happyjack

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by happyjack 2y ago
Hi! Stumbled on an old comment of yours about vhs tapes + recording cycling off satellites. Would love to hear about your system! happyjack@mailbox.org
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by happyjack 2y ago
Oh yes, he was. Read about the Nimrod, furthest south, and Mount Erabus expeditions. Shackleton is a god father of Polar travel.
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by happyjack 2y ago
I worked in oil / gas on international projects for 10ish years. I think the dollar will still be the de-facto reserve currency in 20 years, but it will be more as a medium of exchange rather than a true "reserve" currency fo
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by happyjack 2y ago
My all time favorite is HPSTR waypoint outside PDX.
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Back to the Future Initiative(openoffice.apache.org)
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by happyjack 2y ago
The Apache OpenOffice Development Team is proud to announce that the next releases will introduce an important change: a text-only user interface. We all know that today's applications are shifting from local systems (desktops, worksta
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by happyjack 3y ago
This is so spot on. We (assuming you live in the US) live in a country where the purpose is to work for as little as possible, "grind," then throw money into an index fund and have it support us the rest of our lives. Own property
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by happyjack 3y ago
I honestly resent a lot of the stuff on HN these days. It's become an echo chamber.
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by happyjack 3y ago
Pandoc saved my ass so many times when I worked in research. I would write a beautiful typeset paper in latex and then have to send a colleague a word doc. You can turn any file into anything. PDF to rtf, latex to .doc, etc. It does a great
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by happyjack 3y ago
I'm not a techie, but I love lurking on this website. My only comments from someone who found Linux in high school, used to love computers, the old internet, and used to do scientific computing in Fortran and matlab. I read through som
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by happyjack 3y ago
And there will never be competition. It cost Cirrus (small, single engine GA aircraft) $100 million to get a type certificate. The Boeing 737 max is still on its original type certificate. Boeing and airbus is what the (western) world has f
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by happyjack 3y ago
It's not an alternative fact, and I'm not defending Boeing. I could give a shit about Boeing. The fact is there's no competition in the American commercial part 121 airline world. No competition makes you lazy and incompetent
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by happyjack 3y ago
When the Clinton administration forced the downsizing of the military industrial complex ( https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2015/12/2/f... ), the USA lost all competition in the larger than
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by happyjack 3y ago
I liked your office / partner comment; I think there's a lot of truth in that. I think a lot of people are really worn out. We have endless scrolling, tons of wars in the world, people are indebted, and realistically it doesn&#x27
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by happyjack 3y ago
This probably won't resonate to the HN crowd, but I was in NC last week visiting a pump company that I distribute two of their lines. The office was a ghost town. Completely empty, eerie, creepy. I think the applications engineers, acc
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by happyjack 3y ago
Ricardobeat is sipping the kool aid. First, just because an energy source has a name plate capacity of x does not mean it generates x. Typically, wind and solar generate 10% of their nameplate value (while fossil fuels generate 100%)! Also,
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by happyjack 3y ago
The physics of power generation. Have a battery car all you like. The electrons powering that car are coming from coal.
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by happyjack 3y ago
Just because the morons in your home country are buying shit mobiles to drive 1 km a day to and from work (or whatever stupid units you use) is not an indicator for the world at large. 2030 is gas and diesel cars! Just like how 80% of our p
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by happyjack 3y ago
Your comment is the best and most realistic one on this thread. There's so many people on this website sitting behind Chinese made computers spitting bullshit on "well if we could just get those container ships to pull some solar
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by happyjack 3y ago
What size, though? Are we talking 10 employees, 1000? Just curious.
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by happyjack 3y ago
After reading Thomas Piketty's theories on "Capital in the 21st Century," a lot of these issues have really come to light. Capital grows about 2-4% each year in real terms, while the economy (labor) in general grows 1-2%. i.e
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by happyjack 3y ago
That is really neat! Thank you for sharing! Love hearing people's aviation stories.
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by happyjack 3y ago
I know ... there are already solutions for everything GA out there.
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by happyjack 3y ago
I'm really glad TB exists and is still developed. I try it once a year every year because I use Firefox, and TB is cross platform. Honestly, I can't say it fits my needs more than Mac mail.app or the web client when on a windows c
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by happyjack 3y ago
That's crazy! There's actually currently a geophysics crew in my town doing a USGS project. Which aircraft did you do STOL for?
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by happyjack 3y ago
Experimental is a very broad category. On one hand we have $250k Rv-10s that are immaculate and built well from kits that thousands have used to shitty canard garage designed birds. I will say, the crackpots are largely getting pushed out
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by happyjack 3y ago
Pretty sure if you stay under 6 feet AGL you're considered a boat!
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by happyjack 3y ago
Insurance is not a legal requirement. Some individual airports will make you have a "on the ground policy" (couple hundred dollars a year) to cover movement and other people's property. You can get liability only insurance, o
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by happyjack 3y ago
I'm a pilot, own aircraft and maintain them. Everything the faa does boils down to limiting liability, and liability is asses occupying seats in aircraft. Want to fly without a medical? Great, you can do basic med but can't fly ov
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by happyjack 3y ago
I saw your comment when I was scrolling through and I wholeheartedly agree. Our system does put a price on "well you have to earn your keep and you have to sit here all day." I'm not sure how or if it could be done, but there

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