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So, as I understand it, the wing is broken down in sections, each of which will use some tabulated lift and drag for that airfoil at the current velocity vector and dynamic pressur…

I'm not understanding the situation. When I had RSUs as an employee, those grants were voided at separation. I only got to keep the RSUs that had vested before separation (which we…

Did European hard drives run at 3000 rpm then?

I find it most annoying when moving your eyes. Anyone will notice the flicker if their eyes aren't stationary since then each "flick" will end up on a different part of the retina.…

The US supreme court has not, at least so far, endowed computers with personhood...

... simply reprogramming the computer ... So who makes the decision to do that? I think most people are missing the point about accountability and thinks, in typical American fashi…

Given that they were only authorized to fly in the "Bell X-1 supersonic corridor", I'd wager that sonic booms are fairly commonplace there. I doubt there are any residents around. …

I really don't care for controlling lights or whatever, but I find it very nice as a common place to monitor all the different things we have in the home: heat pump, evse, humidity…

Even with a car's higher rolling resistance, most of the drag at cruising speed is aerodynamic, though. But a commuter train, by definition, starts and stops a lot so it makes sens…

Although "Top-level vdevs can only be removed if the primary pool storage does not contain a top-level raidz vdev, all top-level vdevs have the same sector size, and the keys for a…

Apart from just peace of mind from bitrot, I use it for the snapshotting capability which makes it super easy to do backups. You can snapshot and send the snapshots to other storag…

Given their development pace, they really must succeed if they want their "slowly and carefully" model to be competitive.

"Dark matter" is just a description that refers to matter which interacts gravitationally but not, or at least very weakly, in other ways. It doesn't imply anything about the natur…

Well, it's not like people pulled it out of thin air. Both inflation and the lambda-CDM models are solutions to the GR equations, so in that sense it's perfectly justifiable to see…

But it seems that the principal objection to these counts is that birds don't necessarily die on impact but may travel quite far before succumbing to their injuries, so the counts …

This approach seemed super interesting and we attempted to use it for modeling a fairly complicated fluid system (pipes, valves, tanks, etc). However, in the end the equations that…

IIRC the current Starlink beams are of order 10 miles on the ground. So much narrower than you guess.

Swarm wasn't a competitor to SpaceX at the time, Swarm and Starlink wasn't aiming at the same market at all. And they didn't exactly kill Swarm. They launched Swarm satellites for …

It's worth noting that cash held in a Fidelity brokerage account is handled the same way, by being "swept" into a bank account held by Fidelity at an actual bank so Fidelity can cl…

The booster is already strong enough to support itself in compression, because that's what it does during ascent and the landing burn. The entire bottom structure of a rocket (the …

That will have to happen through in-situ resource utilization. aka making the fuel on Mars.

Every time you throw a rock, it ends up on a trajectory that "would have orbited if the earth was a point mass". That's just not a very useful definition of "being in orbit".

My experience (being fully remote for over a decade) is that it's extremely distracting to have all discussions public. It creates a lot of noise and it's very hard for people to n…

At least on our PHEV, when you read out the battery module state with an OBDII reader, you get to know not only the current estimated capacity but also how much time it's spent at …

I mean, what choice, besides averaging, would make sense? Completely disregarding one pilots input seems worse, and averaging is what happens in a mechanically connected system. Th…