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by ak217 15d ago
If you're interested in commercial aircraft and their maintenance process, check out Stig Shift on YouTube. He's another AA mechanic based in LAX, and makes interesting videos with some technical deep dives interspersed with plane
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by ak217 20d ago
Nooo the penguin is the best part of suica!
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by ak217 2mo ago
Love to see this, now if only they could revert the whole shimmering oil slick disaster that is "glass" on iOS (unlike macOS, even if I "reduce transparency", the oil slick effect still appears in many places, in additio
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by ak217 2mo ago
Logitech all the way. Logitech is a truly innovative company. They actually care deeply about ergonomics. They also introduced the first mass market application of programmable magnets (in the MX Master mouse scroll wheel) - that's inc
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by ak217 2mo ago
I agree (with the obvious qualification that there are excellent nurses out there who do a great job and don't let this stuff get in the way of helping their patients, some Kaiser nurses included). But I also see a marked difference in
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by ak217 2mo ago
Yeah, this whole discussion cracks me up. I have a number of direct experiences with Kaiser nurses. They repeatedly got into arguments with doctors in front of me, tried to countermand doctors' instructions, ignored their patients, and
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by ak217 2mo ago
Well then their protocols suck. I have many anecdotal data points about them fumbling in major ways when it matters (missed major pathologies, messed up surgeries, etc.). If you have a choice of hospital networks, research carefully. Kaiser
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by ak217 2mo ago
Both Philips and the similarly sturdy Oral-B. You know they are good because they have a sealed design that uses induction to charge. By contrast the toothbrush mentioned by the OP won't last long with that flimsy door and the USB port
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by ak217 2mo ago
I use a bunch of Lenovo Thunderbolt docks, with both Macbooks and Thinkpads. The older models go for as little as $20 used nowadays. I had to update the firmware on the really old ones, but after that they work flawlessly and let me connect
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by ak217 2mo ago
No and they shouldn’t be. Leap seconds were never a great idea and they become an increasingly worse idea with every passing year. They are a great example of a standards making decision made without sufficient negative feedback from its im
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by ak217 2mo ago
Robert Patrick in T2 locations: https://youtu.be/g_weC1AnDYU?is=BCovDJI83JzV2Zlj
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by ak217 2mo ago
There are lots of great aviation museums in the USA, highly recommend visiting them. Many allow various degrees of access inside the aircraft, even more so if you chat up the museum staff. I don't imagine the boneyards will.
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by ak217 3mo ago
The primary purpose of code review is whatever your organization decides it wants it to be. The post makes a good enough point but undermines it with this dogma.
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by ak217 3mo ago
Good surgeons are a bit like major airline pilots. They have more pricing power than you think.
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by ak217 3mo ago
Highly recommend everyone watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM Briefly, the most important reason an EV is better because it unlocks energy portability . You gain the flexibility to source your ener
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by ak217 3mo ago
I don't think CHSRA is a well-run program.
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by ak217 3mo ago
For many years, I observed the San Francisco Caltrain DTX (Downtown Extension, recently rebranded "The Portal"). This is the most important transit missing link in Northern California that is expected to connect two of the highest
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by ak217 3mo ago
You don't know much about Seth do you? That's not "AI", it's called a script.
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by ak217 3mo ago
It's nice to have the luxury of deciding which of the horrible choices Ukrainians face are war crimes. But by that measure, a Grad MLRS is just as much of a war crime. Everything in the grid square it obliterates will also be dead. (Fo
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by ak217 3mo ago
Just want to mention how much I appreciate this discussion and the opportunity to learn from it. This is what I come to HN for (nowadays there are also really interesting YouTubers who do informative teardowns of power electronics and other
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by ak217 3mo ago
So relieved to see this!
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by ak217 3mo ago
The 777 and 787 programs have never seen a passenger fatality resulting from an engineering defect. That is a monumental achievement in light of the passenger miles served. Boeing has its problems, but that record speaks for itself
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by ak217 4mo ago
I did something similar. I like to keep my phone limited (the only real useful/joyful things on it for me are family pictures, music and maps). So I used an iphone SE until it fell apart, now I use an iphone mini that doesn't have
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by ak217 4mo ago
Yes. The payments landscape has shifted pretty dramatically in Japan over just the past 3 years. It used to be that you had to worry about getting cash, IC cards, refilling said IC cards, going to an actual bank with your passport, etc. Now
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by ak217 4mo ago
I had a mixed experience with it. I think it has enormous potential but it needs to be more deeply integrated with their system (while staying read only by default, as you said).
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by ak217 4mo ago
What are Growlers doing performing aerobatic maneuvers at air shows? They have tens of millions in specialized extra equipment on board. Seems like a poor use of taxpayer money. Send regular F-18s, not the rare expensive ones that look the
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by ak217 4mo ago
My furnace is protected by an old school fast-acting fuse. One day it blew and at first I thought it was an anachronism from the house's original wiring but then realized it's intentional - the standard breaker upstream of it is n
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by ak217 4mo ago
It was one of multiple tools that were used to reinforce each other. The alphabet, of all things, obviously plays a huge role in cultural indoctrination and assimilation. You're being strangely defensive about this.
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by ak217 4mo ago
Tangentially related, one of the most underappreciated projects for print media and PDF generation is paged.js. It goes down the rabbit hole of paged media and the surprising complexity of it (have you ever thought about what it takes to re
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by ak217 5mo ago
> Is a purely wind/solar + battery grid viable? Yes. (I don't disagree that a diverse mix is good, and I'm all for nuclear, I'm just saying the old "it's intermittent and can't grid form" boogeyman

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