solid foundation for turning it into a great game with tweaks and expansions. I've put 26 hours into it since Tuesday and I'm loving it, so they've definitely done something right.
Agree with the tech tree, it's too short and you likely won't vary in the techs you get if you're playing a country with reasonable research points. I'd love some more country-specific flavour and actions; I understand folks don't want to be railroaded (having options to play a country any way you want is great), but it feels a little empty at the moment. Of course this can be modded in and filled out with DLC down the road.
If you enjoy this era of history or enjoy other Paradox games, I'd strongly recommend giving it a go.
KuiN | 3 years ago | on: Intel Core I9-13900K and I5-13600K Review: Raptor Lake Brings More Bite
TL;DR Intel's top SKU beats AMD's top SKU by a small margin in some tests, the opposite in others. But it uses a huge amount of extra power to be competitive.
'In our testing, power consumption topped out at a absurd 335 Watts, over 100W more than the Ryzen 9 7950X'
KuiN | 3 years ago | on: iPad Pro M2
I see a lot of people using an iPad for music alongside a proper computer with a full featured DAW. You don't need a mouse or keyboard shortcuts for idea generation, sketching out rough concepts from inspiration on the go or playing with some of the pretty unique synths & other tools available on iPad. For modular synth simulation I've found iPad with Pencil to be a much much better UI for me than using a mouse.
KuiN | 3 years ago | on: Moving from React to htmx
It may have improved significantly since I last used it (9 months ago?) but mypy was a world away from the ergonomics, quality of tooling and maturity of TypeScript.
KuiN | 3 years ago | on: AMD Launches Ryzen 7000 Series Desktop Processors with Zen 4 Architecture
Yeah there are no major microarchitectural changes that we're aware of for these chips. Bigger L2$, support for AVX-512 (kinda ... double pumping 256bit units), possibly wider front-end but not a huge amount more; it's primarily the new process making the difference.
KuiN | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
Join the waiting list to try the Arc beta by The Browser Company. Very fresh take on a browser, quite a bit of your list, particularly bookmark behaviour, is in Arc.
KuiN | 3 years ago | on: Germany sees shift in sentiment toward atomic energy
Yeah, the drought in Europe has dried up or made too warm the rivers used to cool French nuclear plants.
KuiN | 3 years ago | on: A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its human opponent
This is a falsely attributed quote. There's zero record of Zhukov (or anyone, particularly none of the various people this quote has been attributed to) saying this. It's a lazy stereotype of the CCCP's strategy during WWII and absolutely incorrect.
KuiN | 3 years ago | on: Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes
The UK absolutely required children to wear masks in schools in various situations. Schools were closed for significant periods of time as well.
KuiN | 3 years ago | on: Sony’s racing AI destroyed its human competitors by being nice (and fast)
> a video game known for its super-realistic simulations of real vehicles and tracks
Don't let the hardcore simmers read this!
KuiN | 3 years ago | on: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives
My favourite hardware music is this Radiohead cover from 2008. Blew my mind at the time
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> From swimming lessons to recreational use and high-level competitions, the Aquatics Centre will be multifunctional. From July 2025, the Aquatics Centre will become a vast multi-sports facility open to all, including two pools (50m and 25m), a fitness area, bouldering area, paddle tennis section and pitches for team sports. It will also have an adjustable floor to serve a variety of purposes (swimming lessons for babies and children, etc.). The Aquatics Centre will also be the state-of-the-art facility that the French swimming community has been looking forward to for decades. The French Swimming Federation will be able to host national and international competitions in its four indoor disciplines. The Centre will also provide a best-in-class federal training facility for leading French athletes and will notably be home to the country’s diving centre