AceyMan

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by AceyMan 11mo ago
The book you want is IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black. Well-researched, well-regarded & a bestseller. 597 pages.
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by AceyMan 1y ago
You're effectively saying non-permanent residents should be prohibited from using commercial flight to move around the giant country that is the US. I'm not sure if that's your intention.
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by AceyMan 1y ago
Legendary variation from pro tennis between to HoF players, https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/tennis/andre-agassi-bori...
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by AceyMan 1y ago
I suspect the OP meant their semi-presidential/dual-executive system w/ parliament (although at this point, storming the Bastille is starting to look pretty good...).
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by AceyMan 1y ago
I'm pretty sure the widespread adoption of Crocs heralded this tipping point. [viz., 'Idiocracy']
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by AceyMan 1y ago
See my comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45541096 [I am expert in CFR 14 Part 121, so I made reference to the regulations I'm qualified to directly speak on.]
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by AceyMan 1y ago
Why? I saw no upside to reading a layman's media source and teasing out the sequence, which is all I wanted to know. I read NTSB reports for pleasure and my favorite YT creator is Blancolirio. There's an infintesimal chance that t
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by AceyMan 1y ago
I realize this is a UK carrier and was operating in the EU/UK, but for the most part, the rest of the world uses the US legal framework for aviation as a boilerplate for their own civil code. Yes, there are some differences, but these
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by AceyMan 1y ago
Unless they are in an emergency and are busy with aviating, they will coordinate with their dispatcher on diverting, even if only to verify that the weather at the intended alternate is still favorable. Per the FAA regulations, the PIC and
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by AceyMan 1y ago
Update: OK, if *Edinburgh* was their alternate and they missed there and were then forced to bugout for Manchester, that's then an example of when reserve is OK to be burned. (The 'slight simplification' I omitted was unpac
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by AceyMan 1y ago
Under FAA rules this was a screwup. [edit: see my own reply] (However, the rules are subtle, so they can be partially forgiven.) However, I'm not only a dispatcher but also a philosophy BA, so I've found a good way to explain it.
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Threads in Microsoft Teams Channels(adoption.microsoft.com)
1 points by AceyMan 1y ago|0 comments
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by AceyMan 1y ago
https://http.cat/451
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by AceyMan 1y ago
The word 'available' inserted at the right spot would make all the difference in clarity here.
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by AceyMan 1y ago
Umm, I'm hugely afraid to mosquitos: the biggest killer of people among all the world's fauna.
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by AceyMan 1y ago
Airlines operate under completely different optimization (game) theory, which makes for an absolutely horrible choice in your analogy.
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by AceyMan 1y ago
I suspect (hope?) this lights a fuze to the inevitable realization by the Billionaire Bros that sucking up to the current administration cannot make up for its sheer ineptitude. (to cite a meme I saw: "He bankrupted a casino!! That&#x2
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by AceyMan 1y ago
Mudd is to MIT what Swarthmore is to Chicago.
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by AceyMan 1y ago
>>Go to the back door (most salesmen go to the front door, a manoeuvre always resented by maid and mistress alike). To most of us Yankees, this makes no sense. Many of not most of our single-family homes are built in areas that don&#x
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by AceyMan 1y ago
I took three 45m sessions of user training from OpenAI prior to the GPT-5 switcheroo. I know when to switch models. I know know to invoke Deep Research mode. I want my GPT-4 stuff back.
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by AceyMan 1y ago
This seemed black bar worthy, but it's Day 2 and not yet .
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by AceyMan 1y ago
Obligatory, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamethrower?wprov=sfla1 More seriously, Hornets vs Spray Glue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCLCewL5NVg (note: he's still wearing a full bee suit—so ho
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by AceyMan 1y ago
When I carried regularly I was always *extremely conscious" of having a sidearm(s) at the ready. And, knowing the the civil laws of engagement (=> I read all of Massad Ayoob's stuff) the result—for me at least—it makes you the
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by AceyMan 1y ago
This just in: you don't get to pick the category of the emergency when SHTF. That's like saying "I only wear seat belts on the freeway" or something equivalently vapid.
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by AceyMan 1y ago
So, basically the ancient precursor to the skills of a good rapper.
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by AceyMan 1y ago
op said > professionally retired people over 70
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That scar on your arm is probably from a BCG (not Smallpox) vaccine (2022)(globalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu)
5 points by AceyMan 1y ago|0 comments
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by AceyMan 1y ago
> The aircraft we fly today is the same design as the Wright Brothers. They solved the control problem. They did wind tunnel studies. And yet you claim they're "not engineers." As the joke goes, 'I want some of what h
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by AceyMan 1y ago
>for me its the praise you recieve as children, from significant adults, teachers, parents etc, that set you up to follow through with your dreams. And this is why modern child psychology de-emphasizes praise. As it was put to me in one
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by AceyMan 1y ago
I love how 252 became the standard after using 256 first.

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