AceyMan

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by AceyMan 7y ago
One of my canonical examples of "first, start with talent" is found in the world's great football (soccer) players. As the most popular sport in the world—and one which a huge share of young persons try to attain some mastery
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by AceyMan 7y ago
This YT link is to a recent (2019) video on the Numberphile channel with Matt Parker as presenter, just so people know what level of quality to expect (14m26s runtime). And, yeah, that's one of my favorites in the STEM genre. I can&#x2
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by AceyMan 7y ago
Same for me. My Focus Planet is a 2015 model and I ride nearly every day; the blue coloring on the tooth side (presumably a wear indicator?) is barely worn through at any point. Mine also has the Alfine 8 speed hub, which is kind of suck, b
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by AceyMan 7y ago
The rule of thumb is: You burn one lb (unit) of fuel for every three lbs (units) of fuel you carry. Me: FAA licensed dispatcher (Also, you'll see a 1:1 rule would imply adding fuel does not increase range, which is absurd.)
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by AceyMan 7y ago
Did not know: thanks for sharing. I may use 12MB going forward, myself (rather than the "1mb covers all ur bases" I cited in my upstream comment).
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by AceyMan 7y ago
Microsoft changed the default offset for volume creation to 1Mb (2^20 bytes) a while back, around Win7(? SP1)/2012R2 or so. 2^20 bytes lines up with any known disk sectoring at the expense of "wasting" 1 mb, which wrt today&#
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by AceyMan 7y ago
"Predictions are hard, especially about the future." —Yogi Berra, MLB HoF & American Philosopher :-P
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by AceyMan 7y ago
These same kids have never seen a real astronaut in the press and culture before a moon shot. Talk about a "rock star"—if John Glenn had a YT account in the day he'd have 200M followers and could retire on Patreon. They were
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by AceyMan 7y ago
As I understand it, the biggest innovation the Wright Brothers brought to the goal of powered flight was the understanding that the biggest hurdle was not propulsion but control. In a nutshell, most others of the era (not counting Santos-
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by AceyMan 7y ago
> Early aviators had some serious guts. Here, here! On this note, I must recommend Fate is the Hunter by Ernest K. Gann. It's a terrifying and honest account of his experiences in the early days of commercial aviation (Gann's
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by AceyMan 7y ago
You got that right. I'm from Georgia and when I bought a new car I had to get firm with the sales guy wrt no stinking stickers. But I'm in CA now and no one has stickers; the tactful substitute is a "complementary" plate
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by AceyMan 7y ago
[errata] s/not just/only in ¶ starts "America needs ..." (I double-negatived myself after an edit <shrug>.)
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by AceyMan 7y ago
>It makes no sense to take entire lanes out of service for the tiny minority of people who can integrate biking into their daily commute. Cart meet horse. I believe we have to "build it and they will come." It's a 'ti
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by AceyMan 7y ago
For real maths, 3blue1brown is my go-to (1.9M subscribers, fwiw). For "real science" with younger kids (or just non-sci/eng people), Kurzgesagt is wonderful. And +1 for Minute Physics (previously mentioned).
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by AceyMan 7y ago
fwiw, when I have to share a password or api key in a DM once the party acks receipt I then delete the message. Unless a snapshot is taken in the interval I reason that there won't be a persistent copy left behind. Does anyone 'be
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by AceyMan 7y ago
> Fun fact: the square knot is also how you already tie your shoelaces! Uhh, in theory. In practice no one knows how to tie their laces any more. I can go days and see nothing but granny knots and self-invented tangle (and I sneak ph
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by AceyMan 7y ago
Here, here. FWIW, "Writing Without Bullshit" by Josh Bernoff (Harper Business, 2016) tackles this truth head-on. I liked what I saw when I took a look at my local bookstore and it's gotten excellent user reviews on AMZN. It&#
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by AceyMan 7y ago
On my Nexus I've made Firefox Focus my default browser. Not that I use it the most — I have standard Firefox for hitting my everyday fave sites — but when I follow a link from another app (email, etc.) I know I'll get a fast exper
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by AceyMan 7y ago
My internal medicine MD warned me away from daily low-dose aspirin a few years ago when we discussed it during my annual physical. "Unless you have a matching diagnosis that calls for treatment it's not something you should take r
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by AceyMan 8y ago
Another data point to remind everyone how AoA is one of the most important metrics wrt flying an airplane (airspeed is right up there, too). Obligatory citation; imho, one of the webs's great resources— https://www.av8n.com&
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by AceyMan 8y ago
Me want this in Firefox Focus (my default mobile browser these days). Maybe I'll check the road map / feature requests and see if there's any movement in this direction.
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by AceyMan 8y ago
I'm kind of gobsmacked that anyone working in a modern office hasn't learned to touch type. The payoff seems so clear to me. Thankfully my parent (mom) was an amazing typist (scientific secretary) and encouraged me to take typing
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by AceyMan 8y ago
> Every single piece of reporting I've seen on the matter refers to MCAS as an anti-stall device. "Anti-stall" has become a catchphrase wrt the 737 MAX. I wish everyone would stop using it, but the horse has left the barn
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by AceyMan 8y ago
I wonder if it's feasible to build a guard to cover the AoA sensor to mitigate the ability of foreign objects damaging the vane. Clearly it'd need to be very transparent to airflow—something like the face guards of an NFL player—a
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by AceyMan 8y ago
My old home state of Georgia is stepping back in time (and not in a good way) on a couple of legal positions recently, but I'm pleased & surprised they, like Ohio, have adopted "no phones while driving" about a year ago.
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by AceyMan 8y ago
I read the article (well, 75% so far). It's primarily how this couple gamed the system; I don't see that it casts the LAUSD policy or leaders in a bad light. We all know any sufficiently byzantine bureaucracy can be gamed by motiv
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by AceyMan 8y ago
Mods— why is the title completely rewritten? The source article is titled, "How a couple worked charter school regulations to make millions." My son is having a great experience at a well-run LA charter school and the current head
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by AceyMan 8y ago
Obligatory citation; “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food
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by AceyMan 8y ago
I believe the critical passage is here in CFR 14 §25.175¹ (2) With the landing gear retracted at low speed, the stick force curve must have a stable slope at all speeds within a range which is the greater of 15 percent of the trim speed pl
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by AceyMan 8y ago
NB. It seems this moment news is breaking that the Ethiopia pilots indeed followed the checklist — yet they still lost the airplane. This is getting worse for Boeing at every turn.

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