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New comment by bencoder in "SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas"

bencoder — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 12:35:29 +0000

To come back and admit that I was wrong:

"In Port Isabel, a city about six miles northwest where at least one window shattered, residents were alarmed. " from [0] posted to HN [1]

I stand corrected - the warning article was pretty accurate

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/us/spacex-rocket-dust-tex...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35651757

New comment by bencoder in "SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas"

bencoder — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 21:45:57 +0000

the wide angle makes it look a lot further away from the rocket than they really were - The camera is about 440m away from the rocket.

The damage shown in the video appears to be entirely caused by debris while the article was suggesting possible property damage ("shattered glass and damaged foundations ... from a miscalculated sonic blast") to towns 8500m away - 20 times further

New comment by bencoder in "Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates"

bencoder — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 14:26:33 +0000

It's amazing to me that every post that has anybody arguing against the restrictions or similar gets flagged, no matter the source or rationale.

It's really the most divisive issue I've ever seen in my life.

New comment by bencoder in "James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in space, million miles away"

bencoder — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 15:09:50 +0000

Having never actually seen the statue of liberty my sense when seeing these comparisons is that it's much smaller in real life than the version in my imagination - no matter how many times I see the comparisons, the statue remains much bigger in my head

New comment by bencoder in "Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again"

bencoder — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 17:07:08 +0000

Our API is just appsync (graphql) + lambdas + dynamoDB so, theoretically, we shouldn't have been affected. But about 1 in 3 requests was just hanging and timing out.

As others have said, they are not being forthright about the severity of the issue, as is standard.

New comment by bencoder in "Artificial Intelligence in the Cockpit"

bencoder — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 12:42:15 +0000

Seems like an example of the AI effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

although I think when autopilot was invented, the concept of "AI" didn't exist, so maybe not a perfect example

New comment by bencoder in "Tilt-5 Was Magical"

bencoder — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 22:31:04 +0000

Yes, all of the headsets do some form of reprojection if frames are not generated fast enough, or to account for the latency between generation and display.

If you turn your head fast you'll see black at the edges where it's not caught up

New comment by bencoder in "Tuvalu looking at legal ways to be a state if it is submerged"

bencoder — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 16:45:33 +0000

14cm, not 1.4m

New comment by bencoder in "Plans to shift aviation from magnetic navigation to true navigation"

bencoder — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:54:58 +0000

Sure but in small GA planes you're not likely to be travelling so far that the magnetic declination is significantly different so just keep it in mind each time you reset the DI. Or if you are travelling long distance you could make a note of it along your planned route, or your GPS app could let you know.

My point was that this shouldn't require any instrument upgrades to the GA fleet

New comment by bencoder in "Plans to shift aviation from magnetic navigation to true navigation"

bencoder — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 11:47:54 +0000

The direction indicator is gyro based rather than magnetic so for most GA it would probably be enough to just learn the offset for the area you are flying and add that when you set/check the DI.

For VFR flying it hardly matters anyway

New comment by bencoder in "Shipping Clubhouse on Android in ten weeks"

bencoder — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 22:57:42 +0000

I really wanted this back then when it felt like I was missing out. Then twitter released their version and I got a taste and decided I wasn't into it after all.

New comment by bencoder in "112 Gripes About the French"

bencoder — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 13:59:45 +0000

> Does this make it "freshly-re-copyrighted until 2004 + 70 years?", or is the year that counts for copyright the original publishing date?

Any changes (spelling, typos, the typesetting) in the new publication would be under a new copyright term. In practice, if you make your copy from the earlier out of copyright edition then you're fine. (Assuming you are correct that the earlier edition is truly out of copyright)

New comment by bencoder in "Intelligence and Practice in Chess Development"

bencoder — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 14:51:39 +0000

https://online-go.com/learn-to-play-go is perhaps similar but doesn't go very far or in depth

New comment by bencoder in "Intelligence and Practice in Chess Development"

bencoder — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 14:50:30 +0000

https://online-go.com/ is the main & best web based server (and open source like lichess as well)

New comment by bencoder in "Tink Is Joining Visa"

bencoder — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 08:54:04 +0000

The pop-up menus also have a very fast transition (compared to many websites) which aids in the feeling of snappiness. I don't know why so many sites insist on very slow transitions

New comment by bencoder in "Third member of U.S. FDA advisory panel resigns over Alzheimer’s drug approval"

bencoder — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 14:04:44 +0000

Your doctor should be able to help with that and provide you only drugs that have completed clinical trials to your desired standard.

New comment by bencoder in "A URL Lengthener"

bencoder — Fri, 14 May 2021 19:07:34 +0000

I remember weallgetthingscheaperwhenwebuyinagroup.com Which I think was advertised on TV in the UK when I was a teen

New comment by bencoder in "Show HN: Mmm.page – Drag and drop personal website creator"

bencoder — Wed, 12 May 2021 11:30:21 +0000

This is really great!

New comment by bencoder in "A SpaceX booster now trails only 4 space shuttles in flight experience"

bencoder — Tue, 11 May 2021 14:43:57 +0000

Space Shuttles actually went into orbit. The falcon 9 boosters are sub-orbital.

But I'm hoping that Starship will exceed the space shuttle massively!

New comment by bencoder in "Girl and Computer: Reflecting on the journey that got me to where I am today"

bencoder — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 12:02:10 +0000

Yes, everywhere I've worked (UK), the EM manages a group of teams, each with their own team lead.