manarth

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by manarth 8mo ago
There's this post and thread from 7 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46319657
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by manarth 8mo ago
Original title: "She Was Ready to Have Her 15th Child. Then Came the Felony Charges" https://archive.is/yXvj0
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Counterpoint: to be effective, it needs to be administered twice per day.
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by manarth 8mo ago
https://archive.is/Pn2oE
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by manarth 8mo ago
Original title: "Kanye West is what a real mental crisis looks like" https://archive.is/SIcBu
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by manarth 8mo ago
"stale" was used a while back - since then I've been starting with "slate"
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https://archive.is/qGp4T
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by manarth 9mo ago
https://archive.is/YLIoN
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by manarth 9mo ago
https://archive.is/lWEJd
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by manarth 9mo ago
The Moylan arrow
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by manarth 9mo ago
In 18th century England, priests played a semi-political role, perhaps equivalent to a contemporary head of a local council. In addition to religious duties, they effectively administered their parish. The monarch was (and titularly remains
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by manarth 9mo ago
> "People flying DJI drones are mapping the US" With more fidelity than, e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/ or https://maps.google.co.uk/ ?
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by manarth 9mo ago
I visited Greenland for 6 weeks in 1998 (youth expedition with BSES) and it's surprisingly green in the summer, with thick foliage at the lower altitudes. And the midges , oh my! They sure had a taste for visitors.
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by manarth 9mo ago
It's a provocative headline. A more reasonable statement of the army standing orders / Rules of Engagement would be: > The military has authorization to counter-attack an *invading force* without waiting for further appro
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by manarth 9mo ago
> "There is (was?) a utility that would flip individual F keys on the Mac" Function Flip: https://kevingessner.com/software/functionflip/
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by manarth 10mo ago
> "I’m baffled that any other language would be considered" There are direct trains between French and German cities, where additional announcements in French may be appropriate (and perhaps also English). For local&#
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by manarth 10mo ago
Wasn't that meant to be Esperanto? /s
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Mostly fair, I really appreciate the grasp that almost all Scandinavians have on English. Don't forget French though! I wouldn't make the assumption that travelling French people would have enough grasp of English or German to und
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by manarth 10mo ago
Pragmatic is multiple languages in locations where it's highly relevant. For example, the UK Gatwick Express train makes announcements in English, French, German and Spanish. The Thameslink service (which also happens to travel on the
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by manarth 10mo ago
And French, as Germany is adjacent to France. There are train connections to Scandinavia, so let's add Swedish, Danish and Finnish. Also Dutch and Polish to accommodate the other adjacent countries.
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by manarth 10mo ago
The key explanation for failing to stop at the station is that the train was on the wrong track . > "Apparently we were not registered at Troisdorf station, so we are on the wrong tracks" Many stations have a 4 track
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by manarth 10mo ago
> "If you find yourself in a similar situation and want out - call emergency services, say chest pain, out of breath" Being stuck on a train that's arbitrarily changing stops is irritating and disruptive to passe
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Many new UK drone users must take theory test before flying outside(bbc.co.uk)
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Very heavy lifting
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I agree that comparing the various sensor data points could allow a reasonable conclusion: e.g. IAS is variable across sensors therefore IAS is unreliable, so what additional information could allow a reasonable diagnosis? The flight system
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by manarth 10mo ago
The FAA report[1] gives a more comprehensive description of events. The pitot tubes had differential icing, and didn't all read 0kts – they reported different velocity against each tube, such as 40kts or 60kts (against an expected base
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by manarth 10mo ago
> "If the captain could figure it out, so could the computer." The autopilot had disengaged, most likely because the pitot tubes had iced over. The aircraft system entered ALT2 mode, where bank-angle protection is los
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by manarth 10mo ago
I personally find his work and his posts interesting, and enjoy seeing them pop up on HN. If you prefer not to see his posts on the HN list pages, a practical solution is to use a browser extension (such as Stylus) to customise the HN styli
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by manarth 10mo ago
https://archive.is/l7d8Q
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> "Pesticides are, generally, safe to humans." There are many common pesticides which have extreme toxicity to humans, including HCN (Hydrogen Cyanide), (ab)used under the brand-name Zyklon B in WW2, and still sold to

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