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by buildsjets 4d ago
When this dumbass Musk venture inevitably fails, I will screenshot this thread and say “I told you so.”
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by buildsjets 4d ago
Holy fuck, is this thing turned on? Hello? Anyone out there?
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by buildsjets 5d ago
In late elementary school, I had an extremely large vocabulary due to the volume of reading that I did on my own free time. However, I was failing vocabulary tests, which were usually a fill-in-the blank worksheet where you were expected t
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by buildsjets 5d ago
Paywalls only exclude plebians. Being able to bypass a paywall is a competency test for the use of the internet.
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by buildsjets 5d ago
It costs money to have a contractor service the lavatory waste tank after every flight. Since the lavatory is not on the Minimum Equipment List, it would cost 30 minutes of paperwork to update the maintenance log and declare it inoperative.
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by buildsjets 6d ago
The Boeing 767 does not have a Flaps 40 setting. The "Forty" callout was an automated annunciation of the radar-altimeter measured altitude above the runway.
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by buildsjets 8d ago
If a Cybercab launches and nobody comments on it, did it really burst into flames?
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by buildsjets 13d ago
It takes at least a full bottle or two to begin robotripping.
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by buildsjets 14d ago
I hate people, but I love gatherings. Ironic, isn't it?
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by buildsjets 14d ago
Yes, I have left restaurants because they only offered a QR code menu, and I plan to continue to do that in the future.
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by buildsjets 14d ago
They're still in business today and manufacture the explosive squibs that are used inside some brands of permanently installed aircraft fire existing systems. But it's really a pretty small, contained explosion. I think they als
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by buildsjets 15d ago
Not only did I have no idea that Bing or Bing Maps still existed, but the very fact that they ever existed at all had slipped from my consciousness.
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by buildsjets 15d ago
Before you can placard something as INOP, you must determine whether the manufacturer and certifying authority have included that part in the Minimum Equipment List or Dispatch Deviation List. Mechanics do both get to determine this at thei
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by buildsjets 16d ago
Now imagine if you were able to see the ultraviolet corona discharge emanating from the wires due to the high voltage, as some animals can. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/12/animals-...
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by buildsjets 16d ago
If you are a general aviation goober like me, flying a 1960's propeller airplane, sure, that is true. However, in a modern commercial aircraft, all position sources including VOR-DMEs, GPS, and IRS are cross-compared by the flight man
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by buildsjets 16d ago
VOR is extremely short range and requires an extraordinary number of transmitters to provide any volume of coverage. Additionally it cannot provide coverage over oceanic areas. We USED TO have a nearly global long-range land based navigat
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by buildsjets 18d ago
Instead of screwing around with a chatbot to have an ai write a humorous incident report, you could have been playing with your child..
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by buildsjets 20d ago
Well, at least we can all enjoy a healthy salad instead.
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by buildsjets 28d ago
Not just wind speed, but all kinds of weather data can be extracted from radiosonde recordings. The data output is called a Skew-T Log-P graph. Some examples of how to interpret them at https://www.weather.gov/source/
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by buildsjets 1mo ago
That's totally untrue. You clearly do not have any experience designing, building, manufacturing, testing, and certifying either cast metal or PBF parts. BTW, PBF is powerbed fusion and it is how you make 3D printed metal parts. FDM
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by buildsjets 1mo ago
WARNING: Reading his post can expose you to photons, which are known to the State of California to cause cancer. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov
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by buildsjets 1mo ago
Clearly this needs to be replicated as GTA minigame.
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by buildsjets 1mo ago
Now I drive my downeaster "Alexa" More and more miles from shore every year Since they told me I can't sell no stripers And there's no luck in swordfishing here I was a bayman like my father was before Can't make a
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by buildsjets 1mo ago
I’m working on it every day during lunch break. Good old hardcopy.
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by buildsjets 1mo ago
B is absolutely not easy to fix, if the government does not offer the bid for public application, and pre-selects the one bidder that they plan to award the contact to, and only invites that one contractor to submit a bid. I think that you
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by buildsjets 1mo ago
You're thinking of Objective Chlamydia, I believe.
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by buildsjets 1mo ago
Naming things is hard, it's best to pick a theme and stick with it. A Columbo family mafioso I grew up near used to be in a never-ending competition with the Sultan of Brunei and the Aga Khan over who owned the worlds fastest megayacht
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by buildsjets 1mo ago
This company really bribed the Trump administration to relax health and safety oversight of their operations. The resulting increase in frequency of contamination by filth (feces, poop, crap, shit, turds, brown water, sewage, reclaimed bio
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by buildsjets 1mo ago
I get it, I have over 60,000 miles commuting on two wheels (Most of them on my 2003 Kawasaki ZR-7s that I have owned since new and just rode to work on Thursday), in all kinds of inclement weather, primarily to avoid parking hassles and tra
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by buildsjets 1mo ago
I use it to spot check the temp of my cast iron pan all the time.

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