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by chiph 3y ago
We had a crew chief ingested & killed by his F-16 at my base. He ducked under the nose rather than walk around the front of the aircraft (like he was trained to do) and the airflow caught his field jacket and pulled him in. They are req
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by chiph 3y ago
Surprisingly, there is an ICD-10-CM medical diagnosis code for this: V97.33 Sucked into jet engine
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by chiph 3y ago
Unlike the other parts of the nuclear triad, bombers can be recalled at any point before they start dropping weapons (there is no destruct code for ICBMs or SLBMs). So they give a President more flexibility.
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by chiph 3y ago
Once they locate the wreckage, if the weights aren't nearby that's a strong sign they were detached before the implosion. They would have fallen to a different location on the seafloor than the hull because they're denser and
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by chiph 3y ago
In the Chinese justice system? For a high profile company like Huawei? Not likely.
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by chiph 3y ago
A previous firm I worked at was bought as part of a roll-up (market segment consolidation). If you're the firm that they're rolling all their acquisitions into, that's great & exciting. If you're one of the roll-ees,
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by chiph 3y ago
Both sides have their own OODA loops. The phrase you hear a lot (Hollywood loves it) is: "get inside their OODA loop", which means to execute your loop faster than theirs so you are responding & acting to your observations bef
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by chiph 3y ago
That was 23 years ago, but still looks low-rent. Here's how Brightline & the Florida East Coast Railroad are doing it in Florida for their double-track (mostly) expansion to Orlando. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by chiph 3y ago
When I was in London in the early 2000's, the Central Line was closed because of the heat damaging the tracks (they never used the word buckle in their announcement, but that was probably what happened). If they have a track problem t
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by chiph 3y ago
They do (sometimes) preheat continuous welded rail during installation to prevent buckling. The temperature used will vary based on the local environment (Minnesota will use a lower destressing temperature than Florida). Shorter sections o
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by chiph 3y ago
As mentioned above, the costs to distribute keys, manage accounts, deal with customer service, etc. would be high. The Galileo system apparently considered it at one time.
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by chiph 3y ago
It comes out of the US Space Force budget, so yes. https://www.spaceforce.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Article/2197...
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by chiph 3y ago
People went to extraordinary lengths to escape. Here's a group swimming across the Spree river, with a police boat trying to stop them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7CWajaOx4E > Everyone knew that everyone was
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by chiph 3y ago
I had a Nokia Windows Phone and I still miss it. It's best feature (for me) was that it was fast . I hardly ever had to wait for it to catch up. But that was of course running only the few apps available on the store. Any third-runne
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by chiph 3y ago
12 hours of Enterprise-D engine idle noise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRk-DQUUlz8 10 hours of American Airlines hold music (as one commenter there said - likely recorded from a real call): https://www.youtu
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by chiph 3y ago
I don't even need another mouse, but I'm buying a Pro IntelliMouse simply to have one on the shelf in case my current one dies. I've been using them since the optical version that was released in 2000 and by now my hand isn&
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by chiph 3y ago
That's really only needed for children and young adults. The CDC recommends taking Potassium Iodide (KI) if you're under 40 or pregnant/nursing. https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/emergencies/ki
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by chiph 3y ago
I haven't seen any near me in the Carolinas. But I'm going to stock up on vinegar and salt just in case.
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by chiph 3y ago
What info did you give your boss to justify a raise? If you just say "I want a raise" that is unlikely to be effective. But if you give them data, like "x number of new features implemented in the past year", "x lo
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by chiph 3y ago
Obviously this depends on the location and the management company. Mine takes 50% of the first month's rent for finding & qualifying a new tenant, then 8% of the following rent payments. So far they have done a decent enough job -
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by chiph 3y ago
There is a shop near me that posts pinball repair videos. They buy old machines and parts collections, then get the machines working. They also work on machines owned by nearby collectors, doing repairs and cosmetic upgrades. But they don&#
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by chiph 3y ago
My guess has been that they are an item a journeyman blacksmith had to create to be promoted to master. From the photos I've seen, they're similar but not identical. So they likely aren't being made as a regular production it
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by chiph 3y ago
"Ditched" as in "off the road and in the ditch", sorry wasn't clear. Any training for driving on ice is going to be verbal only, as it would probably be 2+ years before the next winter storm and a chance to acquire
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by chiph 3y ago
Sister Essex-class ship USS Yorktown CV-10 is preserved in Charleston SC (east coast of the US) and is also well worth a visit. https://www.patriotspoint.org/explore/uss-yorktown/ Even though they are of the same
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by chiph 3y ago
The internet went nuts over this scene in Raleigh NC about 9 years ago, where vehicles caught fire after their drivers over-revved them trying to get up a hill. https://www.wral.com/nc-s-winter-storm-in-gifs/13390141&#x
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by chiph 3y ago
Who knew that tasty Hummus was the source of so much conflict?
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by chiph 3y ago
VHS HiFi was very good, but you still had some tape hiss. So I used a dbx 224 compressor to record my 4 hour mix tapes. I couldn't share them since no one else had a dbx box, but it was good for long background music where I didn&#x2
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by chiph 3y ago
Ray Ozzie shows up here occasionally. I disparaged Notes a while back and he set me straight - the backend is pretty elegant. However the front end was designed to be cross-platform and as a result is a lowest common denominator UI. It&#x2
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by chiph 3y ago
Or Iceland. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12914564/
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by chiph 3y ago
> Loudness/compression is a deliberate choice and has nothing to do with noise. Agree. Personally I find the amount of compression used in many of today's releases highly objectionable. I'm a big Duran Duran fan, and was r

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