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There was a guy who made a forum bet he could land a Cessna 172 - first try - with nothing but MS Flight Simulator experience.

Here:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/34/other-other-topics/pro...

And outcome:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=35915547&p...


There's nothing magic about flying. At the end of the day it's relatively simple.

The difficult part is being absolutely certain you're trained well enough to not crash the thing.


... and trained enough to handle any possible combination of inflight emergency, equipment failure, change of weather, safetly handle any last minute directive or change by ATC, etc.


Huh, it's pretty good at lassoing the intended subject. Even picks out a computer rendered vehicle well: https://xhroot.s3.amazonaws.com/roci.png Original here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=86940...


So if I go down the IOT aisle at Best Buy and say

"Ok, who is reading a city in Montana a letter?"

everything will light up?


Seems temporary:

> Amazon Europe has requested we temporarily shut down operations in order to lighten their burden while they try to get necessary products into peoples hands.

> So, as of now, and likely until the end of the COVID-19 crisis, we will not have a working website in Europe.

https://twitter.com/camelcamelcamel/status/12421791057154539...


Maybe they should have gone with a slight tweak of the 1963 version https://cdn.bmwblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/BMW_logo_... and scored retro-nostalgia points with the older crowd, too.


Yikes. Putting it on the same page as the past logos just emphasizes how chintzy it looks.


Heh, the icon is named "audible":

    "displayName": "Dynamic command execution",
    "detectedIcon": "fab fa-audible"
It's probably unintentionally used by an engineer unfamiliar with the product as audible is more common as a descriptive word than as a brand.

https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInspector/blob/08c91...


Yeah this happens pretty often, though I'm surprised it continues with Font Awesome's organizational changes: The "fab" prefix is specifically supposed to communicate that it's an icon from the "Brands" style. (Non-brand icons use "fas".) If you find yourself using a "fab" icon generically, you might want to double-check what it's supposed to represent...


Honestly, a lot of times when I'm doing quick designs, I just open the font page with all the images and just visually pick any that looks best. Definitely needed some sort of legal pass before release.


> IronPython, IronRuby

"IronRust" would be amusing


I-1000 is literally called "Affirmative Action and Diversity Commission Measure"

https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Initiative_1000,_Affirmat...


It's a referendum. It's not law yet.

You'd be more right if it was passed, but it's not.


Javascript in FF/Chrome:

    > (-80538738812075974n)**3n + 80435758145817515n**3n + 12602123297335631n**3n
    42n
https://caniuse.com/#search=bigint


And my favorite: Coloring CD edges with a green marker to improve sound https://www.stereophile.com/reference/590jitter/index.html


The trick is to make sure the green markers are the super smelly sort, and to do it in a confined space. For some reason without the fumes you can't hear a difference.


Was a subscriber for a few years until they started talking about green highlighter on CD edges. There was even a specific model from a certain store that was supposedly the best. A basic understanding of how a CD works tells you this is nonsense.


In high school I was working at the local used CD store and when this broke I saw tons of CD's came in with green marker on them. Not to mention the hundreds of people I had to explain (in some detail) how a CD actually works and how this was total rubbish.

For some of these people, it was if they just discovered Santa Claus wasn't real.


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