* Posts by rdhma

16 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Mar 2021

Airbus takes its long, thin, plane on a ten-day test campaign

rdhma

Re: Ten hours max

EASA requirements to add a lining for the rear fuel tank mean the The A321XLR range will actually be only about 4500nm.

The econonomics of losing passenger seating and paying an extra pilot, for no gain in range do not make sense.

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Ten hours max

"easily handle transatlantic trips and journeys of ten hours or more"

Ten hours max. A 2 person flight crew is allowed to fly no more than 10 hours in a 24 hour period.

Widebodys can fly for longer as they have crew rest areas and more pilots on board.

The A321XLR with a range of 8,700km (or 8500 km if obliged to fit fuel tank liners) will be running up against the 10 hour limit on longer routes.

Industrial design: AMD brings 4th gen Epyc power to embedded applications

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Indistrial

A 400W processor is not a problem. There are industrial applications where that kind of power is not a big deal.

ChatGPT has mastered the confidence trick, and that's a terrible look for AI

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Tell me about your first pet.

Has Elon Musk gone off the deep end?

Do you dream?

Scratch my back

Does a squirrel?

"I'm sorry, but I am not sure what you are asking."

Keep studying for the Turing test.

"As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I am not aware of the Turing test and have not studied for it."

.....

rdhma

Re: prove it!

How would we tell?

Jaguar Land Rover courts coders caught in big tech layoffs

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Re: Need more than coders

There is a utility off-roader, with a ladder-frame chassis, designed to take the place of the old Defender and looking very like one. The Ineos Grenadier.

FDA clears way for an AI stethoscope to detect heart disease

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Re: Smart-watch bound?

The Withings smartwatch takes an ECG and can detect atrial fibrillation, as can the alternatives from Samsung, Apple etc.

For valvular heart disease detection and blood pressure, they do have a separate arm-mounted cuff, so those may be more difficult to measure from just the wrist.

After deadly 737 Max crashes, damning whistleblower report reveals sidelined engineers, scarcity of expertise, more

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Re: No

The financial incentive was from the management decision to sell the 737 MAX as functionally equivalent to the previous version.

A proper MCAS implementation would have involved expense to airlines on pilot retraining.

Russian court deems Instagram and Facebook as 'extremist', WhatsApp spared

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FAIL

"from within the Ukraine"

Ukraine is the official full name of the country in question.

'The Ukraine' is a term used in Russia to imply that Ukraine is part of its territory.

Galileo satnav system gets two new somewhat confusing satellites

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"Other nations' systems could be degraded or disabled at a moment's notice."

If another nation wishes to deny navigational capability, Galileo can also be disabled at a moment's notice, by spoofing or jamming the signal, or indeed turning the satellites into clouds of shrapnel. It's not like there isn't a precedent for this.

Nasdaq's 32-bit code can't handle Berkshire Hathaway's monster share price

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One solution would be for Nasdaq to require a stock split once the price exceeds $largenumber.

Buffet doesn't like stock splits, believing that they encourage short-term dabbling in the market, while he is a long-term investor.

Visual Basic 6 returns: You've been a good developer all year. You have social distanced, you have helped your mom. Here's your reward

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I looked at a similar issue back in the day.

Safety could be ensured by adjusting the server clock only a small amount each day based on whether it was fast/ slow relative to the time signal. Over an extended period it will converge on the time signal and stay synced to it.

A single totally wrong time signal would never make the server time wrong by more than a second or two.

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Ahahahaha I still have to use VB6 daily, in the form of VBA, as there is $/ £/ € millions worth of equipment at work that has no other API.

'Chinese wall'? Who uses 'Chinese wall'? Well, IBM did, and it actually means 'firewall'

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No, then it would be in a 'second' language. I would still have a native language, it would just be a different one.

rdhma

My employer has banned the word 'Native', it must be replaced with 'Default'.

Posted in my...err.... default language.

Fire takes out Japanese chip plant, owner Renesas warns of more silicon shortages

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Re: Their chips are down

For no electrics, you'll need an old diesel vehicle, early 80s or older, with mechanical fuel injection.

In fact, it will also need a hand crank for starting.

A Land Rover series III may fit your needs and should even remain serviceable after a nuclear EMP event, at least until you need to order parts and find that ebay has been incinerated.

It is most unlikely that any new vehicle with that configuration could be road legal due to current emissions standards.