wanderingmoose

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by wanderingmoose 6d ago
I think the real question is why didn't the pilots do a go around. I bet there are underlying pressures from the airlines and/or amazon to not do a go around to avoid schedule delays or fuel costs.
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by wanderingmoose 13d ago
It gets even more fun than that. As a datapoint my parent wanted a manual Honda Accord. In order to be able to advertise that price, Honda had to have a grand total of 3 manual Accords cars available in all of California. Source -- Had a br
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by wanderingmoose 7mo ago
He still works at WDI.
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by wanderingmoose 9mo ago
High blood sugar should be considered a symptom. High blood sugar can be caused by: 1) Having enough basal or "baseline" insulin but eating too many carbohydrates. This will lead to a high blood sugar reading but no immediate dang
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by wanderingmoose 9mo ago
The unfortunate part is gimp is intensely useful software with many amazing features...buried under such an awkward interface. I used it today for doing a color range selection to get an estimate for parameters to use in image magick. It ha
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by wanderingmoose 10mo ago
I work in vfx, and we had a lecture from one of the art designers that worked with some formula 1 teams on the color design for cars. It was really interesting on how much work goes into making the car look "iconic" but also highl
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by wanderingmoose 1y ago
If you want a book that is more technical and really gives a sense of what the scope of the project was, I'd highly recommend The Los Alamos Primer by Serber which was the intro lecture given to scientists when they would arrive. Serbe
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by wanderingmoose 1y ago
I remember seeing a very similar system at wright-patterson afb in ohio that was used for a flight simulator. The model was mounted vertically on a wall and at a much smaller scale. This was in the early 80's and it was no longer in us
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by wanderingmoose 2y ago
I really love Guy Ritchie's tip of the hat in The Gentlemen from Hugh Grant's character where when talking about watching a conversation through a telephoto lens he says, "But I filmed it, had it lip-read, translated, and tra
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by wanderingmoose 2y ago
I have a love/hate relationship as well, mostly because I grew up within bicycling distance and spent way too much time at the museum. The XB-70 used to be parked outside right in front of the main entrance. The cool thing is they also
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by wanderingmoose 2y ago
As a funny aside, I had applied to lucas arts around 1996 and never heard back from them. I ended up getting a job at industrial light and magic (as they were both companies under lucas digital) thinking I could then transfer over to lucas
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by wanderingmoose 2y ago
And the voice acting was amazing. Especially for a game. I think I have rose colored glasses as I remember the game being difficult in the sense of lots of walking around trying to find the solution to the last couple of puzzles. Having pla
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by wanderingmoose 2y ago
Hi, Ack --> I misread your article and thought your child was 14 years old, not 4. I don't believe kids that young qualify for any of the auto-adjusting toolkits. The medtronic has a minimum age of 14 (I think). In any case, the bes
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by wanderingmoose 2y ago
I really like the welch labs series on imaginary numbers which covers the first part of what you talk about -- leveling up the notion of what a complex number is. Though his focus was more on solving simple equations with no real roots, but
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by wanderingmoose 2y ago
First of all -- awesome! Second, if you aren't aware or in case others are interested, the main dev from the xdrip project released a custom watch as well: https://bluejay.website/ There are some posts on reddit from t
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by wanderingmoose 2y ago
There is a lot of discussion here about IP theft. Honest question, from deepseek's point of view as a company under a different set of laws than US/Western -- was there IP theft? A company like OpenAI can put whatever licensing th
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by wanderingmoose 2y ago
Debt is a common trope in Korean shows and establishes the characters are destitute and answers why they would become contestants in this show. Then the show creator has the set up that allows them to start poking at class hierarchy. In ask
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by wanderingmoose 2y ago
This post is factually incorrect. Eating carbohydrates cannot cause Diabetic Ketoacidosis. Ketoacidosis is caused by not having enough insulin which means glucose can't exit your bloodstream and enter your cells, Your body starts break
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by wanderingmoose 3y ago
There was something I always wanted to ask him: He was so meticulous is setting up new identities and moving to random places around the country to avoid the authorities. But would then log back into his previously compromised systems in a
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by wanderingmoose 3y ago
I'm not sure about power licenses, but for gliders (sailplanes, not hang-gliders), you could solo at 14 via a student license that required instructor supervision. You could get a full license at 16. Growing up my family was into glidi
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by wanderingmoose 3y ago
Can you tell me the difference between your product on the types of prescription cgm + insulin pump combos like dexcom/tandem which offer some level insulin control? I'm just curious. I run an xDrip set up and I've played aro
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by wanderingmoose 3y ago
I believe you are confusing Type I diabetes and Type II diabetes. Type I diabetes your immune system destroys your insulin producing cells. You need to provided all of your insulin via injection/pump. Type II diabetes is more akin to i
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by wanderingmoose 3y ago
I would add that there are really challenging problems and continual technical development. And since each movie comes with its own new set of requirements, each one is a fresh slate of new, crazy problems. For me personally, I love the sho
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by wanderingmoose 3y ago
You are correct in that the industry as a whole is not union. Most of the smaller vfx houses are not union. However some of the larger vfx houses like ILM and some of the feature animation houses like Dreamworks are are union. (ILM is IATSE
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by wanderingmoose 3y ago
My first job was at Industrial Light and Magic during the first star wars prequels and paid $11/hr, with OT after 8 hours, so about $32k/yr. If you didn't like it, others were lined up around the block. I wouldn't do tha
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by wanderingmoose 3y ago
The Formula 1 Tech Talks had a discussion of heat dissipation in the cars. The interesting part was the limited space available between engine shape and aero requirements means that a lot of very hot parts are squeezed together. I think thi
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by wanderingmoose 3y ago
I follow racing more than NFL, and I think Formula1 and Motogp have streaming figured out Formula1: $80 usd for the entire season. No stopping the race for ads, but they digitally insert ads in dead space on the screen. Access to the entire
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by wanderingmoose 4y ago
Wow. "Using Borland C++ compiler and BASM assembler as a programming platform". I had to get this just to see what the code was like back in 1993... Luckily/unluckily I got started on silicon graphics machines, so never need
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by wanderingmoose 4y ago
I think a big problem is that short acting insulin, which was available 25 years ago, used to cost $9usd / 10 mL bottle now costs ~$80 with insurance (in california) or $200+ list price for an effectively equivalent short acting insuli
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by wanderingmoose 4y ago
I'd second Designer Notes and suggest the Louis Castle episode. It is a tale of small/indie company growing and getting bought by EA. It is really interesting in terms of indie culture joining a corporate environment. Years after

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