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by sio8ohPi 3y ago
I'm using a Pico 4 with Il-2, no assists. Dials are 100% a non-issue (headset resolution has been good enough to read them easily for years). Spotting and recognition are fine.
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by sio8ohPi 3y ago
There are various photos online that claim to show it in the field in Algeria during their war of independence. Given that it was used by French paras who were deployed there during that time, I have no particular reason to doubt those capt
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by sio8ohPi 3y ago
The scooter is just a light, air-droppable vehicle for schlepping the gun around the battlefield to a location where it can be set up and ideally dug in. It's no different than moving a light artillery-piece with a jeep, a truck, a tra
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by sio8ohPi 3y ago
As a counterpoint: https://xkcd.com/795/
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by sio8ohPi 3y ago
I've usually seen both presented at the merge, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_fighter_maneuvers#/media...
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by sio8ohPi 3y ago
> The main tactic was to draw the bandit into a ‘single-circle’ fight, meaning that one aircraft was chasing the other around the circle. I'm curious about the use of 'single-circle' here. The way it's described makes
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by sio8ohPi 3y ago
Obviously Wordle is uninteresting if you're only allowed one guess. This game reminds me very much of chronophoto ( https://www.chronophoto.app/game.html ), which prompts with photos from different years, and so I was ex
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by sio8ohPi 4y ago
Alongside what looks like a P-51 and a pair of DH Goblin(?) jet engines!
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by sio8ohPi 4y ago
> There's lots of people in similar situations, and I'm sure a few of them finally broke out of it. I went through a very similar death spiral as a grad student. Frustration leads to dread leads to slower progress leads to mor
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by sio8ohPi 4y ago
pwgen
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by sio8ohPi 4y ago
Why drop into the Lunar gravity well at all then? LEO <-> Demos is less delta-V than LEO <-> Luna, and doesn't require low-ISP chemical rockets except for the initial boost.
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by sio8ohPi 4y ago
I believe you're missing a factor of 1/(4 pi ** 2), which gives a 446m radius for 0.5g @ 1RPM.
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All Tomorrows(2006)(sivatherium.narod.ru)
1 points by sio8ohPi 4y ago|0 comments
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by sio8ohPi 4y ago
Human civilization is only 5000 years old; Homo Sapiens is 300,000 years old. We have 5,000,000,000 years to plan for this eventuality.
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by sio8ohPi 4y ago
Earth remains more habitable than Mars even following staggeringly large asteroid impacts. As evidence, note that 25% of species on earth survived Chicxulub; those species would not have survived transportation to Mars. And humans are wel
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by sio8ohPi 4y ago
Really interesting analysis. I was about to post it too, but tptacek beat me to it. Previous discussion of this case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34121873
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The game that ruined Eurogames(2009)(boardgamegeek.com)
1 points by sio8ohPi 4y ago|0 comments
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by sio8ohPi 4y ago
(Effectively) reducing comp while also telling employees to be hardcore and work longer hours seems counterproductive.
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by sio8ohPi 4y ago
My experience working in such places has been that most people bring better food. Soup, pasta, rice and beans, etc. I'm sure some people bring sandwiches and eat at their desk, but most people prefer hot food. Food prep at home is chea
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by sio8ohPi 4y ago
That's wild. It's untaxed comp that minimizes the time employees need to spend thinking about food during the day. He's mandating employees come back to the office for long hours, but now they need to (at least) order and rec
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by sio8ohPi 4y ago
Look at the 12th photo in the gallery, which shows the cockpit from the right-hand door. No armored windscreen. There's no particular reason for wikipedia to mention it because it was a very common feature in this era. It would be like
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by sio8ohPi 4y ago
Bulletproof windshields were very common during this period, although 43-11719 doesn't appear to have been fitted with one, likely because the F variant never advanced beyond the prototype stage. https://warbirdsnews.com&#x2
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by sio8ohPi 4y ago
The P-63 has the engine behind the pilot.
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by sio8ohPi 4y ago
Don't blame Google yet. This is Forbes fabricating a story for clicks, and the Independent parroting it uncritically. It's possible (and IMO likely) that Google will undergo layoffs (but you don't need to be Nostradamus to pr
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by sio8ohPi 4y ago
Sometimes Command+Click will open in a new tab when Middle Click doesn't work, and sometimes Middle Click will open in a new tab when Command+Click won't work. If you're using Gmail, you get both types of behavior on the same
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by sio8ohPi 4y ago
I think parent commenter is talking about something like TrackIR, that uses a scaling factor to turn small head movements into large in-sim movements. It has been around since 2001 and has some advantages over VR for seated applications, pa
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by sio8ohPi 4y ago
The relevant Yes Minister: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o861Ka9TtT4 "Will you press the button if they invade West Berlin?"
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by sio8ohPi 4y ago
Sometimes people tuck the grab-loop inside their spray skirt by mistake, which is why it's worth practicing one of the back-up techniques. It's also possible for an improperly burped dry-suit to trap someone in a boat (I know of a
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by sio8ohPi 4y ago
In a river, they're called strainers. If someone is caught against one, water pressure often makes it impossible to extricate themselves without assistance, and if their head is underwater when they become trapped, rescue may not come
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by sio8ohPi 4y ago
10 seconds isn't long at all, and it doesn't look like he was stuck (probably just trying to roll before committing to the wet exit). He walks away under his own power in the uncut version. I've seen footage of far, far close

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