bencoder

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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
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

Comment · 4 years ago
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.

Comment · 4 years ago
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
Comment · 4 years ago
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.

Comment · 4 years ago
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

Comment · 5 years ago
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

Comment · 5 years ago
14cm, not 1.4m
Comment · 5 years ago
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

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