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by buildsjets 5y ago
What nomdep said, but also the friends-of-friends problem. I cut a lot of people out of my life based on who else they associated with.
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by buildsjets 5y ago
These are very commonly used in manufacturing plants to find leaks in compressed air lines. I had a Fluke vendor visit the ol' airplane factory to see if we could use their tools to find air leaks in low-pressure ECS system ducting. B
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by buildsjets 5y ago
That sounds like a 20’th century problem. Most of us have smartphones these days, which typically come pre-loaded with navigation software.
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by buildsjets 5y ago
If you understand Bessel Basis Functions, or the design and tuning of motorcycle carburetors, then it makes perfect sense. If you are uneducated on these and similar arithmatic summations of wave functions, then it will make no sense.
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by buildsjets 5y ago
I need a different prescription depending on how wide my pupils are. I have separate glasses for night driving. Discovered this after a consultation with a real ophthalmologist, not an optometrist. They can dilate your pupils with eyedro
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by buildsjets 5y ago
Neither Canada nor New Zealand are in EUrope.
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by buildsjets 5y ago
I've been programmatically generating geometry in Dassault CATIA since 1998 or so. Relational Design is essentially the CAD version of object oriented programming.
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by buildsjets 5y ago
The Frontline episode on PBS is 50% teary-eyed emotional testimonials from the victim’s families, interspersed with 25% stock footage and 25% poorly summarized, and in many cases technically incorrect explanation. The Smithsonian Channel Ep
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by buildsjets 5y ago
The Chief Project Engineer is the person who is ultimately responsible for the design, engineering, testing, setting training requirements, certification, and everything else. The CPE for the 737 MAX was Michael Teal. There’s only room for
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by buildsjets 5y ago
My wife used to name her RPG characters “Isis” after a cat we used to have. Used to have to explain to vets that we named her Isis years before Bush and Cheney created Isis by starting their illegitimate war in Iraq.
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by buildsjets 5y ago
You mean something like Cluster? Our family has used it for years. https://cluster.co/
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by buildsjets 5y ago
That sounds like entirely too much effort. No one will bother.
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by buildsjets 5y ago
I do not believe that America has annexed Quebec. Yet.
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by buildsjets 5y ago
You can still get nice ones but they will cost you. Still worth it. Search for the “Yard Butler” brand.
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by buildsjets 5y ago
For general avaiation aircraft, takeoff and landing distance computation is frequently performed using nomograms published in the Approved Flight Manual or Pilot's Operating Handbook. https://math.stackexchange.com/ques
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by buildsjets 5y ago
The calculator side is a circular slide rule. The wind correction side with the sliding plate is a nomogram. https://www.gleimaviation.com/e6b-flight-computer-instructio...
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by buildsjets 5y ago
You should realize that some people intentionally allow or cause their voicemail to fill so that callers can't leave additional messages. I certainly do. I have no intention of EVER checking my voicemail, so why would I want to leave
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by buildsjets 5y ago
Because the only usable part would be the X axis. The moving bed on the Y axis would most likely cause the previously placed components to shift around a bit as the build progressed every time the bed changed direction. The Z axis has w
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by buildsjets 5y ago
Even Mr. Spock uses a nomographic computer when computing course correction angles for the galactic wind. https://www.nicolamarras.it/calcolatoria/regoli_aeronautici_... The takeoff and landing distance charts for many
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by buildsjets 6y ago
On which page of the illustrated parts catalog does one find the metal cladding of the engine? The part resting in the shrubbery was the lipskin and forward bulkhead of the engine inlet, which form an assembly called the D-Duct, which cont
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by buildsjets 6y ago
Lithium BIOS / RTC batteries that have exploded in storage and corroded nearby traces and components. I am become Varta, destroyer of boards. Capacitors are a near second, especially metallized film VIFA caps in the ‘80s.
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by buildsjets 7y ago
I had a terrible week-long flu a few weeks ago, and used Uber Eats several times. It was my first using a food delivery service, but I do use Uber for rides every few months or so. It was much better than trying to forage in my pantry. Cold
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by buildsjets 7y ago
I have one and use it. Want to add an SSD to your Apple ][? Boom. https://www.reactivemicro.com/product/reactivemicro-drivetur...