VBprogrammer

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by VBprogrammer 5d ago
> If you have never actually been behind the controls of an aircraft, please just stop trying to confidently assert things about this subject. That's a lot of assumptions.
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by VBprogrammer 5d ago
Our 2nd year CS maths course the answer sheets were all uploaded to the server with sequential numbers so it was trivial to grab them all.
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by VBprogrammer 5d ago
The power dynamic in training is obviously very different during training where the instructor is pilot in command. Making the assumption the PM could have taken control cleanly if the power dynamic was so poor that they weren't able t
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by VBprogrammer 5d ago
There are a lot of things which are drilled and trained which have gone wrong in this incident.
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by VBprogrammer 6d ago
Having pilots fighting over the controls is not a situation anyone wants. The pilot monitoring saying go around should have caused an immediate reaction, the human factors behind why it didn't will probably feature prominently in the
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by VBprogrammer 8d ago
This is a completely pointless debate, because even if it's true the people who currently be benefit from copyright have far more money, power and influence than any rational argument against it.
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by VBprogrammer 8d ago
Cloudflare interstitial pages are becoming the new cookie / GDPR pop-up for me. Remember when the internet used to be good?
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by VBprogrammer 11d ago
I remember back in the days a Car Insurance website which only allowed you to use it during working hours. Never understood the mechanism, surely they weren't getting quotes live from actuaries or anything.
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by VBprogrammer 12d ago
In my experience I've seen plenty of failures caused by user behaviour in these type of cases. Biggest competitor goes down and all of a sudden you have a lot more traffic...
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by VBprogrammer 13d ago
On holiday in the Florida we walked to the gated entrance to the community to ask whether delivery drivers got access or we needed to pick it up at the gate. The way they looked at us, you would think we had two heads for arriving on foot.
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by VBprogrammer 13d ago
You should check out a Japanese show called "Old Enough!". I have a 7 year old and a 4 year old. The 7 year old started back at school after the summer holidays and some of her friends had to be taken into class early, showed sign
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by VBprogrammer 15d ago
> In my experience hydraulic disc brakes require less maintenance than rim brakes. Cable operated disc brakes seem to be a sweet spot IMHO.
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by VBprogrammer 17d ago
> Oh, noe, I feel so sorry for him. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy! In reality he now has the most popular show on Amazon. Even his brewer is probably a bigger contributor to his income than the "farming" side of hi
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by VBprogrammer 17d ago
I'm not sure if Clarkson's farm has much of a following outside of the UK. Last year they had several crops fail due to the drought over summer and honestly this year was far worse. I believe he may not have even bothered planting
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by VBprogrammer 21d ago
I don't think I do the second brain thing well but keeping some detailed notes (using a daily note at a scratch pad for one off queries, small scripts etc) and occasionally branching them off into dedicated markdown files like "Da
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by VBprogrammer 24d ago
Aviation is a relatively small amount of global carbon dioxide emissions (2.5% or so). However, there is some evidence that their emissions are much worse than they seem on paper due to NOx and water vapour emissions high in the troposphere
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by VBprogrammer 26d ago
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" - Benjamin Franklin
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by VBprogrammer 28d ago
Alas, they are not so keen on long walks!
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by VBprogrammer 28d ago
As much as I sometimes wonder what life would have been like as DINKs, the feeling of my 7 year old girl sneaking up behind me to give me a cuddle outweighs all of the fast cars and long walks on the beach I personally could ever have.
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by VBprogrammer 29d ago
The thing with government is the good ones always disappoint you and the bad ones never fail to be worse than you expect. Regardless of your feelings about the present administration you need to make sure the framework is there to protect a
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by VBprogrammer 29d ago
This is why I get bad vibes any time I hit a cloudflare interstitial page. If you ever piss them off it would be trivial to cut you off from most of the internet.
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by VBprogrammer 29d ago
Mass automated data collection and automated analysis are probably the biggest threat to freedom in the present day.
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by VBprogrammer 1mo ago
> Barry Marshall's story is so iconic that I read it every time despite As someone who suffered badly with ulcers in my teens I'm particularly grateful for his work. One course of antibiotics and I never had that problem again.
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by VBprogrammer 1mo ago
The splodge on the ground when one of them fails is generally the downside.
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by VBprogrammer 1mo ago
A nearly 4:1 ratio makes a 25kg drone very interesting from a personal mobility perspective. Something you could fly a few miles with and then easily roll around an office. Sadly scaling in aerodynamics is notoriously non-linear.
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by VBprogrammer 1mo ago
Anyone else assume this was about computer viruses and exploits...
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by VBprogrammer 1mo ago
I know.
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by VBprogrammer 1mo ago
I had the same reaction but then I showed it to my partner. She completely didn't get it, in her words "how can it be thinking of a good answer when it's that quick?" I tried to explain but I fear were probably going to
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by VBprogrammer 1mo ago
This won't work in the UK/Europe. B-RNAV has been a requirement since 11 April 2011 at all ATS controlled routes and levels (previously only above FL95). The only reasonable equipment is a IFR capable panel mounted GPS. Of course
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by VBprogrammer 1mo ago
Of course - though many of them have been decommissioned or are in the process. Though recent developments have probably reduced the enthusiasm for removing them so quickly. However, that doesn't change the fact that the intersection t

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