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by sidlls 3y ago
Nope. If someone doesn’t reciprocate that’s an indication of their level of interest. This is true for friendships and romance. If the other party is always a passive recipient of attention, they aren’t interested in the relationship. It’s
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by sidlls 3y ago
I'd agree with that assessment and go further. Their ability to manage basic self-care is impaired. I hesitate to use my generation (Gen X) as an example, because I think we were on an extreme of borderline neglect, but there's so
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by sidlls 3y ago
Yes and no. Being a child of the late 70s and early 80s I "predate" most of modern social media. We weren't connected the same way Gen Z and Alpha have been. My generation knows what it's like to not live in a social med
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by sidlls 3y ago
It isn't "real" communism. It's a semi-socialist dictatorship, just like the USSR was. It just has more elements of capitalism.
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by sidlls 3y ago
Streaming has become the new cable: a bunch of piecemeal services with mostly terrible content and a few gems each, with their own pricing plans and ad models. I have no interest in subscribing to all of them or even most of them. There&#x2
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by sidlls 3y ago
This isn't (just) a regulator issue: it's a market issue. There just aren't many new engines produced every year, because there isn't demand for it. Owning an airplane is expensive, even on the lowest GA end. It's a
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by sidlls 3y ago
Cirrus is producing a new single-engine jet aircraft. Looks pretty slick!
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by sidlls 3y ago
The GA engines in the aircraft I've flown (all Cirrus) do "just work". I have had trouble starting one once, but it was already hot and I had to fiddle with the mixture and throttle during and immediately after turnover. I ha
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by sidlls 3y ago
What's amusing to me is the juxtaposition of this old tech in the engines vs. the sophisticated avionics and surface controls in these aircraft. The Cirrus aircraft I fly have advanced garmin avionics, including terrain maps, airspace
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by sidlls 3y ago
There is also a demand issue aside from change-hating curmudgeons. There simply isn't a large enough market for GA planes for companies to justify the cost of research and development, and even though planes aren't cheap GA plane
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by sidlls 3y ago
I don't know much about Blender, but the other two, at least, have had substantial contributions by paid engineers (at big, well-known corporations), and likely input from non-engineers (e.g. product staff). They're exceptions
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by sidlls 3y ago
That's a great point, too. Software applications are more than the code in them. All those other folks are required to make an application good . I think the "whatever reason" for these people is the same as for the engineer
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by sidlls 3y ago
FOSS offerings are almost always worse than their commercial competitors because of one obvious thing: people (that includes software engineers) need to eat and have shelter, and for 99.9% of us that means working for a living. Companies pa
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by sidlls 3y ago
The assumes a distinction between religion and law. Rituals don’t necessarily require consent.
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by sidlls 3y ago
They key part you're missing is the "without checking prior experience." I taxiid, performed a takeoff, and most of the landing approach on my first training flight, too. The instructor briefed me thoroughly before the flight
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by sidlls 3y ago
Could you kindly list the clubs/schools these instructors are at? I want to add them to an “avoid at all costs” list.
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by sidlls 3y ago
I’m not saying simulators are useless. Neither is “chair flying.” Believing that they prepare someone to pre-flight, start, taxi and takeoff and recover from a spin entered while under a hood from training day one is entirely a differen
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by sidlls 3y ago
It's not dangerous to hire a CFI to give lessons. Arrogance (even if it's unintentional) about one's own competence is dangerous in the pilot seat, even with a CFI in the other seat to monitor and try to take over if/whe
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by sidlls 3y ago
People reading the parent comment should be skeptical. It’s very likely at minimum an embellishment. More likely it’s simply a blatant fiction. Don’t be “that guy”: years of playing desktop flight sim does not prepare a person for even t
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by sidlls 3y ago
I’m skeptical. To the point where I’ll happily call BS. Taxiing and flying a real plane is substantially different from flying MS flight sim. The physical responses of the plane to control inputs, thrust, and external forces can only be app
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by sidlls 3y ago
I’ve worked at companies who have tried to enter this and other software markets in China. It’s an absolute nightmare. Maybe this indicates a softening of the dictatorship’s stance on this particular industry segment. But I doubt it.
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China to "earnestly study" concerns over draft video game regulations(reuters.com)
4 points by sidlls 3y ago|1 comments
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by sidlls 3y ago
I think you missed the joke. Or maybe I did.
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by sidlls 3y ago
Go has a lot of lower level internal implementations of things that unsafe code like this serves as a thin shim for. It’s an almost zero-cost abstraction to use such a builtin. I’m not saying it’s good: it just is what it is. It’s silly: bu
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by sidlls 3y ago
I doubt the headline. The type of person attracted to live in the “inexpensive” cultural wasteland of the Midwest or the regressive, racist south is on average less talented than my peers in urban tech centers like the Bay Area. There mig
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by sidlls 3y ago
"Temporarily embarrassed millionaire"[1] describes this mindset. It is quite prevalent in America's poor. I've seen too many poor Americans exhibit this mentality to not believe it is more or less a truism at this point.
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by sidlls 3y ago
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/housing-permits-san-f... "To build housing in San Francisco, developers must first receive planning approval, known as entitlement, to ensure the city supports the type,
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by sidlls 3y ago
There were non-compete clauses in every employment contract I saw when I started my software career (east coast circa 2005). Companies even tried to weasel them into the independent work contracts they signed with me when I did independent
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by sidlls 3y ago
I wouldn't call it disgusting. It's just typical unsafe go code. The named return parameter in `getRuntimeHasher` is irritating, as all such parameters in go code are. If you're going to return values, do so explicitly in the
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by sidlls 3y ago
Instead if you kept the same 6 engineers around for decades you could probably scale to 100m with those same engineers. I doubt it. Effort does not scale linearly with user scale, in my experience, primarily because features don'

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