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Comment #40341025
At this point a new format should emerge as a replacement of pdf. It’s very useful and easy to publish, but working with pdf documents beyond reading and printing is way too compli…
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Comment #38264457
For anyone guessing how it could go to the town, just check the recent case of the La Palma volcano lava that runned over a town. https://youtu.be/kjg-1BemSOo?si=H_We-hOXtCHT3Wgc T…
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Comment #36014923
Google has been unusable for some years. Limited results, capped searches… such a difference with the original Google, it’s just a ghost of what it used to be. I’m definitely going…
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Comment #32497148
I must add that one place where we are using touchscreens is in the fly documentation. Most airlines use somekind of tablet, ipad or surface with apps for performance calculation, …
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Comment #32495818
My experience after flying 737, MD80, A320, A330 and A340 is that nobody takes special care with cockpit buttons. They are work tools and treated as such. The main ones (autopilot …
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Comment #31704128
Thanks, I miss understood the post and was looking for the bunker title XD.
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Comment #31702963
Can’t find it in amazon. Who is the author? Is it an old edition?
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Comment #30878378
I don’t know if this can be seen from space, but it is easy to see from an airplane 38000’ high. It’s some kind of ore or gas prospection. A giant grid in the middle of the Algeria…
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Comment #30752848
I was going to post this video, it explains the differences and advantages of the original (and british copies) one vs the american. Also how most modern reproductions fall short o…
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Comment #30709933
The European rules for emergency medical kit (I guess FAA rules are very similar) also automatic defibrilators are increasingly being included in these kits: CONTENT OF EMERGENCY M…
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Comment #30358783
Yes, modern PMR can be very good amd afordable, and I own 4 of them!. But for this trip I couldn’t take them with me and was looking for a mobile phone solution. I guess you are ri…
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Comment #30358407
For certain moments and limited groups the inmediate playing could be very useful, like a group of people skying or in a job site where you need inmediate communication at a distan…
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Comment #30178093
Is there any source to learn this way of development?
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Comment #30169808
That, or also you get a shotgun effect with different damaged areas in a single target. Increasing the probability of destruction with less powerful lasers.
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Comment #29945716
This is true, and I expect that. Some concepts take time to understand and even longer to master. What I mostly find lacking is the lack of a high level map. What pieces do what, h…
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Comment #29945407
As someone learning right now this reflects perfectly my frustration with the teaching systems I’ve found. The first part, let’s say the basic logic of programing is fine and relat…
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Comment #29807851
You could say that Grown Child is now Turing complete.
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Comment #29765691
Yes Gulf carriers, but not all of them, Emirates and Qatar are the most important. They really have high standard and try their best to have the best safety standars. Is not for la…
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Comment #29763515
It goes way beyond checklist stuff. Imagine having an intermediate system in your Tesla, one between fully manual and the autopilot. This system uses the navigation capabilities of…
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Comment #29198987
In the highlands it seems to be the case. Also lack of predators for wild deer. New trees get eaten and none reaches maturity.
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Comment #29159560
Airprint from the iphone does not work with my brother printer. Does the pi trick works to fix it?
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Comment #28833483
We still have inertial and radio beacon navigation(VOR, ADF, ILS) , you are always able to disconnect the gps data from the computer. Obviously GPS is allowing much more precise ro…
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Comment #28808558
Why is it a problem? Honest question. In the mediterranean basin it was a necessity to collect rain water and store it in a big underground cistern. Most people don’t do it now a d…
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Comment #28499823
Could it be this one? https://househistree.com/houses/the-bend https://goo.gl/maps/NKpxM7P3hG17vWYf9 Edit: I didn’t see the mark before ( I did not search it ) Wyntoon https://goo.…