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by akiselev 4y ago
This is by far the most interesting part of the story: > Refuelling was handled by lowering a hook via a winch down to a fuel truck that would trail the plane on a straight stretch of road, usually twice a day. The winch would then pull
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by akiselev 4y ago
It’s synchronous but it was offloaded on to the southbridge in Intel/AMD CPUs so you could fill a ring buffer and it’d DMA everything to the peripheral without interrupting the CPU. Drivers could just leisurely fill up those ring buffe
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by akiselev 4y ago
This depends entirely on how naive the sqlite implementation is - without exact implementation details and register values for the QSPI peripheral, it's hard to remote diagnose something like that. Have you used a digital logic analyze
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by akiselev 4y ago
Ionized hydrogen is basically acid without the water.
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by akiselev 4y ago
TIL that the falus was a Moroccan copper/bronze currency [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falus
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by akiselev 4y ago
I’ll save you the click: Ironman “Executive Challenge” is an old boys club meant more for networking than fitness that costs $10k to enter instead of $700. And it comes with a social media group or something. It’s for country club members w
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by akiselev 4y ago
I think it mostly has to do with provenance. The third shift prints usually don’t make it into contemporary bibliographies [1] and since the printer is untrustworthy, you can’t be sure if it’s a real third shift first edition or the tenth
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by akiselev 4y ago
It’s not just the cost of disposal. Recycling aluminum or steel works because the alloys can be separated into their constituent parts and recombined into an alloy of the same or higher quality. That recycling them is cheaper than extractin
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by akiselev 4y ago
Third shift counterfeiting has been an endemic problem since the invention of the Gutenberg press. I collect old and rare books going back to the 1500s and printers have been doing it for half a millennia. Once the type is set up for a prin
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by akiselev 4y ago
See the FAA's US Civil Airmen Statistics spreadsheet for the overall big picture [1]. Specifically, the "Pilot Total w/o Student Category" fell from 490k in 2012 to 470k in 2021, despite the number of instructors growi
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by akiselev 4y ago
The GA manufacturing industry seems to have entered death spiral. With the fall in popularity of GA, the number of planes made every year went way down which drove the price of both new and used planes up. We went from producing almost 20,0
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by akiselev 4y ago
Ouch that really sucks, I'm sorry Doesn't help you now but in case anyone else is thinking of getting into book collecting, a great start is A New Introduction to Bibliography by Philip Gaskell. It goes over centuries of the tec
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by akiselev 4y ago
It’s not fake unless someone literally printed it out on some modern acid paper or whatever then tried to age them and pass it off. It sucks to have an unauthorized print you thought was a first edition but it’s not a counterfeit. I’ve been
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by akiselev 4y ago
The pilot shortage is all up and down the stack, including in GA [1], commercial, and military. There simply isn’t enough pilots anywhere in the pipeline. It doesn’t help that most PPLs tend towards wealthy professionals who sure as hell ar
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by akiselev 4y ago
The old and rare book market is still completely old fashioned. Most of the best books on the field are out of print and themselves hard to find (we collectors horde them). See my other reply to you about bibliographies. There isn’t a centr
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by akiselev 4y ago
I don’t even bother collecting anything with an ISBN unless it’s a rare short run nonfiction book. Completely pointless exercise with all the brainless competition. There’s something about having to pour over paper bibliographies to identif
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by akiselev 4y ago
Yes publishers often have first edition logos that are different from or accompany their normal logo but it’s far from a fool proof method, especially for pre-20th century publications. Book collectors depend on bibliographies that catalog
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by akiselev 4y ago
Perchloroethylene is used by almost every dry cleaner in the United States.
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by akiselev 4y ago
Doesn’t matter. The only people who take Google seriously now are the people who took IBM seriously yesterday. Google isn’t the CIA or NSA. They don’t have that kind of staying power because they don’t have any guiding principle beyond prof
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by akiselev 4y ago
Back in my day attaching Google’s name to a product was a positive development. Remember GMail? “Unmitigated shitshow” is the only thing that comes to mind today. What tech giveth, tech taketh away.
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by akiselev 4y ago
It’s the difference between a mass produced product and a hand made artisan one. Sure you can make the former look like the latter, but eventually you arrive at a boring world that has no uniqueness if you eliminate all human creativity. Ma
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by akiselev 4y ago
A century from now the verb “google” won’t mean “to search,” it’ll mean “to cock something up so badly no one trusts you ever again.”
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by akiselev 4y ago
I doubt this robot would last long with gypsum dust.
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by akiselev 4y ago
Thank you for all the insight! How different are the T-37/38s from common civilian trainers like the 172? How good were the simulators back then (I haven't use any sims outside of consumer stuff so I have no real point of comparis
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by akiselev 4y ago
> I definitely plan to edit the remaining footage and put it on youtube.. I will try to find the time over the winter holidays. Editing takes me a ton of time. Thank you! For what it's worth, it really shows! The vast majority of
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by akiselev 4y ago
I've got your first day downloaded on my Plex and I've watched that video so many times in the last few months! Thank you so much for making it! Are you planning on putting the other days up? I remember you mentioned somewhere els
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by akiselev 4y ago
Yep, civilian. How many hours of training did you receive before flying without a more senior pilot with you? The L39 type rating requirement is a thousand hours but it won't be in the jet itself. I plan to do aerobatic training and ev
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by akiselev 4y ago
Any advice for a aspiring fighter jet pilot? (goal is to eventually fly an L39 Albatross)
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by akiselev 4y ago
Rust's value proposition is a type system that can encode rules in a way that most other languages can't, some of which eliminate entire classes of low level bugs - through the borrow checker rules, for example. The power of Rust,
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by akiselev 4y ago
Asbestos is usually mined from bulk material that can easily aerosolize whereas most other mined metals have to be extracted from ore using chemical or electrolytic processes. There's fine dust but a lot less since the extraction proce

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