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by lovecg 2y ago
“Addictive feed” has quite a ring to it, doesn’t it. Conjures the image of someone eating out of a trough. It’s a good piece of legalese propaganda.
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by lovecg 2y ago
I believe the article that started it all is https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... - crucially every entry is self-explanatory, which is a point that a lot of the subsequent “Falseho
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by lovecg 2y ago
If you can transfer gigabytes of data with a paper notebook then I’m really impressed! But seriously this is similar to banning usb flash drives and the like, it’s not that unusual.
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by lovecg 2y ago
This is like a person who took a few python courses pretending to be a software engineer with a full time job, the lie becomes very clear after a few sentences.
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by lovecg 2y ago
A random person pretending to be an airline pilot in a room full of airline pilots? I don’t see it happening, they’ll get kicked out in a second.
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by lovecg 2y ago
Wow, just wow. Reading all these makes me really worried about supporting anything built on Python long term. This creates an impression of a self-destructing dying community.
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by lovecg 2y ago
Finally, 2024 will be the year of the Linux desktop! On a serious note there seems to be an interesting lesson here about what sort of products just don’t seem to work in a non-commercial open source model. Specifically, simple user friendl
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by lovecg 2y ago
My understanding was that Chevron was specifically about the cases where the law was ambiguous, allowing the agencies to come up with reasonable interpretations on their own. Was that an issue here?
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by lovecg 2y ago
It’s a complex feedback loop. On one hand the economy is great. On the other the housing policy is completely messed up. So you get a lot of new wealth that than chases too few houses, pushing everyone else out.
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by lovecg 2y ago
And the reason they have to say it nowadays is due to a court case where a pilot found out he was being investigated for a deviation that allegedly happened many months ago. It was ruled that without a timely warning no sanctions can be tak
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by lovecg 2y ago
Enjoy some history of math typesetting http://www.practicallyefficient.com/2017/10/13/from-boiling-... Famously, Knuth lamented about the state of math typesetting at the time https://www.ams.org&#
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by lovecg 2y ago
> Electric vehicles warn you at the start of your trip if you won't make it to your destination. Road navigation is relatively simple and even then there are unexpected road closures and stuff like that. If running out of gas was an
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by lovecg 2y ago
If you’re about to run out of gas in a car it’s usually not a big deal - you find the nearest gas station and go there. Usually. There are exceptions like driving 100 miles of desert with no gas stations in sight and forgetting to put enoug
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by lovecg 2y ago
> There's an interesting dynamic here--we (the industry today) are more okay with flying rickety airplanes from the 70s before flying something built with more modern engineering and production techniques. Any insights on why that i
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by lovecg 2y ago
Thanks, by the way if that’s the same video I’m thinking of the problem there was gross incompetence - he tied the door wide open to the wing strut! Another piece of statistics I recently learned is that most stalls occur on departure or go
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by lovecg 2y ago
Yes, and some sensors do take flaps position into account (or you compromise and have it display the AoA with a typical approach setting).
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by lovecg 2y ago
That makes a lot of sense, interested to learn more about this, any statistics you’re aware of on this topic?
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by lovecg 2y ago
No, you just need an angle of attack sensor. These are increasingly available for small GA planes.
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by lovecg 2y ago
Seeing the Earth from a bird’s eye view is a historically speaking very recent privilege only a tiniest fraction of humanity was able to enjoy. If you want to get society-wide shifts of perspective about the Earth, you want more people to e
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by lovecg 2y ago
Many parts of the world move forwards and back a full _hour_ every year. We complain about it but it’s mostly ignored. A gradual drift of a couple of minutes is fine.
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by lovecg 2y ago
Don’t give them any ideas! If I know humans, they’re the kind of species to figure out how to extract energy from the Earth’s rotation, overdo it way too much, and then deny that they’re the ones responsible.
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by lovecg 2y ago
It’s interesting that the relative costs of offense vs. defense vary with technological development. In the middle ages when castles existed but guns did not, and societal structure was such that mounting enormous besieging armies of antiqu
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by lovecg 2y ago
And people are slowly testing the limits of the nuke deterrent. Turns out everyone is really hesitant to use them especially when the aggressor has nukes too.
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by lovecg 2y ago
If $100k worth of internet ads can really sway an election boy are we in trouble.
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by lovecg 2y ago
> Spending time horizontal while not asleep is very unhealthy for your heart. Never heard of this before, any references?
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by lovecg 2y ago
The study is solely about sand and nothing else. They’re saying the amount of sand needed will go up 2x, and factor in 3% of inflation per year from 2018 to 2050 for another 2.5x.
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by lovecg 2y ago
A better title could be, amount of sand needed to maintain beaches will rise 2x by 2050. This is the only claim the study makes - it’s literally about the cost of buying sand to replenish the eroding coastline. And the 5x number? They assum
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by lovecg 2y ago
Absolutely true, I found it amusing because I came to strongly believe over the years that lack of physical activity is one of the worst things one can do for one’s overall wellbeing. We evolved to be physically active, sitting around all d
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by lovecg 2y ago
There’s amusing statistics that show that if you’re out of shape and a smoker, you get a bigger bang for the buck from getting in shape first than quitting smoking. Disclaimer: not an endorsement of smoking.
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by lovecg 2y ago
I’ve been thinking that now that we have glass cockpits the airspeed indicator could automatically reflect the current stall speed under all conditions. I.e. green arc could shrink in a steep turn, etc.

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