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4 years ago
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on: FAA, do your damn job
That has more to do with problems of carb icing and similar on legacy engines.
It's very expensive to get regulatory approval for new engines and even more so to then get approvals to retrofit them to legacy or historical aircraft.
Unfortunately if you put regular pump gasoline in an aircraft you are going to have serious problems. Not least because of the bioethanol mixed in which will degrade the pipes.
jonititan
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4 years ago
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on: Markov Chains for programmers
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4 years ago
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on: Python 3.11 in the Web Browser
Does the talk do a comparison to Pyodide? Seems very similar and I'd be very interested to hear what the advantages and disadvantages are.
jonititan
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4 years ago
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on: Mealie – a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI back end
That's quite an interesting system. Is it a specific markup language being used to generate or store them?
jonititan
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4 years ago
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on: BP quits Russia in up to $25B hit after Ukraine invasion
Gripens are designed to be able to operate from roads and Sweden often does practice operations doing just that.
jonititan
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4 years ago
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on: Intel energizes decades-old real-time Linux kernel project
Nuttx is an RTOS that sees a lot of use for drones and other control systems.
https://nuttx.apache.org/
Posix compliant and similar feel to Linux.
jonititan
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4 years ago
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on: Lasershark: Fast, bidirectional communication into air-gapped systems
It's neat but the characterisation of the sensing potential of LEDs as relatively unknown is laughable.
It's been known as far back as Forest Mims seminal books on circuits.
jonititan
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4 years ago
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on: /tap – Powerful and customizable note-taking system
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4 years ago
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on: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms
https://twitter.com/matrixdotorg/status/1471191916838633481?...This would be nice if it happens. I have fond memories of pidgin and similar and being able to use multiple messenger accounts from one program.
This would be a key enabler here as well for alternative front ends or interfaces to platforms.
Reducing platforms to their API and a "platform preferred" front end.
I mean obviously the EU is strongly motivated by wanting their companies to have a stronger chance at competing with US FANG companies but it's still a good move for the users.
jonititan
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4 years ago
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on: Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms
Yeah and seeing it from the other side as a cafe owner you have so many different sites to manage to try and help people find out where you are, when you are open, and the events you have running.
Would really love some sort of framework for managing all those competing offering for location services. An open source framework in particular would be ace although it would mean the vast majority of small businesses wouldn't use it. Too little time.
jonititan
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4 years ago
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on: Orbital Reef: Commercial space station by BlueOrigin, Sierra Space, Boeing
Is this a real thing? What happens if you make a trade on a boat in international waters?
Same rules would apply I expect.
jonititan
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4 years ago
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on: Orbital Reef: Commercial space station by BlueOrigin, Sierra Space, Boeing
I like the name for this endeavour. It speaks of a structure growing and evolving over time. Teeming with spaceships going hither and yon. Each distinct and different with unique roles and purposes.
jonititan
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4 years ago
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on: A quick note on airships (2020)
Unfortunately the Shortstown sheds are not in use for Airlander. HAV no longer have a presence there. They couldn't afford the rents while they recover from the crash and work towards building their next test vehicle.
Mostly movie studios and similar rent them now. A developer is hoping to build on the airfield which would stop any future airship use if they can't be stopped.
jonititan
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4 years ago
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on: Turing Pi V2 is here
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6 years ago
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on: The U.S.'s $13B aircraft carrier has a toilet problem
Actually ships are very water constrained. Especially Nuclear as they can't risk sea water contamination to the reactor cooling.
jonititan
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6 years ago
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on: BRL-CAD: Open-Source Solid Modeling
It looks similar and appears to have some of the same challenges to opencascade which has a python module. Pythonocc.
http://www.pythonocc.org/
As a heavy CAD user who wants to do some computer aided engineering I've found things like FreeCAD, OpenSCAD, and LibreCAD are great but not necessarily straightforward to work with programmatically. Pythonocc is easier but then lacks all the GUI tools for creating more detailed models.
jonititan
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6 years ago
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on: 3D Wireframes Using SVG
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6 years ago
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on: 3D Wireframes Using SVG
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6 years ago
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on: The Bloom Clock
Just because it's not Byzantine doesn't mean it might not be relevant to proof of work algorithms where one of the challenges is understanding when work was completed relative to other components.
jonititan
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6 years ago
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on: The Bloom Clock
This is an intriguing paper. This seems highly related to proof of work algorithms in blockchain systems. Working out which events happened and at what time.
