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In Florida a) they don't take kindly to that kind of units and b) you should be more worried about the many 1500-2000' antennas than the "mountains". It's still pretty useful to kn…

Space is big, dark, and the X-37 has significant delta-v capabilities so its position is not a consistent stable orbit like a normal satellite.

Unfortunately continuing to burn money with no hope of recovery is not a popular strategy among judges and creditor's lawyers. Customers will either get refunds or join the back of…

(Former employee) They tend to either get enough traction very quickly and be supported for years, or not and be abandoned in weeks/months.

They wouldn't have to set anything. The transponder on almost any modern plane defaults to automatically on, either immediately or at takeoff. With Mode C (reporting altitude) or S…

These have been standard equipment (that you buy, or the school loans out) in middle-class US high school math since the 90's (and gone basically unchanged since then). The math bo…

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What you are likely thinking of is the "selective availability" system, which intentionally provided slightly inaccurate data to civilian clients, while military receivers could de…

This is not even close to the worst ideas Apple ever had, even if you're only talking about mice. The original USB mouse (for the first iMac) was round, so you couldn't orient it i…

When all you have is AI everything looks like a model, but this is trivially done with basic text parsing... This info is in the automated weather broadcast (ATIS) audio for any to…

If you don't go often enough you definitely won't make the same progress per session. You'll spend most of each session trying to remaster what you lost from the last one. For powe…

The suggested filtering is just creating a new problem of assuming a 16:10 safe area exists (and external displays or other shapes don't). Group all resolutions returned that are t…

Testing on the ground and problems with what most people would call the payload (Apollo 1 & 13), sure. But we're comparing to SpaceX launches. Plenty of Raptor engines have blown u…

Here's a couch from a retail store you've probably heard of that you can configure online for $12k. https://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/bedford-sofa-uphols... Personally I'd r…

True... `strace bash -c cat` would give more the series of stat calls they're intending to see: newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, ".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}, 0) = 0 newfstat…

That's nice, but the parent explicitly cited part of US regulations where it's required, while ignoring that it's always required if equipped.

You are NOT at all (legally) free to arbitrarily turn off your ADSB on an aircraft equipped with it. 91.225(f) [1]. > Except as prohibited in [unmanned aircraft section], each pers…

Yes the FAA can issue what are called Airworthiness Directives and require an issue be resolved in the timeframe and manner they specify. The timeframe could be anything, but commo…

JSX operates based on a loophole in the part 135 rules, but that only allows 30 seats. A CRJ doesn't have the range for (nonstop) transatlantic, bigger planes would be impractical,…

TLS did "exist" (well, as SSL), but this was a time when you'd maybe see it used on a few websites that had it on just the specific pages that took a credit card. It was well befor…

It's really sort of the opposite. You don't see 727s or MD-80s at the terminal anymore (freight somewhat excepted). Airliners are used constantly, wear out and get replaced/sent to…

A lot of them don't. They work in nondescript windowless buildings controlling all the airspace that isn't right above an airport. There have also been trials done with "virtual to…

This has been a snowballing problem since Reagan fired 11,000 controllers for striking in 1981... so sort of, but not the one you're thinking of, and there's been plenty of both si…

The first problem is that everybody who wants to do the job needs to go through the FAA academy in Oklahoma, which is seriously limited by physical & instructor capacity. So only a…

Besides the "we already have it everywhere" bit, the big advantage of analog AM over UHF/VHF is that it degrades fairly gracefully. As you're getting too far away the signal gets h…