Falcon 4.0 BMS is probably the best F16 simulator out there right now and it's 'free'

> Similar to how modern railroad track widths can be traced back to the wheel widths of roman chariots

This is repeated often and simply isn't true.

I based that on seeing the BBC Science TV series (and books) Connections by science historian James Burke. If it's been updated since, then I stand corrected. Regardless of the specific example, my point was that sometimes modern standards are linked to long-outdated historical precedents for no currently relevant reason.

Awesome. I've just designed and built my own z80 computer, though right now it has 32kb ROM and 32kb RAM. This will definitely change on the next revision so I'll be sure to try it out.

RAM is very expensive right now.

I just removed 128 megs of RAM from an old computer and am considering listing it on eBay to pay off my mortgage.

I wonder what year past 128M ram would pay off mortgage. Maybe 1985

Yeah, even an average household can afford 40k of slow DRAM if they cut down on luxuries like food and housing.

Maybe the rich can but not all retro computer enthusiasts are rich.

If you can afford to spend a few dollars without sacrificing housing or food, you are being financial irresponsible.

Busy cut down on the avocado toast!

Then I can afford eggs, ram and a studio appartment!

Maybe in Ohio

No apartment then, maybe just green, eggs, and RAM.

Yeah but just liked an overclocked gpu, there's errors on those boards so you have to throw them away and wait for the for the next revision.

It's so fucking bizarre that there are multiple versions of the same thing, that are called the same thing but aren't the same thing!

Looks like a compressor stall on number two engine two seconds into the video.

I don’t know, that looks like a lot more than just a stall. There was a ton of flame that looked like it was coming out of the front or top of the engine, rather than just something shooting out the back.

I think you're looking at the left wing (number 1) engine; GP is talking about either the tail or right wing engine. (I think tail is number 2 on MD-11.) There's a brief explosion visible through the smoke at about 1-2 seconds in, to the right of the engine visibly on fire; that's probably what he's talking about.

Freeze frame: https://imgur.com/a/c3h8Qd3

And having 2 out of 3 engines fail (or underperform) would explain the insufficient climb thrust.

Right!

Yup makes sense. Now seeing photos of the entire left engine on the ground by the runway and the implication that however it failed it might have damaged the tail engine.

Agree, looks like an engine disruption.

The rotation already exacerbates the flow into that engine. Change in flow geometry gets more smoke in its way when it's already eating turbulent air.

We don't know if it just had a disruption or a full-blown stall, but give the way it made it to takeoff speed and then just gave out, stall seems likely.

I would say it does not, in fact, look like a compressor stall. It looks very much like an uncontained disassembly, presumably from fan blades that suffered a catastrophic failure and broke up in a way that exceeded the limits of the engine's containment.

Obviously impossible to tell from some cell phone type videos. Being struck by something is also possible. But it sure does look like an uncontained engine failure.

I think you're looking at engine number 1, while GP is talking about engine 2.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45818448

Because it's AI generated.

There was once an application, long gone and probably short lived, that let you ring payphones for free over the internet. Me and my mates had a great time phoning up times square, a pub in Australia and other places chatting to randoms.

It was once possible to call us phone numbers for free via Gmail.

Oh I thought I couldn't hate them anymore and I learn this. My leg currently has large hives on it from multiple bites, the antihistamines I have are doing bugger all.

I'm currently testing for alternatives of minio on my homelab. Ceph was nice, lots of bells and whistles, built in support for virtual IPs is excellent, but on my aging hardware it was using 10-15% CPU in my VM while idle. Currently benchmarking garagefs, scales very well with core count and multi node set up is a breeze.