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cmurf commented on Fixing a loud PSU fan without dying chameth.com/fixing-a-loud... · Posted by u/sprawl_

cmurf · 12 days ago

Check your credit card agreement. Some cards have a "purchase return protection" for when a retailer won't take back a product.

It's kindof a gimmick because it's easy to forget you have it, but if you have it, use it.

cmurf commented on US reportedly forcing TSMC to buy 49% stake in Intel to secure tariff relief notebookcheck.net/Despera... · Posted by u/voxadam

LexiMax · 19 days ago

> The people you describe have been given a highly addictive media environment tailor made to engender outrage and drive behavior. It shouldn't be a shock when most people cannot resist it.

Although I also take issue with labeling people "stupid," I also take issue with the blanket assumption that people are victims of the media environment. Both take away people's agency in their own way.

Instead, I'll ask this uncomfortable question. What if a good chunk of these people would prefer to believe a convenient lie over an inconvenient truth? If so, what does that say about them and their morals? Is that better or worse than being labeled stupid or a victim?

cmurf · 19 days ago

Absolutely there is a strong component of cognitive dissonance: the truth hurts, lies are soothing.

The truth? They do not care about basic right and wrong. They voted for a rapist, a felon, a vile insurrectionist. There’s no morality and we know this based on how they’ve voted.

But also the unwillingness by their friends and family to call them out promotes non-accountability. For everyone.

cmurf commented on US reportedly forcing TSMC to buy 49% stake in Intel to secure tariff relief notebookcheck.net/Despera... · Posted by u/voxadam

arathis · 19 days ago

I’m not in the US, so I don’t know what it’s like from the inside but from the outside it’s so comically obvious how straight up stupid and brazen trump and his cronies are that it beggars beleif.

How can so many be so gullible?

cmurf · 19 days ago

It’s a cult.

But also, they’re being misled. Most non-Trumpers coddle, forgive in advance, and invite Trumper friends and family to the usual social functions. This is permission. It’s helping everyone normalize the depravity.

In a very real way there’s no conversation happening because one party has removed themselves from rationality and the other party has broadcast they don’t care.

There will need to be enormous amounts of pain to get either party to snap out of it.

cmurf commented on $83B Wasted: Showing up at the airport 3 hours before your flight viewfromthewing.com/83-bi... · Posted by u/speckx

cmurf · 21 days ago

Airports are shopping malls. The article underestimates the sales being generated from a captive audience.

The show up lead time recommendation isn't followed by everyone, of course. But it produces a distribution of arrivals. The farther out, the more it moderates the peak arrival of passengers at the counter. The idea is to reduce that peak so that airlines save money not having to overstaff.

But also, if an airline is willing to set a policy that favors additional time for their passengers to spend more money, maybe they get a fraction of a percentage reduction in rent or some other kind of rebate?

We don't know all the incentives that go into the way things are the way they are.

I'm not sure how the credit card lounges make up their costs. Given Chase is raising their premium card from $600 to $800, it seems it's increased aggregate demand for such perks.

cmurf commented on Personal aviation is about to get interesting (2023) elidourado.com/p/personal... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

pbhjpbhj · a month ago

Did someone wanting to sell flying cars bribe Trump, or is this from before the current administration? Didn't they cut loads of FAA inspectors and such?

>Without the need for type certification, manufacturers can iterate on their designs more rapidly without going through the costly supplemental type certification process. They can include cheaper uncertified avionics. They can do over-the-air software updates.

Being completely out of the loop and nothing more than a moderately interested member of the public (outside USA) -- isn't lack of type certification one of the causes of recent major aviation calamities.

Looks like they're saying loads of EABs crash but well just call them LSAs because those don't crash as much, problem solved! Oh, and software is totally reliable so well have that control the aircraft. And we'll make them go faster.

cmurf · a month ago

This is has been ~12 years in the making.

cmurf commented on Personal aviation is about to get interesting (2023) elidourado.com/p/personal... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

parsimo2010 · a month ago

For those not tracking: this article is about the MOSAIC rules, which the FAA announced this week is now approved (Final Rule). In 90 days the new Sport Pilot rules will go into effect and allow Sport Pilots (a certification less stringent than Private Pilot) the ability to fly aircraft of much higher performance. Over the next year, new certification rules will go into effect allowing manufacturers to manufacture much more high performance aircraft under the Light Sport rules. There are some details, but the big picture is that the allowable performance for these “entry level” classes just got a lot higher.

Is it good? Well, a lot of people are cheering the change. The FAA doesn’t normally make things easier for the average Joe. This will make it easier for an inexperienced (but still fairly wealthy) pilot to get their hands on a real hot rod of a plane. There’s probably some additional risk, but the FAA has clearly recognized that one of the biggest dangers too flying a high performance aircraft is having to land fast. 200 kts vs 100 kts doesn’t make a big difference in risk in straight and level flight, but landing at 80 kts vs 55 kts does make a difference.

I don’t know where I stand exactly. It’s a big jump. Surely this is going to cause some old geezer to be screaming through a congested area and not be able to keep up with the ATC traffic calls because he’s never gone this fast before, and he’ll have a midair collision. Surely this is going to cause someone to buy a “light sport” aircraft with 280 hp and a huge prop and they’re going to crash taking off. But I think that overall I’m just being overly cautious, and most Sport Pilots are too poor to afford a plane that burns 15 gallons of avgas an hour, so most of the new planes under MOSAIC won’t be that powerful. I am curious to see what kind of new aircraft become available, and what the long term safety impacts will be.

Edit: for about five minutes my post said “not approved” when I meant to type that MOSAIC is “now approved”

cmurf · a month ago

Sport pilots can’t operate in airspace requiring two-way radio communication, without separate instruction and endorsement. 14 CFR 61.315(c)(7)

All pilots are limited to 200hp or less, and non-complex aircraft without separate instruction and endorsement. 14 CFR 61.31(e) & (f)

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-D...

cmurf commented on ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral techcrunch.com/2025/07/01... · Posted by u/exiguus

datpuz · 2 months ago

Consider yourself lucky that you've never had to call the cops as a victim. People forget that cops also save lives.

cmurf · 2 months ago

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