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l31g··on iPhone 13 to support LEO satellite communication
Starlink + Apple collab?
l31g··on American Airlines confirms UFO contact over New Mexico on Sunday
U-2s don't fly fast.
l31g··on United B772 at Denver on Feb 20th 2021, engine inlet separates from engine
What is burning is probably leftover oil.
l31g··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

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1354833603943931905

l31g··on WhatsApp displays 404 not found when I send a link to Signal
I am not experiencing this.
l31g··on How a British Covid-19 vaccine went from pole position to troubled start
The mRNA vaccines can’t be produced quickly enough.
l31g··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··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··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··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··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··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··on New iPhone SE
Compared to iPhone 8: + New processor + WiFi 6 + Dual SIM + possibly upgraded RAM
l31g··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··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··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··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··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··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··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...

l31g··on ADHD, a Lifelong Struggle (2018)
Thank you to the article's author and to the poster.
l31g··on “I worked at Boeing for about 1.5 years in the 2008-9 time period”
Each side of the airplane has a set of sensors. The ones on the left (while sitting on the plate) are named Captain <sensor_name> and the ones on the right are named First-Officer (F/O) <sensor_name>. The MCAS software would switch from Captain AoA vane to F/O AoA vane between flights. The location where the pilots are sitting doesn’t affect how the airplane is flying itself. The person flying the plane can be sitting on either of the two seats, but the most senior pilot usually sits on the left.
l31g··on Software Won’t Fix Boeing’s ‘Faulty’ Airframe
This article is clearly clickbait. I don't think they've done a good investigative job. Even though I don't have any pilot license, I have flown "full" 747, 767, 777 and 787 simulators, but this doesn't give me the authority to make broad statements about an airframe being faulty or not.
l31g··on Southwest Boeing 737 Max Makes Emergency Landing at Orlando International
hangar
l31g··on Fission: Serverless Functions as a Service for Kubernetes
My job is mainly developing on aarch64 server platforms. Does Fission work on aarch64 machines? If not, are there any plans to provide support? How much work is needed?
l31g··on Microsoft Supercharges Bing Search With Programmable Chips
I thought you could write some modules in C
l31g··on Microsoft Supercharges Bing Search With Programmable Chips
I think this project was funded not only because it helps Bing, but it also accelerates pretty much any large-scale data center application. So in theory, this system could help applications that do not exist yet.
l31g··on Microsoft Supercharges Bing Search With Programmable Chips
Berkeley has Chisel where you write something like C + Scala and you get Verilog for hardware instantiation and C for verification https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/
l31g··on Microsoft Supercharges Bing Search With Programmable Chips
If they make Bing 2X faster, then they can roughly cut the amount of servers they need by half. They measure "speed" by number of requests that can be fulfilled in Z amount of time.
l31g··on Microsoft Supercharges Bing Search With Programmable Chips
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/16/microsoft_catapult_f...
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