AceyMan

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by AceyMan 3y ago
Since I started in technology I've always kept my eyes open for chances to do this. I'm a "career-switcher" who came from commercial aviation operations. In the airlines one of the big fears was to get a 'write-up&#
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by AceyMan 3y ago
Thank goodness the spirit was already bottled. I was a pretty serious single malt scotch fiend for a while and from tasting the very impressive collections of others I found that anything cooperage aged (wooden barrels) just doesn't ge
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by AceyMan 3y ago
You mean the Senate run by men like Mitch McConnell? No thanks.
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by AceyMan 3y ago
>That is, they're not trademarking the text "X", just that particular visual representation — the colors involved, etc. However, the 'X' they chose is "just" a single UTF8 character, which would then ma
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by AceyMan 3y ago
there is no proof that anything the crew said over the PA was literally true. They should be honest about their plans ("we should me at the destination shortly" or "we're diverting to XYZ now") but the particulars o
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by AceyMan 3y ago
I think we'd all be surprised to find out how many "legendary", "amazing", "revolutionary" famous people are not particularly pleasant. You don't achieve greatness by being a sweetheart. [ftr, I have
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by AceyMan 3y ago
My parent corp guaranteed no one would use it as a knowleldgebase by implementing a 30-day maximum retention period in Slack. (Same for Teams chats). Lots of our staff got caught out when all the channels got truncated. Oof.
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by AceyMan 3y ago
Repeatedly referring to "art" is misleading. Think of what good movies & television do as storytelling and I think you'll agree it better fits the narrative at hand.
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by AceyMan 3y ago
California provides fines in cases where final paychecks are not disbursed timely. IIRC that would need to include unpaid vacation/PTO, so if Twitter didn't cover all those days in the last check the fines would be in force. (rele
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by AceyMan 3y ago
Jetbrains Mono has been my goto since release. The ligatures are nice if you like those in your code views. (Hard to believe no one has mentioned this font yet.)
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The Cosmos Is Thrumming with Gravitational Waves, Astronomers Find(nytimes.com)
2 points by AceyMan 3y ago|0 comments
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by AceyMan 3y ago
A side benefit of inventing the internet, I guess. (disclosure: I'm a Yankee)
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by AceyMan 3y ago
Those of us who follow usage guidelines more closely know that it's OK to use the 'b-word'. Case in point, https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-us-news-busine...
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American Airlines Flight 191(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by AceyMan 3y ago|1 comments
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by AceyMan 3y ago
The accident on this day in 1979 proved a landmark in effecting myriad changes in subsequent aircraft systems designs.
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by AceyMan 3y ago
Wearing a brand that no normal person would identify makes no sense as a "status symbol". Any Joe Average knows a Ferrari when he sees it, but he's not going to look twice if the guy standing next to him in the Starbucks queu
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by AceyMan 3y ago
> privacy lunatics, preppers, gun nuts and other extremists [...] Being a prepper isn't extremist. (Yes, it's expensive , done right, but not necessarily extremist.) [disclaimer: I live in Los Angeles]
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Leading Lady: The Secret Ambitions of Hedy Lamarr (2015)(inventorsdigest.com)
3 points by AceyMan 3y ago|0 comments
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by AceyMan 4y ago
TFA didn't seem to hint how they addressed the hot-side/cold-side issue that troubles Wankel designs. Anyone who knows more, please share.
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by AceyMan 4y ago
THD by me doesn't even stock the CREE bulbs anymore, just the crappy FEIT generics. I had to drive all over town to find a specialty lighting store with some 'real' Sylvania brand. (But then found the supermarket across the s
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by AceyMan 4y ago
Sadly, "we" voted with our dollars. The invisible hand at work. (Anymore, I don't by anything but detergent, screen protectors & phone cases from AMZN, ftr.)
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by AceyMan 4y ago
@dang should add "2017" to the headline, imho
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by AceyMan 4y ago
>they have the most grueling schedule of all professional sports The ATP & WTA would take issue with that claim.
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by AceyMan 4y ago
Ironically, today I got a promotional SMS from Tmo offering — wait for it — checking & savings accounts from them. Uhhh ... hard pass.
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by AceyMan 4y ago
that's a great paper that clearly explains how "back pressure" [my term] at high utilization causes latency to go hockey-stick. (And thanks for the link bc I apparently forgot to bookmark it when I initially read it.)
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by AceyMan 4y ago
>The calculation is done by the plane’s flight computer. Not exactly true. The dispatch release has a flight & performance plan based on the load manifest. It's calculated out of band (here, by the software vendor) and punched i
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by AceyMan 4y ago
I am (well, was, pre-pandemic) the odd Los Angeles tech worker who used the bus & my bicycle for all my commuting, and many of my errand runs. I always enjoyed reminding my car-enslaved colleagues, "I never have to park the bus.&qu
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by AceyMan 4y ago
Hmm, I'm a grammar pedant and that one has never bothered me except in formal prose (real journalism, marketing copy, books). It's spoken that way ("one-hundred dollars") so it's actually kind of intuitive to write
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by AceyMan 4y ago
Websearch 'FMVSS 108' for the relevant US regulatory framework.
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by AceyMan 4y ago
I didn't read tfa but for long unclaimed bags this has been SOP forever. Once the bags are recorded with baggage service and they've been in the federated database for so long, if the owners do not claim, the contents are donated

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