bronco21016

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by bronco21016 6d ago
I'm pretty skeptical as well. As soon as I saw his interview on NBC News last night I texted a friend that this guy is about to get a $500 million seed round for an AI alignment startup. The entire interview he's just grinning lik
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by bronco21016 13d ago
I think it depends on what you do for work. I'm not going to ask an agent to book my flight for my vacation to French Polynesia. I want to pick my seat and potentially find a deal making an upgrade worth it, choose an airline, etc. But
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by bronco21016 15d ago
Yes, modern flight management computers in commercial airliners do exactly this. I can't speak to smaller aircraft. Essentially a position is calculated from VOR/DME, GPS, and INS. When there is disagreement it is flagged and proc
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by bronco21016 16d ago
Whats really sad for aviation is there was already an extensive network of ground based navaids. As GPS has proliferated, they've slowly been decommissioned as they age out to save on cost. I'm specifically referring to VORs which
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by bronco21016 29d ago
Isn't it a bit of a spectrum of ways to tackle this depending on tons of other factors? For example, baking cookies with my 3 year old means having them help with a couple steps of mixing before interest is lost until the cookies are d
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by bronco21016 1mo ago
HBM modules that we can just attach to our GPU? Kinda like CPU RAM.
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by bronco21016 2mo ago
The first time an airline pilot flies a new aircraft type in the real world they fly it with a plane full of passengers. All the training up to that point is done in a simulator. Now that first flight is with an experienced training captain
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by bronco21016 2mo ago
Fun take on the ATC type genre but for some reason ATC style games have never really hooked me. I'd love to see a modern take on Airport Tycoon where you layout runways and terminals etc. I also fondly remember an airline management si
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by bronco21016 2mo ago
As others have pointed out, the date has long been mid/early 2030s. You may be remembering that it’s been a hotly debated issue since the 80s. I distinctly remember it being a massive election issue in 2000 between Gore and Bush (the f
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by bronco21016 2mo ago
It doesn’t even have to be raiding of accounts. They can modify rules of RMD to drive tax revenue or even entirely change the rules of 401k withdrawals such that if your balance is over a certain amount you pay an extra tax. I don’t think i
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by bronco21016 2mo ago
Love this model. I’m GPU poor and have had FOMO that I haven’t played with local models at all. About a month ago I setup Kokoro on my GTX1650 to do TTS for an article reader. A simple WebUI lets me paste a URL or a chunk of copy pasted tex
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by bronco21016 3mo ago
Really cool! I recently did something similar. I drop links to articles in a WebUI Claude built and it uses Haiku to clean it up a bit to a transcript then Kokoro TTS locally to make audio. I consume the same way. RSS in Apple Podcasts. Suc
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by bronco21016 3mo ago
100%. It’s accessible to only the truly stubborn among us who have no other option available to make things just work.
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by bronco21016 3mo ago
Really cool! I was reading the blog post about bot detection with browsers. The first layer being the IP address of the browser. One rather unique scenario I've been trying to work out for a scraper is eliminating network latency. My u
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by bronco21016 4mo ago
I see a ton of this inherently lazy behavior. A big part of my job is supporting a ticket system for employees to ask questions about a pretty complex employment contract. The number of questions that come in where it's so clear the su
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by bronco21016 4mo ago
First, I operate turbine engines so I’m around them a lot. I also used to live near a Williams Intl plant where cruise missile turbines were tested. I hear you. Barely. You see my hearing is poor from the turbine engines. They’re loud and I
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by bronco21016 4mo ago
Seems to be working well for China. They do all the “undesirables” that we can’t possibly have in our country. Primarily to push products we can’t live without. They are getting wealthy off absorbing those externalities that come from produ
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by bronco21016 4mo ago
I live in an area where one of these has caused state level political drama in Michigan. Many of my family members love to weigh in when we gather and I’m struggling to understand the animosity. The arguments I frequently hear are: 1) It wi
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by bronco21016 4mo ago
Since you're trying to product-ize and might want to expand the market a bit... aviation might be a nice market. There's a whole culture of people who build light general aviation aircraft under the "experimental" class
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by bronco21016 5mo ago
Yes and no. Court cases certainly will disclose what capabilities various parties have come up with when it comes to security. However, there are documented cases where the government chooses to abandon prosecution for the sole purpose of p
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by bronco21016 5mo ago
“You’re absolutely right! Would you like me to add the missing pages?”
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by bronco21016 6mo ago
Kroger does have an open API with some limitations that get you pretty far. Someone built a python wrapper and MCP for it awhile back. [1] The workflow in our house is basically to use Siri to add items to an iOS Reminders list as the week
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by bronco21016 6mo ago
I’d love to read about their Opsec failures. It seems like an offline conversation or Signal chat with disappearing messages could’ve saved these two. Any links to details on the case?
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by bronco21016 6mo ago
Nah they’ll ruin it. I’d rather Flighty charge a couple hundred bucks and maintain a comfortable business than let my employer wreck a good thing.
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by bronco21016 6mo ago
As airline crew, I stay in the lounge (employee lounge, not bar lounge) when I know I'm not going anywhere on time. Flighty gets heavy use from US airline employees. We're frequently in the airport with a brief break before flying
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by bronco21016 6mo ago
I agree. The reason I love Flighty vs FlightAware or Flightradar24 is because the app is solely focused on my flights. The real-time tactical information about delays and inbound aircraft is so good that it is very heavily used by airline e
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by bronco21016 6mo ago
I’d love a source indicating it’s permissible to override the RWSL for emergency vehicles. In all training materials I’ve seen for pilots, it’s clear that an ATC clearance does NOT permit overriding the RWSL indication precisely for this sc
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by bronco21016 6mo ago
Automation emboldens policy makers to reduce human count because of the perceived increase in safety. This results in less eyes and brains monitoring for situations of automation failure or abnormalities. The corner stone of aviation safety
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by bronco21016 6mo ago
From the FAA’s site [1] on RWSL: > If an Air Traffic Control clearance is in conflict with the Runway Entrance Lights, do not cross over the red lights. Contact Air Traffic Control and advise that you are stopped due to red lights. (ex.:
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by bronco21016 6mo ago
> The runway should be essentially 'locked' when in use, if they don't want screens in every ground vehicle that may cross a runway, at least display it at runway entrances. It does, the Runway Status Lights System uses ra

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