chasingthewind

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by chasingthewind 1mo ago
Some interesting takes on Reddit Aviation https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1vlnlq9/faa_hires...
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by chasingthewind 2mo ago
I was a REST purist for a while and the purer I got the more unhappy I was. Hypermedia standards like Siren and HAL just made things miserable no matter how hard I tried to make them work. I think the REST Architectural Pattern is great but
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by chasingthewind 9mo ago
This is basically a fluff piece about Lego with a side helping of climate and sustainability topics. It’s not a particularly good article in my opinion. I think the most fundamental question facing Lego is that clone brick makers are now ab
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by chasingthewind 10mo ago
This is a video by physicist Sabine Hossenfelder for anyone who might want help deciding on whether to succumb to the clickbait title.
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by chasingthewind 11mo ago
My dental practice has only one significant improvement that I’ve noticed in the last 30 years, which is to use a sonic scaler to remove plaque instead of manual scraping with an implement. Somebody in the field would certainly be able to p
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by chasingthewind 11mo ago
I find it curious that the Lockheed Vega is chosen as “Amelia Earhart’s plane” since most people would probably associate her with the Lockheed Electra, the plane she was flying when she disappeared. It’s analogous to saying that Ernest Sh
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by chasingthewind 11mo ago
I am also bad at mini Metro but the thing that makes me crazy is that when the game ends it says something like “your city shut down.” That makes absolutely no sense and the endgame message should’ve been “you were fired!” Such a missed opp
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by chasingthewind 2y ago
I was never a very big fan of Edward Gorey but I always loved his contemporary Ogdred Weary. :)
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by chasingthewind 2y ago
My condolences on your loss. I used QModem in the early 90s downloading shareware and the like. I just looked through my floppy disk holder and found a 3 1/2 inch floppy from 1992 with QModem on it :) Your dad’s contribution to the BBS
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by chasingthewind 2y ago
Meta discussion: The article is brilliant (my fridge hassles me too!) but makes two small word usage “errors” by using the phrase “dawn it’s Freon cap” The first “error” (I’m mostly a descriptivist) is incredibly common: using “it’s” when “
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by chasingthewind 2y ago
I seem to recall that some drawbridges could be counter weighted and have supports that could be removed quickly that would then free the counterweight and close the bridge immediately.
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by chasingthewind 2y ago
If you search YouTube for the channel Extreme Deer Habitat and the video How to Never Get Poison Ivy again the presenter asserts that hard scrubbing with a cloth will remove the urushiol oil after contact and that it will prevent a rash.
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by chasingthewind 2y ago
I'm hesitant to comment because while I'm an aviation fan I really know very little. I subscribe to VAS Aviation and Blancolirio where a lot of these incidents are reported and analyzed and one thing that continually strikes me is
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by chasingthewind 2y ago
One we like is the unfortunately named “FunWhole” on Amazon. Though to be honest I think these are increasing in price on Amazon lately :( But there are tons of other sellers and many of the sets seem to get good reviews
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by chasingthewind 2y ago
Cheap imitation building blocks are stunningly high quality nowadays and many companies offer extremely interesting sets at a fraction of the cost of real LEGO blocks.
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by chasingthewind 2y ago
We are very casual birders but on our daily walk yesterday we watched a pileated woodpecker eat insects from a log for 5 minutes from about 25 feet away and it was wonderful :)
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by chasingthewind 2y ago
Some discussion and a really upsetting video on Reddit that I’m assuming is this incident https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1boxor4/cirrus_sr...
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by chasingthewind 3y ago
By 2030… “Soon” seems like a bit stretch.
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by chasingthewind 3y ago
When my daughter was a teenager she dropped her phone in the toilet and fished it out and put it in rice to dry. We didn’t see any rice in the trash, and so we continued to question her and it turned out she had simply returned the rice to
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by chasingthewind 3y ago
My favorite combo so far was Alien + Buddha = Yoda :D
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by chasingthewind 3y ago
I’ve been seeing a lot of lost pet posters lately. One of the things that has struck me is that they seem pretty ineffective. Most of them have really small writing and when you’re driving past them in the suburbs all you really see is that
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by chasingthewind 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shave_and_a_Haircut
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by chasingthewind 3y ago
Commercial pilots are actually paid incredibly well. The reason for the shortage seems complex and has to do at least partly with regulations passed that mandate 1500 hours of flight time before one can even apply for a job at an airline.
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by chasingthewind 3y ago
I just set up a new iPhone yesterday, and it was pretty frustrating. Apparently there is a known bug that prevents seamlessly setting up a new iPhone from your old one unless you first perform an OS update. The phone started the update, but
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by chasingthewind 3y ago
Short version: They pump CO into the holes to kill the rats.
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by chasingthewind 3y ago
Somebody already did this for Zork though I can’t find the link at the moment. When I looked at it, it was interesting, but not particularly good. I’m sure it would get better in time.
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by chasingthewind 3y ago
Looks like 500 million ish…guessing the billion is a mistype?
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by chasingthewind 3y ago
> If the measure survives, Ohioans who work for the state of Ohio would be limited to only eight hours of remote work each week. Specifically state government workers.
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by chasingthewind 3y ago
Here’s a random deer population anecdote. When I was a kid we never ever saw deer near our house. But when we went out to the countryside we would see them and it felt like a fun treat. It felt like seeing an unusual wild animal. Now the de
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by chasingthewind 3y ago
I have a similar story with a major ISP. I had their service 20 years ago but eventually switched to a different provider. They let me keep my email address, however, and I set it to auto forward to my new address. I have long since lost th

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