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by _moof 4y ago
Really should've run this by someone who knows how airplanes work, because they don't do what these hypothetical airplanes do. First off, "elevator flaps" is a howler. Elevators and flaps are two very different things. M
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by _moof 4y ago
I swear, programming being worth real money might be the worst thing that ever happened to the field.
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by _moof 4y ago
Ok, but, they have actually gotten directly involved in aviation matters in very specific terms, and they do so regularly. This isn't theoretical and I'm not hypothesizing; they've actually done it, a lot. Usually it's
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by _moof 4y ago
> Am I forgetting anything? Yes, the words "most" and "pockets of sheer insanity." I am not so simple-minded as to view an entire agency as a single, atomic entity. I recognize what they do well and am one of the ha
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by _moof 4y ago
Absolutely not. Fuel approval is an engineering matter, not a political one.
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by _moof 4y ago
The delegation of authority from Congress to the FAA doesn't stop Congress from telling the FAA what to do. Congress can still pass, and has passed, legislation directing the FAA to take specific action on specific matters, and there&#
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by _moof 4y ago
In my experience (decades of direct interaction) most of the FAA is a model of professionalism in civil service. But there are pockets of sheer insanity, usually due to perverse incentives like what you're describing. This whole fiasco
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by _moof 4y ago
Fireflies need humidity (which is why you don't see any in the American West) and Oklahoma sits right on the semi-permanent atmospheric boundary that divides the humid east from the dry west. This central dry line has shifted eastward
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by _moof 4y ago
Same reason noise pollution doesn't either, I reckon.
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by _moof 4y ago
And ticks. They don't die off the way they used to because it's not as cold in the winter. Causing real problems for deer and moose.
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by _moof 4y ago
Clinical depression isn't a "mood."
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by _moof 4y ago
I used to work Wed-Sun and it was the best. My "weekends" (Mondays and Tuesdays) happened when everyone else was at work, so there was never a crowd anywhere I needed to go on my days off. Bliss.
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by _moof 4y ago
Tomorrow's post: "Don't build sites that can't serve two words to a modest crowd without crashing."
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by _moof 4y ago
Oh dear. You're about to be kicked off so many lawns.
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by _moof 4y ago
Don't forget the turmeric. You know, for inflammation.
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by _moof 4y ago
> Now bicycle drivetrains are operated wirelessly rather through cable tension ...ok, now I'm officially a curmudgeon.
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by _moof 4y ago
"Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value." Blaming scale is just another way of saying FB won't fund enough user support. And if FB won't fund it, it doesn't car
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by _moof 4y ago
You're in CPU reference manual territory - and if you got here by accident, you've taken at least seven wrong turns, and are about to take an eighth.
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by _moof 4y ago
Arabic as well. Loads of examples of such languages, with huge numbers of speakers. I think this is a reasonable change (and always found the colored icon in the menu bar to be gaudy anyway).
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by _moof 4y ago
If you want a flag in your menubar that bad, take the long weekend to learn a little macOS programming. IIRC the API you'll want is NSStatusBar. (That might be outdated info, but hey, that's part of the fun.)
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by _moof 4y ago
Why'd you pick Chicago? Nine other cities in the U.S. have higher homicide rates.
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by _moof 4y ago
> Liberals are cheerleading the war in Ukraine. At least the inception of the war with Iraq saw them join significant street protests. Ukraine is embraced as the latest crusade for freedom and democracy against the new Hitler. This par
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by _moof 4y ago
> My next realization was that it doesn't matter if I have the right of way and am dead. For precisely this reason, whenever I'm teaching aircraft right-of-way I always emphasize that you do not want to be "dead right.&q
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by _moof 4y ago
Fog doesn't affect GPS. GPS is just not 100% reliable (ask me how I know) or necessarily even the best navaid for every situation. Even aircraft go visual for the last few hundred feet. (Or if they're doing autoland, it's wit
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by _moof 4y ago
As tempting as this method sounds I'd be reluctant to employ it for the simple fact that the things you learn first (in this case the lies) are more likely to stick than the corrections. That's not the only factor in learning, obv
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by _moof 4y ago
Depending on how it's modeled, 2024 to 2027 (with earlier being higher likelihood), or 2023 to 2025. No way to predict location but it'll be somewhere between 52°N and 52°S.
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by _moof 4y ago
Orbital inclination is 52°. That leaves about 400 million km^2.
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by _moof 4y ago
The best part is these guys will look you dead in the eye and tell you about "safety" while riding a motorcycle in a t-shirt and the absolute legal minimum head protection.
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by _moof 4y ago
> Yeah, can you imagine the horror of making the congressmen actually do their job and pass the laws, instead of delegating all their authority to unelected, nameless, and effectively unaccountable bureaucrats As someone subject to a s
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by _moof 4y ago
We also got to the moon without calculators. (This used to be well-known but may not be anymore - I'm not sure. Forgive me if I'm saying something obvious.) Pretty incredible how unnecessary most of our "technology" real

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