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by repiret 6y ago
No, but if you need to flow so many hours per month to maintain currency, flying a mission still counts towards that. So every hour spent flying a mission is an hour that doesn’t need to be spent flying to maintain currency.
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by repiret 6y ago
I second this. The thing that really turns me off about a motorhome is having this drive train that you only use maybe a dozen times a year but that you want to trust to take your family on a long trip. I'd much rather put that trust
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by repiret 6y ago
In the US, you may generally land anywhere the landowner permits it. There’s lots of publicly owned land, and although it’s up to individual management agencies, you can generally operate a plane wherever you can operate any other motor ve
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by repiret 6y ago
The Aeronautical Information Manual was around first. And continues to be around, unlike AOL Instant Messenger.
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by repiret 6y ago
If you're not a skilled windows developer, what use is the certificate?
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by repiret 6y ago
Because it costs money to do the identify verification? Its not like a DV certificate where the volume is very high, and the verification isn't hard to automate. I paid $400/yr for my employers first Authenticode certificate back
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by repiret 6y ago
Yes. I'll accept that thats a lot of money in some places of the world, but thats less than half a day of time for a skilled Windows developer no matter where they live.
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by repiret 6y ago
I call BS. This might be hurting some hobbyist projects, but anybody who earns their living publishing software, and gets even a small amount of those earnings from Windows apps, can afford $100/year for a code signing certificate. Th
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by repiret 6y ago
Very few licenses are easily enforced, but that does not entitle folks to violate them. Most desktop software can easily be found with the copy protection removed, but that doesn’t make it free - there’s no moral difference between warez,
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by repiret 6y ago
Having recently set up FreeRADIUS + WPA2 for the first time, I have to say, it wasn't really that hard at all. It wasn't any harder than setting up a mail server, or web server, or commercial grade router, or any other similar ta
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by repiret 6y ago
In rural eastern Oregon, there is not ubiquitous natural gas. I don’t think anybody chooses propane over natural gas, but natural gas is unavailable to a great many people.
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by repiret 7y ago
Recently an apple truck turned over, and so the wrecking company ended up selling damaged 50lb boxes of apples for $10. I bought a couple and was disappointed to learn they were red delicious. But they turned out to actually be really go
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by repiret 7y ago
(1) You don't think HD and Lowes and Safeway and Walmart and every big retailer doesn't use their sales data to decide which products to try to disintermediate distributors and other middle-men in the supply chain? (2) I'll c
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by repiret 7y ago
My experience has been that they have multiple house brands in each department, and they are different in each department.
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by repiret 7y ago
every major retailer has store brands, and I fully expect they all use their sales data to inform their generic products business, and all of their suppliers expect that too. As a consumer, I like that Amazon is upfront about what produc
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by repiret 7y ago
Exactly. But it has the advantage that nobody at the government needs to figure out what the exceptional cases are.
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by repiret 7y ago
A lot of gas stations set their price based on a fixed markup from their costs, and only update their prices when they get a new delivery. High volatility and low sales volume can lead to outdated prices that way.
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by repiret 7y ago
When I was young and single, I programmed in my free time. Now I have a wife and three kids and a house and I like woodworking and flying and fixing up old buildings. I sell all of my programming output to my employer, who doesn't hap
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by repiret 7y ago
While I think that ought to be a requirement for getting a CS degree, not all universities do. Moreover, being able to code isn't a boolean - while some people are indeed totally incompetent, among the competent people, some are bette
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by repiret 7y ago
My wife is also immunocompromised, and we live in the middle of nowhere, where instacart and uber eats and all the other gig economy services don't operate. We were able to hire our housekeeper to do grocery shopping for us. Housekeepe
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by repiret 7y ago
I don’t know what it is, but it seems commercial landlords would rather have an empty property than accept market rent in a down market. I saw a lot of that in the last recession. I suspect that the managers of REITs and partnerships that o
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by repiret 7y ago
I own several rental properties, and I’ve already told my property managers that I’m receptive to rent reductions - less rent still beats an empty property. Any landlord who expects to get through this without a reduction in income is just
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by repiret 7y ago
Right. I'm curious what the recent advance is. "Pop a balloon to get the impulse response and use that to build a linear filter" was well known when I was doing signal processing work in the very early 2000's.
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by repiret 7y ago
But the graph is also looking three days into the future, presumably based on fitting some model to the historical data. The output of any worthwhile model is a probability distribution over possible future infection and death counts. As a
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by repiret 7y ago
Don’t conflate rockets and airplanes. Most of the energy an airplane uses is to overcome parasitic drag – to overcome the air resistance caused by moving forward through the air mass. While some of the energy is used to keep the plane in th
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by repiret 7y ago
And cited sources for their data. And had error bars on the prediction. And gave you access to historical predictions.
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by repiret 7y ago
From Wikipedia [1] > Crypto-Judaism is the secret adherence to Judaism while publicly professing to be of another faith; practitioners are referred to as "crypto-Jews" (origin from Greek kryptos – κρυπτός, 'hidden').
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by repiret 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_80#New_Jersey "I-80 does not enter New York City. [...] I-80's designated end (as per signage and New Jersey Department of Transportation documents) is four miles (6.4
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by repiret 7y ago
That would be quite the feat given that I70 goes to neither of those states. I80 goes SF to NJ, but no single interstate will take you from SF to NYC proper.
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by repiret 7y ago
Typically. Although on a virtualized Arm what the guest views as a physical address is really an intermediate physical address that must be translated by the second stage MMU. So it’s possible that reading the first stage page tables can ca

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