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beobab commented on Airbus pilot tries Microsoft Flight Simulator [video] youtube.com/watch?v=jchxs... · Posted by u/doener

beobab · 5 years ago

I have GamePass, so I thought: "I'll give this a go. How hard can it be? I'm really good in Elite Dangerous."

Turns out: Quite hard. I have a newfound respect for airline pilots.

On a related note, even my RAF cadet experience 20 years ago counted for naught. Whilst I could keep the plane in the air, landing proved the most difficult, and I crashed and bounced and would not have survived without invulnerability switched on.

beobab commented on DikuMUD 3 Is Released github.com/Seifert69/Diku... · Posted by u/bovermyer

duskwuff · 6 years ago

Holy crap. Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time.

To give some perspective, the last public release of DikuMUD was in 1991.

beobab · 6 years ago

Weirdly, my initial thought there was "that's only 9 years ago", and then did a quick double take when I realised that it wasn't.

beobab commented on Americans, it turns out, would rather visit a store than buy food online bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/juokaz

haecceity · 6 years ago

They should price the produce according to its quality then.

beobab · 6 years ago

They already do to a certain extent. Damaged goods often find their way into the "reduced" section.

beobab commented on Ask HN: Has anybody shipped a web app at scale with 1 DB per account? · Posted by u/bradgessler

beobab · 6 years ago

I learned to always have one database with every custom schema change in, and run my database unit tests (tSQLt is my favourite) on that one database.

beobab commented on Immutable Databases adlrocha.substack.com/p/a... · Posted by u/adlrocha

beobab · 6 years ago

I remember reading "Heirs of Empire" by David Weber, and it casually mentioned that Dakax had a database that was immutable. I remember thinking that was a good idea, and planned to think about it later, but alas I had forgotten about it by the time I'd finished the book.

[edit: added who's database it was]

beobab commented on The Big List of Naughty Strings github.com/minimaxir/big-... · Posted by u/polm23

mmastrac · 6 years ago

https://charbase.com/fdfd-unicode-arabic-ligature-bismillah-...

Also fun is ﷺ, (https://charbase.com/fdfa-unicode-arabic-ligature-sallallaho...) which has the longest unicode decomposition IIRC.

beobab · 6 years ago

I had to zoom in to 400% to be able to see the detail there.

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beobab commented on Show HN: An iPhone app that lets you pick colors and identify PANTONE colors cone.app... · Posted by u/_kush

_kush · 6 years ago

When you see the color details, it will show ten Pantone colors (five from the Coated and Uncoated guides each) matching that color, in the order of their match %.

beobab · 6 years ago

Nice. Bought it and will try it out.

beobab commented on Show HN: An iPhone app that lets you pick colors and identify PANTONE colors cone.app... · Posted by u/_kush

beobab · 6 years ago

The website says: "accurately identifies upto ten Pantone® colors"

What is the ten referring to? Total times you can use it?

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