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by dharmab 3y ago
A single tanker can simultaneously refuel multiple aircraft: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FSJ9Hqgz9T0
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by dharmab 3y ago
Two pilots once flew a Cessna 172 for over 64 days, refueling and resupplying from a truck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_endurance_record#/media... They eventually were forced to land because their engine w
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by dharmab 3y ago
It is prohibited for passenger aircraft to fly anywhere near this close together, because it is dangerous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcLiAAVeYhk
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by dharmab 3y ago
The hope was to eliminate the need to have an airman lying down in the back of the plane manually flying the boom to connect to the receiver aircraft, as a step towards drone tankers. This did not pan out as hoped.
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by dharmab 3y ago
iOS uses geofencing. Android typically uses the purchase region.
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by dharmab 3y ago
A is for Airfield. C is for carrier. B is for [B]TOVL.
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by dharmab 3y ago
There are other aircraft better suited to the dedicated CAS role, such as the AH-64 and various drones.
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by dharmab 3y ago
It's pretty good for customer support agent tools. Feed the LLM your company's knowledgebase and give it the context of the support chat/email/call transcript, and it suggests solutions to the agent.
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by dharmab 3y ago
1. Seems like regular software devs who want to try making AI stuff. 2-6 seem like leading questions, so I'll skip them, but: 7. Because you can make fun stuff in the meantime!
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by dharmab 3y ago
Not a guide, but https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui is a sandbox application for generating AI images locally with a very active community.
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by dharmab 3y ago
Also works great on Linux if you have a high end desktop CPU.
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by dharmab 3y ago
You can submit reference photo's to the site's webmaster! He's quite responsive to adding new bikes each year.
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by dharmab 3y ago
If I wasn't a car enthusiast 99% of my driving would be to a grocery store, hardware store or a clinic/doctor's office. I think my ideal utility vehicle would be an electric van... Grocery delivery in my area is expensive ($1
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by dharmab 3y ago
The existing regulations assume that all CRTs are leaded, so you'd have to lobby multiple governments to treat your product differently.
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by dharmab 3y ago
You see it all the time with conglomerates and subsidiaries. Microsoft is unusual in that the company has their largest "subsidiaries" are part of the same corporate legal entity.
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by dharmab 3y ago
It is ironic and tragic that the original Domesday Book has lasted nine centuries and the Domesday Project is struggling to last four decades.
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by dharmab 3y ago
The National Archives have a search available, although not for free: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/...
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by dharmab 3y ago
Not for production stuff, but for quick hacks I'll wire it up to SNS and send emails via SNS queue.
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by dharmab 3y ago
There's certainly a market, but the process of manufacturing and recycling them is difficult to do in compliance with modern environmental regulations. In particular, the leaded glass is problematic to export for recycling.
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by dharmab 3y ago
The name "Domesday" (pronounced like "Doomsday") comes from effort to archive the laserdiscs from the BBC Domesday Project [0], which was a cultural successor to the Domesday Book [1]. The original Domesday Book was a so
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by dharmab 3y ago
In the US, the only information required to be given by a previous employer is time of employment, role, and whether the person is eligible for rehire. Reputable companies will ask and provide strictly this information only, to reduce their
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by dharmab 3y ago
By point of comparison, my fairly minimal Linux partition uses ~200MB of RAM after booting, and I suspect a good chunk of that is cache.
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by dharmab 3y ago
Split keyboard
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by dharmab 3y ago
The Mets are a baseball team. Whoever wrote this weather report injected a little humour into it.
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by dharmab 3y ago
I have a few of these I use in the garage. Slap an SSD and fresh battery in them and install a lightweight Linux and they're damn near perfect as a workbench computer. My only complaint is HD video playback can be a bit slow.
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by dharmab 3y ago
There's only four flash manufacturers: Samsung, Micron, SK Hynix and SanDisk/Kioxia. All of them have had problems over the years. All of them will change the internals of products without changing SKUs or anything visible to the
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by dharmab 3y ago
Most states distinguish between the registered owner and the legal owner, and a lienholder is the legal owner. Houses are different; you legally own your house while paying the mortgage.
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by dharmab 3y ago
There isn't a law against it. See also Ferrari's rules about what you and cannot do with their cars.
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by dharmab 3y ago
In the late 19th century hot metal typesetting was common.
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by dharmab 3y ago
Real estate is illiquid. At best it takes months to convert it to cash.

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