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Animation of the collapse and causative factors:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKfmEBcxs8A

Australian plugs are the best I've used for the following reasons (amongst others, mostly mentioned in TFA): two and three-pin (earthed) use the same socket; irreversible (even the 2-pin plug is polarized); the flat pins allow a larger plug/socket contact area for current; small size; partially insulated power-pins stop shorts if stray conductors fall on partially-plugged in plugs. (I'm not Australian and don't live there.)

https://picojump.com/

It's a tool to install (in one line) and manage reverse SSH tunnels for access to my geographically dispersed, outdoor Raspberry Pis (that are contributing to various aeroplane position reporting systems, my most relevant being Open Glider Network e.g. https://www.gliderradar.com/center/39.16414,-12.65625/zoom/3 ).

I've actually found the output faster to parse if it's all in consistent units (megabytes [-m]). Also find adding a grand total [-c] and staying on one filesystem [-x] useful. I.e. in ~/.bashrc:

  alias dua="du -cmx --max-depth=1"
  alias duas="du -cmx --max-depth=1 | sort -g"

Browser: Will you allow www.wbaltv.com to access your location? (I presume they're also recording my movements)

Thanks.

I did not know about Amazon GameLift. I guess I just used the word "fleet" to mean "a collection of similar things under unified control". (Unified control being the aim of the project.) In this case, as building block, I'm using robust, persistent reverse SSH tunnels.

I run https://picojump.com which I started this year.

It evolved to scratch my own itch: simplifying the access, management, and monitoring of a fleet of distributed Raspberry Pis (running Raspbian, on private networks) without requiring any proprietary client-side code. Though it meets the submitter's criteria, it's not [yet] providing enough to live off.

The "projected area" theory is a common misconception of how dihedral works (that I also subscribed to for many years). All things being equal, the port and starboard wings create the the same amount of roll torque, no matter which one is 'facing' the ground better (of course, dihedral does still work, because all things are not equal).

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/26759/how-does-...

While doing circuit training, a student pilot can do 5 training circuits of 6 mins each using 30 minutes of battery. They'll probably be so overwhelmed and fatigued afterwards (well, I was anyway) that their day's training is over. That's five or six exhausted student pilots per exhausted battery. :)

There certainly are some niche use cases for less efficient methane:

"Therefore, when we looked at the overall system optimization, it was clear that methane was the clear winner. "

Elon Musk's 'Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species', https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14573837

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