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audiometryon Pilot Says Too Many Jumpers Outside Led to King Air Spin

This commercial pilot gives a very thorough explanation of the problem and includes a report from the pilot of the flight.

audiometryon How I lost my fear of flying (2011)

Wow that really sounds like a terrible experience. And the duration seems incomprehensible. Hope you all are ok from it now. Can imagine that left some trauma with people.

audiometryon How I lost my fear of flying (2011)

Does anyone have links to good fear “science” information? I’m interested in learning how to discern anxiety (pointless worry) from acute dear (fear with a point). And further, to figure out how to manage acute fear. The particular use case is to be able to large and larger jumps and drops on a mountain bike.

audiometryon Ask HN: How do you tackle your own negativity?

People will Surely shit on my suggestion, but I found the book “Ego is the Enemy” very illuminating of my own flaws. And recently I read/watched Postive intelligence https://youtu.be/ta5IkSsc8qk which also helped me see some of my deeply ingrained defective thinking patterns. One of those might help.

audiometryon Feasibility of a Dune Ornithopter

Let me tell you how it makes me feel.

audiometryon Intel Betting the Farm

What happened with Dell abs VMware? I noticed recently Michael Dell has been on a publicity interview tour to promote his auto-hagiography and of course says nothing bad about the Dell - VMware merger.

audiometryon Half a million South Korean workers walk off jobs in general strike

I vividly remember as a kid in the 1980s seeing coverage of strikes in Korea. They seemed absurdly violent. The image that stands out to me was a striker had fashioned some giant burner/flame thrower thing out of (I suppose) an Lpg tank and was driving the cops back with it. Hilarious and exciting to a 10yo boy.

audiometryon FIFA seeks $1B+ (per 4 years) from EA for name usage

Mule was a beautiful game. Never had the chance to play it as four live players only two. Think that would have been a blast.

audiometryon A single person answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow

Patron Saint of Pandas

audiometryon Many believe it's time to do away with lawmakers making stock trades

It’s so gross that they do this. When I worked at banks on Wall Street, they all had onerous approval processes for employees to trade. Pre-approvals that lasted for one day only etc. All these rules attempting to prevent insider trading. Amazing that these scummy Fed employees and congressmen don’t have any encumberence like that. So gross.

audiometryon A single person answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow

There’s a similar guy, jezreal(?) who answers pandas ( python module) prolifically with beautiful idiomatic solutions.

audiometryon It's tough being an Azure fan

Oh me too. That horrible "mythical beasts" tutorial. I thought I removed it, and then each month for the next two months I'd get nailed for 50? dollars or so.

By definition, I don't understand AWS, so figuring out how to turn it off was nearly impossible. AWS "support" didn't exist. Stackoverflow AWS geeks were in high dudgeon that I'd ask the question, "how do i disable this?" and would kill my question. Finally some kind soul did give me the trick to finding the last service to disable.

BTW the tutorial is absolutely useless. Just a thousand different incantations to repeat. No real understanding communicated. Felt more like an ad for myriad services.

0/10 would not recommend.

audiometryon Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to displace traditional meat

I wonder if we would have heard similar analysis decades ago in regards to solar panels or other technologies that have surprised us as they’ve scaled up.

audiometryon As a solo developer, I decided to offer phone support (2017)

/r/choosingBeggars is a non-stop stream of outrageous examples like this. Really crazy stuff.

audiometryon ‘Dune’ Counts over $8M in First Two Days at International Box Office

No. Fidelity to the book is surprisingly (to me) high. Definite five star movie for me.

audiometryon Calculator Forensics

My soulver app on iphone says 9 - answer = 1.162985x10^-97 wow. That's basically infinite precision.

But then excel gives a compartively horrible result 8.99999999983268000 (maybe all the casting to and fro degrees and radians makes it worse?)

And python on the same machine, similar: degrees(asin(degrees(acos(degrees(atan(tan(radians(cos(radians(sin(radians(9)))))))))))) = 8.99999999983257

audiometryon OpenSea product chief accused of flipping NFTs with insider information

You don’t need the exchange to do this. You simply need corrupt employee of the exchange with access to the information.

audiometryon OpenSea product chief accused of flipping NFTs with insider information

Agree. If someone knows your margin situation, they know where they need to push the price to stop you out. Simple as that. And when the exchange stops you out, they unload the position in the market at any price. This is not unique to Bitcoin. In China plastics markets same things happen. Opponents learn enemies’ margin situation from corrupt exchange and push till he is liquidated. I don’t think there is much new to Bitcoin in terms of trading and all the games being played. It has gone on in all the other markets long before this.

audiometryon My Bosses at McKinsey Made Us Get on 2 A.m. Zoom Calls

McKinsey just sounds like another tournament -- 64 people start, puke blood, and and try to be the final survivor who becomes a partner and becomes hugely wealthy. The rest rinse away to other places over time. No different than working at Goldman Sachs, etc.

If you decide to enter a tournament, fine, but adjust your expectations accordingly. This author sounds naive and self-pitying.

audiometryon Mad Max Fury Road vehicle auction

Looks even better on iPhone… wth

audiometryon ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' from website after activist arrested

Switzerland deserves no brand for secrecy. USA broke their back. They opened their private banking. Their Crypto AG was totally rooted.

audiometryon Ask HN: What type of personal NAS would you recommend?

I have a Synology NAS. I guess it’s fine. But the real problem is what software to backup my win10 desktop to? I tried EaseBackuo which was terribly documented and the UI made no sense (made in China I think). So I gave that up, abs bought Acronis True Image. This software looks nicer but works horribly too. It has intermittent spells of failing backups telling me only “failed to lock file”. The support team has just been giving me a run around for 2+ months. Provides no concrete details or solutions despite me sending them the 35mb log files that Acronis generates. It’s all shameful. Is there a decent software for this????

audiometryon Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings

Yeah I recognized him from his Chinese landscape prod gen. I fried my axidraw’s pen lift servo trying to print one of them out. So much stippling.

Need to learn JavaScript so I can understand what he’s doing.

audiometryon Copy-protection for vinyl in the 1970s (2008)

Yeah. Mid eighties I was warned that a purple cloud would erupt around me and even follow me if I tried to move away to escape blame.

audiometryon Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance

Someone send one of these to CuriousMarc — he is peerless in working on these vintage high precision test pieces.

audiometryon Australia is becoming a surveillance state

Wow, really suprised to see someone else speaking my mind. I went to Australia, from the US, with the perception that Australia was wild country where people were free and independent. Sort of like if I lived in rural Arizona or Idaho or something.

But what I found was an ultra-tedious nitpicky rules and control mindset. Really turned me off.

Just surprised to see someone else say similar.

audiometryon Florida Sheriff's Office Now Notifying People Of Inflicting Pre-Crime Program

It’s like Minority Report.

audiometryon Todo apps are meant for robots

We all have different needs due to having different personalities. I need to be careful that I don’t get into a “checking things off my list” mode, as sometimes I’m feverishly doing trivial things on that list to keep myself feeling busy and distracted from what are one or two important but difficult things to work on.

So one heuristic I do is is try to start my day setting my “intentions” — identifying a handful of things on the list I would be pleased to have finished by days end even if absolutely nothing else on the list is touched.

audiometryon Zip – How not to design a file format

Greggman… I swear I remember reading him blogging back in 2000? 2001? Maybe worked for Nintendo in Japan?