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wolfd··on Rudder issue that plagued the Boeing 737 throughout the 1990s
I assume because they exclusively fly 737s and have a good number of MAX 8s
wolfd··on An error message, still found in Windows 10, is a mistake from 1974
The tweet is the start of a long explanation, btw. The poster makes a few corrections at the end, but the story is worry reading.
wolfd··on Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident
Because it can project some IR light into the car. That wouldn't work for the forward view.
wolfd··on Olin College Produces Founders at Five Times the Rate of Stanford
Absolutely apply. We have a bunch of people that don't really care about physical stuff at all, and would rather just think about the problems.

That said, the classes aren't going to all be about math and only math, a lot of classes have physical projects. But the projects are tightly integrated with theory. I learned multivariable calculus by modeling a boat with some curves, and then building the boat out of foam to see if the calculated angle at which it tips was the same as reality.

If you kid can get excited about project-based learning, Olin is an awesome option.

I'd be happy to talk to you more if you have more questions.

wolfd··on I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon
I had something similar happen about a year ago and it was a really bad time. I purchased some hard drives from a third-party seller (claimed as new, seemed reasonable in price, but huge mistake in hindsight, I know), and they arrived fine. The problem was, the hard drives were not what I ordered, and were almost certainly used (scratched up a lot).

I requested a return, and had the seller provide me a shipping label, I sent them back, and never got my money back. The tracking showed that the package was delivered, but because the seller had provided me a label that didn't require a signature, Amazon said they wouldn't give me my money back, as the seller said they hadn't received the item.

At this point, I left the seller a review saying what had happened to me, and a few days later, I visited the seller's page, and noticed that my review was gone.

Not only does Amazon provide really shoddy support for people that have been scammed, they actually help protect the scammers in a way, by allowing sellers to remove a couple bad reviews from their page every month.

wolfd··on United removes first-class passenger to make room for 'higher-priority' traveler
It's not nearly as bad as that, but when I traveled to Canada recently, and was crossing the border back into the US (as a lifetime citizen), I was asked about why I traveled to Turkey and the U.A.E. in the past two years. It was a bit weird, but I guess I'm not sure how routine it was.
wolfd··on Source code for 4kb demoscene production “Elevated” released
You wanted optimized code size and optimized performance?

I mean, sure, but think about how big 4KB is, the tricks that are being used to create the scenes are crazy hacks using default Windows sound files and literally anything the executable can reference on the cheap.

Procedural content generation is really expensive (in general), but that's the beauty of it. You find a way to abstract the content into an algorithm, and then you can reduce the size of the assets, but you pretty much always need to pay the price somewhere.

But hey, I understand the sentiment, I wish Slack didn't consume 2 GB of RAM on my machine.

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