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by sokoloff 1y ago
> And yet here we are, three years later, staring at an empty lot. By way of comparison, Project Gemini was conceived in 1961 and Gemini 3 successfully flew in April of 1964. But I'm sure that 8 EV parking spots is a more complex en
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I think “how to write for loop in $LANGUAGE” is something that it’s fair to judge a candidate on if they claim (or the job requires) recent experience in $LANGUAGE.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
It’s frequently possible to disagree while still adding to the discussion. The comments of yours that I see downvoted are falling well short of that mark, particularly the ones where you accuse a decade-plus-old account with a recent commen
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by sokoloff 1y ago
TIL that “developers are poorly paid”.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Companies will rationally stop paying for slot machines that pay out $0.90 for every $1 wagered, but they’ll happily pay for slot machines that pay out $5 for every $1 wagered. Which will be the case is the interesting question.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
The worst typical outcome for pilots who get these violations is taking training, getting signed off to that effect, and a “709 ride” to get their certificate back. They might also face a short suspension. Very few pilots manage to earn a l
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I would expect that people with that mindset would be willing to pay quite a bit more than the standard nightly rate to have that experience.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
You can get an instructor to teach you almost anything sensible to be taught in aviation. If the instruction you’ve had up until now didn’t cover it, call up a flight school and ask to be instructed on simulated engine outs. I can understan
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by sokoloff 1y ago
What part of this do you think is the fault of the “tech industry”? The tech industry certainly has its flaws and things to criticize, but this doesn’t seem part of it, unless I’m missing a connection somehow.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I agree with most of what you say, but airplane piston engines are low RPM by necessity of keeping the prop tips below supersonic. Many common airplanes engines have a max RPM of 2700 and are often cruised at 2300-2400.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Turboprop airplanes will be less efficient than pistons in general (though few pistons can hit 250 knots). A Lancair IV-P is a better comparison aircraft, hitting 335 mph at 75% power, 17.5gph, for a net of 19mpg at considerably over 250 kn
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I think a lot of people think they want a flying car. I posit that flying cars are a pretty terrible idea. Single engine airplanes weigh less than a small car. They are not designed to protect the occupants from side impacts, to brake the
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by sokoloff 1y ago
The FAA aeromedical philosophy is quite risk-averse for all levels requiring a medical (including BasicMed, which requires an initial medical). I don’t expect that to change, but I also wouldn’t have expected MOSAIC to be adopted either. I
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Indeed. My point was these new LSA landing speeds are essentially the same as the landing speeds for light singles flown by private pilots. No one is landing light singles at 80 knots.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> landing at 80 kts vs 55 kts does make a difference Most single-engine aircraft were already restricted to 61 knot stall speed (and I think all MOSAIC-eligible ones were). I’m a big proponent of MOSAIC (as I was of BasicMed), even thoug
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> equipped with real time satellite weather Many people have died from believing that their satellite weather was real-time. It’s 3-15 minutes delayed typically. Go up on a VFR day with widely scattered wet clouds and maybe scattered sho
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Eh. If 1 line of code in 500 has a trailing bit of punctuation scrolled off the side for 1 in 8 coders who have chosen to have both narrow windows and wide tabs, that hardly seems like a deal-breaker, but if it is, enforce common settings&#
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I'm not at all convinced that an 80 character line limit makes sense on modern equipment. On punch cards, teletypes, or VGA CRTs? Absolutely. On SVGA CRTs? Probably. On anything modern? No.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
$1M in one shot leaves you with around $600K after taxes in most states. That’s enough to pay you around $24-30k/yr. Unless you already had several other million saved already, I bet you’d be working again.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
What good does that do, though? Make it harder to tell the intrinsically motivated students from the “I’m just here to get a job when I graduate”? It seems like it harms the former. Is that what we need from universities? Is that helping em
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I've got a bunch of Cisco switches with RJ45 connectors for the serial console ports. Here's the cable they use: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1263972-REG/comprehen...
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> I want new and genuine insights that only another human can create. I’m not sure that’s true in an iron-clad, first-principles way. I think that many of the insights created by humans are combinations/integrations of existing conc
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> Even curl has a "bulletproof" version for enterprises which you can't download without paying. What is the curl bulletproof version? I only see the free open-source license version: https://curl.se/docs&#
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I’d wager that poorly maintained brakes fail and lead to a collision many hundreds of times per year. I think “unmodified and properly maintained”, neither firing mechanisms nor brakes should fail (and I think that’s what’s in question here
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Is someone going to regularly take a trip that requires them to take 4 buses? I largely avoid trips that would require even a single bus transfer (admittedly, the Boston bus system is pretty terrible, meaning bus transfers are daunting when
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> a minute's wait Is your subway system running trains every 1-2 minutes (30-60 trains per hour)? Mine has trains at 5-8 minute spacing at peak times and 8-12 minutes off-peak.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> There seems to be significant opportunity to zig as others zag. Imagine the Intel letter saying "we are going to take advantage of the current hiring environment to scoop up talent, and push forward on initiatives." I've
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by sokoloff 1y ago
A 6 liter 4-cylinder would have the same volume in a single cylinder as a 1.5L engine. A V8 of that size would have half the volume in a single cylinder, not almost the same volume.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Our family owned a Mercedes 240D (71 peak horsepower at sea level) for many years. That car's performance was lackluster on a good day and trying to merge onto the Pennsylvania Turnpike (with very short acceleration lanes) was IMO quit
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> if they are demarcated by the creator - and most videos with in-video ads have that I'm almost positive that SmartTube is using the SponsorBlock database, which does not depend on creator-submitted demarcation, but rather on user-

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