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by asciimike 4y ago
Yeah, prices in CO (where Corsairpower is based) are ~100-150/hr wet for a 172, plus 30-40/hr for an instructor. I think I'm paying ~120/hr plus a varying "fuel surcharge" of ~20/hr for a T41-D. The main i
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by asciimike 4y ago
Was it http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html by chance?
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by asciimike 4y ago
To be fair, GitPod claims they will support devcontainer.json: https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod/issues/7721
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by asciimike 4y ago
> (1) Does anyone have a privacy-respecting alternative to Privacy.com's virtual credit cards? Capital One offers virtual cards through Eno ( https://www.capitalone.com/digital/eno/virtual-card-numbers/
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by asciimike 4y ago
Methane has an 80x higher GWP than CO2 over the first 20 years, so ending routine flaring (even if the answer is "complete combustion") is an immensely important problem to help address the effects of climate change. Another sourc
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by asciimike 4y ago
> What is the carbon footprint of GPUs? How can I use GPUs without polluting the environment? > I worked on a project that produced carbon offsets about ten years ago. The carbon offsets were generated by burning leaking methane from
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by asciimike 4y ago
I showed this in another thread, ForeFlight has taxi clearance in their Performance plan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p5-7jVg8fE Very curious if/when they'll add speach to text/clearance. The syntax is f
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by asciimike 4y ago
> It does appear that this pilot had really lost situational awareness. Totally. The instructions were "taxi Bravo hold short of Kilo" and "cross 31L at Kilo"; read back was correct but instead of turning right at Kil
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by asciimike 4y ago
On 1: While taxiing, you're supposed to have the taxiway map up ( https://flightaware.com/resources/airport/JFK/APD/AIRPORT+DI... ), and something like ForeFlight (which many pilots, GA and commercial
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by asciimike 4y ago
Ish. See ADS-B ( https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/adsb ) and TCAS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_sy... ). It's mostly helpful in the air, not on the gr
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by asciimike 4y ago
Not quite an answer to the exact question, but the FAA does publish hot spots (overview: https://www.faa.gov/airports/runway_safety/hotspots , full list: https://aeronav.faa.gov/afd/29Dec2022&#
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by asciimike 4y ago
Lots of these services: - Fluidstack: https://fluidstack.io - Vast: https://vast.ai - QBlocks: https://qblocks.cloud - RunPod: https://runpod.io - Sonm: https://sonm.com (blockchai
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by asciimike 4y ago
A little old, but: https://khairy2011.medium.com/tpu-vs-gpu-vs-cerebras-vs-grap...
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by asciimike 4y ago
The question you're asking is missing the important piece: how useful are they _to whom_. To a developer, think of them as glorified linters (most of them are, including Kubescape, I believe). Someone on your team chooses which include
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by asciimike 4y ago
Open Core ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model ) has existed for a while and has definitely proven itself to be viable, albeit for a limited number of folks. IMO the key to doing it right is ensuring that your
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by asciimike 4y ago
At my school, we had a disciplinary council composed of several students and several faculty members, which met monthly to handle any cases of academic misconduct. Confidentiality was expected and we were reminded of this fact at the beginn
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by asciimike 4y ago
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by asciimike 4y ago
KDEN also has four parallels (16-34L/R and 17-35L/R). All are 172.6º or 352.6º.
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by asciimike 4y ago
Worked at Google Cloud a while ago and GitHub (Codespaces, which is built on Azure), I couldn't agree more. Google Cloud is so technically and operationally superior, and the average engineer quality was _much_ higher. The obvious down
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by asciimike 4y ago
"Free, clear, and correct: check"
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by asciimike 4y ago
Truly, all we did was move data from one proto to another...
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by asciimike 4y ago
Running `borgcfg up` is very different than spending weeks writing monarch configs :P I totally agree that Google's tooling is _legendary_ when you understand it all, but I also agree that having to learn 15-20 different config languag
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by asciimike 4y ago
> Just on your last paragraph, I think it started that way. That Firebase would be the competent general problem solver that you might need to break out of. Firebase and App Engine have tended to weaken over time, so that you needed to m
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by asciimike 4y ago
> I believe it was the inventor of Regex who said: > Easy things should be easy, and complicated things should be possible. Was he being serious when he said that? I'd hardly call regex a technology where easy things are easy and
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by asciimike 4y ago
> I am even tempted to reverse engineer rules to write a proper guide. If that sounds interesting let me know. No need to reverse engineer them, I built them, so I'm happy to answer any questions you may have (to the best of my memo
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by asciimike 4y ago
Let's take a quick example of S3: GCS was able to take the same API and they both compete on uptime, performance, etc. Price/GB has remained stable or decreased with new tiering options over time. Managed K8s clusters, SQL databas
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by asciimike 4y ago
> God no. The last time I checked, Firebase functions had intensively bad latency times for me. Was this cold start latency specifically or request latency in general? Do you know what region you were deployed in?
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by asciimike 4y ago
> The reason people liked it is, imo, because it was a single product with multiple features. GCP OTOH, has been about decoupling (or loosely coupling) the product suite, and users are supposed to pick and choose from a giant array of ha
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by asciimike 4y ago
Honestly curious, do you have examples or thoughts of what this might look like? What is the core primitive upon which you want to build that is zero config but highly scalable?
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by asciimike 4y ago
Not saying there aren't issues, but would you mind elaborating on some of the issues you've experienced?

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