oivaksef · HackerTrans

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where do you get satellite orbits from?

I have plenty of hours flying planes (unlicensed - while doing aerial work and playing around to kill time thanks to my instructor pilot), and have a limited amount of experience skydiving.

One thing in these comments I haven't seen said: F*K that plane. Off runway landing has significant risk. Parachute is so close to 0.0 risk that you do it just for fun on a day off. I wouldn't do an off runway landing just for fun on my day off.

The thing is staged, no question. The guy knows he messed up and will pay for it. But if I had to decide between my life and protecting a bunch of metal tubes and (fabric | aluminium, not sure), I know what I would do.

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Now every ship has a 1B potential liability when transiting.

What a great way for Egypt to turn what was a near-disaster into a full disaster. They didn't lose out that much, everyone is playing happy families. Then they do this. Fail on so many levels. Well done Egypt in screwing over your golden goose.

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I got a visit when I was young (planned, agreed to in advance) from an officer from my countries national intelligence service. I was a reference for someone going to work for the equivalent of the NSA.

He spent a lot of time looking at my mum's (questionable) books and making notes.

I've thought about that a lot over the last 20 years. How much insight you can gain from someones bookshelf.

I'm now addicted to it, where ever I go. Feels rude and invasive though, so I try not to be too obvious

oivaksef

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A new FPGA company for anyone interested (well... 2012, but in chip world that's kind of new) https://theamphour.com/535-efinix-fpgas-with-sammy-cheung/

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Those would. The Elixir style feels nice. I wonder if something like that could make it into Ruby 4

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IRB the interactive ruby shell has _ which references the return value of the last command. So

10 + 10 puts _ # prints 20

but that isn't available in ruby itself

oivaksef

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This is hilarious, and clearly a joke, but it does make one think. I've always thought that it would be nice to have variables which you don't name, which only live over a couple of lines, where it's clear the variable is just for some plumbing and doesn't need a name. I wonder if there is actually something in these two concepts combined

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I would love to hear more

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four buh two

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Why don't we have two sets of memory - the main, slow, cached memory, and a smaller set of super fast low latency memory, like cache, but that the programmer and compiler can use explicitly?

Sort of like special purpose performance instructions like SIMD but on the memory side