Captain Aggravated @ captain_aggravated @sh.itjust.works

Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

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you might be thinking of Rust.

websites that scroll wrong, and then they stop dead on some animation. Automatic nope on the product.

"Going out" means go somewhere very loud.

No.

Flight instructor here: There are several definitions of altitude that pilots are taught about and must consider during a flight. These include:

True altitude: The aircraft's actual height above mean sea level. Nowadays you'd probably get this from a GPS receiver. Most of the time we don't really care about this.

Absolute altitude: The aircraft's instantaneous altitude above the surface directly below it. This might be measured by a radar altimeter if the aircraft is carrying one, or possibly calculated comparing the aircraft's GPS position and a topographical map, a lot of moving map systems can do that these days. Fairly important to keep in mind for avoiding controlled flight into terrain.

Indicated altitude: The reading of a barometric altimeter set to the local barometric pressure. Below 18,000 feet, this is used for vertical separation of aircraft. Air Traffic Control tells you to climb and maintain 8,500, you climb until the altimeter points to that number. This is still above mean sea level so when flying over land your absolute altitude is almost certainly less than your indicated altitude.

Pressure altitude: The reading of a barometric altimeter set to 29.92 inches of mercury. Above 18,000 feet, used for vertical separation of aircraft. 18,000 feet is the floor of Class A airspace: en route IFR-only airspace, it's where airliners cruise. They're not worried about where they are in relation to the surface so much, they're mostly concerned with avoiding other aircraft, and they don't want to have to constantly adjust for local settings, so they sit it to match a standard day. This might mean they're hundreds of feet off from their true altitude, but who cares? This is part of the reason we refer to altitudes up there as "flight levels". 22,000 feet is called Flight Level 220.

Density altitude: This one is going to bend your brain a little. Density altitude is indicated altitude corrected for non-standard temperature. It is used for predicting aircraft performance. Aircraft work by interacting with air molecules. When the air is dense, the engine can generate more power, the propeller can generate more thrust, and the wings can generate more lift. When the air is less dense, you get less thrust and lift. Doesn't matter why the air is less dense; air decreases in density as you climb, and the air becomes less dense as you heat it. It makes sense in a pilot's head to think of this in terms of altitude on a standard day. The most average weather is 15 degrees C and 29.92 in. Hg, so we compare all weather to those conditions and calculate aircraft performance based on those conditions. On a very hot day, we'll do a calculation which tells us what altitude it feels like we're at on a standard day, and that makes intuitive sense to pilots. "Normally this runway is at 1,000 feet, but today it feels like it's at 3,000 feet." Takeoff and landing performance, ability to climb, and true airspeed are calculated from density altitude.

Conrail?

I don't think light modes were as glaring in the past, first of all monitors were smaller, second I don't think they were as bright.

Clue didn't work in the theater because they did this gimmick where they made three versions with three different endings. So because it had to be consistent with three contradictory endings, you CAN'T solve it as you go; it doesn't function as a mystery movie. And, it was kind of short.

The TV cut crammed all three endings at the end with the "Here's what REALLY happened" cards inserted, so one ending is now canonical while the others are plausible alternatives, it runs longer, especially the frantic, energetic ending plays longer, so while it still doesn't function as a mystery movie, it is now an excellent farce.

I think it also found its audience in young millennials on television; it was made for and by my parents' generation but they don't like it, while a lot of people my age love it.

That movie has perfect casting. Everyone in it is exactly right for their parts. There is a B movie feel that I can't quite put my finger on but it is an outright excellent film, one of my personal favorites.

Oh probably Local Forecast by Kevin MacLeod.

This is why I just...hate touch screen keyboards. T9 never made that kind of editorial decision, and a physical QWERTY keyboard with no software correction running at all didn't either.

Oh my god I forgot entirely about Pierre Escargot. Some neurons have just fired for the first time in decades.

The tweenagers hosing on Axe in coastal cities will take care of that I think.

They'd have been alright in 2009.

Prove me wrong: Fine art is a money laundering scheme.

You get some guy who went to art school to slosh some house paint on a sheet. You then hire a white woman who dresses like Malian royalty to come describe it in contradictory adjectives "It's subtle, yet bold" while her gay sidekick in a turtleneck flamboyantly slaps his face and gasps. Sell $20 worth of cotton and $30 worth of Valspar for $3.247 million, and you've just successfully covered up the sale of 94 more brown women.

That was my first thought, a tide pod also rapidly dissolves in sea water, we shouldn't be dumping those in the ocean though.

I find the amount of terminal usage a given distro requires depends mostly on the DE. Gnome is allergic to features so you'll need to bash it more than KDE or Cinnamon, for example.

There was a time that Ubuntu was the distro for the masses! Their branding featured a bunch of diverse young people in casual clothing. That's no longer the case. I outright recommend against it now.

There are some tech circles where you'll get more and better help posting a blatantly wrong solution than if you straight ask for help.

It's been ages since I've actually gone through it but what I remember of it, it goes like this:

• Roseline, the chick Romeo has the hots for, has just come out as asexual. He's not taking this well.
• To cheer him up, his buddies suggest crashing a big party at the Capulet house tonight. Romeo tags along.
• While moping at the party, he encounters Juliet. The two of them hit it off HARD, they both like Blink 182 AND Evanescence, what are the odds?
• Problem: They're respective fathers have some unspecified feud, so when it comes out just who each other are, it's a problem.
• We get a scene where Romeo is in the back yard and Juliet is in her bedroom looking out the window, two back to back speeches about "(s)he's hot, it's a shame our dads hate each other.
• They decide to run off to Vegas and get hitched anyway.
• The parties get separated, and then there is a compounding series of "a thing has happened!" "I know! I'll make it look like I've done something drastic for some damn reason, and I'll send a messenger to tell the other party that I haven't really done that." "A thing has happened, and the messenger carrying a message that would completely inform your decision hasn't arrived yet." "I know, I'll do something drastic for some damn reason!"
• This ends in the two fathers standing over an almost literal pile of corpses to include the titular teenagers, trying to remember what they were even fighting about in the first place.
• Roseline is unscathed.

Moral of the story: Latency is just as important as bandwidth.

Thing with Shakespeare plays is there's no one alive today who has met anyone who was alive to see a play at The Globe. The scripts we have are just people's lines and the bare minimum stage direction. There's a lot of information missing, and you can interpret it in many ways.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone interpret Hamlet's To Be Or Not To Be speech as a mentally disturbed 20 year old stomping down a hallway muttering to himself under his breath; it's always either this huge proclamation or a weirdly wistful thing. And then, immediately after, two interpretations of the Blasting Ophelia section simultaneously: with and without Hamlet noticing the king and company watching.