AceyMan

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by AceyMan 9y ago
Off the top of my head, "Unconditional Parenting" by Alfie Kohn is a seminal text in the field. "Parenting From the Inside Out" by Daniel Siegel & Mary Hartzell is wonderful as well.
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by AceyMan 9y ago
Having read the current child psych lit extensively, I can provide a boot-camp education on raising young'uns in one sentence: "Your children don't want to be praised; they want to be noticed. " 'Dad/mom look
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by AceyMan 9y ago
If "ride quality" is some kind of chimera, then these ride-sharing businesses are spinning their wheels trying to gather satisfaction metrics at the end of each ride provided (e.g., "Please rate your experience/driver&#x
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by AceyMan 9y ago
Heh, great comment. I wrote The Weather Channel a letter (yes, on paper, sent by mail) years ago specifically in appreciation of Jim's demonstrable love of severe weather. He is a guy who clearly loves his work.
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by AceyMan 9y ago
There is much to touch on from the comments so far, but I'll try my best to keep it on point. (Note that I didn't say "short" <wink>.) Bona fides: FAA Licenced Aircraft Dispatcher; 11 years industry experience. (Le
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by AceyMan 9y ago
I'm a weather app junkie owing to my previous career in airline operations. I've tried (and bought) at least 95% of the decent weather app on Android. Some oldies, but goodies, like Weather Services Pro & Eye in Sky. Currently
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by AceyMan 9y ago
Disclaimer: non-technical anecdotal evidence here— I had a colleague for a time who's dad was a hardware engineer with Toshiba & worked with/on their part of the specification Working Group. His pop said that the whole BT stac
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by AceyMan 9y ago
I have strong opinions on this topic from a differing set of influences. In unranked order: 0. From a part of the US where how you dress a metric for how earnestly your intentions are; be it prayer, asking for a date, or (as mentioned above
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by AceyMan 9y ago
My alma mater's Ultimate Frisbee team were called the 'Earthworms,' an anagram of the school name(1). Which was cool. 1—Finding said name is left as an exercise for the reader.
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by AceyMan 10y ago
> The benefit with these systems, though, is that they are very old. See, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
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by AceyMan 10y ago
> One problem is that some students cheat. Do not all colleges have some form of honor code? Where I attended (two schools), it seemed universally understood that the Honor Code had meaning — I may have had blinders on, but I never saw e
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by AceyMan 10y ago
Hmm, I'm not sure what the anti-pattern you see is. I just go to the folder that represents the topic (typically /Vendors/Mgfr/Product/) and there along with spec sheets, user guides, etc., are the URLs I've sa
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by AceyMan 10y ago
I treat URLs like any other document: I click+drag the favicon off the address bar and drop it in the target folder in explorer (file browser in Windows), which creates a dot-url shortcut. Why keep resources in a unique silo? You wouldn&#x2
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by AceyMan 10y ago
Of tangential relevance: On the aircraft I was trained on, it was SOP to set the igniters = ON when encountering some significant amount of precipitation in flight, as a defense against a water induced snuff-out. (I forget exactly how the p
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by AceyMan 10y ago
My late mother was a executive secretary (old terms) in a corporate chemical engineering department [1]. She could type tables and such like a demon ... on a Royal manual typewriter, no less. She also could knock out quite decent Gregg shor
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by AceyMan 10y ago
wrt the rewritten HN headline, I've begun to prefer a different quip also attributed to Edison— "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." +1 for that take on innovation.
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by AceyMan 10y ago
Counterpoint— There's an old expression around the speed shop that fits here: "People buy power, but they drive torque." And its electric FTW in a big way if you believe in that koan.
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by AceyMan 10y ago
>Not the greatest solution, considering Pinning isn't documented anywhere and most Chrome users have no idea it exists. -- I might say this is precisely why it'd be smart mode of control: Tying a power user-ish granular featur
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by AceyMan 10y ago
|> Straight honesty isn't always a virtue. >I find this an interesting statement. Would you mind providing some clear examples of a real-life situation where honesty isn't a virtue? Umm, certainly. The canonical example goes
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by AceyMan 10y ago
Just a brief +1 to this: I'm a fit guy who's traditionally been a fairly regular blood donor. My newest (and still current) firm has its offices a couple blocks from a permanent blood donation center, and since it's so easy t
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by AceyMan 10y ago
> because of its sheer size the take off and landing is very comfortable, sometimes you don't feel a thing Selection bias? Try— "Because the A380 is the top level equipment operated by the carriers, pay scale for pilots is grea
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by AceyMan 10y ago
Sample product: you can no longer get neodymium magnets from Amazon Shopping. (They were in my Wish List, and then, poof , "This product is no longer available." More searching within the site returned nothing.)
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by AceyMan 10y ago
Oops, forgot my footnote. [0] One theory is that the $current state of all of our experienced memories is just a copy of the last time we replayed that memory. Like bootleg tapes, N-generations old.
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by AceyMan 10y ago
This thread brings up old memories: I, too, am a ball lightning witness. It'd been so long since I'd replayed it in my mind [0] that I'd probably describe it better if I slept on it. (Slow Retrieval == AWS Glacier). I was aro
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by AceyMan 10y ago
That's true, but was well known (and trained on), so I'd categorize that domain as "How the machine responds when you're hands are on the controls," which is nearly a synonym for "stick and rudder skills"
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by AceyMan 10y ago
The Air France 447 accident is a better fitting example of pitfalls that may obtain in complex "humans-with-automation" types of systems. There, automation lowered both the standard for situational awareness and fundamental stick
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by AceyMan 10y ago
You beat me to the punch on the mention of anise (licorice) aftertaste. IME, the liquid stevia preparations produce better results than any of the powder forms. I use it in my coffee exclusively and have tried 'em all. WRT the question
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by AceyMan 10y ago
I'm won't be the first HN'er to note that the business of aviation has evolved a culture much like the ideal being discussed. You can see it when you read NTSB AARs, TSBs, even the regs (FARs) themselves. Even the language is
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by AceyMan 10y ago
The idea of "ignorance" here is a type of slippery slope I would argue. Offhand it would seem that many (all?) profits made in open exchanges proceed from some knowledge advantage on the part of one party—or at least originate fr
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by AceyMan 10y ago
At risk of a downvote, I have to ask: am I the only one who read the headline thusly, "NASA Releases Dozens of Planets into the Public Domain" "Wow," I'm thinking, "that's way cool of them..." Where

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