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by sokoloff 4d ago
I don’t view iRacing owning the service and client software as anti-competitive. Same with CS2, Fortnite, Vallorant, etc. I’m fine with Google Workspace owning the client and the service, same with Zoom, Slack, Teams, Box, Dropbox, etc. I d
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by sokoloff 4d ago
The change interval is in the Warranty and Maintenance Guide, not in the main owner’s manual. (This is still part of the in-glovebox manuals, not a service-center manual.) One example: https://assets.sia.toyota.com/publicati
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by sokoloff 4d ago
Between reading basic diagnostics and documenting every signal and field is routine or recurring write operations that will need to happen in the field. Resetting the oil/maintenance light, recoding key fobs, resetting the battery stat
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by sokoloff 4d ago
We (mostly) restored a barn-find 1959 Mercedes 220S (Ponton) cabriolet. Manual transmission with selector on the tree (but four speed I think). Honestly, it felt different for about a half hour, then just fades into the background.
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by sokoloff 6d ago
I'm only familiar with iOS and this is the type of question that an LLM could answer better than this specific human.
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by sokoloff 6d ago
Because if I’m an iOS user and used to that and you give me a conventional Android app UX, I’m going to feel that as jank. Same as if I’m an Android user and you give me the conventional iOS experience. It’s like if I gave a swing or Gtk+ o
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by sokoloff 6d ago
My problem is I would feel entirely too curious to see what was in that ersatz time capsule I created a decade ago.
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by sokoloff 6d ago
Since school started this year, I bought both my kids TI-84 plus CE calculators. Both were being sold cheap because “no charging cable” (uses a mini-B) while I had a dozen in a box. I wish that happened a lot less as I have entirely too man
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by sokoloff 8d ago
The executive orders are ridiculous/childish/whatever-you-call-this. That aside, if they have any legal effect, I’d expect a map company to call a feature by its legal name. Should a rendering of the land bordering the Southwest c
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by sokoloff 11d ago
The Hakko desoldering gun he’s talking about is the FR-301 (or close equivalent), which is a soldering iron with a hollow tip that the gun has a vacuum pump that can suck solder out through the hollow tip. It’s not a hot air soldering stati
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by sokoloff 11d ago
In practical terms, that’s closer to stating the problem than it is to stating the solution .
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by sokoloff 12d ago
And the advantages are being enjoyed by all of us, at least in the US. If you’re the kind of person who eats food, uses toilet paper and paper towels, and lives inside a building made of lumber, insulation, HVAC, pipes, and electrical compo
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by sokoloff 14d ago
I don’t see as much difference as you seem to see here. Day 1 at FooCorp: “As part of onboarding, please set up these two accounts, both of which FooCorp operates and bears all the costs for.” Day 1 at Apple: “As part of onboarding, please
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by sokoloff 14d ago
Capital gains taxes are assessed on nominal gains not real gains. If I bought $100K of stock in 1999 and sold it in 2026 for $200K, I gained no real wealth from that transaction. What I could purchase today for $200K could have been bought
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by sokoloff 14d ago
2 and 3 are the same in my own lived experience.
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by sokoloff 15d ago
Requiring them to make a (free) Apple account doesn’t sound unreasonable. “Go to https://account.apple.com/ and make one that doesn’t use your Apple corporate email” seems like a fair and legal work instruction to me.
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by sokoloff 15d ago
I have more personally owned computers than is reasonable, but I can understand people who get issued a company laptop and use it for everything. It’s a couple hundred bucks a year to keep a personal laptop and if you’re mostly accessing cl
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by sokoloff 15d ago
Just the once... (kidding, of course) Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083
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by sokoloff 15d ago
Thanks for asking for my credentials, even though you don’t seem to disagree that lots of aircraft are dispatched with imperfections, so many in fact that there’s a defined process and CFRs to cover it. Because you asked, I’ve been flying,
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by sokoloff 15d ago
> but you can't fly a plan that 'missing a part' It’s a great story, but I assure you there is a pretty high percentage of airplanes flying with missing parts and systems placarded as INOP in both military and civilian avi
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by sokoloff 15d ago
Two VOR stations will give you a fix, but since GPS took over from legacy RNAV, that’s now rarely used operationally in the US. More common is to use Nav2 tuned to a VOR to find an intersection on the arrival and Nav 1 to fly the final (ILS
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by sokoloff 16d ago
In either case, asking for and being cleared for a visual approach (as the crew did and was) puts the onus on them to maintain continuous visual contact with the airport and to maintain their own terrain and obstacle clearance, which it’s s
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by sokoloff 16d ago
I believe it’s been made public that this was a jamming test, not a spoofing test.
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by sokoloff 16d ago
I’d bet a lot of money that the NTSB will determine that the pilots’ failure to maintain clearance from terrain during a visual approach will be the primary cause with contributing factors of dark, moonless night and GPS jamming. That one’s
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by sokoloff 16d ago
I suspect nearly “any” solution is good enough to get started and learn what users use and like. In my guessed-at ideal world, assuming the permissions setting isn’t complex, I’d like the ability for a user to define multiple teams and mana
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by sokoloff 16d ago
I agree they don’t “deserve” to die, but someone comfortable with that level of risk management is quite hard to fully protect from themselves.
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by sokoloff 16d ago
All VORs provide a radial that you’re on. Not all provide a distance to the station. VOR/DME or VORTACs provide both. Plain VORs do not. As more and more are decommissioned, the percentage that support distance-measuring goes up, as th
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by sokoloff 16d ago
Don’t have time to dig deep into it this afternoon, but want to comment to come back but also to suggest an expansion past your stated “one personal and one company” wiki. I lead two different functional areas within tech and work in a larg
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by sokoloff 16d ago
The key feature of this is the zero power storage on the business card. In a drone or robo delivery case, there is already a massive power storage budget available, so I don’t see the particular advantage of this hack being relevant.
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by sokoloff 16d ago
Much of your argument rests on the claim that those terms are fully interchangeable. Many posters, both native and non-native speakers, have observed that they are not fully interchangeable.

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