l31g | 4 years ago | on: iPhone 13 to support LEO satellite communication
Starlink + Apple collab?
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l31g | 5 years ago | on: American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday
U-2s don't fly fast.
l31g | 5 years ago | on: United B772 at Denver on Feb 20th 2021, engine inlet separates from engine
What is burning is probably leftover oil.
l31g | 5 years ago | on: Robinhood is limiting purchases of stocks: AMC, Blackberry, Nokia, and GameStop
When AOC and Ted Cruz are agreeing that something smells fishy... it's probably fishy
l31g | 5 years ago | on: WhatsApp displays 404 not found when I send a link to Signal
I am not experiencing this.
l31g | 5 years ago | on: How a British Covid-19 vaccine went from pole position to troubled start
The mRNA vaccines can’t be produced quickly enough.
l31g | 5 years ago | on: Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature
Apple posts the same information for their apps on the App Store.
l31g | 5 years ago | on: What it’s like inside your plane’s hidden ‘crew rest’
Yeah, the Dreamliner looks beautiful during takeoff. You see the wingtips slowly, but steadily rise above the plane.
l31g | 5 years ago | on: U.S. FAA proposes requiring key Boeing 737 MAX design changes
MCAS is only useful in very extreme situations rarely seen in normal flight. Most pilots will never be in a situation where MCAS is useful.
l31g | 5 years ago | on: Programming Inside a Container
I have done this from time to time when debugging applications that run inside Docker. I'd bash into the container as root and then download and install my development tools and check out the repo where the code lives. Once the code is functionally correct, then I can worry about performance optimizations given Docker...
l31g | 6 years ago | on: Remdesivir: Drug has 'clear cut' power to fight coronavirus
There are multiple studies going on in parallel. Some of them use a 10-day placebo, others compare 5-day and 10-day treatments.
https://www.gilead.com/news-and-press/press-room/press-relea...
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-clinical-t...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
l31g | 6 years ago | on: New iPhone SE
Better camera than the iPhone 8, supposedly same as the XR [0]
[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/15/21222104/iphone-se-2-came...
l31g | 6 years ago | on: New iPhone SE
Compared to iPhone 8:
+ New processor
+ WiFi 6
+ Dual SIM
+ possibly upgraded RAM
l31g | 6 years ago | on: CS Rankings excludes important CS research from ECE/EE deptartments
According to csrankings.org's FAQ, they only include professors who can advise a CS-only student. The conflict is that the website includes areas (like "Embedded & real-time systems", "Robotics", and "Computer Architecture") that are traditionally done in EE and ECE departments. One significant example is UT Austin's prolific ECE department.
l31g | 6 years ago | on: Tell HN: Zoom truncates passwords to 32 chars
Last time I changed my username and password for my AmEx login, their rules were very restrictive with the username (I couldn't use numbers at the beginning of it) and password (I could't use characters like commas or periods)...
l31g | 6 years ago | on: U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days
Trade should not be affected. According to the BBC:
The US president said his travel ban did not include Americans who had undergone appropriate screenings - or "the tremendous amount of trade and cargo".
l31g | 6 years ago | on: Purge site data when site identified via old tracking cookies
Or a sign-in with Apple-like system so tracking is limited to each site.
l31g | 6 years ago | on: Boeing 777X: World’s largest twin-engine jet completes first flight
In reality, the only parts that are different are the wings and the engines. The rest of the systems are essentially the same.
The fuselage has the same diameter and design (just slightly longer).
Most people would not be able to tell the difference between a 777-9 and a 777-300ER.
l31g | 6 years ago | on: Boeing 777X: World’s largest twin-engine jet completes first flight
Neither. The main delay is due to a problem with the GE9X engines. Some of the internal components were wearing out faster than expected so they had to redesign them.
l31g | 6 years ago | on: Air-Traffic Control Is in the Midst of a Major Change from Radar to GPS
In addition to the systems you mentioned, many commercial aircraft are equipped with an Inertial Navigation System[0].
[0] https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/43283/do-todays...
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