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by graupel 4y ago
I love this story, and despite only being inside a snowcat twice I often browse for-sale listings and such, even though I have no practical use for one. They are just such neat vehicles.
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by graupel 4y ago
https://archive.is/9RDOi
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by graupel 4y ago
Source: Worked in TV news my whole life, with lots of time in news helicopters. The audio signal is split left and right with the announcer on one and the telemetry on the other, it's easy to have some telemetry bleed over into the vo
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by graupel 4y ago
I had a one-handed watch once that was called "About Time" since you could only ever know about what time it was!
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by graupel 4y ago
Wait so this is a real....phone? Using old-school twisted pair phone lines? If it has a monthly cost that scales with use it must, but it seems like making this IP would be more practical, if a little less fun?
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by graupel 4y ago
I spent what felt like 64 days in a Cessna 172 one afternoon. Or maybe it was a 152 :)
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Blooom 401k Robo-advisor abruptly shuts down(blooom.com)
3 points by graupel 4y ago|0 comments
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by graupel 4y ago
Most of the same words are used in TV news writing, including many that still reference 'tape' and other things that are no longer part of how TV is made. Also nice to see a site that works without JS :)
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by graupel 4y ago
I have no problem with the idea of Everesting; the issue I have is with a person I know who has made their entire identity revolve around it...but that's for another thread.
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by graupel 4y ago
Found the Utahn in the room! :)
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by graupel 4y ago
I met some lifelong friends through a skiing forum attached to a ski media company that is still going, though probably not quite as strong as it was in its heyday. Reddit's great but it's just not the same as a good vbulletin fo
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by graupel 4y ago
https://github.com/Itaybre/CameraController this replaced "Webcam Settings" for me, and it's a brilliant program to pair with the C920 and make it look great!
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by graupel 4y ago
Reminds me of the 2' wide electric trains that moved cargo under the Chicago loop for many years: https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/collex/exhibits/under-your-feet...
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by graupel 4y ago
I was a guest riding in the back seat, definitely not a fighter pilot! And at 9.2 the pilot was fine but everything other than the center of my vision was grayed-out. I also had a 1G pressure suit on, that took the sensation down by about
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by graupel 4y ago
In my 53 glorious minutes flying in an F16 with the USAF Thunderbirds, the only thing I kept thinking was KEEP MY HANDS UP AND DON'T GRAB THE BIG YELLOW EJECTION HANDLE BETWEEN MY LEGS, even at .99 mach pulling 9.2G.
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by graupel 4y ago
Many years ago I was at Dugway Proving Ground when NASA was supposed to catch the Genesis Space Probe under parachute with "hollywood stunt pilots" flying A-Star helicopters with long probes mounted on the front, to hook the parac
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by graupel 5y ago
A great read about the media business: https://www.amediaoperator.com/
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by graupel 5y ago
But why Twitch? Seems like YouTube would be the place to get eyeballs on this, if not in place of Twitch, along with it.
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Mars has not one, but two speeds of sound(inverse.com)
2 points by graupel 5y ago|0 comments
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by graupel 5y ago
I spent many years working on high-end TV weather graphics on SGI Indigo, Onyx, and the O2 (toaster over shaped) boxes; they were remarkable for their time and the hours and hours it took to render graphics made for really nice downtime at
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by graupel 5y ago
The story of how KTLA developed the first live news helicopter is an amazing story in itself, well worth reading if you are interested in KTLA or broadcast ENG. https://www.smecc.org/ktla_telecopter.htm Visiting the current
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by graupel 5y ago
Quite literally, we had a CMS that could have been named "FEATURE FLAG" - every single element of it was tucked away in it's own feature flag. Had upsides and downsides but we made it work.
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by graupel 5y ago
I grew up in and around these accents, and will never forget the unique things like "Florida" being pronounced "Flor-id-er" that didn't really fit any other NY accent.
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by graupel 5y ago
This would be much more interesting and useful if it didn't cost $47 to find out how to do it.
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by graupel 5y ago
I just purchased $12,000 worth of fonts and it nearly broke me (mentally) in terms of how to do it the right way across web, desktop and app. The system truly is broken in every regard.
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by graupel 5y ago
We did the Inca Trail years ago and the tour guides kept talking about people from 'Jail' - which we later found out was Yale sounds like with a Peruvian accent!
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by graupel 6y ago
Larry King spoke at a conference I was at in the early 1990s and his speech was so good I bought an audio cassette tape copy of it. Wow I sound old!
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by graupel 6y ago
I used to run a large US publisher with 50+ sites writing 50,000 articles a month; if we found someone scraping full articles and offering them for use via an API it would be a problem - even moreso if that person was charging for it. I&#
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by graupel 6y ago
I found a screenshot! https://www.newscaststudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/ai...
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by graupel 6y ago
I tried to do this years ago while working at TV station with a helicopter and despite owning (well, leasing) the chopper and owning the microwave equipment the vendor would not release a way to decode the lat/long data used to track t

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