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I use parm rind (Parmigiano Reggiano rind) for a couple things. One is to make a parm broth for Fettuccine Alfredo. Another is when making a pomodoro sauce loaded with aromatics (g…

Would that be........bad PR?

From 2010 through 2020, I was working as a mathematician, programmer, analyst, researcher full time on an odd schedule, Tuesday through Saturday. I was also working on a side hustl…

From the article: "The FAA is encouraging airlines to use bigger aircraft with fewer take-offs and landings." I worked in ATC R&D for many years. NY Tracon, N90, is crazy busy and …

fuckcensorship: "During depressive episodes, I have no interest in connecting with other people. This includes friends, therapists, family, etc. So the idea that I would ever pick …

It is a sad, soulless world in which we live today. I went to an otherwise anonymous state college on the east coast in the latter 1970s. One of the fun things I remember was picki…

Take 10 minutes to model it and you'll find there is no benefit in changing. As a couple others have pointed out, it isn't the Monte Hall problem. Below I did two runs with a milli…

For a bit of background, go to: https://x.company/projects/loon/ I was working on the Air Traffic Control side of unmanned free balloons in 2020, and Loon was an exciting project. …

We had our first and only at 40. (My wife is two days younger than me.) I retired a year ago, and our daughter is approaching a quarter of a century old. That was a miracle in itse…

I worked with VRML in '96. It was fun and interesting. Our company even had a couple reps from SGI demonstrate it on an SGI O2 machine. The two companies at the time who were the m…

Here's what I did and/or do. 1. I constantly ask trusted friends and family members if I was blundering in social situations. I asked my wife this evening, when our daughter had he…

At my old company, Hadoop, JSON, Parquet were the solutions looking for a problem to solve. Yes we handled lots of data, but none of it was time critical. No matter, we had BIG DAT…

Actually, you're right. You made very good points here. I always assume other people are rational. While many are, many are not, and I often forget the latter. Thank you.

Fuck YouTube. If they're going to control what news I get, I'll choose other than YouTube. I do not need them. I have read from both hard left and hard right, and am intelligent en…

Sigh I was in Australia when I read a piece from him on Desert Shield/Storm in an Aussie newspaper. I saved it. A few years later he was to sign books in DC, and I brought along th…

My "to-do" list is a Freemind (and soon-to-be Freeplane) mind map. It's my calendar, my to-do-list, my project planner, my external brain. When I need to write something down, it g…

Here's a great FPV video from Portugal. Just saw it a month ago on YouTube. (If it doesn't play for you, search for "NAZARÉ x FPV DRONE CINEMATIC" on the channel "RED- FPV".) I was…

On BVLOS, FAA Advisory Circular 107-2 §5.7 actually covers the allowance for brief moments when a drone is out of VLOS. It's one thing for a drone to be behind a tree for a few sec…

As a hobbyist: Good! I like flying my drone, and I do so responsibly. I don't want people like this ruining it for others, and I especially don't want people like this endangering …

There is nothing like a whiteboard. I use paper and pencil and the Freemind mind mapper to capture and evolve ideas, but I have to have a whiteboard. When I was in the office, I ha…

COVID drove workers home. Crime (eased bail laws; increased rampant crime; riots) give little incentive to return. It's all economics.

That's bullshit. The MAX aircraft are not the same as the earlier 737 line. These should be completely certified as new aircraft, and my guess is they would fail real certification…

I had the problem with Outlook; I have to use it for work. While waiting for the help desk to get back to me on Outlook crashing, I used "quick repair" and it cleaned up the proble…

I'm not using private browsing. But you're probably right, weird caching issue.

On Safari, I'm getting the Facebook favicon when I run Gmail. Did Facebook buy Gmail? Are they now partners so much that Google would prefer to show the Facebook favicon?!