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Re:Using NASA’s SMAP satellite to detect L-band interference
on Thursday May 08, 2025 @08:58AM (#43925670)
L-band signals can penetrate through clouds and rain. This property is why L-band is used for GPS and other applications that require all-weather operation, as it allows for accurate data collection even in the presence of adverse weather.
Re:Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colgate's app e...
on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @03:13PM (#41371660)
The idea is to help focus brushing on specific teeth or quadrants, and it uses Bluetooth to know when the brush is on or off. Maybe it signals when you push too hard and the brush pauses for a second as well.
To my knowledge it does not know where you are in your mouth when brushing (positioning via accelerometer/gyroscope), so a synchronized start would likely give similar results.
Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)
on Friday September 09, 2022 @10:10AM (#32779447)
It's been said before: you don't customize SAP to fit your company, you customize your company to fit SAP.
"We held firm to the NO CUSTOMIZATION rule, we re-engineered our processes to fit SAP. Other than a few hiccups when integrating all aspects of a company that has 100 sub companies, and is under federal, state and local regulation the project basically went off without a hitch." [0]
Re:Ford F-150 Lightning: Fast Truck, Slow Computer
on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @06:11PM (#32489639)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOTAS
"HOTAS, an acronym of hands on throttle-and-stick"
Re:NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Captured in the Wild
on Monday September 13, 2021 @07:21PM (#28518187)
Ian Beer with Google's Project Zero gives an amazing walk-through of what it took for him to build a similar exploit.
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/12/an-ios-zero-c...
Re:Boeing yanks eight 787s from service over structural issue
on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:26AM (#24305977)
"The pieces are fabricated and joined with the aft pressure bulkhead at Boeing’s North Charleston, S.C. plant and then delivered for final assembly to the company’s nearby final assembly building or flown to Everett, Wash."
Not the first time quality control has been an issue at the N.C. plant.
From a New York Times article back in 2019: "Ever since, Qatar has bought only Dreamliners built in Everett." [0]
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/business/boeing-dreamline...
Re:Norwegian Air cancels order for 97 Boeing aircraft, sues Boeing
on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @11:36AM (#23702634)
Much easier to just increase ticket prices than offset fuel costs by buying more efficient jets.
In a healthy environment, there’s always downward pressure on ticket costs, and you have to find efficiencies elsewhere. We aren’t in a healthy environment anymore...
Lenovo ThinkPads hit with widespread USB-C port defects
Re:The Lost Art of Lacing Cable (2018)
on Thursday August 01, 2019 @11:45AM (#20584850)
More detail on a couple of sewing methods, the Kansas City stitch and the Chicago stitch
https://www.dslreports.com/r0/download/1377481~846610918062e...
Re:Zoom fixes major Mac webcam security flaw with emergency patch
on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @12:18AM (#20399111)
For those unaware, RingCentral white-labels the zoom.us product as their meeting solution.
Re:Blackbird SR-71 Flight Manual (2010)
on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @04:53PM (#20034290)
Here's a great answer on avation.stackexchange.com that answers that exact question:
Re:Concorde ‘B’
on Monday May 07, 2018 @01:29PM (#17014618)
Send him the link below if you really want to blow his mind. 100 pages of discussion between pilots, designers, aerodynamicists, FAs, etc.
CliveL was my favorite.
https://www.pprune.org/tech-log/423988-concorde-question.htm...
Putting Time in Perspective
How Wells Fargo’s High-Pressure Sales Culture Spiraled Out of Control
Re:What typing ^D does on Unix (2009)
on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @02:32PM (#12438179)
You can also layer the number of ~'s to skip over intermediary SSH sessions and send the escape to the proper one.
\n~~. will escape the 2nd box you've SSH'd to, not the one it was originated from.
Useful for escaping a screen'd SSH session that you might access through a jumphost.