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by jcutrell 4y ago
“RPG” or “TTRPG” refer to role-playing games, most often set in fantasy settings. The article is playing off of the fact that role playing as a device can be used outside of those settings to gain insights and mental latticework.
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by jcutrell 4y ago
For what it’s worth, reading the title and having been exposed to D&D, the orcs seemed completely appropriate. This is how many D&D adventures start (if it wasn’t obvious).
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by jcutrell 4y ago
Totally unrelated to the content, but it's interesting to see these types of articles clearly using something like Midjourney to generate their header images. It almost feels like a dream-state when I first land on the page... my brain
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by jcutrell 4y ago
From the article linked: > Angered because the government was slow to make payments on his contracts, Lawrence fueled the plane and flew to Washington to strike a telling blow against the bureaucracy. Circling the Capitol at ground level
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by jcutrell 4y ago
A (mostly) stock Cessna 182 lands at around 70kts - these stol comp aircraft are down below 40. I can slow flight my 182 down to 40ish on a clean day.
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by jcutrell 4y ago
This reminds me of another similar system in which a single action means little, but once a condition is met things change: school. I’ve specifically wondered about how sunk cost fallacy plays into these systems. Say you believe that the va
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by jcutrell 4y ago
A huge swath of midrange companies will have a major competitive advantage, in my opinion, because they choose to opt-in to remote. There might be one or two companies in the world I’d choose to move to work at. Even then, it’s a hard choic
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Words of Estimative Probability (CIA 1993) [pdf](cia.gov)
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by jcutrell 4y ago
Yeah, this is just some purist BS in my opinion. Message / medium have always mixed together. Even folks who say content needs to be figured out before presentation... it's not so cut and dry. Your medium shapes your message - the
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by jcutrell 4y ago
I was thinking exactly this. It’s not surprised it would be abandoned, but the story makes it sound like it was suddenly abandoned. The simplest explanation to me is likely the untimely death of the proprietor, but even that doesn’t seem
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by jcutrell 4y ago
That's super interesting - I didn't realize that certification would be required for this. I would suspect that certification would break down at some point; does a plain old calculator need to be certified? Certainly not, but I&#
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by jcutrell 4y ago
I've thought about this - if this is the case, they are extremely lucky because different planes could have significantly different payloads. Of course, then the TLAR would signal an issue. Also this would mean some other aircraft had
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by jcutrell 4y ago
This sounds less like total weight, and more like a differential / CG problem.
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by jcutrell 4y ago
Possibly, but aircraft carry a significant amount of extra fuel anyway. (That's how you can have a jet holding for 2 hours at a fix unexpectedly because of weather or whatever.)
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by jcutrell 4y ago
It does seem plausible, but also almost heinous design if true.
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by jcutrell 4y ago
Yeah the more I think about it the more this makes sense to me. Both were lighter than expected (so if it was a swap with another aircraft we wouldn't necessarily know - possible that 4 aircraft got the wrong data and we don't kno
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by jcutrell 4y ago
Ultimately this would be true for most anomalies. It's one of the reasons commercial air travel is as safe as it is. In a car, you hit a bump, you keep going. In a plane, something unexpected happens and that plane is grounded. The uti
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by jcutrell 4y ago
Title change recommendation: add “during”, so that causation is not drawn. Alternatively, replace “turbocharged” with “came with a significant increase in”
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by jcutrell 4y ago
Well, jobs vs classes are very different. I'd also probably leave a job that gave me arbitrary assignments and tests and made me pay to be there, too, but that's generally fine in a classroom setting.
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by jcutrell 4y ago
I think if you take that to another extreme, you could say that forcing someone to write code with a computer versus a typewriter is an arbitrary rule. But there are actual reasons to enforce the tool - in that case, so you can execute your
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by jcutrell 4y ago
Was going to mention this, and also the Bezos classification of Type 1 and Type 2 decisions - definitely would benefit from a better title.
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by jcutrell 4y ago
I used to be told I needed to learn cursive. My parents had to learn how to operate a typewriter. All of this is just various levels of abstraction. It’s still your responsibility to manage the final outcome, which is a far distance from “a
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by jcutrell 4y ago
I understand this clearly is something you feel strongly about, but do you think this is somehow drastically different from using other tools for doing secondary research? As in, using an index tool (like the Dewey decimal system, or Google
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by jcutrell 4y ago
I think this is pretty subjective. You could also say that engineering should be used to increase the margin of safety (what is often labeled over-engineering). If the engineering requirement is “do something that brings you close to the ma
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by jcutrell 4y ago
I’m not sure that thrust calculation is actually incredibly common. I’d be curious what the handbook on these aircraft say, but common practice for many aircraft is full thrust on takeoff - rarely is there a negative safety penalty for too
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by jcutrell 4y ago
Makes me think this could have been a race condition where these aircraft somehow received the load calculations from other aircraft being calculated at the same time window. Some kind of poorly managed event stream / consumer that ass
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by jcutrell 4y ago
Seems like something as critical as thrust in this phase of flight should have some kind of cross-check validation. Sounds like a bad single point of failure to me, but maybe there is a cross check I don’t know about that isn’t covered in t
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by jcutrell 4y ago
Yeah, agreed here - workload on a departure (depending on the type of departure) can be pretty heavy compared to cruise phase. Arrivals and approaches are more commonly known to have heavy workloads, but there’s a lot to do just after depar
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by jcutrell 4y ago
Lots of speculation as to why people didn’t talk about the experience. A few points should be made: - We don’t feel velocity, we feel acceleration/deceleration. While a sudden drop would feel crazy, if the jet rolled out and into the d
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by jcutrell 4y ago
Yeah - I think if it was an autopilot engagement, the velocity may have been gradual enough that it just felt a little weird. Add in clouds - it’s not a crazy amount of altitude to lose in a jet like this, and you prepare for some weird f

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