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I'm a lispworks user for a few projects. The killers, generally, for an enterprise project are the smaller binaries and java interface. I know of a few places that write gui apps i…

> Question: is there a reason pid type control is never a thermal option? Or put another way, is there something about the desired thermal characteristics of a computer that make p…

This is anecdotal but I use pci passthrough and drm hasn't yet been much of a problem except for older games.

Orangeburg pipe is the tar paper stuff. It's a time bomb. Not only does it break down with use it also flows (flattens with gravity/overburden pressure, bends over unsupported sect…

It's not just economics there. Weimar was a garbage fire from top to bottom, and that made extremist groups that promised to fix the nation actually viable. People are much more wi…

No I'd bet he's getting avgas. That's avgas price territory.

I’ve found this “First Greek Book” [1] to be a good starting resource. It gets you through Xenophon’s Anabasis which is a great starting book. 1: https://daedalus.umkc.edu/FirstGre…

But depending on the altitude you're at getting that mask on is wishful thinking. Don't bet on your pilots being conscious after a plane depresses.

Both are kind of correct. If it's laying where it shouldn't be it's debris, but if it's plowed through the windshield it's damage.

They’re great cards and easy to write drivers for. I still use one in one of my thinkpads for wireless because it used to be the only card supported by 9front and plan 9 back in th…

Almost none came from Airbus. Really you could almost say they came to Bombardier’s aid.

No, the SS did in fact have academics in their ranks to produce things that link the SS/Nazism to the "German past," to scientifically show the "superiority" of the German people, …

Total conjecture but it was probably factored in. From my standpoint if I knew it was going to sag, I would use that to my advantage if I could and, if not, at least factor it in.

Also if we suck the CO2 out of the atmosphere we could turn it into petrochemicals and fuel which would help with making existing things carbon neutral.

I wish I had a better math background, and I wish I was taught both the importance of testing and how to write useful tests.

Inferno and Plan 9 sorta had this. Octopus and Plan B were both allowed picking up where you left off on some other machine.

Yeah, we're still here.

Why? That's akin to saying a mechanical engineer isn't worth their salt unless they know how to design and implement software. They're two different specialties that do different t…

This is cool. I’ve thought about carbon sequestration a lot using big nuke plants/solar plants+air liquidification+some plant to distill off and turn the CO2 into like methane or s…

They’re probably surface plates. They’re used as a flat reference for measurement.

The acceleration is more of a function of the powertrain design in steam cars. If you replace the direct drive drive train with one similar to a ICE car (ie clutch+transmission) yo…

Doble got pretty close to solving that problem actually. His water-tube boilers were extremely efficient at the time (probably surpassing the contemporary ICEs). He also did some w…

That's absolutely doable, though you would have to prevent the inactive props from spinning and/or feather them to reduce drag. I don't really see variable pitch props on these tho…

It was a little bit of both.

I fly. During critical phases you should be assuming something bad will happen and prepare for it. At least on the pilot end of things, we don’t like surprises so we put our ducks …