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by sokoloff 2mo ago
This was NOTAM’d. There was no TFR (temporary flight restriction) associated. It was entirely legal to undertake that flight (and could have been done safely, but obviously wasn’t).
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
4. Having kids together. 5. Having mutual friends. 6. Having common interests (playing in sports leagues, charity/volunteer work, active in local politics)
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
It would be safe. The ILS projects a localizer signal (left/right deviation compared to runway alignment) and glideslope signal (up/down deviation versus the intended flight path, usually about 3°). The only thing you need a preci
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
Stall recovery is absolutely required to be instructed and demonstrated in the private pilot checkride. These are demonstrated to a full aerodynamic stall, not merely to stall warning. Spin recovery is no longer required to be instructe
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
(Per other comments, a visual approach is still an IFR operation; they were still IFR, but flying a visual approach.) It's very common to cancel IFR in the air, especially for late night operations to non-towered airports. (At an airpo
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
The satellite GPS signals are incredibly weak. Individual GPS signals typically arrive at the antenna below the receiver’s thermal noise floor and the system relies on processing gain in the receiver to generate a fix.
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
A "visual approach" is an instrument flight rules operation. The flight was still IFR and had requested/been cleared for a visual approach, but had not switched to VFR (which they'd do by cancelling IFR). When they acc
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
Your last paragraph confuses a few different things. The aircraft was completely legal to fly under IFR during the en route phase. There is no requirement for a local altimeter setting for that; center can provide an area altimeter setting
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
The ILS approach being not legally usable as an approach due to a missing local altimeter setting does not make it unusable to back up a visual approach [or VFR arrival]. I would 100% (and have) take center's altimeter setting and fly
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
This is a judgment issue more than a skill issue. GPS NOTAM'd as unreliable on a dark, moonless night? Fly the ILS approach (or fly a visual approach along the track of the ILS approach backing up your visual with the radio signals
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
I'll bet that the NTSB will list GPS jamming as a contributing factor. I agree with you that it's not the primary cause of the accident.
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
The pilot is literally the one who holds most of the blame here. This is a pilot-error accident. They flew a perfectly functioning airplane into rising terrain on a visual approach. The pilot requested, and was cleared for, a visual appro
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
If I ordered a mushroom burger (especially as my preferred “mushroom and Swiss burger”), I’d be surprised if it came without the beef patty (the burger part). It’s not that I can’t understand that the other exists, but my brain is wired to
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
Understanding the dynamics and likely limits of what those “union protections” would be critical to answering your last question. Contract negotiations are back-stopped by strikes. If a union is asking for an extra $50M per year for their m
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
In a world where AI heavily disrupts software, a union striking over economics (to get an extra $50M paid out to union members every year) would immediately notice all the replacement tech workers (who were out of work due to AI disruption)
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
What’s a union going to do if (doing a lot of work there) AI significantly reduces the demand for software engineers or tech workers generally? If employers have the upper hand at the moment, the union contract will be more evenly distribut
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
There’s a surprisingly robust Asian restaurant scene within a few blocks of the train station there. I try to eat there every time I visit Drupa.
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
Why do you think it will be low cost operation rather than highly paid specialized talent (but only very few of them)? If AI becomes a widespread job displacer, I think we’re going to see an amplification of the value of talent. If you thin
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
I think every generation would self-report that they had it pretty tough. I remember my (Boomer) school teacher parents sitting at the kitchen table with an LED calculator adding up their bills and making sure they could make ends meet or g
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
> If your home 10x’s in value so does your property tax If the entire city goes up 10x (without corresponding general inflation), you’ll likely find the tax rate goes down because most places tax property to fund government and few place
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
I’ve personally experienced devs who could not sum a collection of ints, “in any language of your choice”. I’m not talking about devs who got hung up on integer overflow issues (or even off-by-one errors), but rather “just couldn’t get star
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
What factor(s) would cause you to go to a non-FAANG, having experienced both? Pay means a lot; pay doesn’t mean everything.
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
> A $1,500 stipend to replace your company laptop. It seems like a wild choice to give a specific figure as additional cash rather than just letting them keep their (wiped) laptop. That additional cash will be taxed (as should a laptop t
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
Table 1 in your link does not support 1 in a million for general anesthesia procedures, unless I’m badly misreading it. Nor does the discussion section nor overall summary figure, which is 3 in a million for all forms of anesthesia (local,
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
Parents put their children at lethal risk (albeit small) for non-lethal conditions all the time. Wisdom teeth removal under general anesthesia is around 1 in 100,000. It doesn’t sound so crazy if the risks were presented as “only 10x as ris
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
There are a lot of well-functioning organizations for which that’s exactly what’s needed. Leaders should be paid for outcomes not activities .
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
I also would want anything that I saved into AGENTS.md to be incorporated right after I saved it. I might accept if my newly saved information was overlooked, but it's hard for me to fathom how I'd demand "I want to save this
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
Yes. NAND cells can only be erased and rewritten a finite number of times.
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
"Oshkosh", aka "EAA Airventure" https://www.eaa.org/airventure
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by sokoloff 3mo ago
I’m fairly surprised you are not seeing them. As a test, I checked for US servicemember deaths in the Middle East in July 2026 and checked against my own recall from casual news consumption. I knew of the helicopter crash (1) and missile a

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