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It's very weird that what was once a site about technology and entrepreneurship has come to hate both.

Sixfortyfive on Reddit claims to have done testing of this, and disagrees.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comments/1euehye/how_simcit...

> The water system has one very significant direct effect: the land value of any given tile drastically increases when it is watered.

Or for that matter the author's own book, The Secret Horsepower Race.

Having been on the other side of the table... there's a tactic students will sometimes use, where they don't understand the question but will simply attempt to regurgitate everything written on their notecard that is related in hopes that they'll accidentally say the right words. Sounds like you did understand it, but the volume perhaps made it look like you were just dumping. It is indeed annoying to grade.

Grading is boring, tedious, and quickly wears down one's enthusiasm. The words of M Bison come to mind: "For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."

There's a certain irony in your outrage at his failure to control his emotions, even as your own rage leads you to dream of hurting his family.

I feel like the featured articles are good if that's what you want. The archives go back like 20 years.

Townhouses with no intervening space would likely be an improvement. Browse Altadena in streetview and you'll see loads of houses with vegetation -- tinder -- stacked between them. Getting rid of those intervening spaces entirely would reduce the surface area exposed to embers while simultaneously depriving homeowners the temptation to store fuel in unwise places.

Normally they land with flaps down, which reduces landing speed.

Because the system is bureaucratic and stupid. Notices warning pilots about irrelevant obstacles are, literally, a meme. Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/wzsvru/the_notam_sy...

No. The ILS localizer was 260 meters from the threshold, not 2.1 NM (3800m).

I don't see that note. There's one "extreme caution" note but it's about some other obstacle 2.1NM from the threshold of runway 1.

It has happened before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_International_Airline...

This is very personal. I credit "fun" classroom conversations with scaring me off French for a decade. Anki on the other hand is great, it's a big dopamine hit when it lets me pick out a word in the wild for the first time, especially when it's something niche that I was dubious about learning.

I've been satisfied with Anki for French over the last year or so.

The big schisms I see among other users tend to be sentence cards vs vocab cards, pre-existing decks vs build-your-own, and whether or not to include NL -> TL cards. Some people also favor cards with only TL and images. Personally I felt sentence cards did little for me, and I feel building my own deck is an important part of it.

From retrospectives from people abandoning anki, I get the impression that the most common problems are becoming too rigid (making it an exercise in memorizing the dictionary), and using Anki to the detriment of other forms of engagement with the language. I think that's one of the virtues of the build-your-own deck approach: it forces you to balance Anki with other forms of study.

I'm not the parent commenter, but I use a Dygma Raise (60% split kb). It has some issues but navigation hasn't been a problem. I use two of the thumb buttons as momentary (push-and-hold) layer shifts, with hjkl (and asdf) becoming arrow keys as long as that navigation layer is active, and qerf/yuio becoming home/end/pgup/pgdown in that navigation layer.

HTC Vive Pro 2.

Unlike some of the other people listing VR headsets, I actually use VR regularly. But the Vive in particular was an expensive piece of junk: it lasted not even a year before one of the displays started to die, then experienced the same failure again 6-7 months after warranty repairs. Apparently this failure mode is common.

In general I think it's best to stay away from the high-end headsets: HTC, Varjo, Pimax, Bigscreen, everyone I know with them has experienced problems of some sort or other. Many of the midrange headsets are worse on paper, but seem to have fewer issues in practice.

Subsidizing a heavily regulated industry sounds like a good way to waste a lot of money.

External transport of wings has been done:

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/wreq34/antonov_an...

> A generation who spends nine hours a day on their phones has no time for books.

Incorrect. The linked source only claims Gen Z averages "around 9 hours of screen time per day", not phones specifically.

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The article presents a graph of "books finished per year" by generation as evidence that reading is declining. It doesn't address whether or not books read increases with age within a cohort. An obvious possibility is that GenZ and Millennials are busy with school and work, while GenX and especially retired boomers have more time to read. Note this also excludes audiobooks, which anecdotally seem popular with Millennials because you can listen to them while commuting to work.

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I'm unconvinced by the argument the blog makes.

Typically this happens during take-off when rotating. This particular failure mode doesn't make much sense for an airliner in cruise.

Number of groundings depends on the subjective judgement of FAA employees. It's not useful as an objective measure.

Christ, Boeing planes used to just spontaneously explode back in the 90s, and the only reason more people weren't killed was that two of the three had the good fortune to happen on the ground.

Quantas 72 is a flight that experienced a sudden uncommanded pitch-down (-0.8g), causing injuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72

So it's in principle possible.

But passengers are notoriously clueless, to the point that "there was a go around and I thought we were all going to die" is practically a meme in aviation circles. Wait a few days and see what comes to light once it's investigated.

"passenger says".

I'm dubious and betting on clear-air turbulence, but we'll know in a few days.

IANAL, but as far as I can tell that's only for civil actions (and it runs from the date that the damages are discovered, not necessarily the time of the offense).

For criminal charges, I believe you'd use the default 5 year statute of limitations for noncapitcal federal crimes (18 U.S.C. § 3282)

William Knudsen was even commissioned directly at O-9 (Lieutenant General) during WWII.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Knudsen

Good guess -- their bio lists them as born and living in Croatia.

The physicist quoted does not appear to make the claim given in the headline.

Back when their planes blew up on their own (TWA 800, Philippine 143, Thai Airways 114), and when the rudders liked to jam themselves to full-deflection (UA 525, USAir 427)?

FoV is still very valuable for general situational awareness, IMO.

I spend very little time zoomed in. Mostly when trying to pick up a ground target. I agree it feels very wrong in VR.

I've never used the Index so can't personally compare them. vr-compare.com shows it as having about 30% less pixel density, which is substantial; the pancake lenses of the Pico 4 also offer a large sweet spot. (The Reverb G2 is perhaps the most popular headset for Il-2, and sacrifices a little FoV for a little more pixel density than the Pico 4). The only annoyance with the Pico is that it's not really intended for PCVR, so you'll need to pay $10 for Virtual Desktop. But once set up I've found it to work well.