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by phugoid 10d ago
Hardware-wise, the industry has moved from hydraulic to electric motion jacks. It's great if you can avoid pumping high pressure hydraulic fluid. You want to think about capacity to handle the mass you'll put on top. Also, numbe
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by phugoid 10d ago
This really made my day! I was a flight simulator engineer for 20 years and it brings back fond memories of a project I worked on. Simulating the passenger cabin is important for crew evacuation trainers. Those are large, lifelike fuselag
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by phugoid 3y ago
HN is a spark plug that caused various forward motions and explosions in my life. I learned about open source and Linux; in time that went from a new hobby to a change of direction in my career. I learned about startups, and figured I shoul
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by phugoid 5y ago
Maybe we read different articles, but "Build an initial product" is what he said to do _after_ the hypothesis testing.
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by phugoid 7y ago
Even with a pretty good model, if you introduce new failures that were not anticipated/tested, there's a risk that the system will not behave as per the aircraft. Now you're giving "negative training" to your pilot
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by phugoid 7y ago
> Do simulators have the same hardware as real planes, or do they have a software model of the airplane? If you're looking at the highest fidelity level D simulators, the instruments and controls in the cockpit are either the same p
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by phugoid 7y ago
A good book can immerse you in someone else's way of thinking, in their world. I think the time it takes to read is an essential part of that process, in the same way that watching a two-hour movie can move you more than the 20 second
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by phugoid 7y ago
The author seems very pleased to experience the power gradient of being surrounded by hungry students looking to join the club. "You’ve got a lot of learning to do - minimum nine months - before you even get to working with me." S
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by phugoid 8y ago
Definitely not a degree mill. Have a look a their well-established OMSCS program, which offers an MSc in Computer Science. This is an offshoot of it. Getting in to their OMSCS program is far from guaranteed - they have lots of older appli
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Georgia Tech Creates Cybersecurity Master’s Degree Online for Less Than $10,000(news.gatech.edu)
5 points by phugoid 8y ago|2 comments
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by phugoid 8y ago
Right now, I am taking the equivalent course to yours in an online CS masters program. The best thing they've done is structure the entire course around building a web database app. They provide a real-world description of what's
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by phugoid 8y ago
Probably an impossible-to-find asset. Such a collaborative effort is likely to attract the most vocal and opinionated people, many of whom do not have children of their own. I am simply extrapolating from the median author of the parentin
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by phugoid 9y ago
If OP lives in a city, it shouldn't be hard to find a sharp college kid who will tutor.
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by phugoid 9y ago
I force myself to read a book about it, from cover to cover; then I start using it. That gives me a helicopter survey of what the language looks like and its main ideas. Of course I forget all the details, that's what books are for.
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by phugoid 9y ago
I was in a similar situation for years, and alcohol was the lesser of my intake problems. I was drinking mostly to stave off boredom; let's call it being comfortably numb. What eventually helped was getting serious about playing music
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by phugoid 9y ago
From the article: > He isn’t a bad worker, but the relationship between the leadership style and his work style are clashing. If refusing to take orders doesn't make you a bad worker, then what does? I've carried out orders tha
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by phugoid 9y ago
I work in aviation safety/training. The most meaningful work I've done is developing code for flight simulators, so that pilots can learn how to handle real-world problems. Sometimes that means modeling data from flight recorder
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by phugoid 9y ago
> It’s just not right to say that so few people should get to control the entire continent just because they were there first. By that argument, it's just not right to say that multi-millionaires should control so much wealth just
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by phugoid 9y ago
> Having to interact with the phone while driving is a safety problem Surprised and dismayed if this is the prevailing viewpoint, that using a phone while driving is a necessity that should be made as safe as possible.
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by phugoid 9y ago
I'm bracing for a serious downvote... I have to admit that Anthony Robbins had a big influence on my thinking, particularly with "Awaken the Giant Within." The message was - you can control how you feel. Nearly twenty years
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by phugoid 9y ago
Try making a few calls before the important one to break the ice a bit. Another trick is to start the conversation in an unconventional way, so you don't have time to predict what you're going to say (and anticipate the blocking)
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by phugoid 9y ago
This assumes that wealthy people have a better work ethic than the poor, to the extent that they might not even be able to imagine what a bad work ethic looks like. In my experience, that doesn't match reality at all. Manual labor job
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by phugoid 9y ago
I'm a white dude, but I feel the same way. I have experienced first-hand that the attitude and vibes that make a workplace toxic for women or others will also make my time there unpleasant. For instance, frequent sharing of risque vi
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by phugoid 9y ago
It need not be on a consistent basis. I recall one bad decision on the part of a manager that caused me to work eight months of 60-80 hour weeks and nearly burned me out. It took some hindsight for me to understand that, and since he didn
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by phugoid 10y ago
For the big projects in my life right now, I just keep track of my time spent, on a daily basis, in a text file. I've found that if I spend enough time, things get done. A simple breakdown of 30 minutes on this, 90 minutes on that is
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by phugoid 10y ago
I second chopsticks. Good design doesn't have to be user-friendly. I like how chopsticks can be implemented out of almost any material, are dead-simple, and are "opinionated." They impose severe constraints on what/how
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by phugoid 10y ago
If you can push yourself hard enough to get the idea built, you will face another bout of crippling self-doubt when you decide whether to show it to anyone. And then a MUCH bigger wall of doubt when you begin to market the idea and realize
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by phugoid 10y ago
Unless it involves blood transfusions in any form, there's no issue. At the risk of being argumentative, it would be a case of dying for his own idea of God. From my point of view, he wasn't a straight-and-narrow JW member because
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by phugoid 11y ago
I've changed it so that you can try the calculator without creating an account. Login is only required for saving recipes or for changing the nutrition targets. Thanks again for the advice.
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by phugoid 11y ago
I've changed it so that you can try the calculator without creating an account. Login is only required for saving recipes or for changing the nutrition targets.

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