gryphonshafer

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by gryphonshafer 7y ago
A valuable part of the ADS-B out mandate is that planes even as small as mine (a.k.a. tiny) can cheaply (<200$US) pick up ADS-B in and display it on a consumer tablet. My private airplanes now have pseudo radar. Not every airplane in the
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by gryphonshafer 10y ago
> Achieving human-level performance on any real-world task is an exceedingly difficult endeavor when moving away from a few simple and well-defined tasks. It's an exceedingly difficult endeavor to try to get all humans to produce &q
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by gryphonshafer 10y ago
I've worked for companies as a remote worker, and I've owned a company that for its entire lifetime hired remote staff. In my experience, as long as you hire good people, the time zone delta is the only limitation that's extr
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by gryphonshafer 10y ago
I have this argument with my wife every few months. She posts things on a popular social media platform and sets them "private" in full expectation that the content will only be shared with those she selects. Then she gets pissed
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by gryphonshafer 10y ago
>90% of fatigue in basic (based on a scientific study I just made up in my head) is mentally induced because recruits have a belief of their limits that's short of reality. Part of the drill instructor's responsibility is to de
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by gryphonshafer 10y ago
Maybe something that copies military basic training. It has been decades, but I can still hear my drill instructor yelling, "You aren't tired until I tell you you're tired!" He was right.
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by gryphonshafer 10y ago
I don't think criminals are stupid; they're simply lazy. They put the minimum amount of effort is into a scam like this in order to make it profitable. Criminals come in all shapes and sizes, at all levels of intelligence, skill
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by gryphonshafer 10y ago
When I use a desktop browser, I just right-click on the post age data and select "Save link as..." or "Bookmark This Link" or whatever.
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by gryphonshafer 10y ago
This happens with airports a lot. Some really wonderful and generous old pilot or aviation engineer dies, so the field gets renamed in honor of the person. But aviators still refer to the field by it's traditional name. It's not a
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by gryphonshafer 10y ago
So this is somewhat OT, but in reading the slides, I noticed this gem: > Potential money is worth more than actual money. In very, very rare circumstances, that is true. In the vast majority of cases, it's total B$. It's what c
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by gryphonshafer 10y ago
It's really easy if you purchase lots of little things using a non-cash form of payment. It's even easier if what you're buying is non-physical, like streaming movies or video games for a tablet/phone. The key is to remo
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by gryphonshafer 10y ago
Just for the giggles, I love hearing wars stories of epic fails to questions like these. Paraphrased, here are some I've personally experienced: q: If you could wave a magic wand and change anything about the company, what would it be?