AceyMan

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The Truth Behind Hawk Eye Accuracy [video](youtube.com)
1 points by AceyMan 5y ago|0 comments
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by AceyMan 5y ago
I see this as the root cause of the recently announced class action suit against LADWP over their implementation of tiered electricity pricing. The tiers (kwh rates) are in hunks of the a day measured in hours. But the reporting is only a
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by AceyMan 5y ago
@dang please correct an|a substitution [head_desk]
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Ask HN: Can a metrology tool be patented? (ISO | USA)
1 points by AceyMan 5y ago|3 comments
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by AceyMan 5y ago
I am from Atlanta and went to uni in the Philadelphia area. I was... low-middle class, and we couldn't afford airfare each term for my travels home. (And I still spent Thanksgivings on campus. I know what Matt Damon's character fe
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by AceyMan 5y ago
Someone who plays to an expert level. Someone who knows your capabilities intimately. Someone who can walk hilly terrain 8 km in searing heat carrying 20 kg of gear for seven days in a row. Someone who is such a good, passive communicator
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by AceyMan 5y ago
Maybe it's high (past) time we collectively told The Banks to face the corner and go f*** themselves?
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by AceyMan 5y ago
On the assumption these panels are a component of the pressure vessel—and it would seem that they are—then they very much are structural components. Not in "the wing will fall off" kind of way but in "the whole cabin will exp
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by AceyMan 5y ago
Most any audio engineer or audiophile will confess the vast majority of a music's spaciality is dictated by the room. For the 3-nines of us who cannot dedicate a room for ideal echo, decay,absorption making all the temporal DSP tech ov
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For the NFL and all of football, a new threat: an evaporating insurance market(espn.com)
2 points by AceyMan 5y ago|0 comments
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Italian Pronunciation: A Primer for Singers (2016)(web.stanford.edu)
61 points by AceyMan 5y ago|49 comments
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Mourning the loss of one of our colleagues [salk.edu](salk.edu)
4 points by AceyMan 5y ago|0 comments
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J&J Issues Voluntary Recall Due to the Presence of Benzene(prnewswire.com)
3 points by AceyMan 5y ago|3 comments
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by AceyMan 5y ago
I mentioned to Ian that in my household it's called the "All-day Knot" and he agreed that was probably a more suitable name but by then he'd had this page up so long it'd be no use to change it at that point. (longt
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by AceyMan 5y ago
fwiw, the old rule of thumb when I was trained is "it cost you one pound of fuel for every three that you carry", where 'cost' is in the form of increased burn (decreased efficiency). Of course, fuel is no different than
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by AceyMan 5y ago
You may like SPY27 if cobalt is what you seek. (=> new steel which just dropped <small_value> weeks ago.) /Acey
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by AceyMan 5y ago
Am I right to say that keepers do a "split step" landing when they see a kick toward them is immenent (which a penalty shot certainly is)?—just as tennis players must do. For the uninitiated, a split-step "hop" allows th
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by AceyMan 5y ago
And then there is obstacle clearance. Over any terrain with appreciable elevation differences, topographic features can easily rule out otherwise eligible airfields because you'll have to cross granite on the glide down. /Acey I l
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by AceyMan 5y ago
aviation nit to pick here— I haven't tried to find the actual flight path, but for a transport aircraft at cruise the "closest airport" would not be underneath the flight's position, but rather at some distance away corr
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by AceyMan 5y ago
I was just learning more than I already knew about group/Lie theory today on 3b1b today and then this video came to mind. (I took a full load of maths but was a philosophy BA).
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How Many Ways Can Circles Overlap? [video](youtube.com)
3 points by AceyMan 5y ago|1 comments
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by AceyMan 5y ago
When I was a (good) high jumper in high school at least one school in our district had a landing "pad" made from a big af cardboard box (think; : daisy-chained fridge boxes) filled with chunks (8—10cm³) of a closed-cell PU foam, l
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by AceyMan 6y ago
I've been a fan of Ian's Shoelace Site for over twenty years. Tying your shoelaces is "lost technology." When I was in first grade nearly everyone could tie their shoes properly. Today, I can go weeks and not see anyon
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by AceyMan 6y ago
just dropped in this thread to say Beverly is a beautiful Anglo game and so rarely used anymore. My son's name appears [is the mode] the most on the United States Declaration of Independence. But it's rarely heard these days (in t
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by AceyMan 6y ago
You should be a Boeing consultant ...
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by AceyMan 6y ago
*Momentum* is m•v Kinetic energy is ½m•v². #ftfy
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by AceyMan 6y ago
Modern planes have comprehensive sensor systems for all door operations. If a door is not fully closed it's presented very obnoxiously on the flight deck, so I'd bet something either broke in flight or a sensor system was very out
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by AceyMan 6y ago
Google is in the middle of refitting the former Westside Pavilion, located at Westwood & Pico, as a new Los Angeles office. The last I'd seen a few months ago, it'd been taken down to the floors and structural risers; all the
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Writing Comfortably in Thick Notebooks(nanamipaper.com)
11 points by AceyMan 6y ago|2 comments
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by AceyMan 6y ago
Don't outsmart yourself. If you told anyone, on their death bed, "if you had run 25 km a week since [n-15 years] you would have been able to move better / dance with pretty girls / play [tennis | golf | etc] until two ye

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