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The noise wouldn't be significantly lower during takeoff/landing, only during taxi, right? Good for workers on the tarmac, but doesn't get rid of the largest noise pollution issue.

Oh interesting, I think I conflated two things; Selective Availability and the military-only bands on GPS. While it's true that access to the military band could improve accuracy with dual-band receivers, consumer devices can use dual-band as well (as your link shows), since there are multiple unencrypted bands from navigation satellites nowadays.

I am not sure how to interpret your link, though. It doesn't measure accuracy on it's own, and doesn't include a number for precision between the two units.

It seems that all the device manufacturers (they mention Apple, Samsung, and Google) are using BeiDou anyway. I don't know if that includes Garmin watches, though.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-agency-probes-risks-fo...

> BeiDou GPS blows away US GPS for number of sats and precision

Both BeiDou and GPS are supposed to be limited to 10m precision for civilians.

But, going down a rabbit hole, I found that BeiDou is way more accurate than 10m--3.6m and 2.6m outside and inside the Asia-Pacific region, respectively [1]. And that's with the most simple algorithm. It goes down to ~2.5m using dual-frequencies to account for atmospheric error.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-12012-y

> You talk about poison, but that is pure lie

I think it's fairly well accepted that the high obesity rates are caused by the shifting American diet. Yes it's more available than the 1950s (although I suspect not terribly so), but the effect it has on public health has been a nightmare.

> Anyone who did and could do so turned it off immediately

I know I’m not alone as someone who’s bothered by the postscript, but too lazy to do anything but delete it every time. There’s even an entire (well part of) song about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbdeVhPAbms

Just because it's not in the title and most people won't be scrolling all the way down: its only enabled for web and Remote Control sessions, per a maintainer.

Because it doesn't do the job well. It's difficult to send any media, group chats are a pain, international messages often incur fees, it doesn't work on wifi-only, and so on.

The points I was raising have long time frames, there hasn't been enough time to see if they've succeeded.

"So far global warming hasn't caused catastrophic damage to our crop outputs, looks like everything's working out great!"

Do you have opinions on laws surrounding abortion in a state you don't live in? People can and often do have valid opinions about things that don't directly concern them. I will say I'm not sure my opinion is one of them--I even went out of my way to say my opinion was probably insufficiently researched.

That being said, the person I was responding to was trying to understand what negative views someone could have on Mamdani's policies, so I was trying to give a data point.

I'm not from NYC (nor do I have the same difficulty seeing past politics that gp seems to have), so I didn't research this stuff so closely. But from what I saw, it seemed that a lot of his policies seemed populist.

- Rent freezes do not seem to work. When he ran on that position I did look up briefly to see if there was any recent publications that reversed the previous consensus that they don't work, but didn't find much.

- State run stores are pretty bad at their jobs. Someone on here mentioned state run liquor stores as an example of where state run stores work, but in my experience, they are the opposite. I suspect that the store will work well for the first several years, while there is a lot of media attention on it, but when it falls from the foreground, the oversight will slacken and it will go the way of many other of these projects.

- I am not an expert but I suspect the wealth tax won't work the way they hope.

On the other hand, the attention that he's bringing to issues that were previously swept under the rug (like transportation) is great, and the way he energizes the populace is amazing.

I mean, it seems likely repetition could help it stick for a point they really don't want it to screw up on. Also, I'm not sure e.g. sexting with a fictional minor would be considered criminal, but it is likely something they still don't want on their platform.

Any in-ear headphones can cause ear infections from prolonged use, the airtight seal makes for a nice humid environment bacteria like.

The solution is to not wear them as long, especially right after a shower or the like, when there is extra moisture in your ear.

Alternatively you can put alcohol in your ears to kill the bacteria, sort of like you’d do with mouthwash. Any pharmacy will sell over the counter ear drops with alcohol, meant for drying out swimmers ear. You’d have to keep doing it once every week or two, but it would keep the infection away.

A true Mobius strip doesn't have "sides" like the paper model of one does. You can see that in the quote from Martin Gardner where he talks about a creature completing a loop becoming a mirror image with respect to it's friends. I assume the author wanted the paper model to mimic that property.

Incidentally, the author's choice makes for a much more interesting puzzle than the one you would have them use (IMO)--yours would be indistinguishable from a puzzle written on a cylinder.

Does anyone know how they’re monetizing it? Are they planning on selling the terminal multiplexer?

You simply add 3.67, multiply by .27, and then subtract 1.0. Easy.

Are you logged in? I think they generally don't let people use old.reddit not logged in. I use all three of those.

> apple security... requiring you to install the app

It's the reddit website that freezes me out, nothing to do with the OS.

Side note--is there any way to access reddit now for people who refuse to log in or get the app? Old reddit asks tells me I have to use new reddit for "security" and new reddit says "Get the app to keep using Reddit".

An interesting analogue to "What color are your bits" in the tech world, as well as a direct disproof of your "two identical numbers are the same bits" statement (although perhaps only technically so), is the idea of provenance of bits memory in programming languages. Here is an RFC for rust's memory provenance:

https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/3559-rust-has-provenance.ht...

You don't think Americans care about cost savings, with how much they complain about gasoline prices?

Exactly. The vast majority of the launching torque comes from the electric motor, even if there is no battery at all.

> the gas will just spin without driving the wheels

... and instead drive one of the motors, generating electricity to power the other motor to push the car forward.

I feel like that video you're mentioning did a poor job if it didn't describe one of the more important and clever aspects of the Prius's design.

What do you imagine happens if the battery is low and the car wants to start from a stop? The engine can't shift down to first so it would just stall out if you tried to use it to drive the driveshaft directly, and there's no other source of electricity to put into the motor driving the wheels.

> you climb quite high, especially in areas with serious terrain.

Interesting, thanks.

> In our theoretical aircraft with batteries, mass is the same.

The fuel that's expended during cruise reduces the mass.

You don't do a full climb after a go-around, so the heights are not equal, and the mass is less since you've expended fuel. You also retain some kinetic energy but I assume that is closer to a negligible effect.

Also, PE = mgh is probably an not a great formula for energy cost of takeoff/go-around, as there are probably large costs it ignores (gravity loss, less efficient engine use, maybe less efficient turbines?).

For your source 2 I have no rebuttal so will have to defer to you, but would ask for an explanation.

Sorry, I meant in the low speed, high acceleration regime (maybe easily confounded with takeoff?). There the engine will turn one motor to generate electricity, which will then power the second motor, like a series hybrid.

> you're carrying all that dead weight for the rest of the flight

If you're recharging the batteries for extra go-arounds during landing, they are as dead weight as the fuel you would otherwise reserve for that purpose. And if you have 30% more efficient engines, meaning less fuel and smaller engines, it's possible you could come out ahead, weight-wise.

> what if you need two go-arounds

I assume that a go-around requires less sustained power output than a full climb from takeoff, so you will probably get more than one go-around anyway, and we don't know how much over-capacity they're designing for. In any case, any design will require tradeoffs in safety, and having more engine-out capabilities might improve safety enough to overcome the higher risk with go-arounds.

Not saying this project is will work out or that you're even wrong necessarily (this could be the equivalent of a concept car for Pratt & Whitney).

The Prius is in series, or something like it.

It cannot do dynamic filtering [1]. Another big one I forgot about is no CNAME uncloaking. Don't get me wrong, uBOL is still a great add on, it's just not possible to do everything you could with the manifest v2 version.

[1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...

It is when compared to Firefox. Safari and now Google claim that it's for security, as the newer interfaces expose way less attack surface for malicious add-ons. I think that it's true that it does improve security, although I'm not sure that I believe Google when they say they're not doing it to stop people from blocking their main revenue source.