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Nice disconnect from reality.
90k is more than twice the median income in Germany, and by extension, more than twice the median income of most European countries.
As the poster wrote:
>> At one point I ended up in the weirdest situation of my live were i translated the german instructions from the phone rep into english [..]
which implies that he does, in fact, speak German. The movers did not, though.
Yes, but please think of the Telekom and Vodafone et al shareholders..
Even if those companies did, eventually, relent to implement it that way, they would possibly find a way to link it to a predatory 36 month subscription or some other ridiculous terms to keep their rent-seeking.
In the meantime, the only option I have in my neck of the woods, is DSL at 4Mbits/s down - 0.5 up. At around 40 euro per month, I believe? Or Starlink..
- Init7: 1 Gbit: CHF 44/month, 10 Gbit: CHF 77, 25 Gbit: CHF 222
- Salt: 10 Gbit: CHF 49.95. (CHF 39.5 when combined with a mobile plan)
- Init7: 1 Gbit: CHF 44/month, 10 Gbit: CHF 77, 25 Gbit: CHF 222
- Salt: 10 Gbit: CHF 49.95. (CHF 39.5 when combined with a mobile plan)
In high-subsonic cases, it normally points to slightly better aerodynamics in the areas flirting with transonic regimes. The name of the game at those speeds is to try to delay the onset of drag-inducing shocks. These shocks will typically first appear on the wing, or in an area heavily influenced by the wing.
In the case of the -300, with the extended bubble coming down at about half the wing root chord, it is possible that the bubble downflow / low-pressure area positively influenced the flow over the wing to slightly delay the transonic onset and further effects.
Pulling the bubble further aft made things worse again.
> Assuming that the boundary layer is laminar for the entire length of the extended part of the fuselage during cruise
Mm. No, I would expect the flow to be turbulent well before that.
> and no additional low pressure transition (just one moved back, obviously).
Careful where you put your low pressure zones, the wing aerodynamics are critical and sensitive! :-) (see explanation above)
But to make things even more interesting, the 747- 300/400/8 cargo all use the short bubble. :-)
Would you have any good resources to share?
Just having went through a few episodes of violent thunderstorms with hail this month, I cannot help but wonder how resistant those glasshouses are?
Unfortunately, I don't have access to those old notes, and couldn't quickly find what I was looking for online.
So for now, due to lack of proper supporting arguments, I would say: scratch that.
The Cd is normally normalized by the wing area, and the wing planform was the same between the 747-200 and 747-300. So if the Cd was lower for the -300, the total drag should be assumed to be smaller.
It had a lower Cd with the extended hump, but it still had a higher drag, due to the larger wetted area.
Two small corrections:
1) If it would have had a change in internal pressurization, the -8 would have a higher pressurization to allow for a lower cabin altitude pressure.
2) The -8 does not have a higher pressurization, because they did not change the fuselage construction. Newer airplanes have lower cabin-altitudes thanks to the use of composite materials, allowing for better fatigue properties.
The €25k are not a liability insurance or anything like that. It's a starting capital to make sure that the company can honor its bills. Liability is covered via separate insurances.
And that has absolutely nothing to do with Visa, but everything to do with your local banks.
Nice. Lol.
> At this point, I gave up, threw out the LLM code, and rewrote the code. It’s currently about 1,400 lines (about 50% is documentation), and works great.
I've had similar experiences. But I must be "holding it wrong", judging by all the other articles on HN..
Some close or far ancestor was though. :'-)
> I feel that doing the job with the fewest lines of code, is best.
And that is one of my gripes with AI models and code. They are so, so verbose. It's a nightmare.
"Why don't you let AI implement that small feature, it will be faster.", they would ask.
Well, because if do, it will completely pollute my carefully crafted interface that I kept small, simple and understandable for easier maintenance and extension.
And yes, I might spare a few hours by having _it_ work for me. But then I need to spend a more hours to clean-up the code noise and complexification.
Sorry for having polluted the conversation by bringing AI in, when for once, ironically, it was not about AI.. I needed to vent, while fully approving of your take.
No. Apple is also running out of RAM, so you will not have the RAM you need.
That's a nice re-write of history.
What actually happened is that the US said: cut the crap and leave the opaque banking to us, else...
Tangentially, I was wondering if Firecracker micro-vms could be use as light-weight alternatives to a full VM?
Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to set that up as I envisioned it, for the time being.
https://api-www.louvre.fr/sites/default/files/2026-05/prise-...
Not getting that quick dopamine hit the LLMs give you..
Some say you can re-train your system to get back the dopamine hits you used to get from other things, like the enjoyment of the "old fashioned" manual coding and math. Getting there is hard work. And YMMV.