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by unionemployee 1y ago
Compressor stall. Inexperienced FO shuts down the wrong engine. They then mishandle the other one somehow. Crash.
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by unionemployee 2y ago
How long did it take? I’m doing an MRI for extremely elevated prolactin. Even if there’s no tumor I’ll probably be prescribed cabergoline, but would prefer to return to normal without using another drug.
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by unionemployee 3y ago
Yes. I think about this all the time. It's so strange, and aside from internet comments it doesn't seem to come up in the mainstream. What happened to people? Why do they not care? It's very evident in driving, but shows up i
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by unionemployee 3y ago
Thanks all. Wasn't aware of MusicXML or musescore. I do write out exercises on manuscript paper and find that the time it takes and contemplation is helpful. They're legible bug generally pretty ugly, and I don't always want
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Ask HN: AI that produces sheet music for practice?
44 points by unionemployee 3y ago|30 comments
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Why is “even more,” “even better,” “even ” repeated so often in Apple events?
1 points by unionemployee 3y ago|3 comments
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by unionemployee 3y ago
Ha. I did fly a real non-radar DME arc in a PC-12 using just the bearing pointer...once.
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by unionemployee 3y ago
Ugh. Aviation before, say, 1990 was amazing. Still necessary to do things like ground speed checks, non-radar approaches, VOR to VOR, etc. Real pilot sh*t. And lots of the equipment going back decades was still flying. An amazing time to be
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by unionemployee 3y ago
Phoenix and Manhattan have about the same population, but Phoenix has five Manhattans worth of parking.
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by unionemployee 3y ago
pivot into it later in your career How "later"? Age discrimination seems somewhat problematic in tech. Edit: Two other "old" replies pop up at the same time.
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by unionemployee 4y ago
Others have said it better. If you google 'notams are broken', numerous results will show up explaining various problems with the NOTAM system. Edit: Here's a good one - https://fixingnotams.org/ending-notam-n
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by unionemployee 4y ago
The NOTAM system is embarrassing. This just tops it off. Actually, our whole ATC system and the way the FAA operates is embarrassing. It all works kind of like waste management in NYC. If they were to add new tech and efficiency, fewer peop
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by unionemployee 4y ago
Cargo planes like the C-17 can make a steep “tactical approach” by creating lots of drag, with spoilers, reverse thrust, etc. It’s difficult to get very aerodynamic aircraft to ‘go down and slow down’. That’s not to say that the flying wing
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by unionemployee 4y ago
The characters signing in with their unique splash screens at NYC pay phones in the movie Hackers was quite cool to 12 year old me.
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by unionemployee 4y ago
"Specifically, police issued 14 summonses for excessive vehicle noise — the most between 2018 and the present, a period in which the police issued a total of 26 excessive vehicle noise summonses." Glad to see this law but NYPD doe
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by unionemployee 4y ago
Yes, happens frequently to me in my area of Queens. Especially on weekends. Often, it's difficult to go back to sleep. A day of productivity lost for me and probably many others for no particular reason. It's kind of a tragedy. I
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by unionemployee 4y ago
Airline pilot here. We point.
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by unionemployee 5y ago
Dr Peter Attia, who has some interesting things to say about fasting, uses a completely different definition of “intermittent fasting”. What’s being described here is “time restricted eating” while intermittent fasting is periodic fasts of
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Zwift bans user for exposing 'weight doping' hack(road.cc)
2 points by unionemployee 5y ago|0 comments
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by unionemployee 5y ago
There's an incredible amount of inefficiency in the airspace system that causes massive fuel and time waste, but flying VOR to VOR in cruise doesn't seem like one of them. Airline routes are still frequently planned along airways
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by unionemployee 5y ago
Literally heard “Let’s go Brandon” on the emergency frequency today in airspace too far from land for it to not be an airliner or other commercial craft (in contrast to the usual meowing).
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by unionemployee 5y ago
I’ve been an airline pilot for a long time and work for a large airline. In the US, pilots tend to be quite culturally conservative. It’s not my naive generalization. Yes, if the mandate happens most will get vaccinated, but there will be p
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by unionemployee 5y ago
Pilots in the US are an extremely conservative bunch. On my pilot group's FB page, the number of times I've read "Let's go Brandon!" in response to this supposed sickout are numerous. Every trip I hear the far-right
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by unionemployee 6y ago
Electric cars still result in Phoenix, AZ. What we need is Amsterdam.
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by unionemployee 6y ago
On my 2015 MBP with 16gb I currently have 20-ish tabs in Chrome, Scrivener, GitKraken, Capture One, Slack, WhatsApp, Messenger, Books and Xcode open. The only things that's really bogged down is Capture One.
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by unionemployee 6y ago
I don't understand this. Does the chip make up for it? Do I have to wait until the next generation for 32gb?
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by unionemployee 6y ago
Interesting. I don't know the name of the song, but have often visited this video simply to listen to the drumming. It seems mood-boosting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atkp8mklOh0 . In the comments people way thing
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by unionemployee 6y ago
In response to such events, pilots often write confident yet misinformed sounding articles such as this - https://liveandletsfly.com/airline-automation/
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by unionemployee 6y ago
As a mid-thirties airline pilot, these articles make me wonder if I should re-skill now or ride it out.
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by unionemployee 6y ago
Perhaps pilots of previous generations could do this but, having trained numerous pilots for international airlines, as well as pilots for "fee-for-departure" (regional) airlines in the US, I wonder how many crews are up there tha

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