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by mjlee 11y ago
I've recently encountered a similar system in bars in Africa.
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by mjlee 11y ago
I have found that the biggest improvement in taste comes from using freshly roasted beans. Freshly grinding those beans comes a very close second. That is to say, freshly ground stale beans still taste stale. Pre-ground fresh beans still
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Ask HN: How do you manage your personal development?
1 points by mjlee 12y ago|6 comments
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by mjlee 12y ago
Having a competent crew helps too. I'm in the Royal Navy. We practice a man overboard every time we sail and we critique each one. We even restrict movement on the upper deck after dark. We're professional sailors who live at s
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by mjlee 12y ago
You can acclimatise to it but cold shock response is a very real thing. The first minute is the most important - you're lucky to survive long enough to die of hypothermia.
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by mjlee 12y ago
I think you've misunderstood. There's no witch hunt from this end. You seem to be interpreting questions as personal attacks and lashing out. Others are responding to that appropriately. I know which paragraph of which publicat
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by mjlee 12y ago
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/6 Paragraph 1 here essentially states that anybody who knows enough policy to be able to tell you how classified systems work won't be telling you. https://
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by mjlee 12y ago
A spy plane has a transponder so you don't shoot a friendly/neutral aircraft down (or waste time classifying it as friendly/neutral.) The codes it squawks can be modified in various ways but there will be scenarios when you w
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by mjlee 13y ago
A minute of latitude was the originally definition of the nautical mile. I'm not exactly sure when it changed to be defined as the mean nautical mile. I'm not talking about how it is today, I'm talking about the inconsistenc
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by mjlee 13y ago
I think the author has become a little confused by what nautical mile means today and has meant in the past. Originally (maybe as far back as the 15th Century) a nautical mile was just 1 minute of arc of the Earth's circumference no ma
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by mjlee 13y ago
Fun fact, ICBMs do astronav! They have on-board cameras and computers to take a star sight and fix their location. In the war they're designed to operate in GPS would have been disabled long ago.
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by mjlee 13y ago
This article seems to answer "Why is it called a knot?" instead. You're correct that the nautical mile is one minute of arc across a great circle and as such is a meaningful unit to a navigator.
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by mjlee 13y ago
A logbook is the book in which the results from the log were recorded.