mkwt

@mkwt@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨genius⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In some past aerospace work, I’ve seen requirements where, if you do use cast parts, you have to cast extra parts on each lot to use for destructive testing. Specifically to inspect the cross sections for flows or grains or whatever they want to look at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drive safe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like it might be 60 km/h.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refried beans is just Latino hummus⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Al pastor is actually a lot more recent than the Moors.

  Shawarma was imported by Lebanese immigrants to Mexico in the late 1800s. The meat switched over to pork based on availability and the fact that the Lebanese immigrants were mainly Christian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The absolute safest bet is to perform a wipe.

  This may be effective at preventing the government from accessing the data. But as we see, the law, including the 5th amendment, doesn’t protect from legal exposure to obstruction-type charges. Or lying to the cops type charges if you say you’ll unlock the phone, but then you actually wipe the phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If he’s a US citizen, he’s better off refusing to enter any PIN. That’s protected by the 5th amendment.

  If not a citizen and this was in a port of entry context, then he would still have the 5th amendment protection. But customs can simply choose to refuse entry on discretion. So that’s a potentially serious consequence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure what attracts down votes to your comment. People should read up on the know nothing party. This shit has happened before.

  America has always been a contradiction. It is Ralph Waldo Emerson and Robert E. Lee. It is both ICE and this nativity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I fall for it every year. Every. Year.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s funny because earlobes are, like, all gristle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Darkness Everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also going backwards in time compared to everyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You are correct. The public only receives written transcripts of the relevant sections of tape only. Off-topic conversations, meaning anything that is not relevant to the air accident, are not released. The audio files are not released to the public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I work long hour and make little money⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a real geopolitical problem for Russia. Russia got screwed by geography in terms of natural harbors that don’t freeze over in the winter. It’s why they’ve always had a crap navy, going way back into the imperial days.

  Right now, the Russian Navy is based in Murmansk (brrrr. limited routes to get out into Atlantic) and the Black Sea. The Black Sea is bad for them because Turkey (a NATO member) makes sure to maintain total control of what passes through the Bosphorous.

  Part of what Russia did in Syria during the civil war netted them a lease on a base on the Mediterranean. That could have had some use for power projection, but I think they lost it when a certain opthalmologist was expelled.

  Anyhow, it’s hilarious when the trolls posing as MAGA Americans bring this up, because real Americans just take their total abundance of ports that don’t freeze over completely for granted. That’s why I point out secondary, less busy port cities on the Gulf of Mexico, where the water is actually pretty warm (instead of just not freezing over). Just to highlight how good the US has it. Even if we were forced to give up Norfolk and Coronado, there are plenty of other suitable places we could have naval bases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I work long hour and make little money⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, yes. As a patriotic American I love our warm water ports like Corpus Christi and Tampa. Don’t you love warm water ports as well?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft makes Zork I, II, and III open source under MIT License⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  we have officially submitted upstream pull requests to the historical source repositories of Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III

  Zork was originally developed for the PDP-10. It was split into titles I, II, and III for the home microcomputer market. I’d love to learn about just how many revision control systems this code has been through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Navy removes signs claiming a Mexican beach is US territory⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to conclude with a quote from Woody Guthrie:

  There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me. Sign was painted, said, “Private Property” But on the back side, it didn’t say nothing. This land was made for you and me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Navy removes signs claiming a Mexican beach is US territory⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The gov is doing this thing with the signs because “trespassing” into the 100 ft.-wide “military base” is a much more serious crime than just crossing the border not at a port of entry.

  The civilian chucklefucks they hired to put the signs up apparently failed to notice where they crossed the mouth of the river.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hilary can't catch a break⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember I went to a Mardi Gras parade that year, and every single float was a joke about Bill Clinton’s penis. Very family friendly that was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Video] Anti-ICE protesters hold a 80’s themed yoga class outside the Portland ICE facility.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This form of exercise is called aerobics. It is not yoga.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aeroplane⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure on newer 737s the autopilot disconnects when it detects a sufficient physical force on the yoke.

  On airplanes that don’t do this, the autopilot servos are clutched so that you can still override them by applying a specified amount of force. There are reinforced points on the bottom of the dash panel that you can use with your foot to get leverage to help with this.

  (This also applies as a backup on planes that do disconnect)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The trauma. The terror. The humanity!!!1!!1!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We might never know. Subway has been accused of bread shenanigans in the past (in addition to short-selling their footlongs).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The trauma. The terror. The humanity!!!1!!1!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The FBI crime lab didn’t even do any forensic analysis on whether the sub measured up to the full 12 inches or not.

  It was such a shoddy investigation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aeroplane⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some more practical tips.

  • if the autopilot is engaged, you can’t physically move the wheels, because it is moving them for you. Press the red button on the steering wheel to disconnect autopilot.
  • That IAS tape on the left of the sky/ground box is the most important thing on the plane. It’s got red bands on the high side and low side that you should stay out of.
  • if the plane tells you there’s a “stall, stall” you need to push the wheels forward to make the nose go down. And keep the speed above that lower red band.
  • the black button on the wheel is the push-to-talk to talk on the radio, or maybe the internal PA system. Depends how it’s set up.
  • most important: the switch for the “fasten seatbelt” sign is usually on the bottom of the top panel. You can flip it on and off as much as you want. (Older planes will also let you do this with the “no smoking” sign).
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨one bright second⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And Hawking radiation. Hawking radiation is pretty “dark” for solar-mass scale black holes and up, but it can become relatively very intense for smaller holes.

  For the holes we observe astronomically, the things we can see are the accretion disks and the orbits of stars around the black hole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steve Jobs unveiled the NeXT Computer on this day in 1988 — 'The Cube' would be used to develop the WWW, Doom, and Quake⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And the finder window layout with the successive columns of listings. I remember that on NeXT workstations in 1993. That’s around the first time I visited a world wide website.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could a minority in US Senate essentially disolve the federal state?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just for context, almost every federal court is a branch of a state court.

  This is not true at all.

  Federal courts are part of the judicial branch, not the executive branch. So they don’t shut down when the executive branch “shuts down”, because the shutdown laws don’t apply to them. As a practical matter federal courts can keep running for a while using saved up court fee revenue. They will eventually run out of that money and gave some tough choices about what to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open journal question regarding Cosmology paper⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A prestigious college downloads the paper. What are the possible reasons?

  Same reasons anyone else would want to read the paper? Abstract looks germane to someone’s research topic there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty well settled mathematics that infinities are “the same size” if you can draw any kind of 1-to-1 mapping function between the two sets. If it’s 1-to-1, then every member of set A is paired off with a member of B, and there are no elements left over on either side.

  In the example with even integers y versus all integers x, you can define the relation x <–> y = 2*x. So the two sets “have the same size”.

  But the real numbers are provably larger than any of the integer sets. Meaning every possible mapping function leaves some reals leftover.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FlatEarthers will work around it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a rule that the flight has to be within so many minutes of a diversion airport at all times, and this is hard to do in Antarctica.

  Nowadays, 180 minutes is fairly common, and there are some planes and airlines that can go to 240 or even as high as 370.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  they were going on about how AI would route all the trucks and decide which order the deliveries would be done.

  Yeah, NP hard problems don’t get easier just because the AI is doing the “thinking.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US presidents are getting younger over time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s about the same time as the Know-Nothing party was pushing nativism and anti-immigrant sentiment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨be gay, do crimes (in space)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably fully recorded. Everything in and out.

  That way if there’s a mishap it’s possible to go back and reconstruct the entire sequence or to replay high fidelity simulations of the network traffic at the equipment to reproduce problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nightmare blunt rotation... or killer rotation?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The deal with Utah is it’s actually only 40% Mormon. And when you have a bunch a kids growing up in the Mormon church, a decently large number of them will crash out. And when they crash out, they tend to crash out pretty hard.

  So Utah has large communities for various countercultures and alternative lifestyles. You can visit a random business, and often find both types working together side by side. And it is usually quite obvious which is which from external signs.