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You form a bight, and tie an overhand knot with it. Sorry if that sounds facetious - that's really the answer. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fOKk1HPjbI

You can pick a NM right off the latitude scale on a marine chart with a pair of dividers. Its an eminently practical measurement for navigation. edit: of course you could pick off …

> These days for proper navigational planning it is all ECDIS (or WECDIS for really fun stuff) and electronic. Its not strictly true that 'proper' navigational planning happens ent…

That's effectively the conclusion that the series comes to in the end.

https://codeselfstudy.com/ is a similar concept of a broader scope. The group meets twice a week, and draws a nice mix in backgrounds. Attendance numbers are usually in correlation…

Lack of predictability. I attended a maritime academy and worked in the industry for a year before switching to computers. The modern transportation is built on reliable ETAs. Mech…

I can assure you that both the View-Master and helmets are still around. If you don't want to strap something to your head, then great: don't (although I really do recommend wearin…

GearVR doesn't have positional tracking, has a slightly worse field of view than the rift, and obviously can't compete with a gaming PC in terms of graphics performance. That being…