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inoffensivename commented on Open source is not about you (2018)   gist.github.com/richhicke... · Posted by u/doubleg
inoffensivename · 3 days ago
I love this article.

Nobody owes you a new release, or a signed binary, or a feature you care about.

inoffensivename commented on Autoland saves King Air, everyone reported safe   avbrief.com/autoland-save... · Posted by u/bradleybuda
nradov · 2 months ago
There is simply no way to retrofit a parachute into an existing airframe. The airframe has to be designed around it from the start with appropriate stress points.
inoffensivename · 2 months ago
There are retrofit ballistic recovery systems available as a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for several existing airframes, e.g. https://brsaerospace.com/cessna/
inoffensivename commented on Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux   tomshardware.com/software... · Posted by u/jamesgill
qudat · 4 months ago
Does that include multiplayer? As far as i know, multiplayer was killed a couple years ago, which is actually what i meant by “works on Linux”
inoffensivename · 4 months ago
Yeah I have hundreds of hours or more in Rocket League on Linux, all competitive multiplayer. I use the Heroic launcher: https://heroicgameslauncher.com/
inoffensivename commented on Next steps for BPF support in the GNU toolchain   lwn.net/Articles/1039827/... · Posted by u/signa11
inoffensivename · 4 months ago
I wish these articles would have a one sentence description of what BPF stands for. It would help passers-by.
inoffensivename commented on Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left   theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/mazokum
rjh29 · 4 months ago
Some commenters are claiming the flight should have never taken off and that the weather situation was entirely predictable. What's your take on that?
inoffensivename · 4 months ago
Generally, if it's legal to take off, we're going.

(Source: am airline captain)

inoffensivename commented on Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left   theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/mazokum
w10-1 · 4 months ago
Can anyone say whether airline pilots make each diversion decision solely based on their own information and judgment, or do they loop in the company?
inoffensivename · 4 months ago
Airline captain here.

We definitely involve the dispatcher in the diversion decision. Especially if it's an unplanned diversion, where the big-picture view the dispatcher has is very useful for us in our metal tube.

inoffensivename commented on GNU Midnight Commander   midnight-commander.org/... · Posted by u/pykello
inoffensivename · 5 months ago
Can I get it in a Docker container?
inoffensivename commented on Objects should shut up   dustri.org/b/objects-shou... · Posted by u/gm678
rzzzt · 6 months ago
Which one contributes more to alarm fatigue, spoken announcements like "bank angle" or beeps and buzzes like the autopilot disengage theme tune? Why is the latter so prominent?
inoffensivename · 6 months ago
Autopilot disengage is heard every single flight and is completely benign... unless neither pilot was expecting it in which case it is very effective at getting our attention.
inoffensivename commented on Programmers aren’t so humble anymore, maybe because nobody codes in Perl   wired.com/story/programme... · Posted by u/Timothee
inoffensivename · 6 months ago
I was a young teen when the world wide web became a thing, my Dad to gave me a copy of the camel book. I used Perl to write everything... A message board, a stats website for a MUD I was playing on, basically anything I could think of to drop in that cgi-bin directory.

All of my code was garbage of course, but it was an incredible amount of fun, a very valuable learning experience.

I miss those days, but that probably has less to do than the programming language and more to do with the carefree days. :-)

inoffensivename commented on Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights   jameshard.ing/pilot... · Posted by u/jamesharding
jamesharding · 8 months ago
It truly has been the career highlight for me! He will be retiring in a few months, so we have the last flight together planned aleady.

Hopefully you will be able to have the same experience with your kids! What fleet are you on currently?

inoffensivename · 7 months ago
I fly the mighty Bombardier CRJ for a certain Utah-based regional airline in the US :)

u/inoffensivename

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