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by snt 5y ago
Animation of the collapse and causative factors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKfmEBcxs8A
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by snt 5y ago
Australian plugs are the best I've used for the following reasons (amongst others, mostly mentioned in TFA): two and three-pin (earthed) use the same socket; irreversible (even the 2-pin plug is polarized); the flat pins allow a larger
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by snt 6y ago
https://picojump.com/ It's a tool to install (in one line) and manage reverse SSH tunnels for access to my geographically dispersed, outdoor Raspberry Pis (that are contributing to various aeroplane position reporting
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by snt 6y ago
I've actually found the output faster to parse if it's all in consistent units (megabytes [-m]). Also find adding a grand total [-c] and staying on one filesystem [-x] useful. I.e. in ~/.bashrc: alias dua="du -cmx -
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by snt 6y ago
Browser: Will you allow www.wbaltv.com to access your location? (I presume they're also recording my movements)
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by snt 7y ago
Thanks. I did not know about Amazon GameLift. I guess I just used the word "fleet" to mean "a collection of similar things under unified control". ( Unified control being the aim of the project.) In this case, as bu
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by snt 7y ago
I run https://picojump.com which I started this year. It evolved to scratch my own itch: simplifying the access, management, and monitoring of a fleet of distributed Raspberry Pis (running Raspbian, on private networks) without
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by snt 8y ago
The "projected area" theory is a common misconception of how dihedral works (that I also subscribed to for many years). All things being equal, the port and starboard wings create the the same amount of roll torque, no matter whic
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by snt 9y ago
While doing circuit training, a student pilot can do 5 training circuits of 6 mins each using 30 minutes of battery. They'll probably be so overwhelmed and fatigued afterwards (well, I was anyway) that their day's training is ove
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by snt 9y ago
There certainly are some niche use cases for less efficient methane: "Therefore, when we looked at the overall system optimization, it was clear that methane was the clear winner. " Elon Musk's 'Making Humans a Multi-Pla
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by snt 10y ago
+1
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by snt 10y ago
-FLAVOR: and Ubuntu Server +1