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by BJBBB 2y ago
I have no doubt that any amount of alcohol within 24h of doing a hop in the soup is playing with fire. But absolute abstention? I dunno. As for flying in IMC, modern avionics makes that stuff much easier. Getting an instrument rating has be
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by BJBBB 3y ago
Unless the ATIS specifically stated that you should expect a visual approach, the controller violated FARs and is part of a criminal conspiracy. Also, phrases and specific words that controllers are allowed and required to use are well docu
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by BJBBB 3y ago
Not quite anecdotal, but a very narrow range of subjects. Sample of 19, all male, between 19 and 26, medium age 21. Approximately half were smokers. All had scored a class I or II PFT prior to deployment, had passed a physical, and were in
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by BJBBB 3y ago
This is an edge case. Marines in particular, and the military members in general, will form a special bond that can seldom be duplicated elsewhere. And that has been my experience. I was among a group of six that met at the schoolhouse afte
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by BJBBB 3y ago
I am not a great father. I am an uncle that 'helped' my wife raise a niece and nephew. Many consider my guardianship to have been, at best, poorly implemented. I simply went along with whatever they had wanted to do. My wife was s
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by BJBBB 3y ago
0. I am mostly a hardware guy. Process automation, ATE, manufacturing, and product and process compliance. Banging out code ranges from 10% to 50% of each job. 1. My experience and skill set is not that common. Most EEs and MEs have eschewe
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Ask HN: Retired engineers, are you being asked to return to work?
84 points by BJBBB 3y ago|16 comments
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by BJBBB 5y ago
Regardless of Amazon's true long-term intent, The legalization of cannabis is not immune to the Law of Unintended Effects. We are having serious problems in San Diego and Riverside counties in Southern California with non-permitted gro
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by BJBBB 5y ago
'Constructive Dismissal'. Many U.S. states have labor law that cover this. And any company that I have seen do anything similar to this has lost money to both the state and the claimant. Typically, at least for at-will states, the
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by BJBBB 5y ago
Have been in the lab for last 14 hours (thinking that this will be my last contract before retirement) just watching stuff to be certain that all is ready to go for the client's first production shift, so some time to think about this.
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by BJBBB 5y ago
My siblings are not morbidly obese, but they have been overweight most of their adult lives. The people they hang out with personally and professionally are also overweight and many have the typical health problems that accompany the overwe
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by BJBBB 5y ago
Is there some reason this person would have a special insight into the Afghan situation? Did he spend time over there in the military or state department? Has he worked as a staffer in the Congress? And how did he get accepted into the UC s
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by BJBBB 5y ago
I oft wonder about my unique high school education of the early 1970s - a South Texas public school with a mix of working and professional class families. High percentage of hispanic and black, very few asians. History teachers that did not
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by BJBBB 5y ago
HN is one of my most beloved sites. It also infuriates me; and this is not a bad thing. I do not mind the down-vote if the reason is apolitical and explained. [aside note: Gackle and Bell are interesting - they are worth 15 or 20 min lookin
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by BJBBB 5y ago
Please ycombinator, I most humbly beseech you, to never ever play UX du jour games. My daily dose of HN may well be my last link to something resembling the product of a sane mind. Surely you do not want to send a helpless old man into to t
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by BJBBB 5y ago
So many ways to learn. The the specific learning 'work-flow' varies for the task and the person in training. And note that Learning is Training, so regardless of the intellectual content of the learning program, there is some lev
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by BJBBB 5y ago
I will not apologize for being an American patriot, and for wanting a decrease of western malfeasance and marginal competence. But I do think that China gets it right much more often than not. Dan Wang's quoted article, and his other w
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by BJBBB 5y ago
Should Shatner's opinion matter? I dunno, but I tend to listen to people that have live long healthy productive lives and that have seen some stuff that I have yet to experience. Being in my 60s, I have seen the 'before' and
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by BJBBB 5y ago
"The real reason everything is happening is there’s too many people.." Bingo. I believe that excessive human population is the root cause of many global problems. But what defines a "Star Trek Future" in the context of t
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by BJBBB 5y ago
Walmart's self-serve system(s) appear to be the most reliable of the stores that we shop. B/C scanners for big stuff are wireless, keypads and touchscreens are functional and responsive, the scales read produce very fast and are m
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by BJBBB 5y ago
'Nuance' is not usable as data for making decisions. 'Nuance' tends to be used in lieu of empirical data.
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by BJBBB 5y ago
Which is why I included it first and did not bury it and did not ignore it on my search. But I will give you brownie and taco points for actually reading the references I have read many scientific, peer-reviewed papers on this subject. Ther
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by BJBBB 5y ago
Anecdotal, but they are data points. 1. Co-worker, apparently healthy cauc make age 43, received Pfizer vaccine, contracted covid approx 33 days after 2d dose. Was in hospital for 3 weeks and has had various problems for several months. 2.
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by BJBBB 5y ago
"We don't understand how to prevent obesity." Please reference below: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25196414/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3606061/ http
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by BJBBB 5y ago
Do not know how to answer this question. We raised my brother-in-law's two kids when he died. There were known quantities because we have been part of their lives since the days that they were born, and until he died, they spent as man
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by BJBBB 5y ago
Certainly not the most weird thing ever done ('weird' was my normal during my early mil years), but about the best experience had as a young person. Flew a Piper Colt (PA22-108) from New River MCAS, NC to Meadowlark airport in Hun
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by BJBBB 5y ago
Why do you say that the U.S. would not "seriously try to break such a blockade"? Logistics issues? Political issues? Economic issues?
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by BJBBB 5y ago
Once again, I dunno. My observation is that non-software industries are leery of git. My last four clients have all used svn or hg. So am guessing that it depends on the need for centralized control and who you have available to run these s
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by BJBBB 5y ago
Perhaps the 'wealth scale' should be more logarithmic. I know one person whose net worth is probably over 500 million USD. He lives next door, has two small 'cross-over' SUVs that are both over two years old, and a 10 ye
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by BJBBB 5y ago
The National Wildlife Federation says that a native plant "...has occurred naturally in a particular region, ecosystem, or habitat without human introduction." Given that, the article may have problems because some of that stuff i

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