lonelygirl15a

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Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields(airfields-freeman.com)
4 points by lonelygirl15a 3y ago|1 comments
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by lonelygirl15a 3y ago
One person's tireless work to document airfields from the past
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by lonelygirl15a 3y ago
Such takings of property under eminent domain had happened before; it was not a new idea in 2005. This case was the result of a suit against such takings. The suit failed, and the takings continued.
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by lonelygirl15a 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London "[The Court held, 5–4, that the use of eminent domain to transfer land from one private owner to another private owner to further economic development does
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by lonelygirl15a 3y ago
I replaced the write-protect sensor with a toggle switch.
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by lonelygirl15a 3y ago
There was a time, not long ago, when new products were built on new ideas, and the marketplaces were very, very heterogeneous. Now, the marketplaces are largely commoditized and new products are incremental improvements and extensions of pr
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by lonelygirl15a 3y ago
Use roads at 60mph? I guess they're most efficient if they don't start the engines at all and you put the plane on a boat or a train.
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by lonelygirl15a 3y ago
No, they typically fly at the most profitable speeds within the constraints of the flight and airspace parameters. Which results designing the planes to be efficient at those speeds. https://www.boeing.com/commercial/ae
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by lonelygirl15a 3y ago
Realizing that there are other issues with which to contend, why not just start slowing down airline flights? Drag, and therefore fuel used, is a function of velocity squared . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_(physi
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by lonelygirl15a 3y ago
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/exped... Tyranny of the rocket equation
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by lonelygirl15a 3y ago
I think the Alpha port stands out in memory because that was the cause for overcoming 32-bitness.
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by lonelygirl15a 3y ago
Many dot matrix printers were boustrophedonic. Also how I mow my lawn.
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by lonelygirl15a 3y ago
Or one of the Foenix systems, like: https://c256foenix.com/16bits-new-retro-computers/?v=7516fd4...
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by lonelygirl15a 3y ago
There is exactly this in Leesburg, VA. https://www.leesburgva.gov/departments/airport/about-leesbur... It's getting closed, though, and replaced with a physical tower. https://www.aopa.org/new
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by lonelygirl15a 4y ago
Elektronika in the Soviet Union sold a number of LSI-11 home computers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronika_BK Fun to ponder what would it be like if the PDP-11 (and descendents like VAX) architecture had become
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by lonelygirl15a 4y ago
The word “mile” comes from Latin “mille passus”, one thousand paces. A pace was measures from same footfalls: left, left, left. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile#Historical
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by lonelygirl15a 4y ago
Reminds me of when the New York Times apologized to Robert Goddard when it turned out that rockets worked fine in outer space after all. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2018/07/19/the-corre..
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by lonelygirl15a 4y ago
I seem to recall that Sun put ZFS under a license that has been deemed incompatible with the GPL by pretty much everyone except Canonical, and so that it can't be integrated with the kernel but must remain a "bolt-on" for leg
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by lonelygirl15a 4y ago
As a bicyclist, I use my front brake vastly more than the rear. https://www.sheldonbrown.com/brakturn.html
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by lonelygirl15a 4y ago
Relevant conversation here 11 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34651799
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by lonelygirl15a 4y ago
Shove crinkled-up newspaper into the boots, it will absorb moisture and hasten drying (was taught this by an Icelandic hiking guide).
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by lonelygirl15a 4y ago
I think the Flying Circus in Bealeton, VA (near DC) brought back free wing-walking (i.e. not strapped to the plane), and continues their barnstorming airshows to this day: https://www.flyingcircusairshow.com/
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by lonelygirl15a 4y ago
That's been done - the Apollo Guidance Computer that took people to the Moon was built from purely NOR gates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer#Logic...
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by lonelygirl15a 4y ago
https://danluu.com/input-lag/
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by lonelygirl15a 4y ago
Nobody, and I mean literally NOBODY, can spell "Fuchsia".
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by lonelygirl15a 4y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5908141/ "Sonification of network traffic flow for monitoring and situational awareness" I've seen discussions on this concept back to the 90s but h
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by lonelygirl15a 4y ago
Imagine driving to a computer store in the late 70s or 80s, and buying a floppy disk in a stapled plastic sandwich baggie with some Xeroxed documentation stapled to it for $20. In 1980 dollars. I was pretty happy to buy this app this mornin
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by lonelygirl15a 4y ago
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/4284.315122 It's "Thompson's Rule", submitted by Bill McKeeman of the Wang Institute (a/o Sep 1985).
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by lonelygirl15a 4y ago
The Basic Editor Monitor on the Sperry Univac OS/3, when it had an error, would put an ASCII image of a vague insect on the screen and state something like that "BEM, the Bug-Eyed Monster, strikes again".
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by lonelygirl15a 5y ago
I would like a language with real-world data types, with units and automatic unit conversion and checking. Along with Ada-style-ish value limitations (e.g. variable must be positive, or between 0 and 100, etc.) > length i = 12 inches &gt

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