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New comment by emondi in "$3.3B of the ~$40 billion of USDC reserves remain at SVB"

emondi — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 17:26:24 +0000

We had foreign banks who advertised that as a strength and sent their profits to their countries. But when there was a crisis they said we are just a local bank with the same brand as a US bank and won't give the customers their savings back.

New comment by emondi in "Pelé has died"

emondi — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 09:38:01 +0000

Maradona was anti-establishment. Compare Pelé with Sócrates for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B3crates

New comment by emondi in "Webster’s 1913 Dictionary for macOS"

emondi — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 16:04:41 +0000

On debian you can install it with the package dict-gcide

https://packages.debian.org/en/sid/dict-gcide

New comment by emondi in "Driving with D"

emondi — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 22:19:43 +0000

What do you mean with "push it hard"? Maybe try a manual next time. Half of the fun of driving for me is switching gears.

New comment by emondi in "Nano 5.7"

emondi — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:50:51 +0000

Wouldn't modifying some GNU emacs shortcuts to his liking be easier than mantaining that editor?

New comment by emondi in "Simulation of Space Shuttle – STS 62 A Polar Express high altitude journey"

emondi — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 16:28:00 +0000

I don't know about orbiter but FlightGear uses JSBsim for flight dynamics modeling which can be very accurate and was even used at NASA. You are correct that as space is not the primary use case for FG the shuttle developers had to start from scratch on many things.

New comment by emondi in "Simulation of Space Shuttle – STS 62 A Polar Express high altitude journey"

emondi — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 16:21:07 +0000

This FlightGear's shuttle is the most accurate version. I think the choice of shuttle mission was because of the unusual transpolar trajectory.

Simulation of Space Shuttle – STS 62 A Polar Express high altitude journey

emondi — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 13:25:37 +0000

Article URL: https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=87&t=38916

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26932517

Points: 89

# Comments: 21

New comment by emondi in "Why is the DOS path character "\"? (2005)"

emondi — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 12:52:33 +0000

Where it says FileName.Extension[,Version] MONITR.EXE,4 What was the version used for? Did it track the changes?

New comment by emondi in "Stop Using `rm` in Bash. Use `del`"

emondi — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 15:44:28 +0000

Sure, also it works for me because it is on a system that is frequently turned off. If it would have to stay on for a long time it would fill /tmp with garbage.

New comment by emondi in "Stop Using `rm` in Bash. Use `del`"

emondi — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 13:22:08 +0000

I move to /tmp and it gets deleted on next reboot.

FlightGear Flight Simulator – Visiting the ISS

emondi — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 12:15:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/content.php?19086-FlightGear-Visiting-the-ISS

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19294109

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by emondi in "Product Updates Based on Your Feedback"

emondi — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 12:27:32 +0000

I do the same but sometimes I get email from google telling that I should disable access to those unsafe apps.

New comment by emondi in "What is 1e100.net?"

emondi — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 11:59:39 +0000

But then NYC would not be LGA but JFK.

New comment by emondi in "What is 1e100.net?"

emondi — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 19:52:41 +0000

Interesting that they group the machines by IATA airport codes. I guess that's the nearest airport for that datacenter.

Weather in FlightGear

emondi — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 02:12:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/content.php?18201-Weather-in-FlightGear

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16840729

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by emondi in "Teacher in Ghana has no computers so he draws Microsoft Word on the blackboard"

emondi — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 19:02:17 +0000

People just don't update windows.

That made me remember having to update the BIOS firmware and doing it at 3AM and on a night without wind when there was almost no chance of power going out.

New comment by emondi in "Teacher in Ghana has no computers so he draws Microsoft Word on the blackboard"

emondi — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 17:23:17 +0000

You don't need batteries, you just learn to save your files often. I live in the third world too and can say that even with crappy power supplies computers resist quite well blackouts and brownouts.

New comment by emondi in "Tesla has created a customized insurance package"

emondi — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 14:52:47 +0000

Maybe an incorrectly maintained car is less safe.

New comment by emondi in "My grandfather at Dunkirk"

emondi — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 20:36:16 +0000

According to the movie they didn't need to because it was easier to just drop bombs from the air.