sean-duffy

I guess it depends on the invidual. Personally if I only had to do it once a week I would be fine with a 2 hour commute. Small price to pay for actually being able to own my own home.

Pigeons do the exact same though, I never slow down for them because I know they always fly out of the way just in time, even when it looks like you're about to roll over them.

I believe they're included as standard in the infotainment systems on modern aircraft. It's up to the airline if they decide to use it or not.

Most people already carry a Big Brother-esque device with a camera and microphone in their pockets everywhere they go.

Is the implication that most humans are comfortable with freefall?

How do you know their wealth came from the apps?

Ryanair make their own rules, other budget airlines have started to follow them now too. As a precaution I never fly without checking in online before reaching the airport.

Yeah, it's kind of concerning that an article about essentially black-hat behavior is earning so much praise in the comments. You have to remember that this kind of thing put a huge strain on Jagex when they had to (and still do) spend resources fighting against bots and gold sellers rather than development of the game. And in fact the difficulty of dealing with this problem led to the update which restricted free trade and did a great deal of damage to the game and the people who played it.

Bots get you banned in Runescape too, which is what the OP article is about. What's your point?

Fantastic set of posts, its good to see this system being rescued for future generations! The National Museum of Computing for which these gentlemen volunteer is a great place, when I visited it the passion of the volunteers there was really evident, and seeing the likes of the Colossus and WITCH in working order and being demonstrated really is amazing.

I think the pilot absolutely has to be ready to take over at any moment. I know that at least on general aviation aircraft the autopilot can automatically disconnect for any number of reasons, including various weather conditions. When that happens the pilot has to immediately resume hand-flying.

Probably because entering a "dangerous nose dive" is the correct way to avoid an impending stall, which is what MCAS is supposed to do.

I can't find a source right now but I remember reading that there had been a few cases where there had been an emergency situation and pilots had ignored stall warnings, resulting in the plane stalling and crashing. This was why Boeing had elected to make the system on the 737 Max 8 override the pilots inputs.

I think having an emergency system that overrides the pilot is fine, but it is crucial that the pilot can easily and quickly disable such a system when they know the plane is doing the wrong thing.

I use http://360radar.co.uk, which is a small site run by (I think) just one guy, but it has the best coverage hands down for the UK. It's used extensively by military aircraft enthusiasts in the UK as it'll usually show some stuff that isn't on adsbexchange, and provides some nice features such as aerodrome and weather layers in the UI.

You'll find it a lot in older literature, Dickens etc.

Interesting to see that this seems like it might be a theme at game dev places. I remember reading in Masters of Doom about developers constructing similar makeshift structures to shield their workspaces from light at John Romero's company, Ion Storm.

Same here in the UK. There's only been one or two times when they've messed up and a next day prime delivery has taken an extra day.

Usually photocopies/print outs aren't admissible as proof of address. At least that has been my experience with credit cards and opening investment accounts.

Saw one at RIAT in the UK as recently as 2007. Again it was flanked by armed guards, and had the pilot standing in front of it sharing some stories.

Facebook Messenger has the same problem, for a while my friends and I couldn't figure out why our referral links for a service weren't working, turns out Messenger was "using them up" for us.

To be clear, "tea" in almost all cases doesn't imply the meal will be served with tea. It's just a name for the evening meal in the north of England.

Yeah 3-4 hours is what I meant.

I definitely fall into the category of coming down from the North to work, so maybe my experience is different to those from London or the South. I see myself being able to keep in contact with my universities friends and see each-other occasionally since we're all in the same industry, but the common denominator for all of us is that none of us are working in the places we grew up in due to the scarcity of tech jobs in our respective areas.

I don't see how this doesn't apply to the UK? The UK may not be as ridiculously huge as the US, but it's still unlikely that I'm going to take a 3/4 hour train or car ride to see friends in my hometown on a regular basis. The people I met at university have ended up in jobs in opposite ends of the country. I definitely feel like the GP's comment applies to me.

Must admit, when I first saw the url I started wondering how on earth Mark Zuckerberg has the time to be writing raytracers. Made more sense when I scrolled to the bottom.

Feeling better than the MX keys is definitely a matter of opinion. And many good mechanical keyboards can be had for not much higher than that price, the ones you pointed out are just a few overpriced brands.

Yeah I'm not convinced they are. As far as I know most blockbuster movies are still using helicopters for aerial filming, with drones being the exception rather than the rule.

The fumes don't contain lead as it has a very high boiling point. The flux can be in the fumes though, which can be harmful.

As a warning to others: this article has a fairly NSFW background image.

In London (and the rest of the UK) many convenience stores have parcel collection services. So when I want something from Amazon I deliver it to the Sainsbury's around the corner from my flat and then collect it when I go to buy food on my way home from work.

I'm pretty sure offline is supported, unfortunately in the UK despite this some train services have online-only chip+PIN machines in their buffet car, forcing you to wait until they get good signal to pay for your food!